There is no doubt,that while others are sleeping certain scientists are busy discovering a machine that could tell the real reason why a baby is crying.This is amazing. Baby cry could be a crucial factor in pinpointing health problems that may remain undetected, new research suggests.
To parents, a baby's cry is a signal of hunger, pain, or discomfort. Now a team of
researchers from Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital of
Rhode Island in the U.S. has developed a new computer-based tool to
analyse babies' cries.
The team hopes
their baby cry analyser will offer a new way to identify children with
neurological problems or developmental disorders.
They believe it could even be a way of detecting autism in infants.
During the first
phase, the analyser separates recorded cries into 12.5-millisecond
frames. Each frame is analysed for several parameters, including
frequency characteristics, voicing, and acoustic volume.
‘There are lots of
conditions that might manifest in differences in cry acoustics,’ said Dr
Stephen Sheinkopf, assistant professor of psychiatry and human
behaviour at Brown.
‘For instance, babies with birth trauma or brain injury as a result of
complications in pregnancy or birth, or babies who are extremely
premature, can have on-going medical effects.
‘Cry analysis can
be a non-invasive way to get a measurement of these disruptions in
the microbiological and neurobehavioral systems in very young babies.’
The system operates in two phases. Wonderful i must say.
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