OPTI-FOX
OPTImization of the automated Fitting to Outcomes eXpert with language-independent hearing-in-noise test battery and electro-acoustical test box for cochlear implant users
| Coordinatore | OTOCONSULT NV
Organization address
address: HERENTALSEBAAN 71 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Belgium [BE] |
| Totale costo | 1˙747˙897 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙274˙928 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2010-1 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-11-01 - 2012-10-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OTOCONSULT NV
Organization address
address: HERENTALSEBAAN 71 contact info |
BE (ANTWERPEN) | coordinator | 499˙997.00 |
| 2 |
Akoestische Bouw Projecten B.V.
Organization address
address: Centraleweg 12 contact info |
NL (Geertruidenberg) | participant | 318˙656.60 |
| 3 |
ABC International Trade B.V.
Organization address
address: Centraleweg 12 contact info |
NL (Geertruidenberg) | participant | 255˙885.80 |
| 4 |
HORZENTRUM HANNOVER GMBH
Organization address
address: KARL WIECHERT ALLEE 3 contact info |
DE (HANNOVER) | participant | 200˙389.40 |
| 5 |
KAREL DE GROTE HOGESCHOOL KATHOLIEKE HOGESCHOOL ANTWERPEN
Organization address
address: BRUSSELSTRAAT 45 contact info |
BE (ANTWERPEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER
Organization address
address: Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1 contact info |
DE (HANNOVER) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
Organization address
address: GEERT GROOTEPLEIN NOORD 9 contact info |
NL (NIJMEGEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
STICHTING VU-VUMC
Organization address
address: DE BOELELAAN 1105 contact info |
NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA
Organization address
address: CALLE BRAVO MURILLO 38 PLANTA 7 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Organization address
address: PRINSSTRAAT 13 contact info |
BE (ANTWERPEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG
Organization address
address: De Boelelaan 1105 contact info |
NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Patients suffering from sensori-neural hearing loss caused by damaged hair cells in the cochlea and diagnosed as being profoundly deaf, are potential candidates for cochlear implantation. Today, there are a number of important limitations with respect to the optimal use of these devices in deaf patients. Firstly, cochlear implant speech processors need to be adjusted so that sounds perceived by the patient are representational and at a comfortable level. Manual fitting, currently the norm, is technically demanding and time consuming and clearly suboptimal, as it involves only two of the many electrical parameters in the speech processor. Secondly, manipulation of the implant settings is based on subjective judgments of the patient , which are often inconsistent and do not reflect the outcomes on psychoacoustic measures. For the last few years, experts in the field have expressed the need for a new fitting process that optimizes the patient’s hearing in a more efficient and accurate way. For this to happen, the fitting procedure should change from a comfort-driven approach to an outcome-driven one. It should also address as many electrical parameters as possible. Ideally, a cochlear implant should come with an assisted or (semi-)automated fitting procedure in which a large number of parameters may be adjusted, based on measured psycho-acoustic feedback from the implant user. Such an assisted fitting process would drastically reduce the number of man-hours of fitting during the lifetime of the device with qualitative with qualitatively better outcomes. The main objectives of the proposed research project are therefore (i) to turn an existing theoretical automated fitting model into a clinical application by means of various techniques from statistics, machine learning and optimisation; (ii) to develop an evaluation tool to measure functional hearing capacities, in casu the ability to understand speech-in-noise, representative for day-to-day listening situations.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Hearing loss affects over 55 million people in the EU and the numbers are expected to reach about 100 million in 20 years. Cochlear implants (CIs) are surgically implanted devices used for patients with damaged hair cells in the cochlea (inner ear) resulting in sensori-neural hearing loss.