Deafness Neurosensory Clinical Trial
Official title:
Real-time Artificial Intelligence-based Speech Enhancement Methods for Hearing Aid Improvement
Individuals with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorders (ANSD) represent 1-10% of adults with hearing loss. These individuals have little or no benefit from current hearing aids because ANSD is a continuum of hearing impairments due to synaptic or neural dysfunction in the peripheral and central parts of the auditory pathways, which impairs temporal information processing without necessarily affecting auditory sensitivity. There is a need to find ad-hoc denoising methods, based on the expert knowledge of audiologists, to improve the noise comprehension performance of these patients. Implemented denoising methods, based on artificial intelligence, will also greatly benefit more standard hearing loss cases.
Longitudinal study consisting of multiple visits with multiple examinations over a total duration of approximately 3 years per ANSD participant and 1 year per normal hearing participant. - normal hearing participant : year 1 : Inclusion visit, Phenotyping visit (Audiological tests), Follow-up Visit 1 (Noise Comprehension Tests) - ANSD participant : year 1 : Inclusion visit, Phenotyping visit (Audiological tests), Follow-up Visit 1 (Noise Comprehension Tests) year 2 : Follow-up Visit 2 (Noise Comprehension Tests) year 3 : Follow-up Visit 3 (Noise Comprehension Tests) ;