ABSTRACT

Recognition of heart disease is an important goal in medicine. The majority of

stethoscopes currently on the market are acoustic devices that use purely passive
mechanical parts to isolate and focus sound generated by the body. Unfortunately, though
these methods have been used for years, the simplicity of such devices is overshadowed by
poor sound quality. These devices are also difficult to interface with modern technologies
such as computers to record and analyze body sounds. The goal of this project is to design
and construct an electronic stethoscope that is comparable in cost, has better acoustic
response, and can interface with modern technologies better than the current acoustic
stethoscope.

The stethoscope has been used for many years, and has been very effective to
diagnose certain cardiologic and pulmonologic sounds. For many years healthcare
professionals would listen quietly to patients internal organs so they could diagnose from
specific sounds of such internal organs. The objective is to develop a Peripheral Interface
Controller based digital Stethoscope to capture the heart sound.

INTRODUCTION

In order to extract reliable diagnostic features from heart sound it is important to
first suppress noise. During heart sound acquisition many external body noises such as
ambient noise, as well as internal body noises such as heavy breathing, speech and etc.,
may be captured. These noises are mixed with heart sound.
The approach to this project is to keep things as simple as possible. The stethoscope
system detecting heart sounds has two main blocks: Signal Acquisition and Pre-processing
(Signal Conditioner), and Analysis of heart sound. It consists of two parts: Hardware and
software. The hardware component consists of a power supply, sensor, preamplifier, low
pass filter and power amplifier. The software component consists of a segmentation and
analysis algorithm. The block diagram below shows the key parts required in this project.



SIGNTER




SIGNAL FROM
MICROPHONE
SIGNAL
CONDITIONR(
HARDWARE)
DISPLAY
THE SIGNAL
AUDIO
OUTPUT
ANALYSIS
(SOFTWARE)
A/D
CONVERTER
HEADPHONE
The sensor will be detecting the sound which would be processed and passed to PC
for data manipulation and displayed graphically using GUI.

The project objective is to design and construct an electronic stethoscope to convert

acoustic sound waves to electrical signals which can then be amplified and
processed for analysis.

The specific objectives of this project include, but are not limited to:

Conversion of acoustic sound waves to electrical signals


Pre-processing of auscultation signals, involving removal of interference noise and
separation of respiratory noises, and amplification of the signals


Transmitting the heart sounds signal to a personal computer using a graphical user
interface for analysis and to build-up the data-base for replay, demonstration or
consultation purposes


Calculation and display of heart beat rate


BLOCK DIAGRAM:



ADVANTAGES:
Accuracy in work is more.
Time consumption.
Live demo of heart pulses.
Simplest and advanced technology in medical field.
Cheaper.


APPLICATION:
In medical field.
In industry
Green house.








Guided By: Project Members:
Mr.V.B.Raskar
Patil Mayur S.
Shelke Shankar T.
Taware Vaibhav P