A new study led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has verified that lop-eared rabbits are more prone to hidden and potentially painful ear disease.

Objectives This study investigated the usefulness and performance of a two-stage attention-aware convolutional neural network (CNN) for the automated diagnosis of otitis media from tympanic membrane ...

Hearing loss in childhood can have a significantly negative effect on the development of language and communication and on educational and socio-emotional development.[1] Undiagnosed or late diagnosed ...

Diagnosis of ear disease has traditionally involved use of an otoscope, a straightforward device incorporating magnifying optics and a light source to allow clinicians to examine the ear canal and ear ...

A newly developed otoscope incorporates combines the familiar otoscopic view with high-resolution imaging of the inner structures of the TM and middle ear, offering a clearer and more comprehensive ...

Introduction: The assessment of the integrity of the tympanic membrane (TM) can be a diagnostic challenge in patients with otitis externa and/or otitis media (OM) under an otoscopic examination. In ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: External otitis (OE) is an acute or chronic inflammation or infection of the external ear resulting from an imbalance in the external auditory canal secondary to microtrauma, ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers developed and validated an automated classifier for diagnosing acute otitis media (AOM) in children. Study: Development and Validation of an ...

Objective The video otoscope has already proven to be useful for the diagnosis of several pathologies, so the objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the video otoscope in ...

† Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States ‡ Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, ...