Automated Fitting of Cochlear Implants
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Sponsor
Own resources
IWT Baekeland grant 090287 (Flemish Institute for Innovation through
Science and Technology)
Investigators
Abstract
The fitting of cochlear
implants is a tedious job requiring very specific skills and competences. It is difficult to find expert audiologists who
are familiar with the different implants, their fitting software and their
electrical specifications. In addition
due to the craftsmanship involved, each fitter has his/her own particular way
of doing this, which leads to an important variability between different fitters.
It is difficult to establish the
validity and reliability of all the fitting procedures encountered. Routine fitting procedures use to be so laborious
that no time is left for the in depth assessment of the performance, let
alone for the feedback of such an assessment to modify the fitting. To overcome this issue, it is essential to
automate the entire procedure and to turn it into a simple and quick expert
driven and outcome based procedure. Present
State
Fox® is the first fitting assistant that helps the audiologist in
programming cochlear implants. Fox is
outcome driven and expert based. Several
advices are available coming from different experts, aiming at major cochlear
implants and improving different outcomes.
Fox® improves the outcome instantaneously and enhances the safety of
programming while reducing the programming time substantially. Fox® can read and write directly to most fitting
software of the cochlear implant companies.
Fox® is developed by Otoconsult™, a medical software company ,
expert in user-driven software and committed to developing and supporting
audiological application software for the audiologist and the ENT practitioner. |
