Rajat Mittal (Mechanical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering)

Andreas Andreou (Pediatrics, School of Medicine)

W. Reid Thompson (Pediatrics, School of Medicine)

Jung Hee Seo (Mechanical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering)

Wearable sensors are now able to automatically record and analyze our movements, pulse-rates, O2 saturation, sleep and respiration rates. Heart sounds encode vital information about our cardiovascular system, but automated acquisition of these acoustic signals remains a challenge. Recently, our team has developed and tested a novel wearable phonocardiographic (PCG) system, the “StethoVest.” However, effects of body-habitus on PCG measurements and meaningful analysis of the complex signals remains an open issue and is the focus of this project. A multidisciplinary team of mechanical and electrical engineers will combine forces with a cardiologist and employ a suite of tools ranging from patient measurements and computational models, to explore these fundamental questions.