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| ASSESSMENT OF AMBIENT NOISE EFFECTS ON KIOSK-BASED AUTOMATED
AUDIOMETRY |
| RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HEARING ENHANCEMENT, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE1, DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE2, DEPARTMENT OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE3 |
| DONGHYEOK LEE,
DONGHYEOK LEE1,2, CHANBEOM KWAK,1,3, JUNGHEE SAGONG1, YUSEON BYUN1,2, YOUNG JOON SEO1,3
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¸ñÀû: This study quantified the impact of ambient noise on kiosk-based
automated audiometry and evaluated strategies for stimulus
intensity
adjustment during hearing assessments. ¹æ¹ý:Experiments were conducted in the Department of
Otorhinolaryngology at
Wonju Severance Christian Hospital. Three experiments were
performed to
evaluate the influence of ambient noise. Experiment I measured
environmental noise levels using a sound level meter (low, mid,
high).
Experiment II used an artificial ear with free-field and
reference
microphones to simulate human listening under three test setups
involving headset and open-field configurations. Experiment III
compared
kiosk-based automated audiometry with conventional audiometric
testing
to determine threshold deviations. °á°ú:Equivalent continuous noise levels (LZeq) ranged from 66.6–75.6 dB
SPL, showing the largest fluctuations during outpatient hours in
Experiment I. Artificial ear results indicated higher noise with the
headset applied, and a gradual spectral decline from low to high
frequencies in Experiment II. In Experiment III, pure-tone thresholds
in kiosk-based automated audiometry conditions were elevated around
0.5–1 kHz compared to traditional audiometry. However, under the
40 dB HL screening condition, high sensitivity (88.14–94.37 %) and
specificity (77.42–94.74 %) were observed in the 2–8 kHz frequency
range. Furthermore, the measurement results showed a high correlation
across all five frequencies (R ¡Ã 0.45; p < 0.05). °á·Ð:In summary, this study first quantified environmental noise
levels
(Experiment I) and evaluated passive noise reduction (Experiment
II),
before comparing the automated kiosk system with traditional
audiometry (Experiment III). Kiosk-based automated audiometry
showed a
strong correlation with traditional audiometry across all
frequency
ranges, even in the presence of background noise. Although the
relatively high low-frequency noise contributed to elevated pure-
tone
thresholds at 0.5–1 kHz, the observed strong correlation suggests
that
further refinement, such as implementing effective masking or
correlation-based noise compensation algorithms, is highly
promising
for achieving reliability in future studies. |
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