Automated inner ear diagnoses

A hearing prosthesis system, comprising:

• an intra-cochlear stimulating assembly configured to be implanted in a recipient, wherein the intra-cochlear stimulating assembly comprises a plurality of stimulating contacts;
• and
• one or more processors configured to:
• identify at least one crisis signature from one or more inner ear potentials obtained via the plurality of stimulating contacts,
• correlate the at least one crisis signature to clinical symptoms of a specific type and cause of an inner ear crisis, and
• based on the specific type and cause of the inner ear crisis, adjust operation of the hearing prosthesis to remediate the inner ear crisis.

A hearing prosthesis system, comprising:

• one or more stimulating contacts configured to be implanted in a recipient and to obtain one or more inner ear potentials at a cochlea of a recipient in response to one or more or more acoustic or electrical stimulation signals;
• and
• an expert diagnosis system configured to:
• receive inner ear potentials obtained by the one or more stimulating contacts configured;
• execute a real-time pattern matching process that analyzes various combinations of the inner ear potentials with respect to a database of known relationships between potentials and clinical symptoms to identify an inner ear crisis affecting the cochlea of the recipient;
• and
• automatically initiate one or more remedial actions to address the inner ear crisis.