AI listens to your lungs: could a digital stethoscope spot disease?
NCT ID NCT07360522
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is gathering lung sounds from 750 adults—both healthy volunteers and those with breathing issues—using special digital stethoscopes. The goal is to build an artificial intelligence algorithm that can automatically detect abnormal sounds like wheezes or crackles. If it works, doctors might one day get a faster heads-up about lung conditions.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could lead to an AI tool that helps doctors quickly identify lung problems by listening to breath sounds.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early data-collection study, not a treatment trial. The AI algorithm may not work as hoped or may need much more testing before it can be used in practice.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 750 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2024
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Potential research subjects with complaints of shortness of breath or relevant diagnoses like COPD/heart failure/asthma will be screened for eligibility from the upcoming clinic schedule and then recruited during their clinical appointment. Inpatients may also be identified from the EHR and recruited from inpatient units. In order to achieve the harder-to-fill buckets, it may be necessary to directly target existing registries or patient databases, and/or bring patients in for a research-specific visit. Additionally, patients seen in clinic or in hospital with no known respiratory condition will be recruited and evaluated.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Suspected or diagnosed lower respiratory condition OR Presence of wheeze, coarse crackle, fine crackle, rhonchus, stridor, rales, and cough discovered during routine auscultation * Normal patients with no adventitious lung sounds * Adults patients (18 years or older) Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to have multiple recordings taken on chest and back (e.g. compromised mobility) * On mechanical ventilation
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Care United Research
Forney, Texas, 75126, United States
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