TOMSK, Jan 20 – RIA Tomsk. Scientists of Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) got 5,5 million rubles grant for development of a program complex of speech recovery for cancer patients, who had a surgical intervention, the work will be realized together with scientists of SRI of oncology, the press service of the HEI.
It is noted, that within the new project restoration of speech function for cancer patients, who recovered the voice after surgery. It is planned, that the software will be ready by the end of 2018, and the Tomsk development will be used in any cancer institution in Russia and abroad.
"Algorithmic and software, allowing to estimate the efficiency of restoration of speech function, to receive higher rates of legibility of patient speech for significantly short terms in comparison with known techniques, will be developed. The hardware-software complex will have a convenient interface, it can be installed on any computer", – it is told in the message.
It was reported earlier, that TUSUR and scientific research institute of oncology scientists started developing the program complex, which will allow physicians to restore a voice of the patients, who had a surgery on removal of a throat."The developed technique will allow to reduce number of the patients, recognized as disabled by the underlying disease, to return to work people of working-age, to improve social adaptation and quality of life of the patients considerably, but probably the speech won't be restored completely, there is still no measure to compare it to a standard", – the executive of the project, the associate professor of the TUSUR chair of complex information security of electronic computing systems Evgeny Kostyuchenko explained.
It is added in the message of the press service of the higher education institution that patients need from two to four months for rehabilitation after mouth surgeries and the efficiency does not exceed 70%. The Tomsk technique will reduce the period of speech rehabilitation till 30 days.