title: Automated system for screening hearing using the auditory brainstem response.
abstract: Routine screening of hearing using the auditory brainstem response (ABR) in infants, such as neonates in the special care baby unit, requires a system which is quick, user-friendly and gives a simple outcome. A system which consists of a stimulator/amplifier unit for recording the ABR controlled by a standard Master Series BBC Microcomputer is described which fulfils these requirements. The test procedure is highly automated, and a pass or refer decision for the screen on each ear is given by a machine-scoring algorithm which detects the ABR waveform.
authors.affiliation: Medical Physics Department, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mason
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response / Q000295:instrumentation; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted