Audio- and video-based estimation of the sleep stages of newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

ConclusionThe proposed method provides a high capacity to identify alert sleep stages but the differentiation between quiet sleep and active sleep only by behavioral observations still remains a difficult task to achieve.SignificanceResults presented in this paper are new since no similar approach was proposed in the literature in the context of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. They augur well for the automatic sleep organization assessment to improve newborn care.
Source: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control - Category: Biomedical Science Source Type: research