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RevistaGinecologia3(10)52-55(2015)
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Acquisition methodology of the newborn’s crying

E. Brătilă, D. Comandasu, S.S. Diaconescu, M.S. Rusu, G. Sardescu


Rezumat: Crying represents the initiation of human vocal communication, as it is the most important mean of transmitting infant’s needs and wants. This article provides the necessary information for designing the collecting system of newborn’s crying and associating it with their physical condition. The study involves the development of a database with information about the full needs of newborns and infants expressed throughout crying. It includes newborn babies with a gestational age at birth more than 34 weeks, and chronological age (or corrected age for premature babies) smaller than 3 months. After analyzing the specialty literature we identified 6 types of crying in healthy newborns, associated with different needs, and the pathological crying. The 6 physiological crying types are caused by hunger, pain, postprandial or belching, fatigue or sleep, minor discomfort and abdominal colics. For each type of crying to be identified we will highlight: the stimuli (if applicable) applied to the subject to produce the type of crying, the moments of time in which the likelihood of appearance is highest or any dependencies between the types of crying. Crying will be acquired in the maternity and at domicile of subjects and data acquisition will be performed by specialized personnel (in the nursery) or parents (at home). For each subject will be stored in the database information to characterize the newborn, regarding in particular the parameters of the birth. Depending on the characteristics at birth (gestational age, weight, health status, Apgar score), newborns can be grouped into three categories: healthy term newborn, at risk newborn, sick newborn. Besides acquisition of the needs associated with crying, other information will be retained for each record of crying: the need that labels the cry (of the 7 types listed), the subject’s age (0-3 months), the time of the acquisition of crying, the recording location (maternity or home), the date of registration, the time from the last meal, the type of diet (milk or formula, if relevant), the time from the last sleep (depending on the sleeping and waking pattern). The main purpose of the video recording application is to allow the association between infant crying and its condition. We chose filming not only sound in order to facilitate the labeling of offline data by health care professionals and to create the foundations for the development of algorithms recognition that use images as complementary information. The study of recognizing newborn and infant’s language by finding correlations between their crying and their physiological or pathological needs is an ongoing project, which will bring a real help to both parents and medical personnel involved in treating and attending babies.
Cuvinte cheie: newborn language, crying,acquiring vocal signals, sound reflexes.

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