Cochlear implant research and development in the twenty-first century: a critical update

RP Carlyon, T Goehring - Journal of the Association for Research in …, 2021 - Springer
Cochlear implants (CIs) are the world's most successful sensory prosthesis and have been
the subject of intense research and development in recent decades. We critically review the …

Speech processing in vocoder-centric cochlear implants

PC Loizou - Cochlear and brainstem implants, 2006 - karger.com
The principles of the most recent cochlear implant processors are similar to that of the
channel vocoder, originally used for transmitting speech over telephone lines with much less …

Pre-, per-and postoperative factors affecting performance of postlinguistically deaf adults using cochlear implants: a new conceptual model over time

DS Lazard, C Vincent, F Venail, P Van de Heyning… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Objective To test the influence of multiple factors on cochlear implant (CI) speech
performance in quiet and in noise for postlinguistically deaf adults, and to design a model of …

A comparative intelligibility study of single-microphone noise reduction algorithms

Y Hu, PC Loizou - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The evaluation of intelligibility of noise reduction algorithms is reported. IEEE sentences and
consonants were corrupted by four types of noise including babble, car, street and train at …

[HTML][HTML] Using recurrent neural networks to improve the perception of speech in non-stationary noise by people with cochlear implants

T Goehring, M Keshavarzi, RP Carlyon… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Speech-in-noise perception is a major problem for users of cochlear implants (CIs),
especially with non-stationary background noise. Noise-reduction algorithms have produced …

Deep learning–based noise reduction approach to improve speech intelligibility for cochlear implant recipients

YH Lai, Y Tsao, X Lu, F Chen, YT Su, KC Chen… - Ear and …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective: We investigate the clinical effectiveness of a novel deep learning–based noise
reduction (NR) approach under noisy conditions with challenging noise types at low signal …

Clinical evaluation of signal-to-noise ratio–based noise reduction in Nucleus® cochlear implant recipients

PW Dawson, SJ Mauger, AA Hersbach - Ear and hearing, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a real-time noise reduction
algorithm provided speech perception benefit for Cochlear™ Nucleus® cochlear implant …

Smartphone-based real-time classification of noise signals using subband features and random forest classifier

F Saki, A Sehgal, I Panahi… - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the real-time implementation and field testing of an app running on
smartphones for classifying noise signals involving subband features and a random forest …

Noise reduction in cochlear implant signal processing: A review and recent developments

F Henry, M Glavin, E Jones - IEEE reviews in biomedical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cochlear implant technology successfully restores hearing function to patients with sensory
impairment. Although cochlear implant users generally hear well in quiet, they still find noisy …

Combining directional microphone and single-channel noise reduction algorithms: a clinical evaluation in difficult listening conditions with cochlear implant users

AA Hersbach, K Arora, SJ Mauger, PW Dawson - Ear and hearing, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: This study tested a combination of algorithms designed to improve cochlear
implant performance in noise. A noise reduction (NR) algorithm, based on signal to noise …