{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4412185120","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","title":"LarynxFormer: a transformer-based framework for processing and segmenting laryngeal images","display_name":"LarynxFormer: a transformer-based framework for processing and segmenting laryngeal images","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-07-11","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4412185120","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","pmid":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40718501"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","pdf_url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136/pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210170686","display_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health","issn_l":"2673-253X","issn":["2673-253X"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320527","host_organization_name":"Frontiers Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320527"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Frontiers Media"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref","doaj","pubmed"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136/pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5097956247","display_name":"Rune M\u00e6stad","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4068-6721"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210150892","display_name":"Western Norway University of Applied Sciences","ror":null,"country_code":"NO","type":null,"lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}],"countries":["NO"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Rune M\u00e6stad","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5104775020","display_name":"Abdul Hanan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4799-9173"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210150892","display_name":"Western Norway University of Applied Sciences","ror":null,"country_code":"NO","type":null,"lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}],"countries":["NO"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Abdul Hanan","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5068209947","display_name":"Haakon Kristian Kvidaland","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0836-5958"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I2800740805","display_name":"Haukeland University Hospital","ror":"https://ror.org/03np4e098","country_code":"NO","type":"healthcare","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2800740805"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210150892","display_name":"Western Norway University of Applied Sciences","ror":null,"country_code":"NO","type":null,"lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}],"countries":["NO"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Haakon Kristian Kvidaland","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I2800740805"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5075774549","display_name":"Hege Clemm","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-4032"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4432739","display_name":"University of Bergen","ror":"https://ror.org/03zga2b32","country_code":"NO","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4432739"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I2800740805","display_name":"Haukeland University Hospital","ror":"https://ror.org/03np4e098","country_code":"NO","type":"healthcare","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2800740805"]}],"countries":["NO"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Hege Clemm","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","Department of Head and Neck, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Vestland, Norway"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4432739"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Head and Neck, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I2800740805"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5016220869","display_name":"Reza Arghandeh","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0691-5426"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210150892","display_name":"Western Norway University of Applied Sciences","ror":null,"country_code":"NO","type":null,"lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}],"countries":["NO"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Reza Arghandeh","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Vestland, Norway","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":5,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5104775020"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210150892"],"apc_list":{"value":1900,"currency":"USD","value_usd":1900},"apc_paid":{"value":1900,"currency":"USD","value_usd":1900},"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.22396951,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"7","issue":null,"first_page":"1459136","last_page":"1459136"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10863","display_name":"Voice and Speech Disorders","score":0.9987999796867371,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2737","display_name":"Physiology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10863","display_name":"Voice and Speech Disorders","score":0.9987999796867371,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2737","display_name":"Physiology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12418","display_name":"Respiratory and Cough-Related Research","score":0.992900013923645,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2740","display_name":"Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10201","display_name":"Speech Recognition and Synthesis","score":0.9692999720573425,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/segmentation","display_name":"Segmentation","score":0.7283571362495422},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.716725766658783},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.5831801891326904},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/transformer","display_name":"Transformer","score":0.5351722240447998},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/inference","display_name":"Inference","score":0.4550498425960541},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image-processing","display_name":"Image processing","score":0.42779844999313354},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image-segmentation","display_name":"Image segmentation","score":0.42772117257118225},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pattern-recognition","display_name":"Pattern recognition (psychology)","score":0.37473103404045105},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-vision","display_name":"Computer vision","score":0.3201737403869629},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image","display_name":"Image (mathematics)","score":0.18498235940933228},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/engineering","display_name":"Engineering","score":0.11326014995574951}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C89600930","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423946","display_name":"Segmentation","level":2,"score":0.7283571362495422},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.716725766658783},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.5831801891326904},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C66322947","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11658","display_name":"Transformer","level":3,"score":0.5351722240447998},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776214188","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q408386","display_name":"Inference","level":2,"score":0.4550498425960541},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C9417928","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1070689","display_name":"Image processing","level":3,"score":0.42779844999313354},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124504099","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56933","display_name":"Image segmentation","level":3,"score":0.42772117257118225},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153180895","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7148389","display_name":"Pattern recognition (psychology)","level":2,"score":0.37473103404045105},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31972630","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q844240","display_name":"Computer vision","level":1,"score":0.3201737403869629},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C115961682","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860623","display_name":"Image (mathematics)","level":2,"score":0.18498235940933228},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.11326014995574951},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C165801399","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25428","display_name":"Voltage","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119599485","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43035","display_name":"Electrical engineering","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":4,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","pdf_url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136/pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210170686","display_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health","issn_l":"2673-253X","issn":["2673-253X"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320527","host_organization_name":"Frontiers Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320527"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Frontiers Media"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmid:40718501","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40718501","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306525036","display_name":"PubMed","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Frontiers in digital health","raw_type":null},{"id":"pmh:oai:doaj.org/article:35cba6921e974cd1b38fc7935dd2db90","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doaj.org/article/35cba6921e974cd1b38fc7935dd2db90","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S112646816","display_name":"SHILAP Revista de lepidopterolog\u00eda","issn_l":"0300-5267","issn":["0300-5267","2340-4078"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health, Vol 7 (2025)","raw_type":"article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:12289634","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/12289634","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764455111","display_name":"PubMed Central","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1299303238","host_organization_name":"National Institutes of Health","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1299303238"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Front Digit Health","raw_type":"Text"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136","pdf_url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1459136/pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210170686","display_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health","issn_l":"2673-253X","issn":["2673-253X"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320527","host_organization_name":"Frontiers Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320527"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Frontiers Media"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Frontiers in Digital Health","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320326507","display_name":"Haukeland\u00a0Universitetssjukehus","ror":"https://ror.org/03np4e098"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4412185120.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4412185120.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":25,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1901129140","https://openalex.org/W2011410336","https://openalex.org/W2037257768","https://openalex.org/W2038844845","https://openalex.org/W2059429453","https://openalex.org/W2106083850","https://openalex.org/W2194775991","https://openalex.org/W2740053262","https://openalex.org/W2889182723","https://openalex.org/W2908510526","https://openalex.org/W2963150697","https://openalex.org/W3006598587","https://openalex.org/W3089685728","https://openalex.org/W3163857574","https://openalex.org/W3211490618","https://openalex.org/W4210607725","https://openalex.org/W4213426709","https://openalex.org/W4320006700","https://openalex.org/W4323357155","https://openalex.org/W4385245566","https://openalex.org/W4388468259","https://openalex.org/W4396858375","https://openalex.org/W6739901393","https://openalex.org/W6757817989","https://openalex.org/W6797399245"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2055243143","https://openalex.org/W4379231730","https://openalex.org/W1986418932","https://openalex.org/W2357796999","https://openalex.org/W4321636575","https://openalex.org/W4206178588","https://openalex.org/W3094491777","https://openalex.org/W3214715529","https://openalex.org/W4287635093","https://openalex.org/W1522196789"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Manual":[0],"diagnostic":[1,33,102],"methods":[2,24,121],"for":[3,25,40,104,113],"assessing":[4],"exercise-induced":[5],"laryngeal":[6,27,41,54,88],"obstruction":[7],"(EILO)":[8],"contain":[9],"human":[10],"bias":[11],"and":[12,31,47,68,85,127],"can":[13],"lead":[14],"to":[15,29,93,132,138],"subjective":[16],"decisions.":[17],"Several":[18],"studies":[19],"have":[20],"proposed":[21],"machine":[22,98],"learning":[23,99],"segmenting":[26],"structures":[28],"automate":[30],"make":[32],"outcomes":[34],"more":[35],"objective.":[36],"Four":[37],"state-of-the-art":[38,118],"models":[39,64],"image":[42,119],"segmentation":[43,115,120],"are":[44],"implemented,":[45],"trained,":[46],"compared":[48,137],"using":[49,97],"our":[50],"pre-processed":[51],"dataset":[52],"containing":[53],"images":[55],"derived":[56],"from":[57],"continuous":[58],"laryngoscopy":[59],"exercise-test":[60],"(CLE-test)":[61],"data.":[62],"These":[63],"include":[65],"both":[66],"convolutional-based":[67],"transformer-based":[69,83,111],"methods.":[70,141],"We":[71],"propose":[72],"a":[73,80,101,110],"new":[74],"framework":[75],"called":[76],"LarynxFormer,":[77],"consisting":[78],"of":[79,87,96,124],"pre-processing":[81],"pipeline,":[82],"segmentation,":[84],"post-processing":[86],"images.":[89],"This":[90],"study":[91],"contributes":[92],"the":[94,139],"investigation":[95],"as":[100],"tool":[103],"EILO.":[105],"Furthermore,":[106],"we":[107],"show":[108],"that":[109],"approach":[112],"larynx":[114],"outperforms":[116],"conventional":[117],"in":[122],"terms":[123],"performance":[125],"metrics":[126],"computational":[128],"speed,":[129],"demonstrating":[130],"up":[131],"2x":[133],"faster":[134],"inference":[135],"time":[136],"other":[140]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-03-20T23:20:44.827607","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}