Screening strategy and time points for newborn hearing re-screening with high risk factors.

Objective: To compare and analyze the pass rate and screening strategy of hearing rescreening for newborns with high risk factors.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of high-risk newborns who failed their initial newborn hearing screen and subsequently underwent secondary hearing tests from June 2011 to June 2018 in Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center were performed.

Results: Eight hundred and sixty-eight newborns with high risk factors were included in the study.

XFinger-Net: Pixel-Wise Segmentation Method for Partially Defective Fingerprint Based on Attention Gates and U-Net.

Partially defective fingerprint image (PDFI) with poor performance poses challenges to the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS). To improve the quality and the performance rate of PDFI, it is essential to use accurate segmentation. Currently, most fingerprint image segmentations use methods with ridge orientation, ridge frequency, coherence, variance, local gradient, etc.

[Evaluation and analysis of auditory function and its clinical characteristics in low birth weight premature infants.].

Objective: To investigate and analyze dynamic changes of auditory function in premature babies with fetal age of less than 37 weeks who were categorized into different birth weight groups and to detect abnormalities of auditory function in these babies and to describe the early development patterns of auditory function in infancy.

Methods: Total of 252 subjects (504 ears) from neonatal ward, neonatal intensive care unit and auditory clinic in Guangzhou Children Hospital, whose fetal age were less than 37 weeks, were included in our study and received auditory function evaluation from January 2004 to February 2008. To investigate the correlation between birth weight and development and abnormality of auditory function in premature babies, all subjects were divided into four groups according to birth weight: View Article and Find Full Text PDF

[Correlation between chirp auditory brainstem response and behavioral hearing threshold in children].

Objective: To investigate the correlation between thresholds in the chirp-ABR and behavior audiogram in order to find out if it is possible to be used as an clinical application of the chirp-ABR in estimating hearing sensitivity.

Methods: Twenty-two cases with hearing loss or normal hearing were enrolled in the study. The behavior audiogram and the response thresholds of chirp ABR (including chirp ABR, L-chirp ABR and U-chirp ABR) were obtained from 35 ears.

[Audiological characteristics and localization of lesions in children with retrocochlear auditory nerve impairment].

Objective: To explore the clinic characteristics, audiological characteristics and location of lesions in children with retrocochlear auditory nerve impairment which, including auditory neuropathy characterized by severely abnormal results of ABR and normal results of DPOAE.

Methods: Between 2002 and 2006, eighty-six cases (165 ears) with severely abnormal ABR but normal results of DPOAE were enrolled in the study group. The mean patient age was one year and one-month-old, with a range of 8 days to 7 years.

[Hearing evaluation of infants failed in hearing screening].

Objective: To analyze the confusing factors and clinical and audiological characteristics in infants failed in hearing screening.

Methods: Between August 2004 and January 2006, 166 infants (315 ears) with detailed birth record and hearing screening record were reviewed in the study. The age of this series ranged from 2 to 6 months.

[Analyze of the clinical characteristics in children with the severe abnormal auditory brainstem response and normal distortion product otoacoustic emission].

Objective: To explore the clinic and audiological characteristics of auditory neuropathy in children.

Methods: Between 2002 and 2004, ninety-eight cases with the severe abnormal results of ABR and the normal results of DPOAE were enrolled in the study group. The mean patient age was 9 months, with a range of 1 month to 5 years.