Your smart phone could soon work as an electronic stethoscope using an app that is allowing thousands of people to upload their heart sounds NewScientistLive pablolamata
, is providing the first large-scale database of such sound recordings, connected with some basic personal information on the users.
The sound is turned into a visual display, known as a waveform, so users can see as well as hear their heart sounds. At the moment, it is only available for iPhones, because these have better microphones.Users also input their age, gender, height and weight and need to give permission for their heart sounds to be uploaded to the database. It now contains more than 100,000 recordings and will be a valuable resource for heart researchers, said Lamata.
The group’s original intention was simply to get people more interested in learning about their heart health. “Then we thought: ‘What if we start asking [medical] questions?’” said Lamata.
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