Automatic Nonnutritive Suck Waveform Discrimination and Feature Extraction in Preterm Infants

Table 1

Summary of parameters used by the NeoNNS application.

	Units	Description	Reference
NNS threshold	(cm·H2O)	NNS peaks with amplitude greater than this value used as feature extraction	[10]
Half-height cycle width	(ms)	NNS cycle width at half-height less than this criterion used as feature extraction	[38]
Minutes/seconds	(min/s)	The time epoch of the most active NNS period	[10]
DiscrimStepSize	(samples)	Sliding window size to localize the most active period of sucking
BurstCriterion	(ms)	Two or more NNS events occurring within this value	[10]
Number of compare		Number of NNS bursts	[39]
Number of cycles		Number of successive NNS cycles	[39]