Neonatal pain analyzer: Development and validation

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 841-845

  Sisto, R ^a   Bellieni, C V ^b   Perrone, S ^b   Buonocore, G ^b  

^a ISPESL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cry analysis; Crying; Neonate; Pain; Spectrogram

Indexed keywords

ABC ANALYZER; CRY ANALYSIS; CRYING; PAIN ANALYZER;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

NEONATAL MONITORING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PITCH; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEVISION CAMERA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; CRYING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 33749570996     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0101-x     Document Type: Article

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