Table 2 Reasons for including each class in the ground-truth segmentations of the magnetic resonance images of the vocal tract during speech.
From: Real-time speech MRI datasets with corresponding articulator ground-truth segmentations
Class | Reason(s) for inclusion |
|---|---|
Head | Primary: segmentation of the posterior pharyngeal wall would enable automatic measurement of the distance between the soft palate and the posterior pharyngeal wall |
Secondary: segmentation of the upper lip would enable automatic lip motion tracking | |
Soft palate | Segmentation would enable soft palate shape and motion analysis, and also automatic measurement of the distance between the soft palate and the posterior pharyngeal wall |
Jaw | Segmentation of the lower lip would enable automatic lip motion tracking |
Tongue | Segmentation would enable tongue shape and motion analysis |
Vocal tract | Segmentation would enable vocal tract shape analysis |
Tooth space | Included so that there were no holes in the ground-truth segmentations, thus facilitating the post-processing of estimated segmentations |
