1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, the Netherlands
3Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, Linköping University, Sweden
4The Eargroup, Antwerp, Belgium
5Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
6Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
7Department of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
8Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
9Department of Biomedical Engineering. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
D.R.M. and D.W.S. received support from NIH grant R21DC016241. D.R.M. receives support from the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. The Radboudumc ENT department receives research funding from Cochlear, MED-EL, and Oticon Medical.
J.-W.A.W. took the lead in conceptualizing, writing, and revising the article. C.P.L., D.R.M., and D.L.B. contributed to initial design, drafting, and revising of the article. W.J.H., E.A.M.M., J.v.d.L., P.J.G., and D.W.S. contributed critical reviews to the design and drafting of the article. All authors discussed the content and approved the final version.
A data availability statement is not applicable. For this article, no novel data were generated.
D.R.M. and D.W.S. have a relationship with the hearX™ Group (Pty) Ltd, which includes equity, consulting, and potential royalties. P.J.G. receives royalties on Fox, an AI based decision support system for the fitting of cochlear implants. D.W.S. is a paid scientific advisor and shareholder of the hearX Group. D.L.B. owns equity in Bonauria. J.v.d.L. is a member of the scientific advisory boards of Philips, the Netherlands and ContextVision, Sweden and receives research funding from Philips, the Netherlands and Sectra, Sweden.
Received February 13, 2020; accepted February 1, 2021; published online ahead of print March 4, 2021.
Address for correspondence: Jan-Willem A. Wasmann, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, Philips van Leydenlaan 15, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
