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- Title
DISTURBANCE FACTORS IN CONDUCTING ENGINEERING STUDIES ON THE NEWBORNS' CRY, IN A HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT.
- Authors
Feier, Flaviu; Angelescu, Claudiu; Ilie, Constantin; Silea, Ioan
- Abstract
Engineering is becoming more and more involved in the medical practice by providing tools, techniques and working protocols that are meant to help in medical decision taking. Conducting a study in a medical environment comes with its challenges. When this study is performed by a nonmedical person, outside this system, the challenge becomes even greater and has to be overcome. This paper is focused on presenting the disturbance factors that were encountered during the last 7 years of conducting a study of the newborn cry in a medical unit and the decisions taken to overcome the different obstacles. The topic of studying the cry signal generated by the newborn has been of increasing interest for both the medical and engineering researchers. Latest studies performed mostly in the last 25 years show that through feature extraction from the cry signal, relevant information can be found in order to classify different pathologies such as asphyxia, hypothyroidism, hypoxia, autism or other disorders. The study of pain cries has even a longer history, due to the fact that it clearly states an inner suffering which the newborn is vocalizing in his own language, which must be decoded and given a medical meaning. In order to perform the studies on the newborn cry, besides the cry signal, in some researches medical instruments have been also utilized in order to correlate between physiological parameters and some the cry extracted features.
- Subjects
CRYING in infants; NEWBORN infants; HOSPITAL environmental services; SPECTROGRAPHS; FEATURE extraction
- Publication
Jurnalul Pediatrului, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 69/70, p39
- ISSN
2360-4557
- Publication type
Article