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Development and Assesment of an Embedded Portable A-ABR System  

Noh, Hyung-Wook (Electronics and telecommunications research institute)
Nam, Ki-Chang (Clinical Trials Center for Medical Devices, Severance Hospital)
Jang, Kyung-Hwan (Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University)
Cha, Eun-Jong (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University)
Kim, Deok-Won (Dept. of Medical Engineering, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC / v.47, no.3, 2010 , pp. 48-55 More about this Journal
Abstract
Hearing impairment is one of the most common birth defects among infants. Significant bilateral hearing impairment have profound effects on speech and language development. But it can be prevented, if a hearing impairment is identified and treated in its early stage. ABR (auditory brainstem response) is useful screening tool for new born hearing test. However, the interpretation of conventional ABR should be done by a experienced audiologist and testing takes some time. Therefore, A-ABR(automated ABR) which detect ABR peak automatically have been developed recently. In contrast to A-ABR researches became active in overseas, there has been little study in Korea. In this study, we have developed a portable A-ABR system based on the results of our previous study. For the evaluation of the developed system, the clinical trials were performed on adults and infants. As a results, it showed good sensitivity (94.4%) and specificity (92.2%), and accuracy (93.0%) between clinical diagnosis and the developed A-ABR test.
Keywords
A-ABR; hearing impairment; embedded; portable; evaluation;
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