Classification of Hearing Losses Determined Through the use of Audiometry using Data Mining Techniques

Hearing is the sensory channel and critical ability for a man. The hearing test provides an evaluation of the sensitivity of a person's sense of hearing and is most often performed by an audiologist using an audiometer. An audiometer is used to determine a person's hearing threshold level at different frequencies. There are different types of hearing loss, depending on which part of the hearing pathway is affected. In this study, air and bone path audiograms belong to conductive, sensorineural and mixed hearing losses and their sub-groups were obtained. A specialist will always try to localize where in the hearing pathway the problem lays, so as to be able to classify the hearing loss as belonging to one of the groups. This is most important in determining the appropriate treatment In our study, we tried different techniques to classify of these hearing losses and compared the results.