فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

The aim of this review was to describe the achievements of medical informatics in the rehabilitation of deaf and hearing-impaired people . The databases of PubMed, Web of Sciences, and Google Scholar and medical informatics associations’ websites were searched . The findings indicated that medical informatics specialists had performed five types of projects in cooperation with clinicians, paramedics, and medical and computer engineers including training deaf and hearing-impaired people, sign language translator, analysis of audio signals , hearing disorders diagnosis and speech recognition. Of these projects, training deaf people had a long history and was the focus of attention. Analysis of audio signals and speech recognition projects needed more studies.       Citation: Moghaddasi H, Ebrahimpour Sadagheyani H. Medical informatics achievements in the rehabilitation of deaf and hearing-impaired people. J Qazvin Univ Med Sci. 2015 19 (2): 77-80.