R.V.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION

PHASE 1
SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNUCATION IN
ANALYSIS OF AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE

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 Remote monitoring architectures

“On-body” monitoring “In-body” monitoring

Typical generic architecture for patient monitoring

Can any frequency band used
for
Medical telemetry?????
CURRENT STANDARDS FOR ON-BODY
SENSORS AND IMPLANTSINTHEHUMAN BODY
Challenges faced in signal processing

1. Data acquisition should be setup at highest possible

sampling rate.
2. Multi resolution analysis.
3. Minimization of jitter in the averaging process.
4. Analyzing of low frequency signals and their latencies in
frequency domain using Short time fourier transform.
5. In discrete wavelet transform signal is decomposed into
high frequency and low frequency components which
requires filters to analyze them.
 Recording parameters

1. Electrode montage: most performed with a vertical montage (high

forehead [active or positive], earlobes or mastoids [reference right &
left or negative], low forehead [ground]
2. Filter settings: 30–1500 Hz bandwidth
3. Time window: 10ms (minimum)
4. Sampling rate: usually high sampling rate of ca 20 kHz
5. Intensity: usually start at 70 dBnHL
6. Stimulus type: click (100 us long), chirp or toneburst
7. Transducer type: insert, bone vibrator, sound field, headphones
8. Stimulation or repetition rate: 21.1 (for example)
 Auditory Brain Stem Response

The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is an auditory evoked

potential extracted from ongoing electrical activity in the brain and
recorded via electrodes placed on the scalp. The measured
recording is a series of six to seven vertex positive waves of which I
through V are evaluated.
Wave I through III – generated by the auditory branch of cranial
nerve VIII and lower.
Wave IV and V – generated by the upper brainstem.
In the ABR hearing test, patients are made to hear a simple click which is
a transient pulse of a particular amplitude or more appropriately, `level'
which is measured in dB SPL. The experimentally determined ABR to this
stimulus is a series of seven distributed peaks at particular time stamps,
all within the span of 10-12ms
Phase 2
Simulation of the ABR testing system using MATLAB
And LABVIEW.