Detection Of Heart Abnormality Using Image Based Heart Sound Signal With Augmented Reality

The Great Depression marked a huge period of change in American history. Economic hardship led to many changes in society especially in regards to race and gender roles. As times became tough, people had to change quickly to survive. These historical elements of economic hardship, racial tension, and changing gender roles, are set deep into the plot of “Places in the Heart”. They make the movie more historically accurate as well as make the underdog story all the more meaningful.

Innovations in mobile technology have brought remote healthcare management to the forefront of advanced medical care. The ability to record the cardiac activity of a patient at home has been available for some time. But that method utilized a recording device worn by the patient, which needed to be brought in to a hospital or doctor’s office for a healthcare professional to analyze. Today, real-time monitoring in the patient’s home is a reality.

This is critical in the medical field because it allows healthcare workers to access the information needed to provide patients with the care they deserve. Physicians, nurses, and technicians can use this technology to look medical records and past diagnosis to create future care plans for the patient.For example, the simple use of the cell phone pictures could favor in formulating a medical or nursing diagnosis. The enhanced technology regarding smartphones and digital cameras are now being tested as diagnostic tools. Some physicians are considering this process as a mean of time and cost efficiency, as well as a way to develop existing diagnostic and management practices (C., 2010).

The advances in technology have improved the health of many people world wide. For instance a Smartphone Ultrasound allows medical people of under privileged or remote areas to be able to image a patient kidney, liver, and other arteries. They use an application that turns a smartphone into an ultrasonic imaging machine. In some countries there are not enough doctors to help serve

Number one onthe list is Virtual Heart Surgery. Virtual Heart Surgery is an online app that gives its players the oppurntity to partale in a simulation that many

When it comes to augmented reality, we're looking at something that has found more success in the consumer space when compared to virtual reality. We've seen several applications with AR, along with video game and hardware devices such

A cardiac ultrasound is an increasingly popular test option for doctors to rely on. This is because of its effectiveness, as well as its inexpensiveness and availability. There are no portable units available, which means a cardiac ultrasound can be performed anywhere, from the arctic to the sports field and even in space (yes, seriously).

This technological advancement facilitates the potential use of a \ac{WHTD} as a solution to relieve the burden on the health care system. The \ac{WHTD} refers to the devices which are capable of monitoring the physiological signs (e.g., heart activity, \ac{ECG}, \ac{EMG}, blood pressure, body temperature, oxygen saturation, etc.) of the human body and its surrounding environment (e.g., light, humidity, temperature, etc.) using a number of sensors located on or/and in the human body using \ac{BAN} \cite{movassaghi2014wireless,bangash2014survey,jovanov2011body}. This has been employed in various applications, such as military and sports training, \ac{HCI}, entertainment (interactive gaming), home and office automation, environmental monitoring, and \ac{VR}. It has also shown a tremendous potential as a personal healthcare system, which can provide services such as remote patient and elderly people monitoring, activity monitoring, rehabilitation, and disability assistance services as these devices can monitor health status seamlessly in real-time without disturbing users daily life. Consequently, major \ac{ICT} companies are introducing various wearable devices and services with Personalised Health Data management systems. Apple iWatch with HealthKit, Samsung Galaxy fit and Samsung Digital Health, and Google Fit are some of the

Medical Applications of virtual and augmented reality: Virtual reality is an interactive simulation that makes you feel like you are somewhere you are not. It is now starting to be used in the medical field. For patients that are in pain, virtual reality can be used to make it seem like they are in a different happier place. Studies show that it has the same effectiveness level as morphine, possibly even more effective. For therapists who help people with different fears, virtual reality can help conquer the fear. For example, a virtual reality for people suffering arachnophobia allows people to experience what it is like to have spiders surrounding them. Virtual reality can also be used for surgical training. Surgeons can practice surgery without the fear of hurting or injuring an actual patient. This is helpful because if they mess up, they do not have to deal with the consequences that come from surgical mistakes. Virtual reality is a very new and upcoming idea, and in the near future it has the potential to become much more common in a healthcare

A medical technology start-up company, ScanDx, is currently developing a smartphone application that may allow for individuals to diagnose their own broken bones or fractures. The company created a product referred to as “FractureDx” which works along with the smartphone application. FractureDx aims to analyze sound waves in order to diagnose breaks and fractures directly from the user’s smartphone.

The days are gone when a doctor walked into a patient's room and grabbed the paper chart at the end of his bed to check his medical history. Increasingly, they offer real-time care monitoring, allowing users to share health data with a doctor from a Smartphone. Some apps even allow doctors to virtually assess, diagnose and treat patients without ever having them leave home.

Cancer treatment is one of the greatest benefits of image processing in the medical field. However Melanoma one of the most dangerous forms of cancer which leads to more casualties than any other form of skin cancer has very little light shed on its image processing models. Mostly inspections are done by the physicians visually and image processing is utilized only when the patient enters the late stages of its life cycle. The main source of information is usually gathered visually and in this master's thesis I shall develop a working android application using which a patient can monitor and examine themselves with just a mobile phone.

While the segmentation of heart sounds is relatively simple in noise-free recordings, it becomes a difficult task when the recordings are corrupted by in-band noise. Common noise sources include endogenous or ambient speech, motion artefacts and physiological sounds such as intestinal and breathing sounds. Other physiological sounds of interest, such as murmurs, clicks, splitting of the FHSs can also complicate the identification of the FHSs.

The echocardiography is currently the most commonly used imaging technique to diagnose various cardiovascular diseases especially Takotsubo syndrome. The reasons behind its popularity includes: its low risk non-invasive nature, simplicity, low cost, and easy equipment transportation. Additionally, there have been noticeable improvements in the imaging quality after the development of technological progress of transthoracic transducers and transesophageal echocardiography. Furthermore, early diagnosis is possible because this imaging technique is able to show clearly the reverse wall motion involvement abnormalities.

A heart attack is a sudden and sometimes fatal occurrence of coronary thrombosis, resulting in the death of part of a heart muscle. It can also be called myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, or coronary thrombosis. There are greater than three million cases just in the United States per annum.