Programming Cochlear Implant With Artificial Intelligence (CI_AI)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Deafness; Perception

Treatments: Other: Manual intervention to programme Cochlear Implant electrodes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03700268

2017/04SEP/427

2017/13OCT/480 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This thesis project proposes to investigate the "state of the art" of the programming of the cochlear implant. In the center of audiophonologie Brussels, the classic 'manual programming' has been in use over 20 years and also the new way 'Artificial Intelligence programming'. The investigators want to compare, objectify, and control this new mode of programming.

The study is planned over 4 years, in order to test, randomized, 15 subjects with manual programming and 15 other subjects with Artificial Intelligence programming. To test the performance of Cochlear Implant patients, audiological, language auditory perception and questionnaire tests will be presented.

This research aims to determine the contribution and results of Artificial Intelligence programming.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• unilateral cochlear implant
• post-lingual hearing loss
• a good command of French.

Exclusion criteria

• non deaf
• bilateral cochlear implant
• deaf without cochlear implant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual fitting

Experimental group

Description:

The patient is receiving the classical treatment : 10 sessions of 1 hour during one year where the clinician programs manually the Cochlear implant.

Treatment:

Other: Manual intervention to programme Cochlear Implant electrodes

Artificial Intelligence

Experimental group

Description:

The patient is receiving the new treatment : 4 sessions of 1 hour during one year where the clinician programs the Cochlear implant with the FOX (Fitting to Outcome eXpert) software using artificial intelligence.

Treatment:

Other: Manual intervention to programme Cochlear Implant electrodes