Dr. Dohyeong Kim, a researcher in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS), and collaborators in South Korea have developed a wearable stethoscope that uses AI to monitor a patient's breathing sounds for wheezing. The wearable stethoscope, described in a new article in the journal Engineering, is a wireless, skin-attachable, low-power device that includes a lung-sound monitoring patch (LSMP). "With the stethoscope fully developed, we can use this AI algorithm to automatically detect in real time whether the breathing sounds are normal. Additional authors of the Engineering study included researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Ajou University, Kosin University College of Medicine and Seokyeong University. More information: Kyoung-Ryul Lee et al, A Wearable Stethoscope for Accurate Real-Time Lung Sound Monitoring and Automatic Wheezing Detection Based on an AI Algorithm, Engineering (2025).