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  • Delineating the Glottal Edge Using Region-Growing Methodfor Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2014)   [iCBBE 2014]
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  • Hyun June Kim, Tailong Shi, Yuling Yan
  • ABSTRACT
  • High-speed digital Imaging (HSDI) of the larynx can provide more accurate visualization and measurement of the vibratory behavior of the vocal folds than other existing modalities, as it is capable of capturing true intra-cycle vocal fold vibrations. It is especially useful for studying aperiodic vibratory behaviorof the vocal folds. However, due to its large amounts of data, it is difficult to quantitatively analyze the vocal fold motions. Thus, it is important to develop an efficient and effective method to detect vocal fold edges from the images captured from HSDI for more efficient and accurate analysis of vocal fold motions. In this paper, we propose a new approach for the segmentation of glottis that combines defining the region of interest (ROI) and region-growing method. First, we define the ROI by calculating the average of the difference between maximum and minimum intensity values of each pixel and applyingthresholding.Subsequently we apply the region-growing method selectively to frames representing open state of the glottal cycle.The experimental results obtainedby using the proposed method confirm the validity of the proposed method
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