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This project will build on a pilot study that is currently being undertaken at UWA. Middle ear disorders (MEDs) are highly prevalent in children under the age of 7 years old. However, the waiting time to receive audiological care is long in Australia, and current objective audiological methods are unable to differentiate between sub-types of MED accurately. This often leads to deterioration in children’s health and quality of life that adds significant economic burden and frustration to patients, their parents and/or caregivers, as well as the healthcare system. The candidate will be expected to investigate and develop novel research that aids in the diagnosis and detection of these disorders from a computational perspective, whether utilising statistical analysis, machine learning, or deep learning in a way that improves the accuracy, precision, and time-to-diagnosis.

Gordon McLaren Scholarship

Dr Robyn Choi (robyn.choi@uwa.edu.au) 

Dr Christopher Gonzalez (chris.gonzalez@uwa.edu.au)

Ideally, the candidate should have a strong interest and passion for data or signal analysis and programming (any suitable language such as C/C++, Python, Matlab, R) in an applied setting.

The candidate should also have an interest in audiology and related health fields.

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a program of independent, supervised research that is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis, sometimes including a creative work component, that is examined externally. The work presented for a PhD must be a substantial and original contribution to scholarship, demonstrating mastery of the subject of interest as well as an advance in that field of knowledge. 

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