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Personalization of Hearing Aid Fitting Based on Adaptive Dynamic Range Optimization

Adaptive dynamic range optimization (ADRO) is a hearing aid fitting rationale which involves adjusting the gains in a number of frequency bands by using a series of rules. The rules reflect the comparison of the estimated percentile occurrences of the sound levels with the audibility and comfort hea...

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Autores principales: Ni, Aoxin, Akbarzadeh, Sara, Lobarinas, Edward, Kehtarnavaz, Nasser
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9414822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36015791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22166033
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author Ni, Aoxin
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Lobarinas, Edward
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description Adaptive dynamic range optimization (ADRO) is a hearing aid fitting rationale which involves adjusting the gains in a number of frequency bands by using a series of rules. The rules reflect the comparison of the estimated percentile occurrences of the sound levels with the audibility and comfort hearing levels of a person suffering from hearing loss. In the study reported in this paper, a previously developed machine learning method was utilized to personalize the ADRO fitting in order to provide an improved hearing experience as compared to the standard ADRO hearing aid fitting. The personalization was carried out based on the user preference model within the framework of maximum likelihood inverse reinforcement learning. The testing of ten subjects with hearing loss was conducted, which indicated that the personalized ADRO was preferred over the standard ADRO on average by about 10 times. Furthermore, a word recognition experiment was conducted, which showed that the personalized ADRO had no adverse impact on speech understanding as compared to the standard ADRO.
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spelling pubmed-94148222022-08-27 Personalization of Hearing Aid Fitting Based on Adaptive Dynamic Range Optimization Ni, Aoxin Akbarzadeh, Sara Lobarinas, Edward Kehtarnavaz, Nasser Sensors (Basel) Article Adaptive dynamic range optimization (ADRO) is a hearing aid fitting rationale which involves adjusting the gains in a number of frequency bands by using a series of rules. The rules reflect the comparison of the estimated percentile occurrences of the sound levels with the audibility and comfort hearing levels of a person suffering from hearing loss. In the study reported in this paper, a previously developed machine learning method was utilized to personalize the ADRO fitting in order to provide an improved hearing experience as compared to the standard ADRO hearing aid fitting. The personalization was carried out based on the user preference model within the framework of maximum likelihood inverse reinforcement learning. The testing of ten subjects with hearing loss was conducted, which indicated that the personalized ADRO was preferred over the standard ADRO on average by about 10 times. Furthermore, a word recognition experiment was conducted, which showed that the personalized ADRO had no adverse impact on speech understanding as compared to the standard ADRO. MDPI 2022-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9414822/ /pubmed/36015791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22166033 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36015791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22166033
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