Dr. Illner, who works at the Department of Circuit Theory in the group of Associate Professor Jan Rusz, focuses his research on the detection of early-stage Parkinson's disease using advanced speech signal processing methods. His dissertation, "Identification of vocal biomarkers in Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders via automated acoustic analysis," presents an original approach to identifying vocal biomarkers of Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders. Vojtěch Illner has developed automated methods that can recognize subtle changes typical of the prodromal (early) stages of the disease from speech signals.
His work also included the creation of a data collection system and a mobile application that allows speech to be recorded via smartphones. This approach paves the way for non-invasive and ethically safe remote monitoring of patients and has the potential to become a tool not only for early diagnosis, but also for monitoring the course of the disease and the effectiveness of treatment.
"I consider Vojtěch Illner's award to be a great recognition of the quality of doctoral studies and research leadership at our faculty. His work combines electrical engineering with medicine and has a real social impact," said Dean of FEE CTU Prof. Ing. Petr Páta, Ph.D., who last year awarded Dr. Illner the Dean's Award for Outstanding Dissertation.
Since 2014, the Minister of Education Award has been given to students and graduates for outstanding results in scientific, research, development, or creative activities, or for exceptional civic actions.
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