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A Novel Approach on the Newborns’ Cry Analysis Using Professional Recording and Feature Extraction from the “First Cry” with LabVIEW

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Soft Computing Applications (SOFA 2014)

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Newborn cry analysis has been a subject of interest for both the medical and engineering field together, more pronounced for the past 20 years. In this timeframe, as the acquisition instruments have developed a lot and new equipment with broader analysis spectrum arose, these studies became more and more interesting. Crying is one of the few signals that can be studied in case of a newborn, without going into invasive medical tests, in order to determine a physiological and psychological state. This paper is aimed to propose another feature extraction technique using a professional sound acquisition tool (studio recorder) and a specialized signal processing tool, LabVIEW. This new approach is tested on a newborn cry after birth and proposed for the “first cry” analysis, a novel approach in newborn cry analysis, where the first vocalizations of the newborn are recorded and analyzed.

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This work was partially supported by the strategic grantPOSDRU/159/1.5/S/137070 (2014) of the Ministry of National Education Protection, Romania, co-financed by the European Social Fund—Investing in People, within the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013.

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Feier, F., Silea, I. (2016). A Novel Approach on the Newborns’ Cry Analysis Using Professional Recording and Feature Extraction from the “First Cry” with LabVIEW. In: Balas, V., C. Jain, L., Kovačević, B. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2014. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18296-4_30

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