{"id":1412,"date":"2014-07-01T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:13:48","slug":"health-technologies-usrg-epsrc-summer-bursaries-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2014\/07\/01\/health-technologies-usrg-epsrc-summer-bursaries-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Technologies USRG EPSRC Summer Bursaries 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tommy Hardman &#8211; <em>&#8216;Fast and objective detection of auditory evoked potentials using statistical tests&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve recently finished my second year on the MEng Acoustical Engineering programme. I have an interest in the biomedical side of engineering and more specifically in its applications in signal processing. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to be working on a research project with David Simpson this summer involving the assessment of hearing without the use of voluntary responses by the patient.<\/p>\n<p>Auditory Evoked Potentials are a means of objective hearing assessment. This is based on the analysis of EEG (electroencephalogram) signals obtained during repeated stimulation. A major application of this technique is in the assessment of hearing in new-born babies. The conventional method in the assessment of hearing involves visual and subjective interpretation of auditory evoked potentials. This requires trained specialists and suffers from large inter-rate variability. Two alternative objective methods will be considered. The first being a bootstrap statistical method that focuses on the clinically most relevant feature of the signal and the second by using sequential testing, such that the analysis can be stopped if a significant response is detected (without sacrificing false positive rates). These methods aim to increase sensitivity whilst increasing the speed of analysis and hence removing the reliance on subjective testing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1413\" style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/files\/2014\/07\/tommy-hardman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1413\" alt=\"Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Signal\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/files\/2014\/07\/tommy-hardman.png\" width=\"371\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Signal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My individual project next year is also of a biomedical theme, titled: Modelling Blood Flow, Metabolite and Drug Transport within Tumour Capillaries. 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