IoT Based Augmented Reality System of Human Heart: An Android Application

Augmented Reality has been defined broadly as combining real and computer-generated digital information into the user's view of the physical and interactive real world in such a way that they appear as one environment, thus providing a bridge between digital information and the physical world. Augmented Reality can amplify human perception and cognition in remarkable new ways. Currently, during a cardiac examination, it becomes extremely difficult for the patient to comprehend the results. As the results are non-intuitive, doctors have a tough time explaining them to patients. Therefore, the patients have to rely on doctor's judgment against his own. The system proposed in this paper intends to make use of Augmented Reality (AR) technology for evaluation and visualization of a beating heart to make this doctor-patient interaction more intuitive. The system proposed in this paper is an android application which uses device's camera to display the 3D heart model in the augmented view. The real-time pulse data is loaded via a pulse sensor connected with an MCU through the cloud. Hence, the results obtained have shown us that this system has proven to bring more intuitiveness in beating heart visualization and analysis.