U.S. Successfully Develops Baby Cry Diagnosis Instrument

Recently, Brown University and Rhode Island Women and Children's Hospital jointly developed a computer-controlled instrument for diagnosing infant crying, which can provide a new idea for diagnosing neurological diseases in children.

This crying diagnostic device is a non-invasive device that can perform diagnostic tests on very small infants. The working mechanism of the device system is divided into two parts: The first step is to save the cry of the child as a 12.5 millisecond video. Each frame picture will be analyzed with parameters based on frequency characteristics, pitch and sound waves. The second step is to reorganize the first step of the data while reducing many unimportant parameters. Those frames will be re-recorded based on the long pauses, short pauses, and pauses the baby cries.

This system will evaluate more than 80 different parameters, each of which reflects the health of the baby more or less. Scientists believe that this analysis device can help people diagnose whether babies have autism, brain damage and neurological diseases, and even find out about diseases related to preterm birth.

Professor Barry of Brown University said: We believe crying in the brain is like a window to the house, it can reveal the neurological content of the baby's brain.