TY - JOUR
T1 - Concurrent bilateral audiometric inference
AU - Heisey, Katherine L.
AU - Buchbinder, Jenna M.
AU - Barbour, Dennis L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this project was provided by the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CI MIT), National Science Foundation grant DGE-1745038, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) grant UL1-TR002345. DLB has a patent pending on technology described in this manuscript and equity ownership in Bonauria, LLC.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - Conventional audiometric testing assesses hearing one ear at a time. Given that a person’s two ears often share features in common both in health and disease, this shared variability could be exploited to improve the estimation process or the estimate itself. Here we introduce the active bilateral audiogram, which simultaneously estimates the hearing functions of both ears. We show in a cohort of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners that the bilateral audiogram converges to its final estimates significantly faster than sequential active unilateral audiograms in a process termed conjoint psychoacoustic estimation.
AB - Conventional audiometric testing assesses hearing one ear at a time. Given that a person’s two ears often share features in common both in health and disease, this shared variability could be exploited to improve the estimation process or the estimate itself. Here we introduce the active bilateral audiogram, which simultaneously estimates the hearing functions of both ears. We show in a cohort of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners that the bilateral audiogram converges to its final estimates significantly faster than sequential active unilateral audiograms in a process termed conjoint psychoacoustic estimation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055877007&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3813/AAA.919218
DO - 10.3813/AAA.919218
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055877007
SN - 1610-1928
VL - 104
SP - 762
EP - 765
JO - Acta Acustica united with Acustica
JF - Acta Acustica united with Acustica
IS - 5
ER -