Useful links for speech production real-time MRI tools

Papers that use a subset of the dataset for the reconstruction and artifact correction of the real-time MRI data

  • Yongwan Lim, Sajan Goud Lingala, Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak. "Dynamic off-resonance correction for spiral real-time MRI of speech", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 81, pp. 234–246, 2019. [Paper][Code]

  • Yongwan Lim, Yannick Bliesener, Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak. "Deblurring for spiral real-time MRI using convolutional neural network", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 84, pp. 3438–3452, 2020. [Paper]

  • Ye Tian, Yongwan Lim, Ziwei Zhao, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak. "Aliasing artifact reduction in spiral real-time MRI", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2021. In press, [Paper][Code]

Papers that are developed for the analysis and modelling of reconstructed real-time MRI data with avaialble code repository

  • Erik Bresch, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Region segmentation in the frequency domain applied to upper airway real-time magnetic resonance images", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 323-338, 2009. [Paper][Code]

  • Jangwon Kim, Naveen Kumar, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Enhanced airway-tissue boundary segmentation for real-time magnetic resonance imaging data", International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, Germany, 2014. [Paper][Code]

  • Krishna Somandepalli, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Semantic edge detection for tracking vocal tract air-tissue boundaries in real-time magnetic resonance images", Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017. [Paper][Code]

  • Miran Oh, Yoonjeong Lee, “ACT: An Automatic Centroid Tracking tool for analyzing vocal tract actions in real-time magnetic resonance imaging speech production data”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 144, no. 4, pp. EL290-EL296, 2018. [Paper][Code]

  • Tanner Sorensen, Asterios Toutios, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan, "Task-dependence of articulator synergies", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 145, no. 3, pp. 1504-1520, 2019. [Paper][Code]

Papers that are developed for the analysis and modelling of reconstructed real-time MRI data without code repository

  • Michael I. Proctor, Daniel Bone, Athanasios Katsamanis, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Rapid semi-automatic segmentation of real-time magnetic resonance images for parametric vocal tract analysis", Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 2010. [Paper]

  • Adam Lammert, Michael I. Proctor, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Data-Driven analysis of realtime vocal tract MRI using correlated image regions", Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 2010. [Paper]

  • Michael I. Proctor, Adam Lammert, Athanasios Katsamanis, Louis Goldstein, Christina Hagedorn, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Direct estimation of articulatory kinematics from real-time magnetic resonance image sequences", Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 2011 [Paper]

  • Adam Lammert, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Michael I. Proctor, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Vocal tract cross-distance estimation from real-time MRI using region-of-interest analysis", Interspeech, Lyon, France, 2013. [Paper]

  • Shrikanth Narayanan, Asterios Toutios, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Adam Lammert, Jangwon Kim, Sungbok Lee, Krishna Nayak, Yoon-Chul Kim, Yinghua Zhu, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Erik Bresch, Prasanta Ghosh, Athanasios Katsamanis, Michael Proctor, "Real-time magnetic resonance imaging and electromagnetic articulography database for speech production research (TC)", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 136, no. 3, pp. 1307-1311, 2014. [Paper]

  • Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Factor analysis of vocal-tract outlines derived from real-time magnetic resonance imaging data", Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, UK, 2015. [Paper]

  • Vikram Ramanarayanan, Sam Tilsen, Michael Proctor, Johannes Töger, Louis Goldstein, Krishna S. Nayak, Shrikanth Narayanan, “Analysis of speech production real-time MRI”, Computer Speech & Language, vol. 52, pp. 1-22, 2018. [Paper]

  • Asterios Toutios, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan, “Advances in vocal tract imaging and analysis.“, Routledge Handbook of Phonetics (William Katz, Peter Assmann, eds.), Routledge, London and New York, 2019. [Paper]

  • Ashwin Hebbar, Rahul Sharma, Krishna Somandepalli, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Vocal tract articulatory contour detection in real-time magnetic resonance images using spatio-temporal context", IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020. [Paper]

  • Jangwon Kim, Asterios Toutios, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, "Vocal tract shaping of emotional speech", Computer Speech & Language, vol. 64, pp. 101100, 2020. [Paper]

Other resources

  • A MATLAB program for assisting region of interest (ROI) analysis of the movements of the vocal tract articulators in real-time magnetic resonance (rtMR) videos Code