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Extraction of Premature Newborns' Spontaneous Cries in the Real Context of Neonatal Intensive Care Units

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Cry analysis is an important tool to evaluate the development of preterm infants. However, the context of Neonatal Intensive Care Units is challenging, since a wide variety of sounds can occur (e.g., alarms and adult voices). In this paper, a method to extract cries is proposed. It is based on an initial segmentation between silence and sound events, followed by feature extraction on the resulting audio segments and a cry and non-cry classification. A database of 198 cry events coming from 21 newborns and 439 non-cry events was created. Then, a set of features-including Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients-issued from principal component analysis, was computed to describe each audio segment. For the first time in cry analysis, noise was handled using harmonic plus noise analysis. Several machine learning models have been compared. The K-Nearest Neighbours approach showed the best results with a precision of 92.9%. To test the approach in a monitoring application, 412 h of recordings were automatically processed. The cries automatically selected were replayed and a precision of 92.2% was obtained. The impact of errors on the fundamental frequency characterisation was also studied. Results show that despite a difficult context, automatic cry extraction for non-invasive monitoring of vocal development of preterm infants is achievable.
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hal-03629507 , version 1 (04-04-2022)

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Sandie Cabon, Bertille Met-Montot, Fabienne Poree, Olivier Rosec, Antoine Simon, et al.. Extraction of Premature Newborns' Spontaneous Cries in the Real Context of Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Sensors, 2022, 22 (5), pp.1823. ⟨10.3390/s22051823⟩. ⟨hal-03629507⟩
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