Towards a closed-loop cochlear implant system: Application of embedded monitoring of peripheral and central neural activity

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-454

  McLaughlin, Myles ^a,b   Lu, Thomas ^a   Dimitrijevic, Andrew ^c   Zeng, Fan Gang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potentials; closed loop system; cochlear implants; electric stimulation; electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CLOSED-LOOP; COMPOUND ACTION POTENTIALS; CORTICAL POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMBEDDED HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEUROENGINEERING; OPEN LOOP SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BRAIN; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COCHLEAR NERVE; DEAFNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863760838     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2012.2186982     Document Type: Article

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