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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2021

Estimation of Subglottal Pressure, Vocal Fold Collision Pressure, and Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscle Activation From Neck-Surface Vibration Using a Neural Network Framework and a Voice Production Model.

Emiro J Ibarra, Jesús A Parra, Gabriel A Alzamendi, Juan P Cortés, Víctor M Espinoza, Daryush D Mehta, Robert E Hillman, Matías Zañartu

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Emiro J IbarraDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
Jesús A ParraDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
Gabriel A AlzamendiInstitute for Research and Development on Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Oro Verde, Argentina.
Juan P CortésDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
Víctor M EspinozaDepartment of Sound, Faculty of Arts, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Daryush D MehtaCenter for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Robert E HillmanCenter for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Matías ZañartuDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
Federico Santa María Technical University · CLHarvard University · USUniversidad Nacional de Entre Ríos · ARUniversity of Chile · CLUniversity of the Andes · VE

Funding

Use of ambulatory biofeedback to improve behavioral treatment of vocal hyperfunctionP50DC015446 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Jarrad Van Stan · 2017 to 2026
$25.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC015446
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ambulatory assessment of vocal function can be significantly enhanced by having access to physiologically based features that describe underlying pathophysiological mechanisms in individuals with voice disorders. This type of enhancement can improve methods for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of behaviorally based voice disorders. Unfortunately, the direct measurement of important vocal features such as subglottal pressure, vocal fold collision pressure, and laryngeal muscle activation is impractical in laboratory and ambulatory settings. In this study, we introduce a method to estimate these features during phonation from a neck-surface vibration signal through a framework that integrates a physiologically relevant model of voice production and machine learning tools. The signal from a neck-surface accelerometer is first processed using subglottal impedance-based inverse filtering to yield an estimate of the unsteady glottal airflow. Seven aerodynamic and acoustic features are extracted from the neck surface accelerometer and an optional microphone signal. A neural network architecture is selected to provide a mapping between the seven input features and subglottal pressure, vocal fold collision pressure, and cricothyroid and thyroarytenoid muscle activation. This non-linear mapping is trained solely with 13,000 Monte Carlo simulations of a voice production model that utilizes a symmetric triangular body-cover model of the vocal folds. The performance of the method was compared against laboratory data from synchronous recordings of oral airflow, intraoral pressure, microphone, and neck-surface vibration in 79 vocally healthy female participants uttering consecutive /pæ/ syllable strings at comfortable, loud, and soft levels. The mean absolute error and root-mean-square error for estimating the mean subglottal pressure were 191 Pa (1.95 cm H

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ambulatory monitoringclinical voice assessmentneck-surface accelerometerneural networkssubglottal pressure estimationvoice production model

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