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Insights into challenges manufacturers and their extended supply chains faced during COVID-19, how they adapted, and what future opportunities exist.
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Smart heart rhythm monitoring
UW researchers develop an AI system for non-contact monitoring of heart rhythm via smart speakers acting as medical devices.
University of Washington have shown that these devices can detect cardiac arrests or monitor babies breathing.
But what about tracking something even smaller: the minute motion of individual heartbeats in a person sitting in front of a smart speaker?
UW researchers have developed a new skill for a smart speaker that monitors regular and irregular heartbeats without physical contact. The system sends inaudible sounds from the speaker out into a room and, based on the way the sounds are reflected back to the speaker, it can identify and monitor individual heartbeats. Because the heartbeat is such a tiny motion on the chest surface, the team s system uses machine learning to help the smart speaker locate signals from regular and irregular heartbeats.
UW researchers develop smart speaker heart monitor March 12, 2021 at 1:16 pm Echo Dots are pictured at Amazon Headquarters, following a launch event on Sept. 20, 2018, in Seattle Washington. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
A smart speaker like an Amazon Echo could actually be used to diagnose a heart problem with the help of a new technology. How does it work? University of Washington researchers Anran Wang, Dan Nguyen, and Arun Sridhar joined Seattle’s Morning News to discuss the technology they helped develop.
“This technology is essentially a sort of modified form of Alexis speaker that uses already commercially available technology. And what the computer science department did is develop an algorithm inside the speaker to filter out a lot of noise so it can essentially focus on detecting one specific part of the cardiac physical exam, which is the apical impulse,” Nguyen said.
UW scientists turn Amazon’s Alexa into heart monitoring device using sound waves
March 9, 2021 at 4:23 pm
University of Washington researchers have developed a technology that turns a smart speaker into a heartbeat monitor. Anran Wang, a UW doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (left) and Dr. Dan Nguyen, a clinical instructor at the UW School of Medicine, are authors of a paper describing the research. In front of them is the boxy smart-speaker prototype used for the study. (Mark Stone / UW Photo)
Researchers at the University of Washington have figured out a way to use machine-learning algorithms to turn smart speakers into sensitive medical devices that can detect irregular heartbeats.