Researcher
Sarah Verhulst
- Keywords:sound perception, auditory brain potentials, Computational Auditory Modelling, auditory signal processing, Auditory neuroscience, Hearing Technology, hearing impairment
- Disciplines:Speech, language and hearing sciences not elsewhere classified, Computational biomodelling and machine learning, Otorhinolaryngology not elsewhere classified, Neurophysiology, Biomedical modelling, Audio and speech computing, Modelling and simulation, Biomedical signal processing, Human health engineering, Electrophysiology, Behavioural neuroscience
Affiliations
- Department of Information technology (Department)
Member
From20 Sep 2016 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 14
- Mouse, Man, and Machine: Combining Model Systems to Develop a Biomarker for Cochlear Deafferentation in HumansFrom1 Jul 2023 → TodayFunding: Other international institutions, not mentioned elsewhere
- Closed-loop music biofeedback for pervasive effect on humans, grounded in knowledge on embodiment and predictionFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Precision Hearing Diagnostics and Augmented-hearing TechnologiesFrom1 Aug 2022 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - European Innovation Council (EIC)
- The Functional Role of Cochlear Synaptopathy for Speech Coding in the BrainFrom1 Apr 2021 → 31 Mar 2024Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Machine Hearing 2.0: Biophysically-inspired auditory signal processing for machine-hearing applicationsFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Modeling how sensorineural hearing loss affects auditory processing and physiological markers of hearingFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Automatic and individualized bio-inspired hearing technologies.From1 Nov 2020 → 15 Jan 2023Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Unravelling the causes of individual speech-in-noise deficits: disentangling outer hair-cell and inner hair-cell / auditory nerve sourcesFrom1 Oct 2020 → 30 Apr 2022Funding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- A diagnostic test for cochlear synaptopathy in humansFrom1 Sep 2020 → 28 Feb 2022Funding: H2020 - Frontier Research (ERC)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Strategic Institutional PartnershipFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
Publications
11 - 20 of 77
- A differentiable optimisation framework for the design of individualised DNN-based hearing-aid strategies(2022)
Authors: Fotios Drakopoulos, Sarah Verhulst
Pages: 351 - 355 - A comparative study of eight human auditory models of monaural processing(2022)
Authors: Alejandro Osses Vecchi, Leo Varnet, Laurel H. Carney, Torsten Dau, Ian C. Bruce, Sarah Verhulst, Piotr Majdak
- Predicting synapse counts in living humans by combining computational models with auditory physiology(2022)
Authors: Brad N. Buran, Garnett P. McMillan, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Sarah Verhulst, Naomi F. Bramhall
Pages: 561 - 576 - Learning from model-based approaches for hearing loss compensation : which speech features are enhanced in machine-learning-based audio algorithms for cochlear synaptopathy compensation?(2022)
Authors: Marjoleen Wouters, Fotios Drakopoulos, Sarah Verhulst
Pages: 304 - 305 - Machine-learning-based audio algorithms for cochlear synaptopathy compensation : which speech features are enhanced?(2022)
Authors: Marjoleen Wouters, Fotios Drakopoulos, Sarah Verhulst
Number of pages: 1 - Speech intelligibility in tinnitus and ageing : exploring the role of impaired peripheral and brainstem processing(2022)
Authors: Sarah Verhulst, Sarineh Keshishzadeh, Hannah Keppler, Ingeborg Dhooge
Pages: 84 - 85 - System for portable audio-based EEG feature extraction and adaptive playback(2022)
Authors: Wannes Van Ransbeeck, Arthur Van Den Broucke, Sarah Verhulst
Number of pages: 1 - Early environmental quality and life-course mental health effects : the Equal-Life project(2022)
Authors: Irene van Kamp, Kerstin Persson Waye, Katja Kanninen, John Gulliver, Alessandro Bozzon, Achilleas Psyllidis, Hendriek Boshuizen, Jenny Selander, Peter van den Hazel, Marco Brambilla, et al.
- Model-based hearing-enhancement strategies for cochlear synaptopathy pathologies(2022)
Authors: Fotios Drakopoulos, Viacheslav Vasilkov, Alejandro Osses Vecchi, Tijmen Wartenberg, Sarah Verhulst
- The potential biomarkers for cochlear synaptopathy after recreational noise exposure(2021)
Authors: Tine Vande Maele, Hannah Keppler, Sarah Verhulst
Number of pages: 1
Patents
1 - 4 of 4
- A CLOSED-LOOP METHOD TO INDIVIDUALIZE NEURAL-NETWORK BASED AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING (Inventor)
- METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE INTEGRITY OF AUDITORY NERVE FIBERS AND SYNAPSES (Inventor)
- METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE INTEGRITY OF AUDITORY NERVE FIBERS AND SYNAPSES (Inventor)
- A neural network model for cochlear mechanics and processing (Inventor)