Tinnitus is a common clinical symptom and its occurrence rate is high. It seriously affects life quality of the patients. Scientific researches show that listening some similar and none-repetitive music can relieve tinnitus to some extent. The overall music accorded with self-similarity character by the direct mapping method based on chaos. However, there were often the same tones continuous repeating a few times and tone mutations. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a new method for tinnitus rehabilitation sound synthesis based on pentatonic scale, chaos and musical instrument digital interface (MIDI). Experimental results showed that the tinnitus rehabilitation sounds were not only self-similar and incompletely reduplicate, but also no sudden changes. Thus, it has a referential significance for tinnitus treatment.
Citation: CHENJiemei, HEPeiyu, PANFan. A Method of Synthesizing Tinnitus Rehabilitation Sound Based on Pentatonic Scale and Chaos. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 32(6): 1329-1334. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.20150235 Copy