title: Detection of Unilateral Hearing Loss by Stationary Wavelet Entropy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Sensorineural hearing loss is correlated to massive neurological or psychiatric disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  T1-weighted volumetric images were acquired from fourteen subjects with right-sided hearing loss (RHL), fifteen subjects with left-sided hearing loss (LHL), and twenty healthy controls (HC).
  
  
  METHODS
  We treated a three-class classification problem: HC, LHL, and RHL. Stationary wavelet entropy was employed to extract global features from magnetic resonance images of each subject. Those stationary wavelet entropy features were used as input to a single-hidden layer feedforward neuralnetwork classifier.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 10 repetition results of 10-fold cross validation show that the accuracies of HC, LHL, and RHL are 96.94%, 97.14%, and 97.35%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our developed system is promising and effective in detecting hearing loss.
authors: Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Investigational Technology, Hunan Policy Academy, Changsha, Hunan 410138, China.
authors: Yudong
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: Deepak Ranjan
authors: DR
authors: Nayak
authors: Ming
authors: M
authors: Yang
authors: Ti-Fei
authors: TF
authors: Yuan
authors: Bin
authors: B
authors: Liu
authors: Huimin
authors: H
authors: Lu
authors: School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
authors: Shuihua
authors: S
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D019277:Entropy; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D046088:Hearing Loss, Unilateral / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058067:Wavelet Analysis
keywords: Computer-aided diagnosis; sensorineural hearing loss; single-hidden layer feed forward neural-network; stationary
  wavelet entropy; unilateral hearing loss