A professor and pianist is converting irregular heart rhythms into compositions, in a study that aims to help doctors develop a more advanced understanding of arrhythmia (an irregular heartbeat).
Elaine Chew, a professor at The Queen Mary University of London is leading an international team on the project, which takes the ECG tests of arrhythmia patients and creates music representations of the rhythms using musical notation software.
In a blog update on the project, Chew described the results of the first transcribed ECG, noting that her research partners compared it to Mars from Holst's The Planets.
Elaine Chew, a professor at The Queen Mary University of London is leading an international team on the project, which takes the ECG tests of arrhythmia patients and creates music representations of the rhythms using musical notation software.
In a blog update on the project, Chew described the results of the first transcribed ECG, noting that her research partners compared it to Mars from Holst's The Planets.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about her hopes for the findings, she said: 'Once the heartbeat is represented in a musical score, it can be used to find patterns.
'Right now, they don’t relate them to musical patterns. It’s not part of doctors’ training. But it is part of every musician’s training. We notice timing'.
