Tongue contour tracking and segmentation in lingual ultrasound for speech recognition: A review

K Al-Hammuri, F Gebali, I Thirumarai Chelvan… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lingual ultrasound imaging is essential in linguistic research and speech recognition. It has
been used widely in different applications as visual feedback to enhance language learning …

Encoder-decoder CNN models for automatic tracking of tongue contours in real-time ultrasound data

MH Mozaffari, WS Lee - Methods, 2020 - Elsevier
One application of medical ultrasound imaging is to visualize and characterize human
tongue shape and motion in real-time to study healthy or impaired speech production. Due …

Digital image based segmentation and classification of tongue cancer using CNN

P Pahadiya, R Vijay, KK Gupta, S Saxena… - Wireless Personal …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the change in life style after covid-19 there is demand for non-invasive contact less
healthcare monitoring systems. In India oral cancer rate are increasing and becoming the …

A CNN-based tool for automatic tongue contour tracking in ultrasound images

J Zhu, W Styler, I Calloway - arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.10210, 2019 - arxiv.org
For speech research, ultrasound tongue imaging provides a non-invasive means for
visualizing tongue position and movement during articulation. Extracting tongue contours …

wUnet: A new network used for ultrasonic tongue contour extraction

G Li, J Chen, Y Liu, J Wei - Speech Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrasound imaging is becoming a practical tool in silent speech recognition. It is a
challenge to accurately extract tongue contours due to the soft tissue characteristics of the …

Silent versus modal multi-speaker speech recognition from ultrasound and video

MS Ribeiro, A Eshky, K Richmond, S Renals - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We investigate multi-speaker speech recognition from ultrasound images of the tongue and
video images of the lips. We train our systems on imaging data from modal speech, and …

Raw ultrasound-based phonetic segments classification via mask modeling

K You, B Liu, K Xu, Y Xiong, Q Xu… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound tongue imaging is widely used in clinical linguistics and phonetics. Recently,
deep neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks, have been widely used in …

Deep learning for automatic tracking of tongue surface in real-time ultrasound videos, Landmarks instead of Contours

MH Mozaffari, N Yamane… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One usage of medical ultrasound imaging is to visualize and characterize human tongue
shape and motion during a real-time speech to study healthy or impaired speech production …

Automatic tongue delineation from mri images with a convolutional neural network approach

K Isaieva, Y Laprie, N Turpault… - Applied Artificial …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Tongue contour extraction from real-time magnetic resonance images is a nontrivial task
due to the presence of artifacts manifesting in form of blurring or ghostly contours. In this …

Masked Modeling-Based Ultrasound Image Classification via Self-Supervised Learning

K Xu, K You, B Zhu, M Feng, D Feng… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep learning-based methods have emerged as the preferred approach for
ultrasound data analysis. However, these methods often require large-scale annotated …