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Relationship between tongue pressure and dysphagia diet in patients with acute stroke
by Masahiro Nakamori, Kenichi Ishikawa, Eiji Imamura, Haruna Yamamoto, Keiko Kimura, Tomoko Ayukawa, Tatsuya Mizoue, Shinichi Wakabayashi A dysphagia diet is important for patients with stroke to help manage their nutritional state and prevent aspiration pneumonia. Tongue pressure measurement is a simple, non-invasive, and objective method for diagnosing dysphagia. We hypothesized that tongue pressure may be useful in making a choic e of diet for patients with acute stroke. Using balloon-type equipment, tongue pressure was measured in 80 patients with acute stroke. On admission, a multidisciplinary swallowing team includi...
Source: PLoS One - June 4, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Masahiro Nakamori Source Type: research

Assessment of Dysarthria Using One-Word Speech Recognition with Hidden Markov Models.
CONCLUSION: This leads to the conclusion that dysarthria assessment using a one-word speech recognition system based on word-specific HMMs is feasible in neurological disorders. PMID: 30950253 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Korean Medical Science - April 6, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: J Korean Med Sci Source Type: research