Ninth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Humans have five basic senses that take care of the human survival process and are essentially ‘outward-bound’. Concurrently, there is an enormous degree of involuntary activity happening within a human body, like water/blood circulating through the body, the functional activity of lungs, heart, etc. Each organ produces a unique sound-pattern associated with the activity. It is important to understand that the abnormal sound-pattern produced by these organs may not essentially relate to a particular disease, but rather associate to the change in specific bodily mechanism or alteration in physical structure. This proposal focuses on tracking/recording the acoustical properties of blood flow through blood-vessels by ‘sensing’ the flow characteristics via an acoustical membrane implant. The research discloses first-of-its-kind ‘inward-bound sense’ for harnessing perception beyond the ‘5 senses’. As per the analysis of current state, the researchers at University of Illinois have developed an epidermal electronic sensor system that monitors skin health by recording the blood flow in larger blood vessels. Now, as per the proposed research, in case of any abnormalities in the tissue/cell/organ physiology, the blood flow pattern changes. As the blood flow gets altered, the acoustic wave pattern recorded by the implant shows a shift. Such event is recorded by the implant and communicated to subject’s on-skin electrodal wrist-watch. Thus, the proposed system allows the doctor(s) to track the abnormalities unfolding within the human body (i.e. patient) at a very early stage. Hence, the developed ‘inward-sense’ would prove helpful for diagnosis of any disease in its preliminary phases.