Individualised and self-adapting sound processing for cochlear implants

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Speech Intelligibility Predicted from Neural Entrainment of the Speech Envelope

Author(s): Jonas Vanthornhout, Lien Decruy, Jan Wouters, Jonathan Z. Simon, Tom Francart
Published in: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Issue 19/2, 2018, Page(s) 181-191, ISSN 1525-3961
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-018-0654-z

Head shadow enhancement with low-frequency beamforming improves sound localization and speech perception for simulated bimodal listeners

Author(s): Benjamin Dieudonné, Tom Francart
Published in: Hearing Research, Issue 363, 2018, Page(s) 78-84, ISSN 0378-5955
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2018.03.007

Predicting phoneme and word recognition in noise using a computational model of the auditory periphery

Author(s): Arturo Moncada-Torres, Astrid van Wieringen, Ian C. Bruce, Jan Wouters, Tom Francart
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 141/1, 2017, Page(s) 300-312, ISSN 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.4973569

Auditory-Inspired Speech Envelope Extraction Methods for Improved EEG-Based Auditory Attention Detection in a Cocktail Party Scenario

Author(s): Wouter Biesmans, Neetha Das, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Issue 25/5, 2017, Page(s) 402-412, ISSN 1534-4320
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2571900

A generic EEG artifact removal algorithm based on the multi-channel Wiener filter

Author(s): Ben Somers, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 15/3, 2018, Page(s) 036007, ISSN 1741-2560
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aaac92

The Self-Assessed Békesy Procedure: Validation of a Method to Measure Intelligibility of Connected Discourse

Author(s): Lien Decruy, Neetha Das, Eline Verschueren, Tom Francart
Published in: Trends in Hearing, Issue 22, 2018, Page(s) 233121651880270, ISSN 2331-2165
DOI: 10.1177/2331216518802702

Desynchronisation of auditory steady-state responses related to changes in interaural phase differences: an objective measure of binaural hearing

Author(s): Charlotte Vercammen, Astrid van Wieringen, Jan Wouters, Tom Francart
Published in: International Journal of Audiology, Issue 56/7, 2017, Page(s) 464-471, ISSN 1499-2027
DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1288304

Neural tracking of the speech envelope in cochlear implant users

Author(s): Ben Somers, Eline Verschueren, Tom Francart
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 16/1, 2019, Page(s) 016003, ISSN 1741-2560
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aae6b9

Redundant Information Is Sometimes More Beneficial Than Spatial Information to Understand Speech in Noise

Author(s): Benjamin Dieudonné, Tom Francart
Published in: Ear and Hearing, Issue 40/3, 2019, Page(s) 545-554, ISSN 0196-0202
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000660

Evidence for enhanced neural tracking of the speech envelope underlying age-related speech-in-noise difficulties

Author(s): Lien Decruy, Jonas Vanthornhout, Tom Francart
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 122/2, 2019, Page(s) 601-615, ISSN 0022-3077
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00687.2018

Interaural Time Difference Perception with a Cochlear Implant and a Normal Ear

Author(s): Tom Francart, Konstantin Wiebe, Thomas Wesarg
Published in: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Issue 19/6, 2018, Page(s) 703-715, ISSN 1525-3961
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-018-00697-w

EEG-based auditory attention detection: boundary conditions for background noise and speaker positions

Author(s): Neetha Das, Alexander Bertrand, Tom Francart
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 15/6, 2018, Page(s) 066017, ISSN 1741-2560
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aae0a6

Neural envelope tracking as a measure of speech understanding in cochlear implant users

Author(s): Eline Verschueren, Ben Somers, Tom Francart
Published in: Hearing Research, Issue 373, 2019, Page(s) 23-31, ISSN 0378-5955
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2018.12.004

Stimulus-aware spatial filtering for single-trial neural response and temporal response function estimation in high-density EEG with applications in auditory research

Author(s): Neetha Das, Jonas Vanthornhout, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 204, 2020, Page(s) 116211, ISSN 1053-8119
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116211

The effect of head-related filtering and ear-specific decoding bias on auditory attention detection

Author(s): Neetha Das, Wouter Biesmans, Alexander Bertrand, Tom Francart
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 13/5, 2016, Page(s) 056014, ISSN 1741-2560
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/5/056014

EEG-Informed Attended Speaker Extraction From Recorded Speech Mixtures With Application in Neuro-Steered Hearing Prostheses

Author(s): Simon Van Eyndhoven, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Issue 64/5, 2017, Page(s) 1045-1056, ISSN 0018-9294
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2016.2587382

Conference proceedings (2)

Adaptive attention-driven speech enhancement for EEG-informed hearing prostheses

Author(s): Neetha Das, Simon Van Eyndhoven, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand
Published in: 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016, Page(s) 77-80
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7590644

EEG-based Attention-Driven Speech Enhancement for Noisy Speech Mixtures Using N-fold Multi-Channel Wiener Filters

Author(s): Bertrand, Alexander; Das, Neetha; Francart, Tom; Van Eyndhoven, Simon
Published in: Conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Kos island, Greece, 2017, Issue 1, 2018, Page(s) 1200-1204
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1159426

Thesis dissertations (1)

Neural tracking of the speech envelope: unraveling the effects of listening effort, age and hearing impairment : Neurale tracking van de spraakomhullende: achterhalen van de effecten van luistermoeite, leeftijd en gehoorverlies

Author(s): Decruy, Lien
Published in: Issue 1, 2019