Patent Document ID: 20140294188
Application ID: 14305094
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for evaluating a selected hearing stimulation strategy in a hearing impaired patient, the method comprising: accessing a healthy neurogram representation of a normal auditory neural response to a selected sound input by a healthy auditory system; accessing an impaired neurogram representation of an impaired auditory neural response to the selected sound input by a hearing impaired patient auditory system using the hearing stimulation strategy; and comparing the impaired neurogram to the healthy neurogram based on: i. partitioning the neurograms into corresponding temporal and frequency domain tiles, ii. determining local variability between corresponding individual tiles by comparison of selected tile features, iii. determining global variability between the neurograms by weighted averaging of the individual tile comparisons, and iv. developing from the local and global variabilities a perception estimate representing effectiveness of the selected hearing stimulation strategy in approaching normal healthy hearing for the implanted patient.