Exploring Infant Cry: Medical and Technical Analysis and Signal Processing Perspectives
Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia
Nov 2025 · Academic Press
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Exploring Infant Cry: Medical and Technological Analysis and Signal Processing Perspectives brings together the most advanced medical and technical knowledge in the study of infant crying. This book includes medical, technical, and computational approaches to cry processing for classification and diagnostic purposes. The book is written by medical and technical experts in Infant Cry processing and is an important step forward for research dealing with the process and interpretation of crying from both medical and technical perspectives. The number of research groups dedicated to this area has been growing, and with more research emerging it will be possible to use crying analysis as a powerful non-intrusive diagnostic tool for a large number of pathologies from the time they begin to appear, as well as for determining the cause of the crying in such a way as to tell parents the various reasons why a baby is crying. Exploring Infant Cry presents the advances of international groups of researchers where normal and pathological patterns of infant crying are studied, the possibilities of cry analysis for neonatal diagnosis, as well as perspectives on the development of this emerging field of research. The links of a baby's first cries with the formation of language are addressed in the volume, as well as the communicative potential of the crying signal that makes this attribute a primary part of the vast and complex environment of human communication. Although the analysis of infant crying has received the attention of scientists and scholars of crying from diverse and varied approaches for more than 50 years, it continues to be an open topic with multiple unsolved or sufficiently investigated aspects, mainly in the area of routine applications to neonatal diagnosis. Exploring Infant Cry brings together for the first time the most advanced medical and technical knowledge on the study of crying babies. Considering on one hand the most important information as a diagnostic element, from the medical point of view, along with that provided by the technological field in order to automate acoustic processing, extraction of the most distinctive features, as well as recognition of outstanding patterns and their classification by type of pathology or cause of crying. These provide informative support tools for biomedical researchers, doctors, and clinicians. As a contribution to the technological support, a notable aspect of the book is the authors' compilation of the most recent approaches to the classification of infant crying in correspondence with the important advances achieved in the field of signal processing, Artificial Intelligence, and soft computing. Readers of the book will find it to be an effective way to discover the foundations of the analysis of infant crying, as well as the various approaches and perspectives that have made it possible to advance the understanding of crying as an acoustic, neurophysiological, communicative, and linguistic phenomenon.• Presents the research advances in studying normal developmental as well as pathological patterns of infant cry.• Introduces readers to the medical and physiological foundations of infant cry, including neurophysiology and a spectrographic study of infant cry in cases with congenital hypothyroidism.• Discusses the relationship of infant cry characteristics to the child's mother language.• Investigates the acoustic characteristics for analysis of infant cry, including signal processing.• Presents AI and soft computing techniques for recognition and classification of infant cry for diagnostics, clinical support, and research.
About the author
Carlos Alberto Reyes García Garcia is a full-time researcher in the Department of Computer Science, the head of the Bio signal Processing and Medical Computing laboratory, and is the founding Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Technologies as of August of 2017. at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica in Puebla, Mexico since January 2001. He holds a PhD degree in computer science with a specialty in artificial intelligence from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a Level II National Researcher of the National System of Researchers (SNI). He is the national president of the Thematic Network on Applied Computational Intelligence from 2016 to date, IEEE Senior Member and AMEXCOMP invited member He was President of the board of directors of the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) and now is an Emeritus Member. His areas of particular research interest are; Computational Intelligence, Bio signal Processing and Classification, Processing, Analysis and Classification of Speech, Analysis and Recognition of Baby's Cry, and Classification of Patterns in General.
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