A segmented average method to increase the reproducibility of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions

Author

Yang, Li-Ping ; Young, Shuenn-Tsong ; Kuo, Te-Son

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

167

Abstract

This study proposes a segmented average method that combines the derived nonlinear response (DNLR) method and the linear averaging method to increase the reproducibility of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs). Twenty normal ears were tested to evaluate the performance. For each ear, two types of TEOAE signals were obtained with the proposed method and with the DNLR method, respectively. Then the reproducibility of these two kinds of TEOAE signals was compared. Results showed that the average reproducibility of the TEOAE signals was much increased with the proposed method.

Keywords

acoustic correlation; medical signal processing; otoacoustic emissions; patient monitoring; average reproducibility; derived nonlinear response method; linear averaging method; newborn hearing screening; normal ears; segmented average method; transient-evoked otoacoustic emission reproducibility; Acoustic emission; Acoustic noise; Acoustic testing; Biomedical engineering; Contamination; Deafness; Ear; Noise level; Protocols; Reproducibility of results;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1134439

Filename

1134439