Heartware: smart stethoscope
For my Senior Design capstone project, 3 friends and I set out to see if the routine medical check-ups all doctors and nurses perform using stethoscopes could be replaced with a single intelligent device.
The project focused specifically on heart murmurs, since stethoscopes are used for a wide variety of applications. The Heartware device performs three key functions:
- Filter & capture heart sounds via a piezoelectric element.
- Stream recorded data to a server for analysis and learning.
- Classify sound to detect murmurs.
The resulting project was selected as the best Electrical & Systems Engineering project of 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania, judged based off the above work, a full product demo, and the following presentation:
This project was a collaboration with Jason Schwartz, Jared Winograd, and Matthew Wolfman. We had our first successful build of the project at 3am the day of this above presentation, which was at 9:05am.
