Clinical Auditory Profiling Divide and Conquer

  • SANCHEZ-LOPEZ, RAUL
  • DAU, TORSTEN

  • 1Raul Sanchez-Lopez, PhD, completed his PhD at the Technical University of Denmark and is currently a research fellow at the Hearing Sciences group at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and at the Interacoustics Research Unit, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

    2Torsten Dau, PhD, is a professor of acoustics and audiology with a background in physics and head of the Hearing Systems Section at the Department of Health Technology at Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

Audiology Today 34(4):p 14-25, July-August 2022.

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PROKOPEVA IRINA/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM AND S. CHANESMAN

Currently, the clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing aid fitting is based primarily on the pure-tone audiogram. In our work, we explored how data-driven approaches can effectively identify patient subpopulations with distinct differences in terms of their hearing abilities. This process is what we called “auditory profiling”; it opens several opportunities for improving the hearing rehabilitation process based on suprathreshold hearing deficits of patients.

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