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Over the last few years, statistical deformable models have been successfully used to identify and characterize bones and organs in medical images and point distribution models (PDMs) have gained particular relevance. In this work, the suitability of these models has been studied to characterize and further reconstruct the shape of the vocal tract in the articulation of Portuguese European (EP) speech sounds, one of the most spoken languages worldwide, with the aid of MR images. Therefore, a PDM has been built from a set of MR images acquired during the artificially sustained articulation of 25 EP speech sounds. Following this, the capacity of this statistical model to characterize the shape deformation of the vocal tract during the production of sounds was analysed. Next, the model was used to reconstruct five EP oral vowels and the EP fricative consonants. As far as a study on speech production is concerned, this study is considered to be the first approach to characterize and reconstruct the vocal tract shape from MR images by using PDMs. In addition, the findings achieved permit one to conclude that this modelling technique compels an enhanced understanding of the dynamic speech events involved in sustained articulations based on MRI, which are of particular interest for speech rehabilitation and simulation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1243\/09544119jeim767","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,5,21]],"date-time":"2010-05-21T21:09:49Z","timestamp":1274476189000},"page":"1153-1163","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Using Statistical Deformable Models to Reconstruct Vocal Tract Shape from Magnetic Resonance Images"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"224","author":[{"given":"M J M","family":"Vasconcelos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management, Porto, Portugal"}]},{"given":"S M Rua","family":"Ventura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Radiology, School of Allied Health Science \u2014 IPP, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal"}]},{"given":"D R S","family":"Freitas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal"}]},{"given":"J M R S","family":"Tavares","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management, Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,5,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-09544119JEIM767","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Aixut T., Meneses Y.L., Bourgeois F., Jacot J. 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