Wоmen & Infants taught the program to decipher baby crying

To understand why the baby cries is a complex task, which very often can not cope neither the mother nor the doctor. If the child cries due to pain from hunger or for some other reason? Scientists from brown University, USA, together with the hospital Wоmen & Infants decided to entrust this task to a computer program.



As it turned out, the analysis of the recording of crying allows you to quickly diagnose the baby. Minor deviations crying, who can not hear the human ear, can be a real "window to the brain, according to scientists.




The system will analyze more than eighty settings of crying, among them the volume, the rhythm of sobs, cycle time and so on. "There are many diseases and conditions that cause changes crying. Analysis of crying can be quite rapid and, moreover, non-invasive way to detect abnormalities in the neurobiological and propovednicheskoj systems, very young children," says Stephen Sheinkopf, associate Professor of psychiatry and human povedeniya Brown University.

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