Title
A High-Resolution Atlas And Statistical Model Of The Vocal Tract From Structural Mri
Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential tool in the study of muscle anatomy and functional activity in the tongue. Objective assessment of similarities and differences in tongue structure and function has been performed using unnormalised data, but this is biased by the differences in size, shape and orientation of the structures. To remedy this, we propose a methodology to build a 3D vocal tract atlas based on structural MRI volumes from 20 normal subjects. We first constructed high- resolution volumes from three orthogonal stacks. We then removed extraneous data so that all 3D volumes contained the same anatomy. We used an unbiased diffeomorphic groupwise registration using a cross- correlation similarity metric. Principal component analysis was applied to the deformation fields to create a statistical model from the atlas. Various evaluations and applications were carried out to show the behaviour and utility of the atlas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1080/21681163.2014.933679
COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING-IMAGING AND VISUALIZATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
vocal tract atlas, statistical model, MRI, tongue
Data mining,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Tongue structure,Atlas (anatomy),Artificial intelligence,Statistical model,Vocal tract,Principal component analysis,Magnetic resonance imaging
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
1
2168-1163
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.55
12
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonghye Woo113221.21
Junghoon Lee2387.21
Emi Z. Murano3666.58
Fangxu Xing4437.70
Meena Al-Talib570.55
Maureen C. Stone61166320.64
Jerry L. Prince74990488.42