Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common musculoskeletal disorder. OA diagnosis is
currently conducted by assessing symptoms and evaluating plain radiographs, but this …

Objective: Video and sound acquisition and processing technologies have seen great
improvements in recent decades, with many applications in the biomedical area. The aim of …

Purpose This article integrates published acoustic data on the development of vowel
production. Age specific data on formant frequencies are considered in the light of …

Automatic infant cry classification is one of the crucial studies under biomedical engineering
scope, adopting the medical and engineering techniques for the classification of diverse …

This paper deals with the analysis of cry melodies (time variations of the fundamental
frequency) as well as vocal tract resonance frequencies (formants) from infant cry signals …

Objectives Scientific and clinical advances in perinatology and neonatology have enhanced
the chances of survival of preterm and very low weight neonates. Infant cry analysis is a …

This study proposes using a novel combination of short-term and long-term features from
different timescales to develop an automatic newborn cry diagnostic system to differentiate …

The purpose of this study was to assess differences in sound spectra of crying of term
newborns in relation to different pain levels. Fifty-seven consecutively born neonates were …

The acoustic characteristics of cries are an exhibition of an infant's health condition and
these characteristics have been acknowledged as indicators for various pathologies. This …

One of the basic parameters characterising voiced phonation is the fundamental frequency,
named pitch, which is the rate of vibration of the folds. In pathological voices. pitch variations …