Abstract
This paper presents an approach to sonifying 2D cellular data. Its primary goal is attaining listener comprehension parity between original visual data and its sonified counterpart for the purpose of understanding cell behavior, including movement, mitosis (or division), and cell death. Here, we present the initial findings of the automated sonification prototype named “Cellular Stethoscope” that was assessed through a 19-subject pilot study to assess its ability to accurately reflect the cell behavior captured in the video footage. The resulting system is envisioned to serve as a foundation for a complementing and potentially more efficient approach to studying cell behavior when subjected to various pharmaceutical interventions.