Abstract
The infant cry is the only means of communication of a baby and carries information about its physical and mental state. The analysis of the acoustic infant cry waveform opens the possibility of extracting this information, useful in supporting the diagnosis of pathologies since the first days of birth.
In order to obtain this useful information, it is first necessary to acquire and to process the cry signal, being the latter an arduous and tedious process if performed manually. Because of this, it is necessary to develop a system that allows the extraction of the information present in the cry, automatically, that greatly facilitates the work of pediatricians and specialist doctors.
The present work evaluates some data mining techniques in standard configurations, for the classification of normal or pathological infant cry in support of the diagnosis of diseases in the Central Nervous System.
Evaluation is performed comparing seven classifiers: Naïve Bayes, Simple Logistic, SMO, IBk, Decision Table, J48 and Random Forest, on acoustic attributes Linear Prediction Coefficients and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients and two different testing options: 10-fold cross-validation, and Supplied test set.
Best results are obtained with the IBk and Random Forest methods, with receiver operating characteristics (ROC) areas of .923 and .956, respectively.
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The authors would like to thank Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia, PhD Researcher, CCC-INAOE, Mexico for providing infant cry database. Part of this research was made thanks to the financial support derived from the Web Project (WebIND) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences from Dusseldorf.
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Martinez-Cañete, Y., Cano-Ortiz, S.D., Lombardía-Legrá, L., Rodríguez-Fernández, E., Veranes-Vicet, L. (2018). Data Mining Techniques in Normal or Pathological Infant Cry. In: Hernández Heredia, Y., Milián Núñez, V., Ruiz Shulcloper, J. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. IWAIPR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11047. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01132-1_16
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