Projects
EEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding: Towards Neuro-steered Hearing Devices KU Leuven
People with hearing impairment often have difficulties to understand speech in noisy environments. This can be partly overcome by the use of noise reduction algorithms in auditory prostheses such as hearing aids or cochlear implants. However, in a multi-speaker scenario, such algorithms do not know which speaker is to be enhanced, and which speaker(s) should be treated as noise. When listening to multiple speakers, neural (cortical) activity ...
The evolution of hearing loss in the autosomal dominant disorder dfna9: from speech perception to electrically evoked potentials of the auditory nerve. University of Antwerp
Identifiability and intelligibility of the speech of hearing impaired children using a cochlear implant University of Antwerp
Optimization and pharmacokinetics of allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide therapy for late-onset sensorineural hearing impairment DFNA9. University of Antwerp
Using artificial intelligence to facilitate communication between deaf and hearing people Ghent University
According to the WHO, over 5% of the world population suffers from hearing loss. This is expected to double by 2050. Hearing loss is estimated to cost society over 750 billion US dollars globally, per year. The Flemish government subsidizes up to 36 hours of interpreter aid per deaf person per year, which also leads to high costs. These interpreters facilitate communication between people with hearing loss and those without. After all, the ...
A system for automatic and objective hearing diagnostics in special populations KU Leuven
Sabbatical Jan Wouters: Speech and Hearing: basic study for the preparation of a grant application and a scientific book KU Leuven
In the last years of my academic career I want to start with an intense study period in which I want to prepare and outline future lines of my research (and that are important for the future of hearing research at KU Leuven). Intensive study work and a number of study visits to foreign colleagues should provide the necessary input to develop an innovative and up-to-date research program for the coming years. This sabbatical can culminate in a ...
Developments in direct acoustic cochlear stimulation KU Leuven
Hearing problems have been associated with poor quality of life, cognitive decline and a source of frustration. Over the past years, an essential progress has been made in hearing aids improving the wearing comfort, speech processing in noise and wireless connectivity. In a subgroup of patients with a combination of an important sensorineural hearing loss and a conductive ...
Development of a unified sound processing strategy for combined electric and acoustic auditory stimulation KU Leuven
A hearing aid restores hearing by sound amplification, while a cochlear implant is surgically implanted and restores hearing by electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. An increasingly common solution to severe hearing loss is a "bimodal system": a cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other. By giving the ability to hear with two ears – so-called "binaural hearing" – this set-up could in theory allow its users to figure ...