Biomedical Engineering

Carlos Alexandre Barros de Mello

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9789533070131
• eBook ISBN: 9789535158592
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biotechnology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Biomedical Engineering can be seen as a mix of Medicine, Engineering and Science. In fact, this is a natural connection, as the most complicated engineering masterpiece is the human body. And it is exactly to help our "body machine" that Biomedical Engineering has its niche. This book brings the state-of-the-art of some of the most important current research related to Biomedical Engineering. I am very honored to be editing such a valuable book, which has contributions of a selected group of researchers describing the best of their work. Through its 36 chapters, the reader will have access to works related to ECG, image processing, sensors, artificial intelligence, and several other exciting fields.

Table of contents

• Biomedical Engineering
• Preface
• Contents
• Microelectronic Biosensors: Materials and Devices
• Low-Power and Low-Voltage Analog-to-Digital Converters for wearable EEG systems
• On-chip cell positioning and sorting using contactless methods: a comparison between different force-fields
• Exploring Insight of User Needs: The First Stage of Biomedical Engineering Design
• Biological effects of electromagnetic radiation
• Synchrotron Radiation Microangiography for Investigation of Metabolic Syndrome in Rat Model
• Wireless Power Technology for Biomedical Implants
• Assessment of the shadow caused by the human body on the personal RF dosimeters reading in multipath environments
• Monitoring drowsiness on-line using a single encephalographic channel
• The merits of artificial proprioception, with applications in biofeedback gait rehabilitation concepts and movement disorder characterization
• Robust and Optimal Blood-Glucose Control in Diabetes Using Linear Parameter Varying paradigms
• Towards Diagnostically Robust Medical Ultrasound Video Streaming using H.264
• Contact-less Assessment of In-vivo Body Signals Using Microwave Doppler Radar
• Subspace Techniques for Brain Signal Enhancement
• Classification of Mental Tasks using Different Spectral Estimation Methods
• On-site measurement, data process and wavelet analysis techniques for recognizing daily physiological states
• Survey of Recent Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
• Fuzzy-based kernel regression approaches for free form deformation and elastic registration of medical images
• ICA applied to microcalcification clusters CAD in mammograms
• Nanomedicine in Cancer
• Capacitive Sensing of Narrow-Band ECG and Breathing Activity of Infants through Sleepwear
• EEG-Based Personal Identification
• Skin and Non-Solid Cancer Incidence in Interventional Radiology using Biological and Physical Dosimetry Methods
• Nonlinear Projective Filtering of ECG Signals
• Recent developments in computer methods for fMRI data processing
• Carbon Nanotubes in Bone Tissue Engineering
• Traditional and Dynamic Action Potential Clamp Experiments with HCN4 Pacemaker Current: Biomedical Engineering in Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology
• Medical Remote Monitoring using sound environment analysis and wearable sensors
• Standard model, file formats and methods in Brain-Computer Interface research: why?
• Tonometric Vascular Function Assessment
• New Methods for Atrial Activity Extraction in Atrial Tachyarrhythmias
• Automatic Mutual Nonrigid Registration of Dense Surface Models by Graphical Model based Inference
• Intelligent and Personalised Hydrocephalus Treatment and Management
• A Simulation Study on Balance Maintenance Strategies during Walking
• Human Facial Expression Recognition Using Fisher Independent Component Analysis and Hidden Markov Model
• Requirements and solutions for advanced Telemedicine applications