Optimization of sound coding strategies to make singing music more accessible for cochlear implant users

S Tahmasebi, M Segovia-Martinez… - Trends in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Cochlear implants (CIs) are implantable medical devices that can partially restore hearing to
people suffering from profound sensorineural hearing loss. While these devices provide …

Study on Recovery Strategy of Hearing Loss & SGN Regeneration Under Physical Regulation

Z Li, Y Gao, X Chen, L Xu, Z Li, R Chai - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that by 2050, nearly 2.5 billion
people are expected to have some degree of hearing loss (HL) and at least 700 million will …

Symmetry in computer-aided music composition system with social network analysis and artificial neural network methods

N Shi, Y Wang - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized …, 2020 - Springer
To reduce the cost of music creation, shorten the creation time, help composers create music
more easily, and make the style of music works more easily accepted by more people …

Design and evaluation of a real-time audio source separation algorithm to remix music for cochlear implant users

S Tahmasebi, T Gajȩcki, W Nogueira - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that partially restores
hearing to people suffering from profound hearing loss. Although CI users, in general, obtain …

Comparison of Performance for Cochlear-Implant Listeners Using Audio Processing Strategies Based on Short-Time Fast Fourier Transform or Spectral Feature …

Y Zhang, PT Johannesen, B Molaee-Ardekani… - Ear and …, 2025 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We compared sound quality and performance for a conventional cochlear-
implant (CI) audio processing strategy based on short-time fast-Fourier transform (Crystalis) …

A versatile deep-neural-network-based music preprocessing and remixing scheme for cochlear implant listeners

J Gauer, A Nagathil, K Eckel, D Belomestny… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
While cochlear implants (CIs) have proven to restore speech perception to a remarkable
extent, access to music remains difficult for most CI users. In this work, a methodology for the …

Interactive evaluation of a music preprocessing scheme for cochlear implants based on spectral complexity reduction

J Gauer, A Nagathil, R Martin, JP Thomas… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Music is difficult to access for the majority of CI users as the reduced dynamic range and
poor spectral resolution in cochlear implants (CI), amongst others constraints, severely …

Pitch perception with the temporal limits encoder for cochlear implants

H Zhou, A Kan, G Yu, Z Guo, N Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The temporal-limits-encoder (TLE) strategy has been proposed to enhance the
representation of temporal fine structure (TFS) in cochlear implants (CIs), which is vital for …

Cochlear implant compression optimization for musical sound quality in MED-EL users

ML Gilbert, MLD Deroche, P Jiradejvong… - Ear and …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Variations in loudness are a fundamental component of the music listening
experience. Cochlear implant (CI) processing, including amplitude compression, and a …

Harmonic/percussive sound separation and spectral complexity reduction of music signals for cochlear implant listeners

B Lentz, A Nagathil, J Gauer… - ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cochlear implant (CI) users suffer from limitations in music perception and thus prefer music
which has a clear rhythm/beat and is played with only a few instruments. Therefore, existing …