# Making DeepEdge, a tool for ultrasound analysis, cloud-accessible.

> **NIH NIH R01** · HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC. · 2021 · $238,316

## Abstract

Project Summary
This project is a supplement to the parent NIH award (DC-002717) “Links Between Production and Perception
in Speech”, intended to enhance software tools for open science. The parent project investigates the variability
and flexibility of speech production through the human vocal tract and how listeners perceive the phonologically
meaningful primitives within the speech signal, through a series of speech production and perception
experiments. In the speech production experiments, ultrasound imaging provides a non-intrusive and cost-
effective technique to measure tongue movements. To facilitate the analysis of tongue measurements in
ultrasound images, we developed a software program to track midsagittal tongue contours automatically on a
proprietary platform. The aim of this supplement project is to migrate our software program to a cloud platform
with other improvements, in order to increase robustness, interoperability, sustainability, portability and
performance.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10406387
- **Project number:** 3R01DC002717-22S1
- **Recipient organization:** HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.
- **Principal Investigator:** Douglas H Whalen
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $238,316
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1996-05-01 → 2023-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10406387

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10406387, Making DeepEdge, a tool for ultrasound analysis, cloud-accessible. (3R01DC002717-22S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10406387. Licensed CC0.

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