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February 1, 2019 02:40 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eEhAJUzP4KU/giving-the-humble-stethoscope-an-ai-upgrade-could-save-millions-of-kids
Giving the Humble Stethoscope an AI Upgrade Could Save Millions of Kids
the_newsbeagle writes: The stethoscope is a ubiquitous medical tool that has barely changed since it was invented in the early 1800s. But now a team of engineers, doctors, and public health researchers have come together to reinvent the tool using adaptive acoustics and AI. Their motivation is this statistic: Every year, nearly 1 million kids die of pneumonia around the world, with most deaths in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The death toll is highest among children under the age of 5. The researchers, from Johns Hopkins University, designed a smart stethoscope for use by unskilled workers in noisy medical clinics. It uses a dynamic audio filtering system to remove ambient noise and distracting body sounds while not interfering with the subtle sounds from the lungs. And it uses AI to analyze the cleaned-up signal and provide a diagnosis.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/eEhAJUzP4KU/giving-the-humble-stethoscope-an-ai-upgrade-could-save-millions-of-kids
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