Neural Transfer Learning for Cry-based Diagnosis of Perinatal Asphyxia
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Despite continuing medical advances, the rate of newborn morbidity and mortality globally remains high, with over 6 million casualties every year. The prediction of pathologies affecting newborns based on their cry is thus of significant clinical interest, as it would facilitate the development of accessible, low-cost diagnostic tools based on wearables and smartphones. However, the inadequacy of clinically annotated datasets of infant cries limits progress on this task. This study explores a neural transfer learning approach to developing accurate and robust models for the task of predicting perinatal asphyxia. In particular, we explore the hypothesis that representations learned from adult speech could inform and improve performance of models developed on infant speech.
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