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Cochlear implants bring sound to people living with permanent hearing loss. But making them accessible to all in need is a major challenge. Andrey Shukshin reports.
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Tsz Ki Ko, Denise Jia Yun Tan + 2 more
'Timothy Shun Man Chu' 'Jeremy Chan'] The aim of the study was to characterise the most frequently cited articles on the topic of hearing implants. A systematic search was carried out using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection database. Eligibility criteria restricted the results to primary studies and…
Matthias Tisch
Combined hearing loss is an essential indication for implantable hearing systems. Depending on the bone conduction threshold, various options are available. Patients with mild sensorineural deafness usually benefit from transcutaneous bone conduction implants (BCI), while percutaneous BCI systems are recommended also…
Eleonor Koro, Jeremy Wales, Mimmi Werner
Hearing loss is the third most significant cause of disability globally and is associated with anxiety, depression, loneliness, and cognitive decline. For those unable to utilize conventional hearing aids due to conditions such as ear canal atresia, eczema, recurrent external otitis or extensive ear surgery…
Rachael Frush Holt
Radical advancements in hearing technology in the last 30 years have offered some deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children the adequate auditory access necessary to acquire spoken language with high-quality early intervention. However, meaningful achievement gaps in reading and spoken language persist despite the…
Ariel Edward Hight, Michele N. Insanally, Julia K. Scarpa, Yew-Song Cheng + 4 more
Cochlear implants are neuroprosthetic devices that restore hearing and speech comprehension to profoundly deaf humans, and represent an exemplar application of biomedical engineering and research to clinical conditions. However, the utility of these devices in many subjects is limited, largely due to lack of…
Török, Tímea Nóra, Kövecs, Roland + 20 more
> 1 Department of Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, M˝uegyetem rkp. 3., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary. 2 Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Konkoly-Thege M. ´ut 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary. 3 HUN-REN–BME Condensed Matter…
Annesya Banerjee, Mark R. Saddler, Julie G. Arenberg, Josh H. McDermott
Sensory prostheses replace dysfunctional sensory organs with electrical stimulation but currently fail to restore normal perception. Outcomes may be limited by stimulation strategies, neural degeneration, or suboptimal decoding by the brain. We propose a deep learning framework to evaluate these issues by estimating…
Yiyuan Zhao
The path towards finishing this work and writing up this dissertation is long and arduous – and it is not possible for me to finish this dissertation without the guidance and support and advice from my committee members and the colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Image Processing (MIP) lab and the Vanderbilt…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Hesham S Almofada, Marion Atkin + 2 more
Objectives Percutaneous and transcutaneous bone conduction hearing implants are used in various otological conditions. This study aimed to evaluate patient satisfaction with Sophono implants and their long-term surgical outcomes. Methods This retrospective study was conducted at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham…
John Z. Zhang, Lukas Graf, Annesya Banerjee, Aaron Yeiser + 5 more
'Christopher I. McHugh' 'Ioannis Kymissis' 'Jeffrey H. Lang' 'Elizabeth S. Olson' 'Hideko Heidi Nakajima'] Purpose: One of the major reasons that totally implantable cochlear microphones are not readily available is the lack of good implantable microphones. An implantable microphone has the potential to provide a range…
Tobias Goehring, Jessica Monaghan
Millions of people around the world have difficulty hearing. Hearing aids and cochlear implants help people hear better, especially in quiet places. Unfortunately, these devices do not always help in noisy situations like busy classrooms or restaurants. This means that a person with hearing loss may struggle to follow…
Nicole Rosskothen-Kuhl, Alexa N Buck, Kongyan Li, Jan W H Schnupp
Cochlear implants (CIs) can restore a high degree of functional hearing in deaf patients but enable only poor spatial hearing or hearing in noise. Early deaf CI users are essentially completely insensitive to interaural time differences (ITDs). A dearth of binaural experience during an early critical period is often…
Miku Uenaka, Hidekazu Nagamura, Shizuko Hiryu, Kohta I. Kobayasi + 1 more
Infrared laser stimulation has been studied as an alternative approach to auditory prostheses. This study evaluated the feasibility of infrared laser stimulation of the cochlea from the outer ear bypassing the middle ear function. An optic fiber was inserted into the ear canal and a laser was used to irradiate the…
Ryan Horne, Nir Ben-Shlomo, Megan Jensen, Morgan Ellerman + 5 more
The foreign body response to implanted materials often complicates the functionality of sensitive biomedical devices. For cochlear implants, this response can reduce device performance, battery life and preservation of residual acoustic hearing. As a permanent and passive solution to the foreign body response, this…
Ondrej Tichacek, Pavel Mistrík, Pavel Jungwirth
Computer models of the individual components of the peripheral auditory system – the outer, middle, and inner ears and the auditory nerve – have been developed in the past, with varying level of detail, breadth, and faithfulness of the underlying parameters. Here, we move modeling of the ear to the next level by…
Sarah Buchholz, Susan Arndt, Jan W. H. Schnupp, Nicole Rosskothen-Kuhl
Normally hearing humans can localize sound sources quite accurately, with minimum audible angles as small as 1°. To achieve this, our auditory pathways combine information from multiple acoustic cues, including interaural time and interaural level differences (ITDs and ILDs). Patients relying on cochlear implants (CIs)…
Rohini S. Hallikar, Uttara Kumari, Padmaraju Koppireddi
Cochlear implant devices are known to exist since a long time. The purpose of the present work is to develop a speech algorithm for obtaining robust speech. In this paper, the technique of cochlear implant is first introduced, followed by discussions of some of the existing techniques available for obtaining speech.…
Sarah Buchholz, Jan W. H. Schnupp, Susan Arndt, Nicole Roßkothen-Kuhl
Bilateral cochlear implant (CI) patients exhibit significant limitations in spatial hearing. Their ability to process interaural time differences (ITDs) is often impaired, while their ability to process interaural level differences (ILDs) remains comparatively good. Clinical studies aiming to identify the causes of…
Guy Fierens, Joris Walraevens, Ronald Peeters, Christ Glorieux + 1 more
'Nicolas Verhaert'] *Corresponding author: Guy Fierens, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics, Department for Physics and Astronomy, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Box 2416, 3000 Leuven. Email: guy.fierens@kuleuven.be Grant support: This work has been partly supported by Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship…
Volker Hohmann
Results. Both objective and subjective data from empirical studies show the limitation of current technology. Examples of current research show the potential of machine-learning based algorithms and multi-modal signal processing for improving speech processing and perception, of using virtual reality for improving…