Prof. Jan Wouters

https://gilbert.med.kuleuven.be/web/images/thumb/2/24/Member-Jan_Wouters.jpg/200px-Member-Jan_Wouters.jpg Jan Wouters
Professor
Division of Experimental Otorhinolaryngology
O.& N2, 07
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
 mailto:jan.wouters@med.kuleuven.be
web:  http://www.kuleuven.be/exporl
phone: +32 16 330475

Biography

  • 1960: Born in Leuven, Belgium
  • 1982: Masters degree in Physics at the KULeuven
  • 1989: PhD. in Physics

Research Interests

  • Cochlear Implants
  • Hearing Aids
  • Audiology
  • Auditory perception

Publications

Recent publications (extract):

2010

  • Van Deun, L., van Wieringen, A., Scherf, F., Deggouj, N., Desloovere, C., Offeciers, F. E., Van de Heyning, P. H., Dhooge, I. J. and Wouters, J., "Earlier intervention leads to better sound localization in children with bilateral cochlear implants.", Audiology & Neuro-otology, 15(1), pp. 7-17, 2010

2009

  • Spriet, A., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Objective evaluation of feedback reduction systems in hearing aids.", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Glasgow, Scotland, vol. accepted, 2009
  • Serizel, R., Moonen, M., Wouters, J. and Jensen, S. H., "A weighted approach integrated active noise control and noise reduction in hearing aids.", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Glasgow, Scotland, vol. accepted, 2009
  • Scherf, F., Van Deun, L., van Wieringen, A., Wouters, J., Desloovere, C., Dhooge, I. J., Offeciers, F. E., Deggouj, N., De Raeve, L., Wuyts, F. and Van de Heyning, P. H, "Subjective benefits of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation in young children after 18 months of implant use.", ORL-Journal for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Its Related Specialties, 71(2), pp. 112-121, 2009
  • Van den Bogaert, T., Carette, E. and Wouters, J., "Sound localization with and without hearing aids.", NAG-DAGA International Conference on Acoustics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 134-137, 2009
  • Scherf, F., Van Deun, L., van Wieringen, A., Wouters, J., Desloovere, C., Dhooge, I. J., Offeciers, F. E., Deggouj, N., De Raeve, L., Wuyts, F. and Van de Heyning, P. H, "Three year post-implantation auditory outcomes in children with sequential bilateral cochlear implantation.", Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, 118(5), pp. 336-344, 2009
  • Van den Bogaert, T., Doclo, S., Wouters, J. and Moonen, M., "Preserving binaural hearing of hearing impaired subjects with binaural noise reduction systems for hearing aids.", NAG-DAGA International Conference on Acoustics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 176-179, 2009
  • Van Dun, B., Rombouts, G., Wouters, J. and Moonen, M., "A procedural framework for auditory steady-state response detection", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 56(4), pp. 1098-1107, 2009
  • Van Deun, L., van Wieringen, A., Francart, T., Scherf, F., Dhooge, I. J., Deggouj, N., Desloovere, C., Van de Heyning, P. H, Offeciers, F. E., De Raeve, L. and Wouters, J., "Bilateral cochlear implants in children: binaural unmasking.", Audiology & Neuro-otology, 14(4), pp. 240-247, 2009
  • Van Deun, L., van Wieringen, A., Van den Bogaert, T., Scherf, F., Offeciers, F. E., Van de Heyning, P. H., Desloovere, C., Dhooge, I. J., Deggouj, N. and Wouters, J., "Sound localization, sound lateralization and binaural masking level differences in young normal-hearing children", Ear & Hearing, 30(2), pp. 178-190, 2009
  • Scherf, F., Van Deun, L., van Wieringen, A., Wouters, J., Desloovere, C., Dhooge, I., Offeciers, F. E., Deggouj, N., De Raeve, L., Wuyts, F. and Van de Heyning, P. H, "Functional outcome of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation in young children: 36 month postoperative results.", International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 73(5), pp. 723-730, 2009
  • Van den Bogaert, T., Doclo, S., Wouters, J. and Moonen, M., "Speech enhancement with multichannel Wiener filter techniques in binaural hearing aids", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(1), pp. 360-371, 2009
  • Cornelis, B., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Comparison of frequency domain noise reduction strategies based on multichannel Wiener filtering and spatial predicition.", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 129-132, 2009
  • Alaerts, J., Luts, H., Hofmann, M. and Wouters, J., "Cortical auditory steady-state responses to low modulation rates.", International Journal of Audiology, 48(8), pp. 582-593, 2009
  • Alaerts, J., "Objective audiometry after neonatal hearing screening", Faculty of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Promoter: Wouters, J., 2009
  • Rychtáriková, M., Van den Bogaert, T., Vermeir, G. and Wouters, J., "Binaural sound source localization in real and virtual rooms.", Audio Engineering Society, In Press, 2009
  • Doclo, S., Moonen, M., Van den Bogaert, T. and Wouters, J., "Reduced-bandwidth and distributed MWF-based noise reduction algorithms for binaural hearing aids.", IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 17(1), pp. 38-51, 2009
  • Alaerts, J., Luts, H., Van Dun, B., Desloovere, C. and Wouters, J., "Latencies of auditory steady-state responses recorded in early infancy.", Audiology and Neurotology, 15(2), pp. 116-127, 2009
  • Francart, T., Brokx, J. and Wouters, J., "Sensitivity to interaural time differences with combined cochlear implant and acoustic stimulation.", Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 10(1), pp. 131-141, 2009
  • Francart, T., Van den Bogaert, T., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Amplification of interaural level differences improves sound localization for cochlear implant users with contralateral acoustic hearing.", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(6), pp. 3209-3213, 2009
  • Milczynski, M., Wouters, J. and van Wieringen, A., "Improved F0 Coding in Cochlear Implant Signal Processing.", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(4), pp. 2260-2271, 2009
  • Francart, T., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Automatic testing of speech recognition.", International Journal of Audiology, 48(2), pp. 80-90, 2009

2008

  • Van den Bogaert, T., "Preserving binaural cues in noise reduction algorithms for hearing aids.", Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Promoters: Wouters, J. and Moonen, M., 2008
  • Ngo, K., Spriet, A., Moonen, M., Wouters, J. and Jensen, S. H., "Variable speech distortion weighted multichannel Wiener filter based on soft output voice activity detection for noise reduction in hearing aids.", 11 International workshop on acoustic echo and noise control (IWAENC), Seattle, WA, USA, 2008
  • Serizel, R., Moonen, M., Wouters, J. and Jensen, S. H., "Combined active noise control and noise reduction in hearing aid.", 11 International workshop on acoustic echo and noise control (IWAENC), Seattle, WA, USA, 2008
  • Van den Bogaert, T., Doclo, S., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "The effect of multi-microphone noise reduction systems on sound source localization in binaural hearing aids", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(1), pp. 484-497, 2008
  • Spriet, A., Eneman, K., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Objective measures for real-time evaluation of adaptive feedback cancellation algorithms in hearing aids.", 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008
  • Van Dun, B., "Improving auditory steady-state response detection using multichannel EEG signal processing.", Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Promoters: Wouters, J. and Moonen, M., 2008
  • Ngo, K., Doclo, S., Spriet, A., Moonen, M., Wouters, J. and Jensen, S. H., "An integrated approach for noise reduction and dynamic range compression in hearing aids.", 16 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switserland, 2008
  • van Wieringen, A. and Wouters, J., "LIST and LINT: Sentences and numbers for quantifying speech understanding in severely impaired listeners for Flanders and the Netherlands.", International Journal of Audiology, 47(6), pp. 348-355, 2008
  • van Wieringen, A., Macherey, O., Carlyon, R., Deeks, J. and Wouters, J., "Alternative pulse shapes in electrical hearing, special issue on Frontiers of Auditory Prosthesis Research: Implications for Clinical Practice.", Hearing Research, 242, pp. 154-163, 2008
  • Van Dun, B., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Optimal electrode selection for multichannel electroencephalogram based detection of auditory steady-state responses.", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Accepted, 2008
  • Van Dun, B., Verstraeten, S., Alaerts, J., Luts, H., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "A flexible research platform for multi-channel auditory steady-state response measurements", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 169, pp. 239-248, 2008
  • Eneman, K., Leijon, A., Doclo, S., Spriet, A., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Auditory-profile-based physical evaluation of multi-microphone noise reduction techniques in hearing instruments" in "Advances in Digital Speech Transmission", John Wiley & Sons, Eds. Martin, R., Heute, U. and Antweiler, C., 2008
  • Eneman, K., Luts, H., Wouters, J., Büchler, M., Dillier, N., Dreschler, W., Froehlich, M., Grimm, G., Hohmann, V., Houben, R., Leijon, A., Lombard, A., Mauler, D., Moonen, M., Puder, H., Schulte, M., Spriet, A. and Vormann, M., "Evaluation of Signal Enhancement Algorithms for Hearing Instruments.", 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008
  • Cornelis, B., Doclo, S., Van den Bogaert, T., Moonen, M. and Wouters, J., "Analysis of localization cue preservation by Multichannel Wiener Filtering based binaural noise reduction in hearing aids.", 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008
  • Macherey, O., Carlyon, R., van Wieringen, A., Deeks, J. and Wouters, J., "Higher sensitivity of human auditory nerve fibers to positive electrical currents.", Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 9, pp. 241-251, 2008
  • Boets, B., Wouters, J., van Wieringen, A., De Smedt, B. and Ghesquière, P., "Modelling relations between sensory processing, speech perception, orthographic and phonological ability, and literacy achievement", Brain and Language, 106, pp. 29-40, 2008
  • Francart, T., van Wieringen, A. and Wouters, J., "APEX 3: a multi-purpose test platform for auditory psychophysical experiments", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 172(2), pp. 283-293, 2008
  • Boets, B., Wouters, J. and Ghesquière, P., "Dyslexie als temporeel informatie verwerkingsdeficit!?", Tijdschrift voor orthopedagogiek, kinderpsychiatrie en klinische kinderpsychologie, 33(1), pp. 2-18, 2008
  • Luts, H., Boon, E., Wable, J. and Wouters, J., "FIST: A French sentence test for speech intelligibility in noise", International Journal of Audiology, 47(6), pp. 373-374, 2008
  • Francart, T., "Perception of binaural localization cues with combined electric and acoustic hearing.", Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Promoters: Wouters, J. and Moonen, M., 2008
  • Luts, H., Van Dun, B., Alaerts, J. and Wouters, J., "The influence of the detection paradigm in recording auditory steady-state responses", Ear & Hearing, 29(4), pp. 638-650, 2008
  • Francart, T., Brokx, J. and Wouters, J., "Sensitivity to interaural level difference and loudness growth with bilateral bimodal stimulation", Audiology and Neurotology, 13, pp. 309-319, 2008