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40
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5768
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7397
National Ranking
160

Overview

Yohan Payan is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Surgery, Occupational Therapy, Biomedical Engineering, Rehabilitation, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's main research topics involve Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management, Wound Healing and Treatments, and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management. Other notable areas of study include Elasticity and Material Modeling, Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases, Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography, and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Yohan Payan has contributed to a number of recent papers, reflecting their multidisciplinary focus. Selected publications include:

  • "Device-related pressure ulcers: SECURE prevention. Second edition," 2022, Journal of Wound Care
  • "Machine-Learning based model order reduction of a biomechanical model of the human tongue," 2020, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • "What anticipatory coarticulation in children tells us about speech motor control maturity," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "An international consensus on device-related pressure ulcers: SECURE prevention," 2020, British Journal of Nursing
  • "A hybrid, image-based and biomechanics-based registration approach to markerless intraoperative nodule localization during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery," 2021, Medical Image Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yohan Payan include:

  • Pascal Perrier
  • Nathanaël Connesson
  • Grégory Chagnon
  • Antoine Perrier
  • Maxime Calka

The scientist has published extensively in several journals with a high volume of contributions, including:

  • Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering
  • Multidisciplinary Biomechanics Journal
  • Clinical Biomechanics
  • Medical Engineering & Physics
  • Journal of Tissue Viability

Best Publications

  • Patient specific finite element model of the face soft tissues for computer-assisted maxillofacial surgery.

    Matthieu Chabanas;Vincent Luboz;Yohan Payan

  • The mesh-matching algorithm: an automatic 3D mesh generator for finite element structures.

    Béatrice Couteau;Yohan Payan;Stéphane Lavallée

  • A biomechanical model of cardinal vowel production: muscle activations and the impact of gravity on tongue positioning.

    Stéphanie Buchaillard;Pascal Perrier;Yohan Payan

  • Influences of tongue biomechanics on speech movements during the production of velar stop consonants: a modeling study.

    Pascal Perrier;Yohan Payan;Majid Zandipour;Joseph Perkell

  • Haptic Guidance Improves the Visuo-Manual Tracking of Trajectories

    Jérémy Bluteau;Jérémy Bluteau;Sabine Coquillart;Yohan Payan;Edouard Gentaz

  • Synthesis of V-V sequences with a 2D biomechanical tongue model controlled by the equilibrium point hypothesis

    Yohan Payan;Pascal Perrier

  • Efficient, Physically Plausible Finite Elements

    Matthieu Nesme;Yohan Payan;François Faure

  • Soft tissue biomechanical modeling for computer assisted surgery

    Yohan Payan

  • Non-linear elastic properties of the lingual and facial tissues assessed by indentation technique: Application to the biomechanics of speech production

    Jean-Michel Gérard;Jacques Ohayon;Vincent Luboz;Pascal Perrier

  • A control model of human tongue movements in speech

    Vittorio Sanguineti;Rafael Laboissière;Yohan Payan

  • Coupled hard―soft tissue simulation with contact and constraints applied to jaw―tongue―hyoid dynamics

    Ian Stavness;John E. Lloyd;Yohan Payan;Yohan Payan;Sidney Fels

  • In vivo measurement of human brain elasticity using a light aspiration device.

    Patrick Schiavone;Patrick Schiavone;Fabrice Chassat;Thomas Boudou;Emmanuel Promayon

  • Simulation of dynamic orofacial movements using a constitutive law varying with muscle activation

    Mohammad Ali Nazari;Pascal Perrier;Matthieu Chabanas;Yohan Payan

  • A fast and robust patient specific Finite Element mesh registration technique: application to 60 clinical cases.

    Marek Bucki;Claudio Lobos;Yohan Payan;Yohan Payan

  • Controlling posture using a plantar pressure-based, tongue-placed tactile biofeedback system.

    Nicolas Vuillerme;Olivier Chenu;Jacques Demongeot;Yohan Payan

  • Can a plantar pressure-based tongue-placed electrotactile biofeedback improve postural control under altered vestibular and neck proprioceptive conditions?

    Nicolas Vuillerme;Olivier Chenu;Nicolas Pinsault;Anthony Fleury

  • Control of tongue movements in speech: the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis perspective

    Pascal Perrier;Hélène Loevenbruck;Yohan Payan

  • Rigid Registration of Freehand 3D Ultrasound and CT-Scan Kidney Images

    Antoine Leroy;Pierre Mozer;Yohan Payan;Jocelyne Troccaz

  • Simulations of the consequences of tongue surgery on tongue mobility: implications for speech production in post-surgery conditions.

    Stéphanie Buchaillard;Muriel Brix;Pascal Perrier;Yohan Payan

  • Numerical and experimental study of expiratory flow in the case of major upper airway obstructions with fluid–structure interaction

    F. Chouly;F. Chouly;A. Van Hirtum;P.-Y. Lagrée;X. Pelorson

  • A 3D dynamical biomechanical tongue model to study speech motor control

    Jean-Michel G;Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico;Pascal Perrier;Yohan Payan

  • Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

    M. Bucki;C. Lobos;Y. Payan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jocelyne Troccaz
Jocelyne Troccaz Grenoble Alpes University
Sidney Fels
Sidney Fels University of British Columbia
Jean-Michel Gérard
Jean-Michel Gérard Grenoble Alpes University
Edouard Gentaz
Edouard Gentaz University of Geneva
Philippe Cinquin
Philippe Cinquin Grenoble Alpes University
Frank H. Guenther
Frank H. Guenther Boston University
Michael I. Miga
Michael I. Miga Vanderbilt University
Sim Heng Ong
Sim Heng Ong National University of Singapore
Patrick Levy
Patrick Levy Grenoble Alpes University

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