Posted on 12/06/2022 11:31:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A small toilet-based sound sensor that can tell the difference between peeing, pooping and diarrhea may one day help prevent cholera outbreaks.
"The hope is that this sensor, which is small in footprint and noninvasive in approach, could be deployed to areas where cholera outbreaks are a persistent risk," said researcher Maia Gatlin of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that can kill within hours if untreated, according to the World Health Organization.
So Gatlin and her team wanted to see if they could identify bowel sounds. They tested the idea in a way that might seem a little stomach-turning: They used audio data of people on the toilet after gathering the sounds from online sources.
Each sound bite was turned into a spectrogram, which captures the sound in an image. Urine creates a consistent tone, the researchers found. Poop may have a singular tone. Diarrhea sounds more random.
The researchers fed the sound images into a machine learning algorithm, which learned to recognize the sound of each bathroom activity. The team then tested the algorithm's performance against data with and without background noises to make sure it was learning correctly.
The researchers plan to gather real-world acoustic data to help their machine learning model adapt to work in a variety of bathroom environments. The sensor doesn't identify a specific person.
The findings were scheduled for presentation Monday at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, Tenn. Findings presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Right?
Greg Gutfeld will love this story.
Uh, no thanks.
Reminds me of a prank some guys I was working with set up. They had a recording of something like this, the runs along with vomiting. They setup up an audio player in a restroom booth along with a pair of shoes to be seen from the outside.
It was hilarious watching the reactions of people coming out of the head.
Joseph Pujol (Le Petomane) would probably have been able to fool this device.
What intrusive hell will they come up with next?!?
Took the words right outta my………🙄
Ashtabula?
IoT. (Internet of Toilets)
Since COVID didn’t eradicate enough of the population as the deep state hoped, will this be the new scamdemic?
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