Current Publications

• D. Byrd, S. Tobin, E. Bresch, S. Narayanan. (2009). Timing effects of syllable structure and stress on nasals: a real-time MRI examination. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 2009, pp.97-110.


• E. Bresch, S. Narayanan. (2009). Region segmentation in the frequency domain applied to upper airway real-time magnetic resonance images. IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 28 (3), March 2009, pp.323-338. [pdf]


• YC Kim, CE Hayes, S Narayanan, KS Nayak. (2009). Parallel imaging of the upper airway with a novel 16-channel tongue coil. Proceedings ISMRM Seventeenth Scientific Sessions, Hawaii, USA, p1317, April 2009.


• YC Kim, S Narayanan, KS Nayak. (2009). Accelerated 3D MRI of vocal tract shaping using compressed sensing and parallel imaging. Proceedings of ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, p389-392, April 2009.


• YC Kim, S Narayanan, KS Nayak. (2009). Accelerated 3D upper airway MRI using compressed sensing. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 61, pp. 1434-1440.


• Erik Bresch, Yoon-Chul Kim, Krishna Nayak, Dani Byrd, and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2008). Seeing Speech: Capturing Vocal Tract Shaping Using Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2008. [pdf]


• YC Kim, JF Nielsen, S Narayanan, D Byrd, KS Nayak. (2008). Application of compressed sensing to 3D imaging of the vocal tract for speech MRI. Proc. ISMRM 16th Scientific Sessions, Toronto, May 2008, p. 2003. [pdf]


• YC Kim, KS Nayak. (2008). Optimization of undersampled variable density spiral trajectories based on incoherence of spatial aliasing. Proc. ISMRM 16th Scientific Sessions, Toronto, May 2008, p. 422. [pdf]


• Erik Bresch, Jason Adams, Arthur Pouzet, Sungbok Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2006). Semi-Automatic Processing of Real-time MR Image Sequences for Speech Production Studies. Proceedings of 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, December 2006. [pdf]


• Sungbok Lee, Erik Bresch, Jason Adams, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2006). A study of emotional speech articulation using a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. [pdf]


• Sungbok Lee, Erik Bresch, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2006). An Exploratory Study of Emotional Speech Production using Functional Data Analysis Techniques. Proceedings of 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, December 2006. [pdf]


• Erik Bresch, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Krishna Nayak, Shri Narayanan. (2005). Synchronized audio recording and real-time MR imaging of fluent speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120 (4), 1791-1794. [pdf]


• KS Nayak, CH Cunningham, JM Santos, JM Pauly. (2004). Real-Time Cardiac Imaging at 3 Tesla. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2004:51(4):655-660. [pdf]


• S Narayanan, K. Nayak, S. Lee, A. Sethy & D. Byrd. (2004). An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging for speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 1771-1776. [pdf]
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Related Abstracts

• A. Lammert, E. Bresch, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2009). An articulatory study of lexicalized and epenthetic schwa using real time magnetic resonance imaging. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]


• E. Bresch, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2009). An analysis-by-synthesis approach to modeling real-time MRI articulatory data using the Task Dynamic Application framework. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]


• E. Holsinger, V. Ramanarayanan, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, M. Gorno Tempini,  S. Narayanan . (2009). Beyond acoustic data: Characterizing disordered speech using direct articulatory evidence from real time imaging. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]


• J. Tepperman, E. Bresch, Y.C. Kim, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, K. Nayak, S. Narayanan. (2009). Articulatory analysis of foreign-accented speech using real-time MRI. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2009.


• M. Proctor, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, E. Bresch, S. Narayanan. (2009). Articulatory comparison of Tamil liquids and stops using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2009.


• V. Ramanarayanan, E. Bresch,D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2009). Analysis of pausing behavior in spontaneous speech using real-time magnetic resonance imaging of articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (in press).. [pdf]


• V. Ramanarayanan, E. Bresch,D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2009). Real-time MRI tracking of articulation during grammatical and ungrammatical pauses in speech. 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]


• E. Bresch, D. Riggs, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Lee, S. Narayanan. (2008). An analysis of vocal tract shaping in English sibilant fricatives using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia 2008.


• Y-C. Kim, J-F. Nielsen, S. Narayanan, and K. S. Nayak. (2007). Edge detection using sub-sampled k-space data: application to upper airway MRI. Proceedings ISMRM Fifteenth Scientific Sessions, Berlin, May 2007, p3458. [pdf]


• Shrikanth Narayanan, Erik Bresch, Stephen Tobin, Dani Byrd, Krishna Nayak, and Jon Nielsen. (2006). Resonance tuning in soprano singing and vocal tract shaping: Comparison of sung and spoken vowels. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.. [pdf]


• Stephen Tobin, Dani Byrd, Erik Bresch, and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2006). Syllable structure effects on velum-oral coordination evaluated with real-time MRI. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.. [pdf]


• Shrikanth Narayanan. (2005). Imaging for understanding speech communication: Advances and challenges. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 117:2501.


• Abhinav Sethy, Shrikanth Narayanan, Sungbok Lee, and Dani Byrd. (2003). Toward data-driven modeling of dynamic vocal-tract data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 114:2392.


• Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna Nayak, Dani Byrd, and Sungbok Lee. (2003). An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging for speech production. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108:2575.