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Publications

Links to our Collaborators' papers:

Jerry Prince:  http://www.iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~prince/jlp_pubs.html

Carol Espy-Wilson:  http://www.ece.umd.edu/~espy/

Our Papers and Proceedings

Murano EZ, Stone M,  Zhuo J, Liu X, Gullapalli R, Salama A, Ord R, Prince J. (2008) Functional outcomes of    glossectomy surgery with and without flap reconstruction.  Proceedings of the Fourth B-J-K Symposium on Biomechanics, Healthcare and Information Science., March 13-14, 2008, Kanazawa, Japan. -PDF

Stone, M., Stock, G., Bunin, K., Kumar, K., Epstein, M., Parthasarathy,V., Prince, J, Li, M., Kambhamettu, C. (2007)  Comparison of speech production in upright and supine position . J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122(1), 532-541 -PDF

Stone, M., and Murano, E.Z. (2007) Speech patterns in a muscular hydrostat: normal and glossectomy tongue movement.  Proceedings of the Third B-J-K Symposium on Biomechanics, Healthcare and Information Science. p. 137-154 , March 16-17, 2007, Kanazawa, Japan.-PDF

Li, M., Kambhamettu, C., and Stone, M. (2007) Nonrigid motion recovery for 3D surfaces. Image and Video Computing., 25, 250-261 -PDF

Liu, X., Murano, E., Stone, M., and Prince, J.L., (2007), “HARP tracking refinement using seeded region growing,” Proc. Int’l Symp Biomed Imaging (ISBI).   -PDF

NessAiver, M., Stone, M., Parthasarathy, V., Kahana, Y., Kots, A. and Paritsky, A (2006) Recording High Quality Speech during tagged Cine MRI studies using a fiber optic microphone. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 23, 92-97 -PDF

Liu, X., Stone, M, and Prince, J. ( 2006)  Tracking tongue motion in three dimensions using tagged MR images. Proceedings of the IEEE ISBI, pp 1372-1375.   -PDF

Levine, W.S., Torcaso, C.E., and Stone. M. (2005)Controlling the shape of a muscular hydrostat: A tongue or tentacle. New Directions in Control Theory and Applications. Springer, p. 207-222  -PDF

Li, M, Kambhamettu, C., and Stone, M. (2005) Automatic contour tracking in ultrasound images. Clin. Ling. and Phonetics 19 (6-7): 545-554 -PDF
Li, M, Kambhamettu, C., and Stone, M. (2005) Tongue motion averaging from contour sequences. Clin. Ling. and Phonetics 19 (6-7): 515-528. -PDF
Parthasarathy, V, Stone, M., and Prince. JL., (2005) Spatiotemporal visualization of the tongue surface using ultrasound and kriging (SURFACES). Clin. Linguistics and Phonetics 19 (6-7): 529-544 -PDF

Stone, M., (2005) "A Guide to Analyzing Tongue Motion from Ultrasound Images."Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Sept-Nov, 2005 Volume (19) 6-7  455-502 -PDF

Epstein, M.A.,and Stone,M. (2005) The tongue stops here: Ultrasound imaging of the palate. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118 (4), 2128-2131. -PDF

Stone, M. and M.A. Epstein, C.Kambhamettu, M. Li, (2005) " Predicting 3D tongue shapes from midsagittal contours." In J.Harrington and M. Tabain (eds.), Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and  Techniques, Psychology Press. Chapter 18, 315-330 -PDF

Stone, M., Epstein, M., and Iskarous, K. (2004) Functional segments in tongue movement. International Journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 18(16-18), 507-522 -PDF

Li, Min, Kambhamettu, C, and Stone, M., EdgeTrak, a program for band-edge extraction and its applications Sixth IASTED International Conference o Computers, Graphics and Imaging. August 13-15, 2003, Honolulu, HI. (Peer reviewed) -PDF
M. NessAiver and J. L. Prince, (2003) Magnitude Image CSPAMM Reconstruction (MICSR), Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 331-342, August 2003. -PDF
NessAiver, M., Parthasarathy, V., Stone, M., and Prince, J.L. (2003) Magnitude Image C SPAMM reconstruction(MICSR) and HARP analysis of Tongue motion. Proceedings of the ISMRM (International society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine) July, 2003.  -PDF
Davidson, L., and Stone, M. (2003) Epenthesis Versus Gestural Mistiming in Consonant Cluster Production: An Ultrasound Study Proceedings of the WCCFL 22 -PDF
Slud, E., Smith, P., Stone, M., and Goldstein, M. (2002) Principal Components Representation of the Two-Dimensional Coronal Tongue Surface. Phonetica vol. 59, Nos. 2-3, pp. 108-133. -PDF
Yang, CS., and Stone, M., (2002) Dynamic Programming Method For Temporal Registration Of Three-Dimensional Tongue Surface Motion From Multiple Utterances. Speech Communication. Vol. 38, Nos. 1-2, September 2002, pp. 199-207. -PDF
Stone, M., Davis, E., Douglas, A., Ness Aiver, M., Gullapalli, R., Levine, W., and Lundberg, A. (2001) Modeling Tongue Surface Contours from Cine-MRI images. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 1026-1040. -PDF
Stone, M., Davis, E., Douglas, A., Ness Aiver, M., Gullapalli, R., Levine, W., and Lundberg, A. (2001) Modeling the motion of the internal tongue from tagged cine-MRI images. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109(6), 2974-2982. -PDF
Stone, M., Dick, D., Davis, E., Douglas, A., and Ozturk, C. (May, 2000) Modelling the Internal Tongue Using Principal Strains. Proceedings of the Fifth Speech Production Seminar, Kloster-Seeon, Germany. 133-136. -PDF
Akgul, Y., Kambhamettu, C., and Stone, M. (1999) Automatic Extraction and Tracking of the tongue Contours. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18, 1035-1045.
Lundberg, A. and Stone, M. (1999) “Three-dimensional Tongue Surface Reconstruction: Practical Considerations for Ultrasound Data” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 106, 2858-2867. -PDF
Ong, D. and Stone, M. (1998): “Three Dimensional Vocal Tract Shapes in [r] and [l]: A Study of MRI, Ultrasound, Electropalatography, and Acoustics,” Phonoscope, 1, 1-14. -PDF
Chi-Fishman, G., Stone, M. and McCall, G. (1998) Lingual action in normal sequential swallowing. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. 41, 771-785.
Stone, M., Goldstein, M., and Zhang, Y. (1997): “Principal component analysis of cross-sectional tongue shapes in vowels,” Speech Communication, 22, 173-184.
Chi-Fishman, G. and Stone, M. (1996): “A new application for electropalatography: Swallowing,” Dysphagia, 11, 239-247.
Stone, M. and Lundberg, A. (1996): “Three-dimensional tongue surface shapes of English consonants and vowels,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 99, 3728-3737. -PDF
Stone, M. and Davis, E. (1995): “A head and transducer support system for making ultrasound images of tongue/jaw movement,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,98, 3107-3112.
Stone, M. and Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (1995): “Trade-offs in tongue, jaw and palate contributions to speech production,” J. Phonetics, 23, 81-100.
Stone, M., Faber, A., Raphael, L., and Shawker, T. (1992): “Cross-sectional tongue shape and lingua-palatal contact patterns in [s], [K], and [l],” J. Phonetics, 20, 253-270.˜
Stone, M. (1990): “A three-dimensional model of tongue movement based on ultrasound and x-ray microbeam data,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 87, 2207-2217.
Stone, M., Morrish, K., Sonies, B., and Shawker, T. (1987): “Tongue curvature: A model of shape during vowel production,” Folia Phoniatrica, 39, 302-315.
Stone, M. and Shawker, T. (1986): “An ultrasound examination of tongue movement during swallowing,” Dysphagia, l, 78-83.
Shawker, T., Stone, M., and Sonies, B.C. (1985): “Tongue pellet tracking by ultrasound: Development of a reverberation pellet,” J. Phonetics, 13, 135-146.
Morrish, K., Stone, M., Shawker , T., and Sonies, B.C. (1985): “Distinguishability of tongue shape during vowel production,” J. Phonetics, 13(2), 189-204.
Shawker, T.H., Sonies, B.C., and Stone, M. (1984): “Sonography of speech and swallowing,” in Ultrasound Annual, New York, Raven Press, pp. 237-260.
Sonies, B., Stone, M., and Shawker, T. (1984): “Speech and swallowing in the elderly,” J. Gerontology, 3, 115-123.
Shawker, T., Sonies, B., and Stone, M. (1984): “Soft tissue anatomy of the tongue and floor of the mouth: An ultrasound demonstration,” Brain and Language, 21, 335-350.
Morrish, K., Stone, M., Sonies, B., Kurtz, D., and Shawker, T. (1984): “Characterization of tongue shape,” Ultrasound Imaging, 6(1), 37-47.
Shawker, T., Sonies, B., Stone, M., and Baum, B. (1983): “Real-time ultrasound visualization of tongue movement during swallowing,” J. Clin. Ultrasound, 11, 485-490.
Stone, M., Sonies, B., Shawker, T., Weiss, G., and Nadel, L. (1983): “Analysis of real-time ultrasound images of tongue configuration using a grid-digitizing system,” J. Phonetics, 11, 207-218.
Hamlet, S. and Stone, M. (1982): “Speech adaptation to dental prostheses: The former lisper," J. Prosthet. Dent., 47, 564-569.
Stone, M. and Hamlet, S. (1982): “Variations in jaw and tongue gestures observed during the production of unstressed /d/'s and flaps,” J. Phonetics, 10, 401-415.
Hamlet, S.L. and Stone, M.L. (1981): “Pre-speech posturing of the mandible in relation to the jaw activity during speech," J. Phonetics, 9, 425-436.
Stone, M. (1981): “Evidence for a rhythm pattern in speech production: Observations of jaw movement,” J. Phonetics, 9, 109-120.
Hamlet, S.L., Cullison, B.L., and Stone, M.L. (1979): “Physiological control of sibilant duration: Insights afforded by speech compensation to dental prostheses,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 65, 1276-1285.
Hamlet, S.L and Stone, M. (1978): “Compensatory alveolar consonant production induced by wearing a dental prosthesis,” J. Phonetics, 6, 227-248.
Hamlet, S.L., Stone, M., and McCarty, T. (1978): “Conditioning prostheses viewed from the standpoint of speech adaptation,” J. Prosthet. Dent., 40, 60-66.
Hamlet, S.L. and Stone, M. (1976): “Compensatory vowel characteristics resulting from the presence of different types of experimental dental prostheses,” J. Phonetics, 4, 199-218.
Presentations
Epstein, M.A.,M. Stone (2005), "The effects of shape categories on tongue segmentation in English." Poster  presented at the 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, Canada,May 16-20, 2005. PDF

Murano. Z. Emi, M. Stone, Kiyoshi Honda (2005),"Muscular Hydrostat mechanism for lip potrusion in speech" Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, October 2005 (PDF)

Epstein, M.A., M. Stone (2005),"MidSagittal Tongue Motions Patterns in English: More tahn pivots and arches" Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis,October 2005 (PDF)

Stone, M. and M.A. Epstein. (2004) "The tongue: The whole is the sum of the parts." Poster presented at From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communciation. PDF
Epstein, M. A. and M. Stone. (2004) " 3D tongue segmentation for a minimal pair sentence." Poster  presented at the 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California. Abstract published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116(5). PDF

Pouplier, M, Buchwald, A. and Stone, M (2004),"A tagged cine-MRI and ultrasound study of German vowels." Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, November

Epstein, M.A., M. Stone (2004),"Examining tongue segments with ultrasound" Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York City, May

Stone, M., M. Epstein and M. Sutton (2004)." Predicting 3D tongue surfaces from midsagittal contours." Paper presented at the Conference on Motor Speech
Stone, M. and M.A. Epstein (2004) "Predicting 3D tongue shapes from midsagittal contours." Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP). (PDF)
Epstein, M.A., M. Stone, M. Pouplier and V. Parthasarathy. (2004) "Obtaining a palatal trace for ultrasound images." Poster presented at the 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York. Abstract published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5). (PDF)
Levine, W.S. “Controlling the shape of a muscular hydrostat—A tongue or tentacle,” presented at New Directions and Applications in Control Theory, Lubbock TX November 14-15, 2003.
M. Li, C. Kambhamettu, "Nonrigid point correspondence recovery for planar curves using Fourier decomposition". Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Jan 2004, Jeju Island, Korea. --PDF
Stone, M., Epstein, MA, and Sutton, MW.(2003) Predicting 3D tongue shapes from midsagittal contours. Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney, Australia, Dec 7-10, . -PDF
Levine, W. S., Essex-Torcaso, C. and Stone, M., Controlling the Shape of the Human Tongue during Speech. SIAM, November, 2003
Working Papers

Year - 2000

Evaluation of Optimal Clustering Algorithm and Linear Assignment Clustering Algorithm .( PDF )    -- Cheng-Feng Sze, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Univ of Maryland, College Park. Tongue Surface Extraction from Ultrasound Images : Error due to Left-to-Right measurement direction.   (PDF)                                                                                                                         -- Hsiao-Hui Tsou, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Maryland, College Park.

Comparison of AVI and JPEG Compression Methods for Video Data Storage. (PDF)                   -- Andrew John Lundberg, Division of Otolaryngology, Univ of Maryland, School of Medicine

Year - 2002

Validation of Upright-Supine Methods.  (PDF)                                                                             -- Melissa Epstein, Maureen Stone.The Effect of Upright and Supine Position on Speech and Pause.  (PDF)                                        -- Maureen Stone, Vijay Parthasarathy, Min Li, Jerry Prince, Chandra Kambhamettu, Martin Sutton, Melissa Epstein

Spatiotemporal Visualization of the Tongue Surface using Ultrasound and Kriging.  (PDF)               -- Vijay Parthasarathy, Maureen Stone, Jerry Prince

Year - 2004

An Ultrasound investigation of Speech Errors.  (PDF)                                                                    -- Marianne Pouplier

A Tagged Cine-MRI and Ultrasound Study of the German Vowel System  (PDF                         -- Marianne Pouplier, Adam Buchwald, Maureen Stone

Theses and Dissertations
Parthasarathy, V. (2006): "Characterization of Harmonic phase MRI: Theory, Simulations and Applications," PhD Dissertation, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. -PDF
Moody, J. (1999): "Visualizing Speech with a Recurrent Neural Network Trained on Human Acoustic-Articulatory Data," PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego -PDF

Sze, Cheng-Feng (2000): "Reconstructing 3-D Tongue Motion from 2-D Ultrasound Images and Speech Signals," PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Maryland -PDF

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