Automatic extraction and tracking of the tongue contours

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1035-1045

  Akgul, Yusuf Sinan ^a   Kambhamettu, Chandra ^a   Stone, Maureen ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable contours; Tongue modeling; Tongue motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TIME; TONGUE; TRANSDUCER;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPEECH; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

HEAD AND TRANSDUCER SUPPORT SYSTEM; TONGUE CONTOURS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0033201378     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.811315     Document Type: Article

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