Future Prospects of the Application of the Infant Cry in the Medicine

Authors

  • György Várallyay

Abstract

Babies cry for the same reason adults talk: to let others know about their needs or problems. The infant cry contains, besides, more information about the baby, particularly, information about the health of the infant (e.g. airway affections cause different sounds from the original). Thus, we can conclude on diseases from the modified cry signal. In this study 35 infants with hearing disorders and 35 healthy babies are tested. The author compares several attributes of the cry in the time domain between the two groups.

Keywords:

infant cry, non-invasive diagnosis, acoustic signal analysis

How to Cite

Várallyay, G. “Future Prospects of the Application of the Infant Cry in the Medicine”, Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering, 50(1-2), pp. 47–62, 2006.

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