Predicting the Threshold of Single-Pulse Electrical Stimuli Using a Stochastic Auditory Nerve Model: The Effects of Noise

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 825-835

  Xu, Yifang ^a   Collins, Leslie M ^b  

^a Electrical Engineering   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; cochlear implant; Markov chain; PMF; stochastic resonance; threshold prediction

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0042163172     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.813542     Document Type: Article

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