Predicting the Intelligibility of Cochlear-implant Vocoded
Speech from Objective Quality Measure(1)
Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas75083, USA
Chairman:Hung-Chi Yang
Presenter: Yu-Kai Wang
Advisor: Dr. Yeou-Jiunn Chen
Date: 2012.12.12
Outline
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Introduction
Purposes
Material and Methods
Results
Conclusions
Introduction(1)
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Cochlear implants (CIs)
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Restore partial hearing to patients with severe to profound deafness.
A number of factors may affect performance.
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Electrode insertion depth and placement
Quiet and noisy conditions
Electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS)
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An electrode array
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It is implanted only partially into the cochlea so as to preserve the residual
acoustic hearing .
(20-60 dB hearing loss (HL) up to 750 Hz and severe-to-profound hearing
loss at 1000 Hz and above)