Biomedical engineering

This book gathers the joint proceedings of the VIII Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CLAIB 2019) and the XLII National Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CNIB 2019).

This graduate textbook imparts the fundamentals of reliability and risk that can be connected mathematically and applied to problems in engineering and medical science and practice.

While there are many excellent texts focused on clinical medical imaging, there are few books that approach in vivo imaging technologies from the perspective of a scientist or physician-scientist using, or interested in using, these techniques in research.

This book presents modern trends that regard the utilization of advanced functional materials for the development of innovative pharmaceuticals.

This book offers a historical account of the development of the On-X carbon mechanical heart valve, discussing the steps involved in developing the materials, and describes how the design of the valve has evolved over the years.

Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT) is an Internet of Things (IoT)-based solution that includes a network architecture which allows the connection between a patient and healthcare facilities.

Magnesium alloys have enormous potential for use in biomedical implants.

This book explores novel methods for implementing X-ray diffraction technology as an imaging modality, which have been made possible through recent breakthroughs in detector technology, computational power, and data processing algorithms.

This book coherently presents the advances in technological principles, processes, and methods of Additive Manufacturing (AM), Augmented reality (AR), and Internet of things (IoT) in biomedical technology.

This volume serves as a follow-up to our previous book, MonoclonalAntibodies- Hybridomas: A New Dimension in Biological Analyses.

This book describes the utilization of different soft computing techniques and their optimization for providing an accurate and efficient medical diagnosis.

The worddominance, in the context of genetics, has been used for a long time applied to characters or to alleles.

This book explores one way in which recent hardware and software advances have placed humanity on the precipice of a significant shift in how technology can shape our interactions with the world around us: the application of transformative extended reality (XR) technology solutions to support the health, wellness, quality of life, and independence of older adults living with and without cognitive impairments.

This book offers a comprehensive and timely overview of the latest developments in the field of biomechanics and extensive knowledge of tissue structure, function, and modeling.

Infrared thermography is a fast and non-invasive technology that provides a map of the temperature distribution on the body's surface.

This book provides the bridge between engineering design and medical device development.

This book explores the fabrication of soft material and biomimetic MEMS sensors, presents a review of MEMS/NEMS energy harvesters and self-powered sensors, and focuses on the recent efforts in developing flexible and wearable piezoelectric nanogenerators.

This book serves as an introduction on mass transfer models in membrane processes, with a special focus on their applications in Artificial Organs.

This book provides a guiding thread between the distant fields of fluid mechanics and clinical cardiology.

Exploring Mathematical Modeling in Biology through Case Studies and Experimental Activities provides supporting materials for courses taken by students majoring in mathematics, computer science or in the life sciences.

This book is about the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and the unique and special environment of active implants that electrically interface with the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and organs.

These are the Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Multibody Systems and Mechatronics (MUSME 2017) which was held in Florianopolis, Brazil, October 24-28, 2017.

With skyrocketing costs due to the increase in the elderly population, a rapid increase in lifestyle-related and chronic diseases, demand for new medical treatments and technologies, and a shortage in the number of available clinicians, nurses, and other caregivers, the challenges facing the healthcare industry seem insurmountable.

Die Medizin bedient sich in der Diagnostik und Therapie in zunehmendem Maße physikalisch-technischer Verfahren.

This book introduces readers to the principles of laser interaction with biological cells and tissues with varying degrees of organization.

This book describes the application of signal and image processing technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning techniques to support Covid-19 diagnosis and treatment.

This book encompasses the fundamental concepts of Nanochemistry that involve the self-assemblage of nanostructures, surface stabilization, and functionalization of nanoparticles.

This book reports on advanced topics in the areas of wearable robotics research and practice.

This thesis reports on the development of a fully integrated and automated microsystem consisting of low-cost, disposable plastic chips for DNA extraction and PCR amplification, combined with a reusable glass capillary array electrophoresis chip, which can be employed in a modular-based format for genetic analysis.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of modeling and simulation tools, including virtual and mixed-reality environment, for human factors research.

Safety or comfort?

This book serves as a current resource for Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal analysis using MATLAB(R).

Biomedical Materials and Diagnostics Devices provides an up-to-date overview of the fascinating and emerging field of biomedical materials and devices, fabrication, performance, and uses The biomedical materials with the most promising potential combine biocompatibility with the ability to adjust precisely the biological phenomena in a controlled manner.

This brief provides a broad overview of protein-engineering research, offering a glimpse of the most common experimental methods.

In 2021, over 537 million people worldwide were diagnosed with diabetes, according to the International Diabetes Federation and so the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus have become one of the highest healthcare priorities.

Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms, Second Edition provides an introduction to all major nature-inspired algorithms for optimization.

This book explores the need for a data centric AI approach and its application in the multidisciplinary domain, compared to a model centric approach.

Highlights the Emergence of Image Processing in Food and AgricultureIn addition to uses specifically related to health and other industries, biological imaging is now being used for a variety of applications in food and agriculture.

Functional Food Ingredients from Plants, Volume 90, the latest release in the Advances in Food and Nutrition Research series, provides updated knowledge about nutrients in foods and how to avoid their deficiency, especially for those essential nutrients that should be present in the diet to reduce disease risk and optimize health.

This book presents a comprehensive review of the recent developments in fast L1-norm regularization-based compressed sensing (CS) magnetic resonance image reconstruction algorithms.

The need for qualified specialists to work with and apply sophisticated technology in contemporary medicine is rapidly growing.

Takes a materials science approach, correlating structure-property relationships with function across a broad range of biological materials.

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation.

Biophotonics is a burgeoning field that has afforded researchers and medical practitioners alike an invaluable tool for implementing optical microscopy.

Image Processing with MATLAB: Applications in Medicine and Biology explains complex, theory-laden topics in image processing through examples and MATLAB algorithms.

Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction.

This volume presents the contributions of the fifth International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology (Meditech 2016), held in in Cluj-Napoka, Romania.