Our bodies constantly broadcast information about their health: every heartbeat, breath, and swallow leaves subtle vibrations and sounds at the body surface. The Taebi Lab develops the sensing, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence needed to read these signals, from contactless cameras and low-cost wearables to digital twins that explain where the signals come from and patient-specific simulations that guide treatment. We started with the heart, and the same principles extend to breathing, swallowing, and other functions, toward early, accessible, and personalized care for everyone. Explore our projects below, or browse our publications.
The body surface carries a continuous record of what happens inside: the mechanical activity of the heart, blood flow, breathing, and swallowing all leave signatures as vibrations and sounds. We capture these signals with contactless cameras, smartphones, and low-cost wearable sensors, and turn them into reliable measures of health using signal processing, machine learning, and physics-based digital twins. Our goal is monitoring that works anywhere, from the clinic to the home, and detects disease early, when it is most treatable.
We measure heart-induced chest vibrations and pulse from ordinary smartphone videos, without sensors attached to the body.
Learn MoreWe are developing affordable solutions based on heart vibrations to address some of the barriers leading to cardiovascular health disparities.
Learn MoreWe build digital twins of the human thorax from 4D CT and MR images to simulate the heart vibrations measured on the chest and learn what they reveal.
Learn MoreNo two patients have the same anatomy or physiology, so their treatments should not be the same either. We build patient-specific computational models from medical images and simulate blood flow and tissue mechanics to predict how each patient will respond to different treatment options before a procedure takes place. With machine learning to make these simulations fast and training tools for clinicians, we aim to bring virtual, personalized treatment planning into everyday clinical practice.
We simulate blood flow in patient-specific brain arteries to predict how surgical clipping or coil embolization will change flow around an aneurysm.
Learn MoreOur research depends on participants volunteering to donate their precious time. As a result, we continuously look for participants for our in-person and remote human subject studies. If you are passionate to contribute to discoveries that may improve health care for you, your children, and your community, please consider volunteering!
Contribute to developing an innovative remote monitoring method that has the potential to transform how we detect cardiovascular diseases!
Contribute to the development of cardiovascular monitoring devices tailored to specific needs of remote newborn health monitoring!
Not accepting volunteers yetContribute to the development of new classes of heart diagnosis methods based on heart-induced vibrations of the chest!
We design intelligent medical decision-making solutions to improve health equity.
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