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The sounds occurring in the noisy acoustical environment of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are thought to affect the growth and neurodevelopment of preterm infants. Automatic sound detection in a NICU is a novel and challenging problem, and it is an essential step in the investigation of how preterm infants react to auditory stimuli of the N...
A large number of alarm sounds triggered by biomedical equipment occur frequently in the noisy environment of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and play a key role in providing healthcare. In this paper, our work on the development of an automatic system for detection of acoustic alarms in that difficult environment is presented. Such automatic...
In the noisy acoustic environment of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) there is a variety of alarms, which are frequently triggered by the biomedical equipment. In this paper different approaches for automatic detection of those sound alarms are presented and compared: 1) a non-model-based approach that employs signal processing techniques; 2)...
Alarm sounds triggered by biomedical equipment play a key role in providing healthcare in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This paper presents our work on automatic detection of acoustic alarms in a noisy NICU environment, where knowledge about the particular characteristics of each alarm class is integrated at different stages of the detecti...
Background and aims NICU’s environment is rich from an acoustical point of view. Long-termeffects of exposure to repeated noise in preterm’s neurological and sensorial developmentis of concern.
We aimed to analyse the acoustic environment of the NICU, the types ofsounds present in it and their characteristics (both intensity and frequency).
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The acoustic environment of a typical neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is very rich and may contain a large number of dif-ferent sounds, which come either from the equipment or from the human activities taking place in it. There exists a medi-cal concern about the effect of that acoustical environment on preterm infants, since loud sounds or par...
