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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Automatic Detection System for Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Based on Acoustic Signals from Nasal and Oral Channels.

Yu Zhang, Jing Zhang, Wen Li, Heng Yin, Ling He

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. It's Time to Define the Global Burden of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2026
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  2. Otolaryngologic disease in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: spectrum, co-occurrence, and outcomes in a contemporary pediatric cohort.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yu ZhangCollege of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Jing ZhangCollege of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Wen LiCollege of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Heng YinWest China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Ling HeCollege of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7168-2737
Sichuan University · CN

Funding

Exploration and Research Project of West China Hospital of Stomatology Sichuan University LCYJ-2022-YF-3National Natural Science Foundation of China 61503264
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) is a type of pharyngeal function dysfunction that causes speech impairment and swallowing disorder. Speech therapists play a key role on the diagnosis and treatment of speech disorders. However, there is a worldwide shortage of experienced speech therapists. Artificial intelligence-based computer-aided diagnosing technology could be a solution for this. This paper proposes an automatic system for VPI detection at the subject level. It is a non-invasive and convenient approach for VPI diagnosis. Based on the principle of impaired articulation of VPI patients, nasal- and oral-channel acoustic signals are collected as raw data. The system integrates the symptom discriminant results at the phoneme level. For consonants, relative prominent frequency description and relative frequency distribution features are proposed to discriminate nasal air emission caused by VPI. For hypernasality-sensitive vowels, a cross-attention residual Siamese network (CARS-Net) is proposed to perform automatic VPI/non-VPI classification at the phoneme level. CARS-Net embeds a cross-attention module between the two branches to improve the VPI/non-VPI classification model for vowels. We validate the proposed system on a self-built dataset, and the accuracy reaches 98.52%. This provides possibilities for implementing automatic VPI diagnosis.

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automatic diagnosisdeep learningspeech disordervelopharyngeal insufficiency

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PMID37627973
PMCPMC10453249
OpenAlexW4386032343

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