Development of a Diagnostic Prediction Model for Conductive Conditions in Neonates Using Wideband Acoustic Immittance

Myers, Joshua C.; Kei, Joseph; Aithal, Sreedevi; Aithal, Venkatesh; Driscoll, Carlie; Khan, Asaduzzaman; Manuel, Alehandrea; Joseph, Anjali; Malicka, Alicja N.

doi:10.1097/aud.0000000000000565

“…As part of the routine procedure, audiology practices are gradually moving towards the inclusion of sensitive middle ear measures to improve early identification and timeous intervention of middle ear pathologies. Video otoscopy Lundberg et al 2017;Park et al 2016; and WAI (Kaf 2011;Merchant et al 2021;Myers et al 2018;Shahnaz et al 2009) have demonstrated higher sensitivity in identifying middle ear pathologies. In addition, Keefe et al (2012) reported that WAI can also be used to predict CHL.…”

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Community-based audiology services: An effective strategy for the prevention of hearing loss in rural communities

Joubert¹

2022

Preventive Audiology: An African Perspective

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Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s), and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. v Research justificationPreventive health care, where preventive audiology is positioned, contains strategies adopted and implemented for disease and disorder prevention. Hearing function can be negatively impacted by numerous factors, including lifestyle choices, environmental factors, genetic predisposition, the burden of disease and other causes. Frequently, hearing impairment can be prevented and its consequences significantly minimised by preventive measures. Such prevention commands conscientiously deliberate anticipatory actions that can fall under primordial, primary, secondary or tertiary levels of prevention. South Africa, as a resource-constrained low-and middle-income country (LMIC), still has a challenge of high numbers of individuals with preventable hearing impairment from the cradle to the grave. Numerous strategies exist for the prevention of hearing impairment across all ages and in various contexts. Preventive Audiology: An African Perspective is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology, with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re-engineered primary health care strategy and the World Health Organization's approach. The book reflects on contextually relevant and responsive evidence-based perspectives, grounded in an African context on preventive audiology, in four major ear-and-hearing burdens of disease within the South African context, namely, (1) early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI), (2) middle ear pathologies, (3) ototoxicity and (4) noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The book represents innovative research, seen from both South African and global perspectives. It offers new discourse and argues for a paradigm shift in how audiology is theorised and performed, particularly in LMIC contexts. The goal of this book is to motivate for a paradigm shift in how ear-and-hearing health care is approached within this LMIC context, while also arguing for Afrocentric best practice evidence that leads to next practice. For Afrocentric epistemology, which is a different narrative that is deliberately removed from Western epi...

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“…As part of the routine procedure, audiology practices are gradually moving towards the inclusion of sensitive middle ear measures to improve early identification and timeous intervention of middle ear pathologies. Video otoscopy Lundberg et al 2017;Park et al 2016; and WAI (Kaf 2011;Merchant et al 2021;Myers et al 2018;Shahnaz et al 2009) have demonstrated higher sensitivity in identifying middle ear pathologies. In addition, Keefe et al (2012) reported that WAI can also be used to predict CHL.…”

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Preventive audiology in the context of deafblindness

Moroe¹,

Masuku²

2022

Preventive Audiology: An African Perspective

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Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s), and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. v Research justificationPreventive health care, where preventive audiology is positioned, contains strategies adopted and implemented for disease and disorder prevention. Hearing function can be negatively impacted by numerous factors, including lifestyle choices, environmental factors, genetic predisposition, the burden of disease and other causes. Frequently, hearing impairment can be prevented and its consequences significantly minimised by preventive measures. Such prevention commands conscientiously deliberate anticipatory actions that can fall under primordial, primary, secondary or tertiary levels of prevention. South Africa, as a resource-constrained low-and middle-income country (LMIC), still has a challenge of high numbers of individuals with preventable hearing impairment from the cradle to the grave. Numerous strategies exist for the prevention of hearing impairment across all ages and in various contexts. Preventive Audiology: An African Perspective is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology, with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re-engineered primary health care strategy and the World Health Organization's approach. The book reflects on contextually relevant and responsive evidence-based perspectives, grounded in an African context on preventive audiology, in four major ear-and-hearing burdens of disease within the South African context, namely, (1) early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI), (2) middle ear pathologies, (3) ototoxicity and (4) noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The book represents innovative research, seen from both South African and global perspectives. It offers new discourse and argues for a paradigm shift in how audiology is theorised and performed, particularly in LMIC contexts. The goal of this book is to motivate for a paradigm shift in how ear-and-hearing health care is approached within this LMIC context, while also arguing for Afrocentric best practice evidence that leads to next practice. For Afrocentric epistemology, which is a different narrative that is deliberately removed from Western epi...

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“…Feature extraction is the key to the pipeline, and therefore, the existing works regularly focus on it. The common extracted features include interpretable univariate feature [2], interpretable multivariate features [4], abstract multivariate features [20], and abstract CNN-based features [5], where the first two are manually extracted features, the third is obtained by classical machine learning methods such as principal components analysis, and the last is usually based on deep-learning approaches.…”

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“…The diagrams show different patterns in healthy and otosclerosis middle ears [2,3], but the visual analysis requires professional experience, is time-consuming, and is prone to error. The automatic analysis approaches based on the manual feature extraction often have a limited accuracy and need to be further improved [4,5].…”

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Few-Shot Wideband Tympanometry Classification in Otosclerosis via Domain Adaptation with Gaussian Processes

Nie

¹

,

Li

²

,

Grayeli

³

et al. 2021

Applied Sciences

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Otosclerosis is a common middle ear disease that requires a combination of examinations for its diagnosis in routine. In a previous study, we showed that this disease could be potentially diagnosed by wideband tympanometry (WBT) coupled with a convolutional neural network (CNN) in a rapid and non-invasive manner. We showed that deep transfer learning with data augmentation could be applied successfully on such a task. However, the involved synthetic and realistic data have a significant discrepancy that impedes the performance of transfer learning. To address this issue, a Gaussian processes-guided domain adaptation (GPGDA) algorithm was developed. It leveraged both the loss about the distribution distance calculated by the Gaussian processes and the loss of conventional cross entropy during the transferring. On a WBT dataset including 80 otosclerosis and 55 control samples, it achieved an area-under-the-curve of 97.9±1.1 percent after receiver operating characteristic analysis and an F1-score of 95.7±0.9 percent that were superior to the baseline methods (r=10, p<0.05, ANOVA). To understand the algorithm’s behavior, the role of each component in the GPGDA was experimentally explored on the dataset. In conclusion, our GPGDA algorithm appears to be an effective tool to enhance CNN-based WBT classification in otosclerosis using just a limited number of realistic data samples.

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Development of a Diagnostic Prediction Model for Conductive Conditions in Neonates Using Wideband Acoustic Immittance

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Community-based audiology services: An effective strategy for the prevention of hearing loss in rural communities

Community-based audiology services: An effective strategy for the prevention of hearing loss in rural communities

Preventive audiology in the context of deafblindness

Few-Shot Wideband Tympanometry Classification in Otosclerosis via Domain Adaptation with Gaussian Processes

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