Use of a sigmoidal-shaped function for noise attenuation in cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hu, Yi ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Kasturi, Kalyan ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; NOISE ATTENUATION; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848861316     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2772401     Document Type: Article

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