Recipient-directed electrode set selection
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorSean Lineaweaver
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Abstract
Presented herein are techniques for the determination/selection of a set of electrodes for use in an electrically-stimulating auditory/hearing prosthesis. More specifically, an electrically-stimulating hearing prosthesis includes a plurality of electrodes implanted in a recipient. Based, at least in part on a recipient's subjective preferences, one or more of these electrodes may be deactivated. The remaining (i.e., non-deactivated) electrodes form a final electrode set that is subsequently used by the hearing prosthesis for subsequent hearing rehabilitation operations.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- selecting, from electrodes implanted in a recipient of an electrically-stimulating auditory prosthesis, one or more candidate electrodes for possible deactivation;
- assessing a contribution of each of the one or more candidate electrodes to rehabilitative effect on the recipient;
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- generating, based on the assessing, a final electrode set for use in subsequent operations, wherein the final electrode set comprises a subset of the electrodes implanted in the recipient in which at least one of the one or more candidate electrodes have been deactivated and excluded from use in subsequent operations.
A method for selection of a set of active electrodes in an electrically-stimulating prosthesis that includes a plurality of electrodes implanted in a recipient, the method comprising:
- performing a pruning process to determine a subset of the plurality of electrodes for possible deactivation;
- evaluating a contribution of each electrode in the subset of the plurality of electrodes for possible deactivation to a rehabilitative effect on the recipient;
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- determining, based on the evaluation, the set of active electrodes for subsequent use by the electrically-stimulating prosthesis for stimulating the recipient, wherein at least one electrode in the subset of the plurality of electrodes for possible deactivation is deactivated and excluded from use in the set of electrodes for subsequent use in the electrically-stimulating prosthesis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.