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Single-visit screening for intracochlear tissue growth validated against multi-visit electrical measurement changes

Minh Q. Vu·Erin L. Bratu·Jared A. Rybarczyk·Jack H. Noble
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Purpose: Tissue growth (TG) around cochlear implant electrodes raises impedance but is not reliably visible on CT scans. Routinely recorded stimulus current-induced non-stimulating electrode voltages (SCINSEVs) carry this information, but a single recording has no patient-specific reference. We present an algorithm for detecting signs of significant TG from a single SCINSEV measurement. Methods: TG is assumed to concentrate basally near the electrode insertion site, leaving the apical region mostly unaffected. A patient-specific forward model built from CT is fitted to the apical measurements and predicts the basal ones. The misfit score, T, measures each basal contact's signed relative misfit against the apical misfit, accounting for apical fit quality and measurement noise. An ear is flagged when two adjacent basal contacts cross a predetermined threshold. We compare T with T-delta, a model-free reference, tracking basal relative to apical SCINSEV change since the intra-operative recording, persisting over the last two visits. Results: T had a false-positive rate of 3% on growth-free ears. It agreed with T-delta in 81% of 68 ears (sensitivity 71%; specificity 86%; p = 6e-6). Over 200 patient-level two-fold splits, median held-out agreement was 78% at a false-positive rate of 5.1%. Conclusion: An apically fitted patient-specific model predicts basal SCINSEVs well enough to flag signs of significant TG at a single visit, without an intra-operative baseline. Detections largely agree with persistent multi-visit basal-versus-apical change, a surrogate ground truth for significant TG.

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Minh Q. Vu, Erin L. Bratu, Jared A. Rybarczyk, Jack H. Noble. 2026-11-02. Single-visit screening for intracochlear tissue growth validated against multi-visit electrical measurement changes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03644

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