Automated Quiet Sleep Detection for Premature Newborns Based on Video and ECG Analysis

A newborn is preterm if birth occurred before a gestational age of 37 weeks. He has several immature functions, which implies a specific monitoring and, among others, the analysis of its sleep. Here we make a focus on Quiet Sleep (QS), whose increasing is primordial with age, and characterized by an absence of motion and a regular cardiorespiratory rhythm. A method to automatically detect QS is pr...