Abstract: An Infant Cry Analyser (ICA) records cries of a neonate and applies acoustic analysis to identify features characteristic of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) or drug withdrawal. The ICA may also receive non-acoustical input, data, such as a medication history, sleep history or other potentially relevant data, and may be configured to output a medical record of the detected data, diagnostic acoustic characteristics or ultimate diagnosis, in one embodiment, the ICA is used on populations of infants to develop normative measures of the characteristics of the infant cries, of the target population, e.g., is used on identified sub-populations such as neonates having laboratory findings of drugs in body fluids, to develop NAS diagnostic criteria or tables. The ICA produces repeatable acoustic measures that reflect, and allows early identification of, other conditions or pathologies in which a cry or vocalization is distinctive of an underlying condition or pathology.

Abstract: An automated infant cry analyzer with high accuracy to detect important acoustic features of cry is provided. The system's accuracy was rigorously tested and was compared to ground truth manual coding. The resulting methods and systems are applied to infant developmental disorders.

Abstract: An automated infant cry analyzer with high accuracy to detect important acoustic features of cry is provided. The system's accuracy was rigorously tested and was compared to ground truth manual coding. The resulting methods and systems are applied to infant developmental disorders.