Recent Advances in Biomedical Electronics and Biomedical Informatics

Recent Advances in EMG Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Control

Multi-Beam Interference Advances and Applications: Nano-Electronics, Photonic Crystals, Metamaterials, Subwavelength Structures, Optical Trapping, and Biomedical Structures

Research in recent years has greatly advanced the understanding and capabilities of multi-beam interference (MBI). With this technology it is now possible to generate a wide range of one-, two-, and three-dimensional periodic optical-intensity distributions at the microand nano-scale over a large length/area/volume. These patterns may be used directly or recorded in photo-sensitive materials us...

The Demand for Quantitative Techniques in Biomedical Image Informatics

With recent technological advances, biomedical image informatics has become a quickly rising field. It focuses on the use of computational techniques to process and analyze biomedical images. Its goal is to obtain useful knowledge from complicated and heterogeneous images from diferent modalities for biomedical research. Although the advancement of imaging technologies has provided a data explo...

Biomedical informatics training for dental researchers.

Dental researchers collaborating closely with biomedical informaticians have achieved many advances in oral health research, such as in mapping human genetics and addressing oral health disparities. Advances will continue to increase as dental researchers and biomedical informaticians study each others' disciplines to increase the effectiveness of their collaborative research. The combined skil...

Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Taiwan (2006-ISOBME).

Biomedical engineering is a very significant research field which bridges the gap between the fundamental engineering knowledge and technology, and clinical practice and application. It includes a broad range of topics, both established and groundbreaking, from biomaterials to tissue engineering and cell engineering; from biomechanics to biomedical physics; from biomedical electronics to biomed...

Imaging informatics: toward capturing and processing semantic information in radiology images.

OBJECTIVES To identify challenges and opportunities in imaging informatics that can lead to the use of images for discovery, and that can potentially improve the diagnostic accuracy of imaging professionals. METHODS Recent articles on imaging informatics and related articles from PubMed were reviewed and analyzed. Some new developments and challenges that recent research in imaging informatic...