BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV1I12146,
     title={Analysis of Auditory Response of Hearing Impaired Patients using FMRI Data},
     author={Kaavinna Nainesh Thakkar},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={1},
     number={12},
     pages={456--460},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV1I12146.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

The detection of hearing impairments is based on a response based audiogram and for infants & mentally impaired patients, methods like auditory brainstem response, auditory steady state analysis etc., are used, all of which are invasive. Non-invasively, by combining the analysis of both structural & functional brain images the regions in brain can be found responsible for auditory processing. The aim behind this project is to find activated areas in the brain corresponding to auditory stimulation given to the patients by making use of SPM (Statistical Parameter Mapping) software. For this purpose fMRI data is pre-processed before analysis. Then a model is specified and parameters are estimated. For each step of processing and analysing a better approach is chosen based on the data of fMRI images and its specific purpose. Statistical inferences are drawn based on the activated voxels found in the processed and analysed fMRI images. The detected brain regions are masked with those of the hearing impaired patient’s regions that are found for patients with sensorineural hearing loss on giving word input as an auditory stimulation. The results depict some common areas between both the hearing impaired and normal patient when given auditory stimulation.

fMRI, SNHL, SPM, GLM, WFU