新技术:移动听诊器(Smart phone stethoscope win)

    墨尔本大学的4名学生(Hon Weng Chong, Kim Ramchen, Andrew Lin(北京来的), Mahsa Salehi)研制了一种新型的数字听诊器, 赢得了一等奖in the Australian heat of the Microsoft Imagine Cup. StethoCloud应用程序会引导用户采用合适的方法听诊患者的呼吸细节, 然后听诊器将呼吸的声音上传到服务器中,服务器根据标准对声音进行分析并传回结果,来帮助检测儿童的早期肺炎.心音也是听诊器的应用范围,也许可以按此设计出相关的应用也未可知.

来源: http://voice.unimelb.edu.au/volume-8/number-6/smart-phone-stethoscope-win

A team of University students has won the Australian final of the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup with a device that could revolutionise the diagnosis of childhood pneumonia in developing countries. Annie Rahilly reports on this intrepid group bringing together the best of Engineering and Medical minds.

StethoCloud, an application that turns a Windows 7 smart phone into a stethoscope by contacting a cloud-powered diagnostic tool for early stage pneumonia, has won a group of Melbourne Engineering and Medicine students the first prize in the Australian heat of the Microsoft Imagine Cup.

The Imagine Cup is the leading international technology competition for student software developers.

Computing and Information Systems students Kim Ramchen and Mahsa Salehi, and Melbourne Medical School students Hon Weng Chong and Andrew Lin developed the app, which they describe as a mobile-hybrid stethoscope.

The students say that simply by connecting a stethoscope to a phone, a community health worker or unskilled administrator can transmit diagnostic information into a cloud service. This cloud service then analyses a patient’s breathing sounds for patterns that represent the earliest stages of pneumonia.

Team member Kim Ramchen says childhood pneumonia claimed the lives of more children than measles, malaria and HIV combined, but was treatable if detected early.

“Tragically, though, by the time a health worker may diagnose an afflicted child in a remote community it is often too late.

“The widespread availability of a simple and inexpensive diagnostic tool for the detection of childhood pneumonia could enable an operator with minimal prior training to make an early diagnosis and seek treatment before the disease has progressed to the untreatable stage.”

Mr Ramchen said the team was euphoric when its project was named the winner of the Imagine Cup. and was looking forward to the world final.

“It was immensely satisfying for us to see that our ideas and work had been recognised by the panel of distinguished judges presiding over such a prestigious and prominent contest,” he says.

“We are thrilled to be given the opportunity to promote and showcase our technology to a global audience. We are especially honoured to do so on home soil!”

Team StethCloud was mentored by Associate Professor Chris Leckie from the Department of Computing and Information Systems, Associate Professor Jim Black from the Nossal Institute for Global Health, and Professor Nigel Curtis from the Department of Paediatrics.

 

 

Team Stethocloud Imagine Cup 2012

 

 

 

 

 

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