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ArticleJournal of imaging informatics in medicine2026

A Deep-Learning Approach for Vocal Fold Pose Estimation in Videoendoscopy.

Francesca Pia Villani, Maria Chiara Fiorentino, Lorenzo Federici, Cesare Piazza, Emanuele Frontoni, Alberto Paderno, Sara Moccia

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  1. Impaired vocal cord mobility due to thyroarytenoid muscle involvement predicts poorer prognosis in T2 glottic cancer. Opportunity for refinement of the TNM 8Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2026
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  2. Glottic tumours involving the anterior vs posterior paraglottic space have different prognosis. Opportunity for refinement of the TNM 8Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2026
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  3. Videomics and artificial intelligence in endoscopic diagnosis of laryngeal lesions: mapping current evidence through a scoping review.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2026
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Francesca Pia VillaniDepartment of Information Engineering, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. f.p.villani@staff.univpm.it.
Maria Chiara FiorentinoDepartment of Information Engineering, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
Lorenzo FedericiDepartment of Information Engineering, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
Cesare PiazzaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Emanuele FrontoniDepartment of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
Alberto Paderno *Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Sara Moccia *Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti - Pescara, Italy.

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Abstract

Accurate vocal fold (VF) pose estimation is crucial for diagnosing larynx diseases that can eventually lead to VF paralysis. The videoendoscopic examination is used to assess VF motility, usually estimating the change in the anterior glottic angle (AGA). This is a subjective and time-consuming procedure requiring extensive expertise. This research proposes a deep learning framework to estimate VF pose from laryngoscopy frames acquired in the actual clinical practice. The framework performs heatmap regression relying on three anatomically relevant keypoints as a prior for AGA computation, which is estimated from the coordinates of the predicted points. The assessment of the proposed framework is performed using a newly collected dataset of 471 laryngoscopy frames from 124 patients, 28 of whom with cancer. The framework was tested in various configurations and compared with other state-of-the-art approaches (direct keypoints regression and glottal segmentation) for both pose estimation, and AGA evaluation. The proposed framework obtained the lowest root mean square error (RMSE) computed on all the keypoints (5.09, 6.56, and 6.40 pixels, respectively) among all the models tested for VF pose estimation. Also for the AGA evaluation, heatmap regression reached the lowest mean average error (MAE) (

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Deep LearningLaryngoscopyVideo RecordingVocal CordsFemaleHumansLaryngeal DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedDeep learningHeatmap regressionPose estimationVideoendoscopyVocal folds

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