Real-time automatic switching between noise suppression algorithms for deployment in cochlear implants

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 863-866

  Gopalakrishna, Vanishree ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a   Panahi, Issa ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SELECTION; AUTOMATIC SWITCHING; COCHLEAR IMPLANT PATIENTS; INTELLIGENT MECHANISMS; NOISE ENVIRONMENTS; NOISE SUPPRESSION ALGORITHM; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; ON-THE-FLY; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL-TIME SWITCHING;

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 78650814203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5628049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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