Research Article

An Efficient Classification of Neonates Cry Using Extreme Gradient Boosting-Assisted Grouped-Support-Vector Network

Table 1

Consolidated review of techniques and challenges in infant cry classification.

Ref. No.DatasetMethodologyResearch challenges

[16]DA-IICT infant cry and baby ChillantoConvolutional restricted Boltzmann machine (ConvRBM) model(i) Model was not implemented in any real-time environment
(ii) Model was not evaluated against any other model apart from MFCC
[17]Self-recorded datasets, baby Chillanto, National Taiwan University Hospital, Dunstan baby, iCOPE, University of Milano BicoccaMFCC, KNN, SVM, GMM, CNN and RNN(i) Scalability of the dataset
(ii) Unavailability of skilled labors to collect data
(iiii) Lack of collaboration between medical professionals and researchers
[18]Sainte-Justine Hospital (Montreal, Canada), Al-Sahel Hospital (Lebanon), Al-Raee Hospital (Lebanon)DFNN(i) Exclusion of various topologies and transfer functions
(ii) exclusion of deep features and nonlinear statistical features
[19]Audio recordings from free sound, BigSoundBank, sound archive, ZapSplat, SoundBible and sound jayCNN(i) Model was not evaluated against any other models
[20]Self-recorded audio recordingsSVC and RBF(i) Exclusion of more features or categories in the dataset
[21]Donate-a-cry corpusSVM, random forest, logistic regression, KNN(i) Exclusion of a more extensive dataset for enhanced justification of the model
[22]Datasets from various online resources with infant cry clipsRandom forest classification model(i) Use of smart phones other than Motorola G5/G6 not included for evaluation
[23]Donate-a-cry corpusKNN and SVM(i) Exclusion of an extensive dataset with more infant cry categories