Stimulus artifact cancellation in click evoked otoacoustic emissions using linear prediction

This paper describes a new method for extraction of click evoked otoacoustic emissions (CEOAE), where the stimulus artifact is eliminated by the use of linear predictive coding (LPC). In this method, the prediction coefficients are computed over the first samples of the click response, which is mainly formed by passive oscillations, and the unpredicted part of the remaining response is taken as the CEOAE signal. Preliminary tests were made with fifteen signals collected from normal hearing adults presenting stimulus artifacts in their responses. Results show the advantage of eliminating most of the stimulus artifact, while preserving a better signal-to-noise ratio than the standard nonlinear stimulus cancellation method.