Interactive evolutionary computation-based hearing aid fitting

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 414-427

  Takagi, Hideyuki ^a   Ohsaki, Miho ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hearing aid; Hearing aid fitting; Interactive evolutionary computation (EC); Optimization; Subjective evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; HEARING AIDS; OPTIMIZATION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

FITTING METHOD; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34250219592     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2006.883465     Document Type: Article

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