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Hvem vi er<\/h3>\t\t\t
Projektet havde deltagelse af en gruppe dedikerede mennesker, der kom fra audiologiske klinikker, universiteter, teknologisk service, og h\u00f8reapparatindustrien. Det var medicinske audiologer og otologer, ingeni\u00f8rer, konsulenter og audiologop\u00e6der. Nogle unge, andre mere erfarne. Nogle arbejdede p\u00e5 projektet p\u00e5 fuld tid, andre p\u00e5 deltid og med andre forpligtelser. Enkelte havde direkte erfaringer med h\u00f8reneds\u00e6ttelse og rehabilitering.\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Silje Grini Nielsen<\/b><\/a><\/div>\r\nForskningsassistent\r\nDanmarks Tekniske Universitet<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Silje Grini Nielsen<\/h3>\n
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Silje gennemf\u00f8rte sin kandidat i medicin og teknologi ved Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) sommeren 2018. Under sin master fik hun stor interesse for h\u00f8reforskning, og havde flere kurser ved Hearing Systems gruppen p\u00e5 DTU. I sit speciale fokuserede hun p\u00e5 lytteanstrengelse og h\u00f8reapparat-kompression i forskellige akustiske milj\u00f8er. Efter fuldf\u00f8rt civilingeni\u00f8ruddannelse startede hun i BEAR projektet, hvor hun indhenter data, og hj\u00e6lper med at forbedre de kliniske tests b\u00e5de i forhold til p\u00e5lidelighed og effektivitet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Silje Grini Nielsen\u00a0vil prim\u00e6rt bidrage til\u00a0arbejdsomr\u00e5det for nye strategier for h\u00f8reprofilering og tilpasning<\/a>, performance med h\u00f8reapparat<\/a> og vurdering af klinisk effektivitet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2021<\/h3>\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>

Sanchez-Lopez, Raul; Nielsen, Silje Grini; El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad; Bianchi, Federica; Fereczkowski, Michal; Ca\u00f1ete, Oscar M; Wu, Mengfan; Neher, Tobias; Dau, Torsten; Santurette, S\u00e9bastien<\/p>

Auditory Tests for Characterizing Hearing Deficits in Listeners With Various Hearing Abilities: The BEAR Test Battery<\/a> Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>

Frontiers in Neuroscience, <\/span>15 <\/span>(724007), <\/span>pp. 1-19, <\/span>2021<\/span>.<\/p>

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\r\ntitle = {Auditory Tests for Characterizing Hearing Deficits in Listeners With Various Hearing Abilities: The BEAR Test Battery},
\r\nauthor = {Raul Sanchez-Lopez and Silje Grini Nielsen and Mouhamad El-Haj-Ali and Federica Bianchi and Michal Fereczkowski and Oscar M Ca\u00f1ete and Mengfan Wu and Tobias Neher and Torsten Dau and S\u00e9bastien Santurette},
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\r\nabstract = {The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project aims to provide a new clinical profiling tool\u2014a test battery\u2014for hearing loss characterization. Although the loss of sensitivity can be efficiently measured using pure-tone audiometry, the assessment of supra-threshold hearing deficits remains a challenge. In contrast to the classical \u201cattenuation-distortion\u201d model, the proposed BEAR approach is based on the hypothesis that the hearing abilities of a given listener can be characterized along two dimensions, reflecting independent types of perceptual deficits (distortions). A data-driven approach provided evidence for the existence of different auditory profiles with different degrees of distortions. Ten tests were included in a test battery, based on their clinical feasibility, time efficiency, and related evidence from the literature. The tests were divided into six categories: audibility, speech perception, binaural processing abilities, loudness perception, spectro-temporal modulation sensitivity, and spectro-temporal resolution. Seventy-five listeners with symmetric, mild-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss were selected from a clinical population. The analysis of the results showed interrelations among outcomes related to
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The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project aims to provide a new clinical profiling tool\u2014a test battery\u2014for hearing loss characterization. Although the loss of sensitivity can be efficiently measured using pure-tone audiometry, the assessment of supra-threshold hearing deficits remains a challenge. In contrast to the classical \u201cattenuation-distortion\u201d model, the proposed BEAR approach is based on the hypothesis that the hearing abilities of a given listener can be characterized along two dimensions, reflecting independent types of perceptual deficits (distortions). A data-driven approach provided evidence for the existence of different auditory profiles with different degrees of distortions. Ten tests were included in a test battery, based on their clinical feasibility, time efficiency, and related evidence from the literature. The tests were divided into six categories: audibility, speech perception, binaural processing abilities, loudness perception, spectro-temporal modulation sensitivity, and spectro-temporal resolution. Seventy-five listeners with symmetric, mild-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss were selected from a clinical population. The analysis of the results showed interrelations among outcomes related to
\r\nhigh-frequency processing and outcome measures related to low-frequency processing abilities. The results showed the ability of the tests to reveal differences among individuals and their potential use in clinical settings. <\/div>

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2020<\/h3>\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>

Wu, Mengfan; Lopez, Raul Sanchez; El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad; Nielsen, Silje Grini; Fereczkowski, Michal; Dau, Torsten; Santurette, S\u00e9bastien; Neher, Tobias<\/p>

Perceptual evaluation of six hearing-aid processing strategies from the perspective of auditory profiling: Insights from the BEAR project<\/a> Inproceedings<\/span> <\/p>

Kressner, Abigail Anne; Regev, Jonathan; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jakob; Tranebj\u00e6rg, Lisbeth; Santurette, S\u00e9bastien; Dau, Torsten (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, <\/span>pp. 265-272, <\/span>2020<\/span>.<\/p>

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@inproceedings{ISAAR2019_WU_print,
\r\ntitle = {Perceptual evaluation of six hearing-aid processing strategies from the perspective of auditory profiling: Insights from the BEAR project},
\r\nauthor = {Mengfan Wu and Raul Sanchez Lopez and Mouhamad El-Haj-Ali and Silje Grini Nielsen and Michal Fereczkowski and Torsten Dau and S\u00e9bastien Santurette and Tobias Neher},
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\r\nabstract = {The current study forms part of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project, which aims at developing new clinical tools for characterizing individual hearing loss and for assessing hearing-aid (HA) benefit. Its purpose was to investigate potential interactions between four auditory profiles and three measures of HA outcome obtained for six HA processing strategies. Measurements were carried out in a realistic noise environment at signal-to-noise ratios that were set based on individual aided speech reception thresholds (SRT50). Speech recognition scores and ratings of overall quality and noise annoyance were collected in two spatial conditions. The stimuli were generated with the help of a HA simulator and presented via headphones to 60 older, habitual HA users who had previously been profiled based on a data-driven approach (Sanchez-Lopez et al., 2019). The four auditory profiles differed significantly in terms of mean aided SRT50 and interacted significantly with the HA processing strategies for speech recognition in one spatial condition. Moreover, the correlation-pattern between the speech recognition scores and subjective ratings differed among the auditory profiles.},
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2019<\/h3>\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>

Sanchez-Lopez, Raul; Nielsen, Silje; Ca\u00f1ete, Oscar; Fereczkowski, Michal; Wu, Mengfan; Neher, Tobias; Dau, Torsten; Santurette, Sebasti\u00e9n<\/p>

A Clinical Test Battery for Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR). Towards the prediction of individual auditory deficits and hearing-aid benefit<\/a> Inproceedings<\/span> <\/p>

Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019), Aachen, Germany, Sept 9-13 2019., <\/span>pp. 3841-3848, <\/span>International Commission of Acoustics <\/span>2019<\/span>.<\/p>

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@inproceedings{ica2019rsl,
\r\ntitle = {A Clinical Test Battery for Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR). Towards the prediction of individual auditory deficits and hearing-aid benefit},
\r\nauthor = {Raul Sanchez-Lopez and Silje Nielsen and Oscar Ca\u00f1ete and Michal Fereczkowski and Mengfan Wu and Tobias Neher and Torsten Dau and Sebasti\u00e9n Santurette},
\r\nurl = {http:\/\/pub.dega-akustik.de\/ICA2019\/data\/articles\/000470.pdf},
\r\nyear = {2019},
\r\ndate = {2019-09-11},
\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019), Aachen, Germany, Sept 9-13 2019.},
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One aim of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project is to define a new clinical profiling tool, a test-battery, for individualized hearing loss characterization. Recently, Sanchez-Lopez et al. (ISAAR 2019) proposed a test battery for hearing deficit characterization. The proposed tests were divided into six categories: audibility, middle-ear analysis, speech perception, binaural-processing abilities, loudness perception, and spectro-temporal resolution. The results of 54 listeners were analyzed using a data-driven approach (Sanchez-Lopez et al., 2018), which provided evidence for the existence of two independent sources of distortion and four different auditory profiles. The classification of the listeners into auditory profiles allows the prediction of the performance of the listeners on different psychoacoustic tasks as well as their expected performance while wearing hearing aids. For the classification, a decision tree with only the most predictive tests is desirable for a correct classification of the listeners. The present study aims to explore the optimal decision tree and to propose a reduced, reliable and time-efficient test battery that can classify listeners into the four auditory profiles in a clinical environment. The clinical test battery will be used in a large-scale study that will help implement a protocol for better hearing rehabilitation.<\/div>

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Wu, Mengfan; Sanchez-Lopez, Raul; El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad; Nielsen, Silje; Fereczkowski, Michal; Dau, Torsten; Santurette, Sebasti\u00e9n; Neher, Tobias<\/p>

Assessing the interaction between different auditory profiles and benefit from six hearing aid processing strategies: Insights from the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project<\/a> Inproceedings<\/span> <\/p>

Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019), Aachen, Germany, Sept 9-13 2019., <\/span>pp. 3849-3856, <\/span>2019<\/span>.<\/p>

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@inproceedings{ica2019mw,
\r\ntitle = {Assessing the interaction between different auditory profiles and benefit from six hearing aid processing strategies: Insights from the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project},
\r\nauthor = {Mengfan Wu and Raul Sanchez-Lopez and Mouhamad El-Haj-Ali and Silje Nielsen and Michal Fereczkowski and Torsten Dau and Sebasti\u00e9n Santurette and Tobias Neher},
\r\nurl = {http:\/\/pub.dega-akustik.de\/ICA2019\/data\/articles\/000335.pdf},
\r\nyear = {2019},
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The current study forms part of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project, which aims at developing and evaluating new clinical tools for individual hearing loss characterization and hearing aid benefit assessment. The purpose of the current study was to assess the interaction between four different auditory profiles and two outcome measures of aided performance obtained for six selected hearing-aid processing strategies (Sanchez-Lopez et al., Euronoise 2018). Sixty older habitual hearing-aid users who participated in the study were previously classified into four auditory profiles based on a data-driven approach (Sanchez-Lopez et al., Trends in Hearing 2018). All stimuli were generated with the help of a hearing aid simulator and presented via headphones. Speech recognition in noise was assessed at fixed signal-to-noise ratios based on individual 50%-correct speech reception thresholds measured in a realistic noise environment. Subjective ratings of overall quality and noise annoyance were measured using a multiple stimulus comparison paradigm. It is hypothesized that the four auditory profiles will have different needs in terms of compensation so perceptual outcomes for the six hearing aid processing strategies are expected to be different.<\/div>

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