Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 6 , Pages 668-672 , July 2010

Vocalization removal for improved automatic segmentation of dual-axis swallowing accelerometry signals

  • Ervin Sejdić

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Tiago H. Falk

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Catriona M. Steele

      Affiliations

    • Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Tom Chau

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 416 425 6620x3515.

Received 16 February 2010 ,Revised 6 April 2010 ,Accepted 7 April 2010.

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PII: S1350-4533(10)00082-2

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.008

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 6 , Pages 668-672 , July 2010

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