Publications by authors named "V Woisard"
Article Synopsis
- Videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSS) and flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) are essential tools for diagnosing swallowing disorders, outlined in recently developed best practice guidelines.
- An expert panel, including various healthcare professionals, created 18 consensus statements using an online Delphi method to standardize VFSS practices, covering aspects like planning, equipment, and radiation safety.
- These guidelines aim to improve the quality of VFSS assessments across different regions by providing structured recommendations based on expert consensus from the European Society of Swallowing Disorders and the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology.
Introduction: Salivary carcinomas of the tongue represent a therapeutic challenge as their radical excision is particularly mutilating. We aimed to study the oncologic and functional outcomes of advanced stages salivary carcinomas of the tongue.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective multicentric study, based on the French national network on rare head and neck cancers (REFCOR), included all patients with a T3-T4 salivary carcinoma of the tongue, diagnosed between January 2009 and December 2018.
Perceptual measures, such as intelligibility and speech disorder severity, are widely used in the clinical assessment of speech disorders in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal cancer. Despite their widespread usage, these measures are known to be subjective and hard to reproduce. Therefore, an M-Health assessment based on an automatic prediction has been seen as a more robust and reliable alternative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Perceptual measures such as speech intelligibility are known to be biased, variant and subjective, to which an automatic approach has been seen as a more reliable alternative. On the other hand, automatic approaches tend to lack explainability, an aspect that can prevent the widespread usage of these technologies clinically.
Aims: In the present work, we aim to study the relationship between four perceptual parameters and speech intelligibility by automatically modelling the behaviour of six perceptual judges, in the context of head and neck cancer.
Article Synopsis
- Researchers wanted to see how well a special swallowing test called VFSS can find leaks in the throat after surgery to remove parts of the throat and voice box.
- They looked at 248 patients who had this surgery and took the swallowing test about a week to two weeks later.
- The test was pretty good at spotting leaks; it helped prevent future problems for many patients who had a positive test result.