Winner of the 2022 French Audiology Society Award

Presented by CEO Arnaud Attyé, an internationally recognized radiologist specializing in the exploration of hearing disorders and vertigo, the LAbyrInth innovation won over the jury members with its ground-breaking concepts.

It is an automatic detector of morphological anomalies in the inner ear, based on a new artificial intelligence technology that creates “digital twins” of the cochlea (the organ of hearing) as well as the vestibule and semicircular canals (organs of balance).

Not only will this clinical decision support software help ENT surgeons to operate on deaf patients with maximum safety, but it also aims to revolutionize the management of Ménière’s disease, which is characterized by an excess of endolymphatic fluid in the inner ear, known as endolymphatic hydrops.

Indeed, the usual methods of detecting hydrops occur too late in the progression of the disease, with irreversible cochlear lesions and major functional consequences for patients. For the first time, LAbyrInth has highlighted inner ear anomalies at risk of developing hydrops, invisible to radiologists with the naked eye.

The need to offer screening with LabyrInth to all patients with vertigo or incipient deafness has yet to be clinically assessed, but there is great promise in the fight against these diseases, which affect many people, young and old alike.