The influence of food texture and liquid consistency modification on swallowing physiology and function: a systematic review

CM Steele, WA Alsanei, S Ayanikalath, CEA Barbon… - Dysphagia, 2015 - Springer
Texture modification has become one of the most common forms of intervention for
dysphagia, and is widely considered important for promoting safe and efficient swallowing …

Oropharyngeal dysphagia: manifestations and diagnosis

N Rommel, S Hamdy - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2016 - nature.com
Swallowing disorders (dysphagia) have been recognized by the WHO as a medical
disability associated with increased morbidity, mortality and costs of care. With increasing …

A comprehensive assessment of gait accelerometry signals in time, frequency and time-frequency domains

E Sejdić, KA Lowry, J Bellanca… - … on Neural Systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gait accelerometry is a promising tool to assess human walking and reveal deteriorating gait
characteristics in patients and can be a rich source of clinically relevant information about …

Non-invasive identification of swallows via deep learning in high resolution cervical auscultation recordings

Y Khalifa, JL Coyle, E Sejdić - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
High resolution cervical auscultation is a very promising noninvasive method for dysphagia
screening and aspiration detection, as it does not involve the use of harmful ionizing …

Oropharyngeal dysphagia: screening and assessment

R Speyer - Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 2013 - oto.theclinics.com
Because the human aerodigestive tract caters to the combined functions of breathing,
vocalizing, and swallowing, the large supralaryngeal space created by the low larynx …

Dysphagia screening: Contributions of cervical auscultation signals and modern signal-processing techniques

JM Dudik, JL Coyle, E Sejdić - IEEE Transactions on Human …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cervical auscultation is the recording of sounds and vibrations caused by the human body
from the throat during swallowing. While traditionally done by a trained clinician with a …

Upper esophageal sphincter opening segmentation with convolutional recurrent neural networks in high resolution cervical auscultation

Y Khalifa, C Donohue, JL Coyle… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Upper esophageal sphincter is an important anatomical landmark of the swallowing process
commonly observed through the kinematic analysis of radiographic examinations that are …

Directed functional coordination analysis of swallowing muscles in healthy and dysphagic subjects by surface electromyography

Y Ye-Lin, G Prats-Boluda, M Galiano-Botella… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Swallowing is a complex sequence of highly regulated and coordinated skeletal and smooth
muscle activity. Previous studies have attempted to determine the temporal relationship …

Neck sensor-supported hyoid bone movement tracking during swallowing

S Mao, Z Zhang, Y Khalifa… - Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hyoid bone movement is an important physiological event during swallowing that
contributes to normal swallowing function. In order to determine the adequate hyoid bone …

A comparative analysis of swallowing accelerometry and sounds during saliva swallows

JM Dudik, I Jestrović, B Luan, JL Coyle… - Biomedical engineering …, 2015 - Springer
Background Accelerometry (the measurement of vibrations) and auscultation (the
measurement of sounds) are both non-invasive techniques that have been explored for their …