These days heart diseases are very common to develop and therefore researchers at University of London are working towards developing a device which could help in spotting the first sign of heart disease. The team of researchers is led by Professor Mark Plumbley from Queen Mary’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, earlier before the group worked together to develop the computer-based technology to synchronize sounds from the new stethoscope with a human heartbeat.

Professor Mark Plumbley told that the new device which will be called DigiScope would work by capturing four heartbeats sounds one after the other just like a regular stethoscope. However, with the DigiScope these four separate sounds are then transmitted wirelessly to a laptop or desktop and synchronized by the new technology as if they were all transmitted simultaneously.

Professor Plumbley said, “It’s the multidisciplinary character of this exciting international collaboration that has enabled it to produce such a promising outcome”. It has been unveiled that two prototype DigiScopes are already in use to test their capabilities. The stethoscope development project is an international collaboration led by Portugal’s University of Porto and Centro Hospitalar Alto Ave, Guimarães. It has been told that the DigiScope will be used by outpatient clinics, accident & emergency units and other hospital departments where doctors are not necessarily cardiac specialists.