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Program
Session 1: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Plus
The Health and Economic Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea 1-5
Najib Ayas
Pathogenesis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from Upper Airway Imaging Studies 7-26
Murtuza Ahmed, Richard Schwab
Treatments for Obstructive Sleep Apnea 27
John Fleetham
The Effect of Tracheal Displacement on Peri-pharyngeal Tissue Pressures - Preliminary Results from Animal and Modeling Studies 29-35
Jason Amatoury, Kristina Kairaitis, Shaokoon Cheng, John Wheatley, Terence Amis, Lynne Bilston
Session 2: Medical imaging and sensing of the OPAL complex I
A Preliminary Application of Principal Components Analysis to Tongue Motion Patterns 37-42
Maureen Stone, Xiaofeng Liu, Hegang Chen, Jerry L. Prince
Airway Segmentation using Crawlers and Optimal Paths 43
Ghassan Hamarneh
The Tongue: Two-Dimensional Views of a Three-Dimensional Structure 45-50
Tim Bressmann, Janette Quintero, Roxanna Smallwood, Heather Flowers, Johnathan C. Irish
Progress Towards Semi-Automated Segmentation of Soft-Tissue Structure in the OPAL Complex 51-55
Tricia Pang, Rafeef Abugharbieh, Sidney Fels
Session 3:Mastication and Swallowing Behaviours
Modeling of Swallowing Mechanism Based on MRI Observation 57-60
Jianwu Dang, Yasutoshi Honda, Stephanie Buchaillard
Jaw Motor Plasticity in Health and Disease 61-64
Christopher Peck, Alexander Wirianski, Greg Murray
The Pharynx and Scar Tissue 65-70
Arthur Miller, Doug Van Daele
Predicting Muscle Patterns for Hemimandibulectomy Models 71-72
Ian Stavness, Alan Hannam
Hyolaryngeal Biomechanics Modeling with Intramuscular Stimulation Data 73-78
Ian Stavness, Christy Ludlow, Bethany Chung, Sidney Fels
Session 4: Medical imaging and sensing of the OPAL complex II
Integrating Structural and Functional Patient Data with the ArtiSynth Platform: A Technical Report 79-82
Ryan Swain, Robert Fraser, Danny Chow, Judith Lam Tang, Jana Rieger
Extraction of Tongue Shapes from Magnetic Resonance Images 83-86
Florian Vogt, Charles Wilson, Rahul Chander, Sidney Fels
Construction of a MRI-Based 3D Atlas of the Human Tongue for Biomechanical Tongue Modeling 87-90
Chao-Min Wu, Goh Han Tiet, Sung-Yi Wang
Three Dimensional Tracking of Orthodontic Patients Using CBCT and Photogrammetry 91-95
Pierre Boulanger, Carlos Flores-Mir, Elizabeth Mesa, Juan Ramirez
Session 5: Speech and Heads
Production of Various Voice Qualities Using Mechanical Vocal Code Model 97-100
Masaaki Honda, Kotaro Fukui, Eiji Shintaku, Yuma Ishikawa, Nana Sakakibara, Yoshikazu Mukaeku, Atsuo Takanishi
Visualization of Hypopharyngeal Cavities and Vocal-Tract Acoustic Modeling 101-107
Kiyoshi Honda, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Seiji Adachi, Parham Mokhtari, Sayoko Takano,
Yukiko Nota, Hiroyuki Hirata, Ichiro Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Shimada, Shinobu Masaki, Satoru Fujita, Jianwu Dang
Using 3D Lip Surface and MRI Data to Help Build a Speaker-Specific Lip Models for Talking Heads 109-114
Takaaki Kurata, Marcia Riley
Human Upper Airway 3D Image Registration for Patient Specific Model Generation Δ 115-120
Bruno Teixeira, Hani Yehia, Sidney Fels
Session 6: Faces & Heads
Simulation of Muscle-Based Orofacial Movement Dynamics Using a Muscle Activation Dependent Varying Constitutive Law 121-127
Mohammad Nazari, Pascal Perrier, Matthieu Chabanas, Yohan Payan
Finite Element Speaker-Specific Face Model Generation for the Study of Speech Production 129-135
Marek Bucki, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Yohan Payan
Towards Jaw-Tongue Coupling for Speech: Modeling the Jaw with a Soft Body Approach 137-138
Florian Vogt, Stephanie Buchaillard, Mohammad Nazari, Pascal Perrier, Yohan Payan
Spatial and Temporal Coupling Between Respiration-Dependent Systems 139-145
Adriano V. Barbosa, Martin Oberg, Kathryn McAllister, Nancy Hermiston, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
Session 7: Fluids in the OPAL complex
Modeling Fluid Flow in the Airway Using CFD with a Focus on Fricative Acoustics 147-154
Peter Anderson, Sheldon Green, Sidney Fels
Biomechanical Analyses of Oropharyngeal Swallowing 155-162
Mark A. Nicosia, Ahmed El-Sayed, Eric W. Nicosia, Ryan Young
Intramural Mechanics of the Tongue During Respiration 163-166
Lynne Bilston, S. Cheng, J. Martin, S. Gandevia