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Multicenter Study
. 2003 Mar;24(2):228-33.
doi: 10.1097/00129492-200303000-00017.

Speech coding strategies and revised cochlear implant candidacy: an analysis of post-implant performance

Eytan E David  1 , Jodi M Ostroff, David Shipp, Julian M Nedzelski, Joseph M Chen, Lorne S Parnes, Kim Zimmerman, David Schramm, Christiane Seguin
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Multicenter Study

Speech coding strategies and revised cochlear implant candidacy: an analysis of post-implant performance

Eytan E David et al. Otol Neurotol. 2003 Mar.

Abstract

Objective: Technological advances in cochlear implant systems on which a sequence of speech coding strategies have been implemented seem to have resulted in improved speech perception. However, changing selection criteria for implantation have coincided with evolving technology and may confound post-implantation speech perception performance. This study compares speech coding strategy with speech perception performance in severe and profound postlingually deafened adults using one of three successive generations of Nucleus Cochlear Implant speech processors (i.e., Mini Speech Processor, Spectra 22, and SPrint) implementing three speech coding strategies (i.e., MPEAK, SPEAK, and Advanced Combination Encoders; Cochlear Corporation, Englewood, CO, U.S.A.).

Study design: Four cohorts of patients were retrospectively reviewed.

Setting: Multicenter, tertiary referral cochlear implant programs in Ontario, Canada.

Methods: Four cohorts of patients (n = 139) were identified based on preimplant audiological measures, duration of deafness, device type, and speech coding strategy. Word and sentence recognition scores at 12 months after implantation were compared using MPEAK with SPEAK22 implemented on the Nucleus 22 speech processors (Mini Speech Processor and Spectra22, respectively) and SPEAK24 as well as Advanced Combination Encoders implemented on the Nucleus 24 SPrint processor.

Results: Open-set speech recognition batteries revealed significant improvements in word and sentence scores as advancing technology implemented new speech coding strategies. Subgroup analysis of profoundly deafened patients supported this. Analysis of covariance confirmed that the measured differences could not be accounted for by changing selection criteria for implantation.

Conclusion: Improvements in performance can be attributed to evolving speech coding strategies and speech processors rather than to differences in preimplant candidacy.

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