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Papers by James L Coyle

Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, Jan 22, 2016

Background: Aspiration, where food or liquid is allowed to enter the larynx during a swallow, is ... more Background: Aspiration, where food or liquid is allowed to enter the larynx during a swallow, is recognized as the most clinically salient feature of oropharyngeal dysphagia. This event can lead to short-term harm via airway obstruction or more long-term effects such as pneumonia. In order to non-invasively identify this event using high resolution cervical auscultation there is a need to characterize cervical auscultation signals from subjects with dysphagia who aspirate. Methods: In this study, we collected swallowing sound and vibration data from 76 adults (50 men, 26 women, mean age 62) who underwent a routine videofluoroscopy swallowing examination. The analysis was limited to swallows of liquid with either thin (< 5 cps) or viscous (≈ 300 cps) consistency and was divided into those with deep laryngeal penetration or aspiration (unsafe airway protection), and those with either shallow or no laryngeal penetration (safe airway protection), using a standardized scale. After calculating a selection of time, frequency, and time-frequency features for each swallow, the safe and unsafe categories were compared using Wilcoxon rank-sum statistical tests. Results: Our analysis found that few of our chosen features varied in magnitude between safe and unsafe swallows with thin swallows demonstrating no statistical variation. We also supported our past findings with regard to the effects of sex and the presence or absence of stroke on cervical ausculation signals, but noticed certain discrepancies with regards to bolus viscosity. Conclusions: Overall, our results support the necessity of using multiple statistical features concurrently to identify laryngeal penetration of swallowed boluses in future work with high resolution cervical auscultation.

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

This work involved human subjects or animals in its research. Approval of all ethical and experim... more This work involved human subjects or animals in its research. Approval of all ethical and experimental procedures and protocols was granted by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Pittsburgh.

The Laryngoscope

BackgroundUpper esophageal sphincter opening (UESO), and laryngeal vestibule closure (LVC) are tw... more BackgroundUpper esophageal sphincter opening (UESO), and laryngeal vestibule closure (LVC) are two essential kinematic events whose timings are crucial for adequate bolus clearance and airway protection during swallowing. Their temporal characteristics can be quantified through time‐consuming analysis of videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS).ObjectivesWe sought to establish a model to predict the odds of penetration or aspiration during swallowing based on 15 temporal factors of UES and laryngeal vestibule kinematics.MethodsManual temporal measurements and ratings of penetration and aspiration were conducted on a videofluoroscopic dataset of 408 swallows from 99 patients. A generalized estimating equation model was deployed to analyze association between individual factors and the risk of penetration or aspiration.ResultsThe results indicated that the latencies of laryngeal vestibular events and the time lapse between UESO onset and LVC were highly related to penetration or aspir...

Three hyoid bone movements (coordinate values) for one swallow are listed in this file. The first... more Three hyoid bone movements (coordinate values) for one swallow are listed in this file. The first two columns are the predicted hyoid bone movement based on the computer calculation, in which the input were the sensor signals. The third and forth columns are hyoid bone movements labeled by a human rater based on the X-ray videos, and the fifth and sixth columns are also hyoid bone movements labeled by another human rater.<br>The data in the excel file were also used for drawing the Figure 4(c)

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2020

Objective: The aim of this work was to design an anatomically based scale for judging post-swallo... more Objective: The aim of this work was to design an anatomically based scale for judging post-swallow residue in the pharyngeal cavities, for use during the fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) in patients with dysphagia, and to assess its feasibility. Methods: Two 7-point ordinal scales (one for vallecular residue and one for pyriform sinus residue), were developed using detailed anatomic landmarks to denote residue levels. Hard copy color images of a specified frame, from 210 videos of 30 adult FEES evaluations demonstrating the range of all possible residue patterns, were selected (n = 56 valleculae, 62 pyriform sinuses). Half of these images were used to train 4 raters. The remaining half of the images were randomly ordered and rated by the trained raters. Two weeks later the same images were randomized again, and each rater re-analyzed them. The inter- and intra-rater reliability and criterion validity were determined using the kappa statistics and their standard ...

Big Data III: Learning, Analytics, and Applications, 2021

Swallowing dysfunction, or dysphagia, occurs secondary to many underlying etiologies such as stro... more Swallowing dysfunction, or dysphagia, occurs secondary to many underlying etiologies such as stroke and can lead to pneumonia. The upper esophageal sphincter (UES) is a major anatomical landmark that allows the passage of swallowed materials into the esophagus during swallowing. Delayed UES opening or reduced duration of opening can lead to the accumulation of pharyngeal residue, which can increase risk of aspiration. UES opening is observed through the inspection of radiographic exams, known as videofluoroscopy swallow studies (VFSSs), which expose patients to ionizing radiation and depend on subjective clinician interpretations. High resolution cervical auscultation (HRCA) is a non-invasive sensor-based technology that has been recently investigated to depict swallowing physiology. HRCA has been proposed for detecting UES opening duration through a deep learning framework. However, the proposed framework was only validated over swallows from patients. For such an algorithm to be robust, it has to be proven equally reliable for the detection of UES opening duration in swallows from both patients and healthy subjects. In this study, we intend to investigate the robustness of the HRCA-based framework to detect the UES opening in signals collected from a diverse population. The framework showed comparable performance regarding the UES opening detection with an average area under the ROC curve of 95%. The results indicate that the HRCA-based UES opening detection can provide superior performance on swallows from diverse populations which demonstrates the clinical potential of HRCA as a non-invasive swallowing assessment tool.

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2020

Dysphagia management, from screening procedures to diagnostic methods and therapeutic approaches,... more Dysphagia management, from screening procedures to diagnostic methods and therapeutic approaches, is about to change dramatically. This change is prompted not solely by great discoveries in medicine or physiology, but by advances in electronics and data science and close collaboration and cross-pollination between these two disciplines. In this editorial, we will provide a brief overview of the role of artificial intelligence in dysphagia management.

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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2019

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2020

High-resolution cervical auscultation (HRCA) is an evolving clinical method for noninvasive scree... more High-resolution cervical auscultation (HRCA) is an evolving clinical method for noninvasive screening of dysphagia that relies on data science, machine learning, and wearable sensors to investigate the characteristics of disordered swallowing function in people with dysphagia. HRCA has shown promising results in categorizing normal and disordered swallowing (i.e., screening) independent of human input, identifying a variety of swallowing physiological events as accurately as trained human judges. The system has been developed through a collaboration of data scientists, computer–electrical engineers, and speech-language pathologists. Its potential to automate dysphagia screening and contribute to evaluation lies in its noninvasive nature (wearable electronic sensors) and its growing ability to accurately replicate human judgments of swallowing data typically formed on the basis of videofluoroscopic imaging data. Potential contributions of HRCA when videofluoroscopic swallowing study ...

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 2019

Millions of people across the globe suffer from swallowing difficulties, known as dysphagia, whic... more Millions of people across the globe suffer from swallowing difficulties, known as dysphagia, which can lead to malnutrition, pneumonia, and even death. Swallowing cervical auscultation, which has been suggested as a noninvasive screening method for dysphagia, has not been associated yet with any physical events. In this paper, we have compared the hyoid bone displacement extracted from the videofluoroscopy images of 31 swallows to the signal features extracted from the cervical auscultation recordings captured with a tri-axial accelerometer and a microphone. First, the vertical displacement of the anterior part of the hyoid bone is related to the entropy rate of the superior-inferior swallowing vibrations and to the kurtosis of the swallowing sounds. Second, the vertical displacement of the posterior part of the hyoid bone is related to the bandwidth of the medial-lateral swallowing vibrations. Third, the horizontal displacements of the posterior and anterior parts of the hyoid bone are related to the spectral centroid of the superior-inferior swallowing vibrations and to the peak frequency of the medial-lateral swallowing vibrations, respectively. At last, the airway protection scores and the command characteristics were associated with the vertical and horizontal displacements, respectively, of the posterior part of the hyoid bone. Additional associations between the patients' characteristics and auscultations' signals were also observed. The hyoid bone maximal displacement is a cause of swallowing vibrations and sounds. High-resolution cervical auscultation may offer a noninvasive alternative for dysphagia screening and additional diagnostic information.

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Aspiration is a serious complication of swallowing disorders. Adequate detection of aspiration is... more Aspiration is a serious complication of swallowing disorders. Adequate detection of aspiration is essential in dysphagia management and treatment. High-resolution cervical auscultation has been increasingly considered as a promising noninvasive swallowing screening tool and has inspired automatic diagnosis with advanced algorithms. The performance of such algorithms relies heavily on the amount of training data. However, the practical collection of cervical auscultation signal is an expensive and time-consuming process because of the clinical settings and trained experts needed for acquisition and interpretations. Furthermore, the relatively infrequent incidence of severe airway invasion during swallowing studies constrains the performance of machine learning models. Here, we produced supplementary training exemplars for desired class by capturing the underlying distribution of original cervical auscultation signal features using auxiliary classifier Wasserstein generative adversarial networks. A 10-fold subject cross-validation was conducted on 2079 sets of 36-dimensional signal features collected from 189 patients undergoing swallowing examinations. The proposed data augmentation outperforms basic data sampling, cost-sensitive learning and other generative models with significant enhancement. This demonstrates the remarkable potential of proposed network in improving classification performance using cervical auscultation signals and paves the way of developing accurate noninvasive swallowing evaluation in dysphagia care.

Hyoid bone movement is an important physiological event during swallowing that contributes to nor... more Hyoid bone movement is an important physiological event during swallowing that contributes to normal swallowing function. In order to determine the adequate hyoid bone movement, clinicians conduct an X-ray videofluoroscopic swallowing study, which even though it is the gold-standard technique, has limitations such as radiation exposure and cost. Here, we demonstrated the ability to track the hyoid bone movement using a non-invasive accelerometry sensor attached to the surface of the human neck. Specifically, deep neural networks were used to mathematically describe the relationship between hyoid bone movement and sensor signals. Training and validation of the system were conducted on a dataset of 400 swallows from 114 patients. Our experiments indicated the computer-aided hyoid bone movement prediction has a promising performance when compared with human experts' judgements, revealing that the universal pattern of the hyoid bone movement is acquirable by the highly nonlinear alg...

Hyoid bone movement labeled by one human rater

The hyoid bone movement labeled by one human rater

Abstract—Objective: The effects of the chin-tuck maneuver, a technique commonly employed to compe... more Abstract—Objective: The effects of the chin-tuck maneuver, a technique commonly employed to compensate for dysphagia, on cervical auscultation are not fully understood. Characterizing a technique that is known to affect swallowing function is an important step on the way to developing a new instrumentation-based swallowing screening tool. Methods: In this study, we recorded data from 55 adult participants who each completed five saliva swallows in a chin-tuck position. The resulting data was processed using previously designed filtering and segmentation algorithms. We then calculated 9 time, frequency, and time-frequency domain features for each independent signal. Results: We found that multiple frequency and time domain features varied significantly between male and female subjects as well as between swallowing sounds and vibrations. However, our analysis showed that participant age did not play a significant role on the values of the extracted features. Finally, we found that var...

Dysphagia

Few research studies have investigated temporal kinematic swallow events in healthy adults to est... more Few research studies have investigated temporal kinematic swallow events in healthy adults to establish normative reference values. Determining cutoffs for normal and disordered swallowing is vital for differentially diagnosing presbyphagia, variants of normal swallowing, and dysphagia; and for ensuring that different swallowing research laboratories produce consistent results in common measurements from different samples within the same population. High-resolution cervical auscultation (HRCA), a sensor-based dysphagia screening method, has accurately annotated temporal kinematic swallow events in patients with dysphagia, but hasn’t been used to annotate temporal kinematic swallow events in healthy adults to establish dysphagia screening cutoffs. This study aimed to determine: (1) Reference values for temporal kinematic swallow events, (2) Whether HRCA can annotate temporal kinematic swallow events in healthy adults. We hypothesized (1) Our reference values would align with a prior study; (2) HRCA would detect temporal kinematic swallow events as accurately as human judges. Trained judges completed temporal kinematic measurements on 659 swallows (N = 70 adults). Swallow reaction time and LVC duration weren’t different (p > 0.05) from a previously published historical cohort (114 swallows, N = 38 adults), while other temporal kinematic measurements were different (p < 0.05), suggesting a need for further standardization to feasibly pool data analyses across laboratories. HRCA signal features were used as input to machine learning algorithms and annotated UES opening (69.96% accuracy), UES closure (64.52% accuracy), LVC (52.56% accuracy), and LV re-opening (69.97% accuracy); providing preliminary evidence that HRCA can noninvasively and accurately annotate temporal kinematic measurements in healthy adults to determine dysphagia screening cutoffs.

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Purpose The prevalence of dysphagia in patients with neurodegenerative diseases (ND) is alarmingl... more Purpose The prevalence of dysphagia in patients with neurodegenerative diseases (ND) is alarmingly high and frequently results in morbidity and accelerated mortality due to subsequent adverse events (e.g., aspiration pneumonia). Swallowing in patients with ND should be continuously monitored due to the progressive disease nature. Access to instrumental swallow evaluations can be challenging, and limited studies have quantified changes in temporal/spatial swallow kinematic measures in patients with ND. High-resolution cervical auscultation (HRCA), a dysphagia screening method, has accurately differentiated between safe and unsafe swallows, identified swallow kinematic events (e.g., laryngeal vestibule closure [LVC]), and classified swallows between healthy adults and patients with ND. This study aimed to (a) compare temporal/spatial swallow kinematic measures between patients with ND and healthy adults and (b) investigate HRCA's ability to annotate swallow kinematic events in pat...

SN Applied Sciences

Swallowing physiology includes numerous biomechanical events including displacement of the hyoid ... more Swallowing physiology includes numerous biomechanical events including displacement of the hyoid bone, which is a crucial component of airway protection and opening of the proximal esophagus. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential relations between the trajectory of hyoid bone movement and the risk of airway penetration and aspiration during a videofluoroscopic swallowing study. Two hundred sixty-five patients were involved in this study, producing a total of 1433 swallows of various volumes consisting of thin liquid, nectar-thick liquid, and solids during a fluoroscopic exam. The anterior and posterior landmarks of the body of the hyoid bone were manually marked in each frame of each fluoroscopic video. Generalized estimation equations were applied to evaluate the relationship between penetration-aspiration scores and mathematical features extracted from the hyoid bone trajectories, while also considering the influence of other independent variables such as age, bolus volume, and viscosity. Our results indicated that penetration-aspiration scores showed a significant relation to age. The maximum anterior (horizontal) displacement of the anterior hyoid bone landmark was significantly associated with the penetration-aspiration scores. Differences in the displacement of the hyoid bone are useful observations in airway protection. Article highlights (1) In this work, the potential relations between the trajectory of hyoid bone movement and the risk of airway penetration and aspiration during a videofluoroscopic swallowing study were evaluated. (2) We extracted features from the hyoid bone trajectories and applied generalized estimation equations to investigate their relationship to penetration-aspiration scales. (3) The results showed that the maximum anterior (horizontal) displacement of the anterior hyoid bone landmark was significantly associated with the penetration-aspiration scales.

Proof that treatment works  Treatment produces objectively, measurably, improved function.  Out... more Proof that treatment works  Treatment produces objectively, measurably, improved function.  Outcome can be reproduced  Withholding treatment will NOT result in improved function 14 Department of Communication Science and Disorders • Is there justification in the literature? • Have we controlled for judgment errors? • Do we have defensible impressions?-strength in numbers-valid and reliable-groups of similar patients 15 Proof that treatment works Department of Communication Science and Disorders  Long-term goals  Are there fewer hospital readmissions?  Has the patient stopped losing weight?  Has the patient gained weight?  Are there fewer respiratory tract infections?  Is patient using progressively less enteral formula? 16 Proof that treatment works Department of Communication Science and Disorders

2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)

Tracking a liquid or food bolus in videofluoroscopic images during X-ray based diagnostic swallow... more Tracking a liquid or food bolus in videofluoroscopic images during X-ray based diagnostic swallowing examinations is a dominant clinical approach to assess human swallowing function during oral, pharyngeal and esophageal stages of swallowing. This tracking represents a highly challenging problem for clinicians as swallowing is a rapid action. Therefore, we developed a computer-aided method to automate bolus detection and tracking in order to alleviate issues associated with human factors. Specifically, we applied a stateof-the-art deep learning model called Mask-RCNN to detect and segment the bolus in videofluoroscopic image sequences. We trained the algorithm with 450 swallow videos and evaluated with an independent dataset of 50 videos. The algorithm was able to detect and segment the bolus with a mean average precision of 0.49 and an intersection of union of 0.71. The proposed method indicated robust detection results that can help to improve the speed and accuracy of a clinical decisionmaking process.