De Lara MLD

1Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines 2Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia DOI 10.7717/peerj-cs.3374 Academic Editor Davide Chicco Subject Areas Computer Vision, Data Mining and Machine Learning Keywords Breast cancer classification, Topological data analysis, Persistent homology, Computer vision Copyright © Licence This is an open...

One of the top causes of disability in the global scale is hearing loss. There are 466 million people estimated to have this disability according to the World Health Organization (Davis & Hoffman, 2019). It is projected that by 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people will have some degree of hearing loss and at least 700 million people will require hearing rehabilitation. Communication is an essential component to human existence, but is largely inaccessible to the deaf community.