A Bayesian perspective on tinnitus pitch matching.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES:New tinnitus therapies are being developed and marketed that target the patient's tinnitus frequency. This frequency is estimated clinically by pitch matching, which has the patient identify the pure tone that is closest to the perceived tinnitus frequency. Though widely used, pitch matching is heavily criticized as unreliable, and the degree of reliability varies among patients. At the very least, it is recommended that multiple pitch matches be used to identify the patient's tinnitus frequency. Even so, it is not clear how many pitch matches to collect, how they should be combined, or how doing so will enhance the audiologist's certainty about the true tinnitus frequency. In this article, we describe a simple Bayesian method of sequentially combining pitch matches until acceptable precision is achieved and illustrate the method in 10 patients with chronic tinnitus. DESIGN:Subjects were recruited from previous study participants and support group attendees at the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research. Thirty tinnitus pitch matches were elicited from 10 patients with chronic, monotonal tinnitus. RESULTS:A Bayesian sequential analysis yielded estimated tinnitus frequencies for 7 patients that were within one-quarter octave of their true value with 90% certainty. Between four and twenty pitch matches were required to achieve acceptable results in these seven patients. CONCLUSIONS:Despite criticism, pitch matching is widely used to estimate tinnitus frequency. We address reliability concerns with a Bayesian sequential analysis to jointly estimate tinnitus frequency and reliability. The method is easily applied.

journal_name

Ear Hear

journal_title

Ear and hearing

authors

McMillan GP,Thielman EJ,Wypych K,Henry JA

doi

10.1097/AUD.0000000000000081

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-11-01 00:00:00

pages

687-94

issue

6

eissn

0196-0202

issn

1538-4667

journal_volume

35

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