TITLE:
Characterization of Pathologic Cries of Newborns Based on Fundamental Frequency Estimation
AUTHORS:
Yasmina Kheddache, Chakib Tadj
KEYWORDS:
Newborns’ Cry; Fundamental Frequency; Cry Modes
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.5 No.10B,
October
31,
2013
ABSTRACT: The majority of the sick babies seem in good health at
birth and early diagnosis of the various pathologies that can afflict newborn
is crucial. For this reason we introduce in this paper the use of the
fundamental frequency and the different modes of cries as Hyper-phonation,
phonation and high pitched cries to differentiate the pathological cries from
the cries of the healthy babies. The automatic estimation of these
characteristics enabled us to establish a quantitative characterization of
healthy newborn cries and pathologic newborn cries. The results obtained agree
with the spectrographic analysis carried out on the healthy and pathologic cries
of the newborns.