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29 March 2016 Spatiotemporal-atlas-based dynamic speech imaging
Maojing Fu, Jonghye Woo, Zhi-Pei Liang, Bradley P. Sutton
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Abstract
Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (DS-MRI) has been recognized as a promising method for visualizing articulatory motion of speech in scientific research and clinical applications. However, characterization of the gestural and acoustical properties of the vocal tract remains a challenging task for DS-MRI because it requires: 1) reconstructing high-quality spatiotemporal images by incorporating stronger prior knowledge; and 2) quantitatively interpreting the reconstructed images that contain great motion variability. This work presents a novel imaging method that simultaneously meets both requirements by integrating a spatiotemporal atlas into a Partial Separability (PS) model-based imaging framework. Through the use of an atlas-driven sparsity constraint, this method is capable of capturing high-quality articulatory dynamics at an imaging speed of 102 frames per second and a spatial resolution of 2.2 × 2.2 mm2. Moreover, the proposed method enables quantitative characterization of variability of speech motion, compared to the generic motion pattern across all subjects, through the spatial residual components.
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Maojing Fu, Jonghye Woo, Zhi-Pei Liang, and Bradley P. Sutton "Spatiotemporal-atlas-based dynamic speech imaging", Proc. SPIE 9788, Medical Imaging 2016: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 978804 (29 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216528
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KEYWORDS
Tongue

Data acquisition

Data modeling

Spatial resolution

Image restoration

In vivo imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging

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