A multi-band environment-adaptive approach to noise suppression for cochlear implants

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1699-1702

  Saki, Fatemeh ^a   Mirzahasanloo, Taher ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ADAPTIVE NOISE; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; MULTI BAND; NOISE SUPPRESSION; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; SINGLE BAND; SPEECH QUALITY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ALGORITHM; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84929493412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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