Biomedical engineering

Therapeutic Engineering (TE) is a cutting-edge domain in today's era of medical technology research.

A systematic and mathematically accessible introductory text explaining cell functions through the engineering principles of robust devices.

The ability to manipulate and analyze pictorial information to improve medical diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy via imaging is a valuable tool that every professional working in radiography, medical imaging, and medical physics should utilize.

With the rise of advanced computerized data collection systems, monitoring devices, and instrumentation technologies, large and complex datasets accrue as an inevitable part of biomedical enterprise.

This book broadly reviews the modem techniques and significant applications of chemical sensors and biosensors.

In the fast-developing field of nanomedicine, a broad variety of materials have been used for the development of advanced delivery systems for drugs, genes, and diagnostic agents.

Malignant tumors due to breast cancer and masses due to benign disease appear in mammograms with different shape characteristics: the former usually have rough, spiculated, or microlobulated contours, whereas the latter commonly have smooth, round, oval, or macrolobulated contours.

This book comprises a series of lectures given by celebrated Soviet neurophysiologist Nikolai Alexandrovich Bernstein in Moscow in 1925 and first published in Russian in 1926.

This book explores central aspects of genetic modification of animals for scientific purposes in the context technological possibilities, regulatory issues in different regions, animal welfare implications and wider ethical issues exemplified through current theories and frameworks.

This book reports on the state of the art in the field of aerial-aquatic locomotion, focusing on the main challenges concerning the translation of this important ability from nature to synthetic systems, and describing innovative engineering solutions that have been applied in practice by the authors at the Aerial Robotics Lab of Imperial College London.

This book focuses on important interfacial phenomena, such as interfacial potential and interfacial multi-functionality, responsible for determining the fate of nanoparticles inside the biological milieu.

Advanced materials are engineered to exhibit novel properties that confer superior performance in comparison with conventional materials.

In recent years, various technologies dedicated to the formation of micro- and nanostructures have been intensively developed.

Discusses the Effect of Automated Assessment Programs on Health Care ProvisionDiabetes is approaching pandemic numbers, and as an associated complication, diabetic retinopathy is also on the rise.

This book discusses the legacy of the conference series The International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which spans the second half of the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the twenty-first.

Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria.

This book focusses on the development of biomedical membranes and their applications for (bio)artificial organs.

Skin Tissue Models provides a translational link for biomedical researchers on the interdisciplinary approaches to skin regeneration.

In the twenty-first century, applications in medicine and engineering must acquire greater safety and flexibility if they are to yield better products at higher efficiency.

The microneedle field has been expanding exponentially with innovative designs and various applications, thus capturing the interest of academic industry and regulatory sectors.

Melt Electrospinning: A Green Method to Produce Superfine Fibers introduces the latest results from a leading research group in this area, exploring the structure, equipment polymer properties and spinning conditions of melt electrospinning.

The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

This book describes non-conventional methods of control of human extremities, emphasizing the fact that conventional approaches used in robotics are limited when used in humans for restoration of reaching and grasping (goal-oriented movements), and standing and locomotion (cyclic movements).

This book provides an overview of the advances in the synthesis of PCL, PCL-based biomaterials, and designing of appropriate PCL structures keeping in view of their applications in biomedical (orthopaedic implant), tissue engineering including bone, cartilage, skin, and cornea, protecting agent for material for medical devices and food packaging.

The field of encapsulation, especially microencapsulation, is a rapidly growing area of research and product development.

The surge in COVID-19 cases leading to hospitalizations around the world quickly depleted hospital resources and reserves, forcing physicians to make extremely difficult life-or-death decisions on ventilator allocation between patients.

Innovations in Biomedical Engineering: Trends in Scientific Advances and Application addresses the burgeoning demand for a comprehensive resource that not only showcases the latest advancements in this dynamic field but also shows how these innovations can be effectively translated into real-world applications.

This book presents a comprehensive framework for model-based electrical stimulation (ES) controller design, covering the whole process needed to develop a system for helping people with physical impairments perform functional upper limb tasks such as eating, grasping and manipulating objects.

This book presents the incidence of sports-related injuries, the types of injuries specific to particular sports, and the importance of factors such as age and gender.

This book presents state-of-the-art technologies, trends and applications with a focus on the healthcare domain for ultra-wideband (3.

In the last 130 years, 30 Swiss people have won a Nobel Prize, and one of them is Richard R.

Innovation in medicine and healthcare is an interdisciplinary research area, which combines the advanced technologies and problem solving skills with medical and biological science.

Full-field optical coherence microscopy (FF-OCM) is an imaging technique that provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of semitransparent objects.

This book provides an ethical analysis of the ethical issues that arise in the design, nature and use of AIs as they are currently used in the delivery and planning of healthcare by hands-on healthcare professionals, institutional administrators and social policy makers.

Experimental protein engineering and computational protein design are broad but complementary strategies for developing proteins with altered or novel structural properties and biological functions.

Chitosan Based Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Volume 1, provides the latest information on chitosan, a natural polymer derived from the marine material chitin.

This book covers the key basics of tissue engineering as well as the latest advances in the integration of both antimicrobial and osteoinductive properties.

This volume presents the proceedings of the joint 16th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics and Medicinteknikdagarna 2014!

Artificial Intelligence for Future Generation Robotics offers a vision for potential future robotics applications for AI technologies.

This volume is about ultra high-speed cameras, which enable us to see what we normally do not see.

Biological and Medical Sensor Technologies presents contributions from top experts who explore the development and implementation of sensors for various applications used in medicine and biology.

This book comprehensively covers a broad range of therapeutic and diagnostic applications of nanotechnology, providing descriptions of cutting-edge discoveries along with historical perspectives.

Increasingly viewed as the future of medicine, the field of tissue engineering is still in its infancy.

Peptides serve as effective drugs in the clinic today.

More work is being done in the statistical aspects of medical imaging, and this book fills the gap to provide a unified framework of study by presenting a complete look at medical imaging and statistics - from the statistical aspects of imaging technology to the statistical analysis of images.

This book highlights the latest advances in the application of artificial intelligence and data science in health care and medicine.

Biopolymers found in marine animals and plants offer tremendous, largely untapped pharmaceutical potential.

This book presents high-quality peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Electronics, Biomedical Engineering, and Health Informatics (ICEBEHI 2023, October 4-5, Surabaya, Indonesia).

This book gathers the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering, EHB2023, held in hybrid form on November 9-10, 2023, in/from Bucharest, Romania.