Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Otolaryngology and the Communication Sciences

Blake S Wilson; Debara L Tucci; David A Moses; Edward F Chang; Nancy M Young; Fan-Gang Zeng; Nicholas A Lesica; Andrés M Bur; Hannah Kavookjian; Caroline Mussatto; Joseph Penn; Sara Goodwin; Shannon Kraft; Guanghui Wang; Jonathan M Cohen; Geoffrey S Ginsburg; Geraldine Dawson; Howard W Francis

doi:10.1007/s10162-022-00846-2

Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Otolaryngology and the Communication Sciences

J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2022 Jun;23(3):319-349. doi: 10.1007/s10162-022-00846-2. Epub 2022 Apr 20.

Authors

Blake S Wilson^{1

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5}, Debara L Tucci^{6

7}, David A Moses^{8

9}, Edward F Chang^{8

9}, Nancy M Young^{10

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12}, Fan-Gang Zeng^{13

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17}, Nicholas A Lesica¹⁸, Andrés M Bur¹⁹, Hannah Kavookjian¹⁹, Caroline Mussatto¹⁹, Joseph Penn¹⁹, Sara Goodwin¹⁹, Shannon Kraft¹⁹, Guanghui Wang²⁰, Jonathan M Cohen^{6

21}, Geoffrey S Ginsburg^{22

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27}, Geraldine Dawson^{28

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30}, Howard W Francis⁶

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¹ Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA. [email protected].
² Duke Hearing Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA. [email protected].
³ Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA. [email protected].
⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA. [email protected].
⁵ Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. [email protected].
⁶ Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
⁷ National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
⁸ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
⁹ UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94117, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Otolaryngology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
¹¹ Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
¹² Department of Communication, Knowles Hearing Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
¹³ Center for Hearing Research, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
¹⁸ UCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, WC1X 8EE, UK.
¹⁹ Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Center, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.
²⁰ Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada.
²¹ ENT Department, Kaplan Medical Center, 7661041, Rehovot, Israel.
²² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
²³ MEDx (Medicine & Engineering at Duke), Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
²⁴ Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
²⁵ Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
²⁶ Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
²⁷ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
²⁸ Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
²⁹ Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, NIH Autism Center of Excellence, Durham, NC, 27705, USA.
³⁰ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27701, USA.

Abstract

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) is a burgeoning field in otolaryngology and the communication sciences. A virtual symposium on the topic was convened from Duke University on October 26, 2020, and was attended by more than 170 participants worldwide. This review presents summaries of all but one of the talks presented during the symposium; recordings of all the talks, along with the discussions for the talks, are available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktfewrXvEFg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQ5qX2v3rg . Each of the summaries is about 2500 words in length and each summary includes two figures. This level of detail far exceeds the brief summaries presented in traditional reviews and thus provides a more-informed glimpse into the power and diversity of current AI applications in otolaryngology and the communication sciences and how to harness that power for future applications.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Auditory prostheses; Auditory system; Brain-computer interfaces; Cochlear implants; Deep learning; Hearing; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Human communication; Laryngeal pathology; Machine learning; Neural prostheses; Neuroprostheses; Otolaryngology; Speech perception; Speech production; Thyroid pathology.

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