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 …

[HTML][HTML] Domain adaptation for ultrasound tongue contour extraction using transfer learning: A deep learning approach

M Hamed Mozaffari, WS Lee - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Automatic and precise delineating of the tongue surface in real-time frames is a challenging
task because of the noisy nature of ultrasound images and rapid changes of the tongue …

Automated tongue contour extraction from ultrasound sequences using signal enhancing neural network and energy minimized spline

A Verma, N Singh, V Khanna, BP Singh… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2024 - Springer
Ultrasonography is widely used in linguistic study, speech therapy, language training, and
impaired speech production. Real-time visualization of the shape, contour, and motion of the …

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 …

US2Mask: Image-to-mask generation learning via a conditional GAN for cardiac ultrasound image segmentation

G Wang, M Zhou, X Ning, P Tiwari, H Zhu… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cardiac ultrasound (US) image segmentation is vital for evaluating clinical indices, but it
often demands a large dataset and expert annotations, resulting in high costs for deep …

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 …

Pronunciation and technology

JM Levis, I Rehman - Handbook of Practical Second Language …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Research and teaching of second language pronunciation increasingly is intertwined with
the use of technology, both for analysis and description and for pronunciation learning …

Irisnet: Deep learning for automatic and real-time tongue contour tracking in ultrasound video data using peripheral vision

MH Mozaffari, MAR Ratul, WS Lee - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03972, 2019 - arxiv.org
The progress of deep convolutional neural networks has been successfully exploited in
various real-time computer vision tasks such as image classification and segmentation …

Bownet: Dilated convolution neural network for ultrasound tongue contour extraction

MH Mozaffari, WS Lee - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04232, 2019 - arxiv.org
Ultrasound imaging is safe, relatively affordable, and capable of real-time performance. One
application of this technology is to visualize and to characterize human tongue shape and …

Second language pronunciation training by ultrasound-enhanced visual augmented reality

MH Mozaffari, WS Lee - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evaluation of ultrasound-enhanced pronunciation training methods has shown that
visualizing articulator's system as biofeedback to language learners will significantly …