Multimodal Characterisation of Tinnitus

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for characterising tinnitus in a subject. The method comprises receiving data comprising cortical activity data indicative of cortical activity in one or more regions of the subject's brain, and cardiac activity data indicative of cardiac activity in the subject, at a processor device. The cortical activity data is derived from one or more functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals. The received data is processed using the processor device by inputting feature values into a model, where the feature values include one or more features of the cortical activity data and one or more features of the cardiac activity data. The model is configured to provide one or more classification results based on the feature values, the classification results being indicative of at least one characteristic of tinnitus in the subject. Also disclosed is a system for applying the disclosed method.

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