Robust Speech Encoding in Impaired Hearing

Project Information

RobSpear

Grant agreement ID: 678120

DOI

10.3030/678120

Project closed

EC signature date 16 February 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 31 March 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 780,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 780,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Publications

Other (8)

The variability in potential biomarkers for cochlear synaptopathy after recreational noise exposure

Author(s): Tine Vande Maele, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Nele De Poortere, Ingeborg Dhooge, Hannah Keppler, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: 2021
Publisher: BioXriv
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.17.427007

Contributions of Low- and High-Frequency Sensorineural Hearing Deficits to Speech Intelligibility in Noise

Author(s): Sarah Verhulst; Anna Warzybok
Published in: Biorxiv preprint, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/358127

Predicting synapse counts in living humans by combining computational models with auditory physiology

Author(s): Brad N. Buran, Garnett P. McMillan, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Sarah Verhulst, Naomi Bramhall
Published in: 2021
Publisher: OSFpreprints
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/f8bx6

A convolutional neural-network framework for modelling auditory sensory cells and synapses

Author(s): Fotios Drakopoulos, Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: conditionally accepted, 2021
Publisher: Nature Communications Biology
DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.25.388546

Machines hear better when they have ears

Author(s): Baby, Deepak; Verhulst, Sarah
Published in: Issue 1, 2018, Page(s) 6
Publisher: Arxiv

Towards a differential diagnosis of cochlear synaptopathy and outer-hair-cell deficits in mixed sensorineural hearing loss pathologies

Author(s): Viacheslav Vasilkov, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: in review, 2019
Publisher: N/A
DOI: 10.1101/19008680

Festival effect on cochlear synaptopathy (Maele et al., 2021)

Author(s): Maele, Tine Vande; Keshishzadeh, Sarineh; De Poortere, Nele; Dhooge, Ingeborg; Keppler, Hannah; Verhulst, Sarah
Published in: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: ASHA
DOI: 10.23641/asha.16821283.v1

A Neural-Network Framework for the Design of Individualised Hearing-Loss Compensation

Author(s): Fotios Drakopoulos and Sarah Verhulst
Published in: 2022
Publisher: ArXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2207.07091

Conference proceedings (17)

Hearing-Impaired Bio-Inspired Cochlear Models for Real-Time Auditory Applications

Author(s): Arthur Van Den Broucke, Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Interspeech 2020, 2020, Page(s) 2842-2846
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2020-2818

Otoacoustic Emissions in a Deep-Neural-Network Model ofCochlear Mechanics

Author(s): Arthur Van Den Broucke, Fotios Drakopoulos, Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhuls
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MOH

From derived-band envelope-following responses to individualized models of near- and supra-threshold hearing deficits

Author(s): Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research : vol. 7 : auditory learning in biological and artificial system, 2019, ISSN 2596-5522
Publisher: ISAAR

Learning from model-based approaches for hearing lLoss compensation: which speech features are enhanced in machine-learning-based audio algorithms for cochlear synaptopathy compensation?

Author(s): M. Wouters, F. Drakopoulos, S. Verhulst
Published in: 2022 ARO, the 45th Annual MidWinter Meeting, Abstract book, 2022, Page(s) 304-305
Publisher: ARO

Individualized cochlear models based on distortion product otoacoustic emissions

Author(s): Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021, ISBN 9781728111780
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9629808

How attending music festivals affects near and supra-threshold markers of hearing

Author(s): Tine VandeMaele, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Hannah Keppler, Ingeborg Dhooge, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: e-Forum Acusticum 2020, Proceedings, 2020, Page(s) 625-626
Publisher: Forum Acusticum
DOI: 10.48465/fa.2020.1022

Speech intelligibility in tinnitus and ageing : exploring the role of impaired peripheral and brainstem processing

Author(s): Sarah Verhulst, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Hannah Keppler, ngeborg Dhooge
Published in: 2022 ARO, the 45th Annual MidWinter Meeting, Abstract book, Issue Annual, 2022, Page(s) 2
Publisher: ARO

Individual Temporal Fine-structure Detection Differences across Younger and Older Listeners: Disentangling Sources of Sensorineural Hearing Loss using a Model-based Approach

Author(s): Alejandro Osses, Markus Garrett, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: e-Forum Acusticum 2020, Proceedings, 2020, Page(s) 1397
Publisher: Forum Acusticum
DOI: 10.48465/fa.2020.1061

Applying biophysical auditory periphery models for real-time applications and studies of hearing impairment

Author(s): Arthur van Den Broucke, Fotios Drakopoulos, Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: e-Forum Acusticum 2020, 2020, Page(s) 3005-3006
Publisher: Forum Acusticum
DOI: 10.48465/fa.2020.1026

A Differentiable Optimisation Framework for The Design of Individualised DNN-based Hearing-Aid Strategies

Author(s): Fotios Drakopoulos, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-0540-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp43922.2022.9747683

Sergan: Speech Enhancement Using Relativistic Generative Adversarial Networks with Gradient Penalty

Author(s): Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019, Page(s) 106-110, ISBN 978-1-4799-8131-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp.2019.8683799

Biophysically-inspired Features Improve the Generalizability of Neural Network-based Speech Enhancement Systems

Author(s): Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Interspeech 2018, 2018, Page(s) 3264-3268
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2018-1237

Tonotopic sensitivity to supra-threshold hearing deficits of the envelope following response evoked by broadband stimuli

Author(s): Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Viacheslav Vasilkov, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, 2019, Page(s) 6513-6518, ISBN 978-3-939296-15-7
Publisher: DEGA

Hearing-impaired sound perception: What can we learn from a biophysical model of the human auditory periphery?

Author(s): Alejandro Osses, Frauke Ernst, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, 2019, Page(s) 678-685, ISBN 978-3-939296-15-7
Publisher: DEGA

Real-time audio processing on a Raspberry Pi using deep neural networks

Author(s): Fotios Drakopoulos, Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, 2019, ISBN 978-3-939296-15-7
Publisher: DEGA

Low and high-frequency hearing mechanisms in ageing and tinnitus

Author(s): Verhulst, Sarah; Keshishzadeh, Sarineh; Taghon, Baziel; Keppler, Hannah; Dhooge, Ingeborg
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Hearing: Psychoacoustics, Physiology of Hearing, and Auditory Modelling, from the Ear to the Brain (ISH2022), 2022
Publisher: ISH 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6576950

Biophysically realistic neural-network models of auditory neurons and synapses for neuroscience and machine-hearing applications

Author(s): Sarah Verhulst, Fotios Drakopoulos, Arthur Van Den Broucke, Deepak Baby
Published in: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, Issue 2021, Vol 49 Suppl. 1, 2021, Page(s) S30-S31, ISSN 0929-5313
Publisher: Springer

Peer reviewed articles (12)

A convolutional neural-network framework for modelling auditory sensory cells and synapses

Author(s): Fotios Drakopoulos, Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY, Issue 2021 Vol 4 Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Nature Researc
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02341-5

Towards Personalized Auditory Models: Predicting Individual Sensorineural Hearing-Loss Profiles From Recorded Human Auditory Physiology

Author(s): Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Markus Garrett, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Trends in Hearing, Issue 25, 2021, Page(s) 233121652098840, ISSN 2331-2165
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/2331216520988406

Envelope following responses predict speech-in-noise performance in normal-hearing listeners

Author(s): Anita M. Mepani, Sarah Verhulst, Kenneth E. Hancock, Markus Garrett, Viacheslav Vasilkov, Kara Bennett, Victor de Gruttola, M. Charles Liberman, Stéphane F. Maison
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 125/4, 2021, Page(s) 1213-1222, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00620.2020

Enhancing the sensitivity of the envelope-following response for cochlear synaptopathy screening in humans: The role of stimulus envelope

Author(s): Viacheslav Vasilkov, Markus Garrett, Manfred Mauermann, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Hearing Research, Issue 400, 2021, Page(s) 108132, ISSN 0378-5955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.108132

Computational modeling of the human auditory periphery: Auditory-nerve responses, evoked potentials and hearing loss

Author(s): Sarah Verhulst, Alessandro Altoè, Viacheslav Vasilkov
Published in: Hearing Research, Issue 360, 2018, Page(s) 55-75, ISSN 0378-5955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.12.018

The search for noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy in humans: Mission impossible?

Author(s): Naomi Bramhall, Elizabeth Francis Beach, Bastian Epp, Colleen G. Le Prell, Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda, Christopher J. Plack, Roland Schaette, Sarah Verhulst, Barbara Canlon
Published in: Hearing Research, Issue 377, 2019, Page(s) 88-103, ISSN 0378-5955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2019.02.016

Suprathreshold Psychoacoustics and Envelope-Following Response Relations: Normal-Hearing, Synaptopathy and Cochlear Gain Loss

Author(s): Sarah Verhulst, Frauke Ernst, Markus Garrett, Viacheslav Vasilkov
Published in: Acta Acustica united with Acustica, Issue 104/5, 2018, Page(s) 800-803, ISSN 1610-1928
Publisher: S. Hirzel Verlag
DOI: 10.3813/aaa.919227

Acquisition of Subcortical Auditory Potentials With Around-the-Ear cEEGrid Technology in Normal and Hearing Impaired Listeners

Author(s): Markus Garrett, Stefan Debener, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 13, 2019, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00730

The derived-band envelope following response and its sensitivity to sensorineural hearing deficits

Author(s): Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Markus Garrett, Viacheslav Vasilkov, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Hearing Research, Issue 392, 2020, Page(s) 107979, ISSN 0378-5955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.107979

A convolutional neural-network model of human cochlear mechanics and filter tuning for real-time applications

Author(s): Deepak Baby, Arthur Van Den Broucke, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Nature Machine Intelligence, Issue 3/2, 2021, Page(s) 134-143, ISSN 2522-5839
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s42256-020-00286-8

The variability in potential biomarkers for cochlear synaptopathy after recreational noise exposure

Author(s): Tine Vande Maele, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Nele De Poortere, Ingeborg Dhooge, Hannah Keppler, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH, Issue Volume 64 Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 4964-4981, ISSN 1092-4388
Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-21-00064

A comparative study of eight human auditory models of monaural processing

Author(s): Vecchi, Alejandro Osses; Varnet, Léo; Carney, Laurel H.; Dau, Torsten; Bruce, Ian C.; Verhulst, Sarah; Majdak, Piotr
Published in: Acta Acustica, Issue Volume 6, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 24, ISSN 2681-4617
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/aacus/2022008

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Model-based hearing-enhancement strategies for cochlear synaptopathy pathologies

Author(s): Fotios Drakopoulos, Viacheslav Vasilkov, Alejandro Osses Vecchi, Tijmen Wartenberg, Sarah Verhulst
Published in: Hearing Research, 2022, Page(s) 108569, ISSN 0378-5955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2022.108569

Book chapters (1)

Acquired hearing deficits

Author(s): Sarah Verhulst, Markus Garrett
Published in: The senses : a comprehensive reference, 2020, Page(s) 861-870, ISBN 9780128054093
Publisher: Elsevier

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (3)

A CLOSED-LOOP METHOD TO INDIVIDUALIZE NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING

Application/Publication number: 20 21058655
Date: 2021-04-01
Applicant(s): UNIVERSITEIT GENT

A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR COCHLEAR MECHANICS AND PROCESSING

Application/Publication number: 20 20065893
Date: 2020-06-09
Applicant(s): UNIVERSITEIT GENT

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE INTEGRITY OF AUDITORY NERVE FIBERS AND SYNAPSES

Application/Publication number: 20 21052848
Date: 2021-02-05
Applicant(s): UNIVERSITEIT GENT