Program
Session 1: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Plus
Friday, June 26, 10:00 - 11:00
10:00-10:15, The Health and Economic Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Najib Ayas, Univ. of BC
10:15-10:30, Pathogenesis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from Upper Airway Imaging Studies
Murtuza Ahmed, Richard Schwab*
* Univ. of Pennsylvania
10:30-10:45, Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
John Fleetham, Univ. of BC
10:45-11:00, The Effect of Tracheal Displacement on Peri-Pharyngeal Tissue Pressures - Preliminary Results from Animal and Modeling Studies
Jason Amatoury*, Kristina Kairaitia, Shaokoon Cheng, John Wheatley, Terence Amis, Lynne Bilston
* Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Session 2: Medical imaging and sensing of the OPAL complex I
Friday, June 26, 13:30 - 14:30
13:30-13:45, A Preliminary Application of Principal Components Analysis to Tongue Motion Patterns
Maureen Stone*, Xiaofeng Liu, Hegang Chen, Jerry L. Prince
* Univ. of Maryland Dental School
13:45-14:00, Airway Segmentation using Crawlers and Optimal Paths
Ghassan Hamarneh, Simon Frazer University
14:00-14:15, The Tongue: Two-Dimensional Views of a Three-Dimensional Structure
Tim Bressmann*, Janette Quintero, Roxanna Smallwood, Heather Flowers, Johnathan C. Irish
* Univ. of Toronto
14:15-14:30, Progress Towards Semi-Automated Segmentation of Soft-Tissue Structure in the OPAL Complex
Tricia Pang*, Rafeef Abugharbieh, Sidney Fels
* Univ. of BC
Session 3:Mastication and Swallowing Behaviours
Friday, June 26, 15:00 - 16:15
15:00-15:15, Modeling of Swallowing Mechanism Based on MRI Observation
Jianwu Dang*, Yasutoshi Honda, Stephanie Buchaillard
* Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
15:15-15:30, Jaw Motor Plasticity in Health and Disease
Christopher C. Peck*, Alexander Wirianski, Greg M. Murray
* Univ. of Sydney
15:30-15:45, The Pharynx and Scar Tissue
Arthur J. Miller*, Doug Van Daele
* Univ. of California
15:45-16:00, Predicting Muscle Patterns for Hemimandibulectomy Models
Ian Stavness, Alan Hannam, Univ. of BC
16:00-16:15, Hyolaryngeal Biomechanics Modeling with Intramuscular Stimulation Data
Ian Stavness*, Christy Ludlow, Bethany Chung, Sidney Fels
* Univ. of BC
Session 4: Medical imaging and sensing of the OPAL complex II
Saturday June 27th, 9:00 - 10:00
9:00-9:15, Integrating Structural and Functional Patient Data with the ArtiSynth Platform: A Technical Report
Ryan Swain*, Robert Fraser, Danny Chow, Judith Lam Tang, Jana Rieger*
* IRSM
9:15-9:30, Extraction of Tongue Shapes from Magnetic Resonance Images
Florian Vogt*, Charles Wilson, Rahul Chander, Sidney Fels
* Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble
9:30-9:45, Construction of a MRI-Based 3D Atlas of the Human Tongue for Biomechanical Tongue Modeling
Chao-Min Wu*, Goh Han Tiet, Sung-Yi Wang
* National Central University
9:45-10:00, Three Dimensional Tracking of Orthodontic Patients Using CBCT and Photogrammetry
Pierre Boulanger*, Carlos Flores-Mir, Elizabeth Mesa, Juan Ramirez
* Univ. of Alberta
Session 5: Speech and Heads
Saturday June 27th, 10:30 - 11:45
10:30-10:45, Production of Various Voice Qualities Using Mechanical Vocal Code Model
Masaaki Honda*, Kotaro Fukui, Eiji Shintaku, Yuma Ishikawa, Nana Sakakibara, Yoshikazu Mukaeku, Atsuo Takanishi
* Waseda University
10:45-11:00, Visualization of Hypopharyngeal Cavities and Vocal-Tract Acoustic Modeling
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
* ATR, Japan
11:00-11:15, Using 3D Lip Surface and MRI Data to Help Build a Speaker-Specific Lip Models for Talking Heads
Takaaki Kuratate*, Marcia Riley
* Univ. of Western Sydney
11:15-11:30, Human Upper Airway 3D Image Registration for Patient Specific Model Generation Δ
Bruno Teixeira, Hani Yehia*, Sidney Fels
* Fed. Univ.of Minas Gerais
Session 6: Faces & Heads
Saturday June 27th, 1:30 - 2:15
13:30-13:45, Simulation of Muscle-Based Orofacial Movement Dynamics Using a Muscle Activation Dependent Varying Constitutive Law
Mohammad A. Nazari*, Pascal Perrier, Matthieu Chabanas, Yohan Payan
* Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble
13:45-14:00, Finite Element Speaker-Specific Face Model Generation for the Study of Speech Production
Marek Bucki*, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Yohan Payan
* TIMC-IMAG Lab
14:00-14:15, Towards Jaw-Tongue Coupling for Speech: Modeling the Jaw with a Soft Body Approach
Florian Vogt, Stephanie Buchaillard, Mohammad A. Nazari, Pascal Perrier*, Yohan Payan
* Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble
14:15-14:30, Spatial and Temporal Coupling Between Respiration-Dependent Systems
Adriano V. Barbosa, Martin Oberg, Kathryn McAllister, Nancy Hermiston, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson*
* Univ. of BC
Session 7: Fluids in the OPAL complex
Saturday June 27th, 3:15 - 4:00
15:15-15:30, Modeling Fluid Flow in the Airway Using CFD with a Focus on Fricative Acoustics
Peter Anderson*, Sheldon Green, Sidney Fels
* Univ. of BC
15:30-15:45, Biomechanical Analyses of Oropharyngeal Swallowing
Mark A. Nicosia*, Ahmed El-Sayed, Eric W. Nicosia, Ryan Young
* Widener Univ.
15:45-16:00, Intramural Mechanics of the Tongue During Respiration
Lynne Bilston*, S. Cheng, J. Martin, S. Gandevia
* Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
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