The Adoption of Acoustic AI in Healthcare

Creaking joints come from cartilage rubbing on other soft tissue. A growling stomach signals hunger or that you’ve eaten something that disagrees with you. And though a cough can mean that you are ill, you might also be perfectly healthy and just took too big of a gulp of your drink. Even more interesting is that our body sounds and its variation over time could tell us a lot not only about a particular organ (e.g., your knee cartilage and tendons), but also about general wellness, and respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, and neurological health. This article digs into the future of acoustic epidemiology and our growing ability to interpret the body’s sounds using artificial intelligence (AI).