Adding sound to medical data representation

Abstract

Some preliminary results of a project aiming to develop tools for adding sound associated to medical data are presented. The description of our sonification procedure is followed by two different examples. The first refers to monitoring the heart rate (HR) during exercise, either in clinical settings or in self monitoring conditions. The second example is an application from molecular biology / cellular kinetics, for analysis of protein-protein interaction, with a specific reference to a computer simulation of P53 – MDM2 interaction, which exhibits, under certain conditions, an oscillatory behavior. Pending issues and future work are finally discussed.