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Methods Inf Med 2005; 44(02): 253-256
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633957
Original Article
Schattauer GmbH

The First Grid for the Oral and Maxillofacial Region and Its Application for Speech Analysis

K. Nozaki
1   Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
T. Akiyama
2   Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
H. Tamagawa
1   Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
S. Kato
2   Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
Y. Mizuno-Matsumoto
2   Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
M. Nakagawa
2   Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
Y. Maeda
1   Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
,
S. Shimojo
2   Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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Publication Date:
05 February 2018 (online)

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Summary

Objectives: Introduction of a new grid-based method for analyzing speech functions which takes into account the related information of patients’ data and the oral air flow with pronouncing analyzed by computational fluid dynamics.

Methods: An on-line speech analyzer was developed for clinical use utilizing GridPort2.3.1 based on glo-bus2.4.2, comprising several computational tools such as unified data storage, semantic data analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis and three-dimensional visualization of calculated results from different hardware sources with various types of operation systems.

Results: The power transportation layer between dental clinics and computational and storage resources could be provided by using a WWW-based portal. The back-end data management system could be constructed using a storage resource broker (SRB) and extensible mark up language (XML).

Conclusions: The new method allows the construction of a data warehouse through this grid-based speech function analysis in order to extract the principal factors related to speech disorders.

Keywords

Grid - dentistry - speech - CFD - XML
 

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