Classifying Human Audiometric Phenotypes of Age-Related Hearing Loss from Animal Models
| Autor: | Judy R. Dubno, Fu-Shing Lee, Richard A. Schmiedt, Mark A. Eckert, Lois J. Matthews |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Databases Factual Hearing loss Presbycusis Audiology Age-related hearing loss External validity Artificial Intelligence otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Animals Humans Aged Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test Reproducibility of Results Auditory Threshold Audiogram Middle Aged medicine.disease Phenotype Sensory Systems Disease Models Animal Hearing Loss Noise-Induced Otorhinolaryngology Audiometry Pure-Tone Female medicine.symptom Audiometry Psychology Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. 14:687-701 |
| ISSN: | 1438-7573 1525-3961 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10162-013-0396-x |
| Popis: | Age-related hearing loss (presbyacusis) has a complex etiology. Results from animal models detailing the effects of specific cochlear injuries on audiometric profiles may be used to understand the mechanisms underlying hearing loss in older humans and predict cochlear pathologies associated with certain audiometric configurations (“audiometric phenotypes”). Patterns of hearing loss associated with cochlear pathology in animal models were used to define schematic boundaries of human audiograms. Pathologies included evidence for metabolic, sensory, and a mixed metabolic + sensory phenotype; an older normal phenotype without threshold elevation was also defined. Audiograms from a large sample of older adults were then searched by a human expert for “exemplars” (best examples) of these phenotypes, without knowledge of the human subject demographic information. Mean thresholds and slopes of higher frequency thresholds of the audiograms assigned to the four phenotypes were consistent with the predefined schematic boundaries and differed significantly from each other. Significant differences in age, gender, and noise exposure history provided external validity for the four phenotypes. Three supervised machine learning classifiers were then used to assess reliability of the exemplar training set to estimate the probability that newly obtained audiograms exhibited one of the four phenotypes. These procedures classified the exemplars with a high degree of accuracy; classifications of the remaining cases were consistent with the exemplars with respect to average thresholds and demographic information. These results suggest that animal models of age-related hearing loss can be used to predict human cochlear pathology by classifying audiograms into phenotypic classifications that reflect probable etiologies for hearing loss in older humans. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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