2024
Quantifying articulatory variations across phonological environments: An atlas-based approach using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
Xing F, Zhuo J, Stone M, Liu X, Reese T, Wedeen V, Prince J, Woo J. Quantifying articulatory variations across phonological environments: An atlas-based approach using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2024, 156: 4000-4009. PMID: 39670769, PMCID: PMC11646136, DOI: 10.1121/10.0034639.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhonological environmentVelar consonantsArticulatory variationConsonant productionSpeech activitySpeech variationConsonant positionSpeech utterancesSpeechUtterancesMagnetic resonance imagingResonance imagingDynamic magnetic resonance imagingAdaptive behaviorConsonantsTemporal positionHuman tongueTongueMotor control studiesAtlas-based approach
2021
4D magnetic resonance imaging atlas construction using temporally aligned audio waveforms in speech
Xing F, Jin R, Gilbert I, Perry J, Sutton B, Liu X, Fakhri G, Shosted R, Woo J. 4D magnetic resonance imaging atlas construction using temporally aligned audio waveforms in speech. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2021, 150: 3500-3508. PMID: 34852570, PMCID: PMC8580575, DOI: 10.1121/10.0007064.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAudio waveformTemporal domain informationMulti-subject dataAtlas constructionMutual information measureMR image datasetsImage datasetsTarget domainDomain informationPost-processing methodImage sequencesTemporal alignmentSpatiotemporal alignmentMatching patternsInformation measuresImage dataSquare errorAligned volumesAlignment mapOverall score increaseMR technologyCross-correlationDeformable registrationSpeechImages