Date of Award

11-28-2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Coskun Bayrak

Abstract

Tinnitus is hearing a sound of buzzing, ringing, whooshing, pulsing, whistling, hissing, when there are no actual sounds existing. The individual can hear ocean waves, dial tones, crickets and even music or other sounds specially when the background is quiet. According to the statistics from the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) [1], these symptoms affect twenty percent of populations life. It could affect the quality of the individual’s life in couple of ways, the person may have difficulty concentrating and may suffer from insomnia. Due to the complexity of the problem, there is no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved treatment for the symptom at this time. Hence, this study aims at developing a logical and mathematical pattern extraction model, based on the evoked potentials of the brain to better understand the differences between a controlled subject and a subject suffering from Tinnitus symptoms, which is the initial step for more analysis on the brain to find an absolute treatment.

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