kuala lumpur international conference on
biomedical engineering 2006
11-14 december 2006 / malaysia

conference tutorials

All tutorial sessions will be held at:

Department of Biomedical Engineering
2nd Floor, Block A,
Faculty of Engineering
University of Malaya

Please contact Juliana Usman (juliana_78@um.edu.my) if you have any queries.

Bioinstrumentation FULLY BOOKED!

Tutorial coordinator
Professor John G. Webster, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, United States

Abstract
The tutorial will present methods of sensing, amplifying and displaying medical variables. It will include design of electrocardiographic amplifiers and methods of avoiding interference and motion artifacts. It will include design of therapeutic devices: cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, electrosurgery, and RF ablation. It will present electrical safety.

Objectives
At the end of this tutorial the participants will be able to:

1. Explain the fundamental principles of operation and general types of equipment used in hospitals and biomedical research.
2. Use medical instruments correctly.
3. Design new medical instruments for diagnosis.
4. Design new medical devices for therapy.
5. Analyze electric safety hazards in hospitals

Program

MEMS FULLY BOOKED!

Tutorial Coordinator
Professor Marc Madou, Ph.D
University of California Irvine, United States

Abstract
In this course we explore the science of miniaturization providing an in-depth understanding of applications, knowledge of different manufacturing options, familiarity with all materials choices, and an understanding of scaling laws. Miniaturization techniques surveyed are both top-down methods, in which one builds down from the large to the small, and bottom-up methods, in which one builds up from the small to the large. The applications covered in this course are all in the biomedical and biotechnology areas.

Objectives
At the end of this workshop/tutorial the participants will:

1. Describe applications from the microfluidics and BIOMEMS arena including: DNA assisted assembly of MEMS components; artificial muscle for drug delivery vehicles; a CD-based microfluidic platform; merging of DNA arrays with microfluidics.
2. Describe a biomimetic approach to MEMS and NEMS.
3. Explain how we get from MEMS to NEMS
4. Describe scaling laws.
5. Provide an introduction to MEMS.

Program

Biomedical informatics and neural engineering

Tutorial Coordinator
Professor Metin Akay, Ph.D
Arizona State University, United States

Abstract
Biomedical informatics is an emerging discipline that coalesces the health science knowledge including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, radiology and biological sciences with computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, information technologies and management.

The course contents include structures, algorithms and design of algorithms necessary to organize, store, retrieve and analyze data and developing computational solutions to produce new knowledge and understanding about, and representation of biomedical knowledge, management of health care/hospital systems, clinical decision making, research in biomedical and pharmaceutical systems, and design and development of interactive and distributive multimedia systems for education.

Objectives
At the end of this workshop/tutorial the participants will:

1. Understand the fundamentals of biomedical informatics
2. Understands the use of signal processing in genomics and proteomics

Program

Biomedical image analysis

Tutorial Coordinator
Professor Bart ter Haar Romeny, Ph.D
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Abstract
The tutorial will explain applications and techniques in biomedical image analysis: robust computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), quantitative image analysis and interactive 3D visualization techniques. Images are made in such huge numbers, that CAD becomes indispensable. They include precise quantitative measuements, for which clever computer vision algorithms must be applied. We will explain the details of the used computer vision techniques (many of them are biologically inspired), and give ample examples of applications.

Objectives
At the end of the tutorial the participants will be able to:

1. Understand the basic principles of computer-aided diagnosis techniques
2. Understand the basic principles of qualitative image analysis techniques
3. Have a good overview of modern interactive three-dimensional visualization techniques
4. Have insight in how to design computer vision algorithms by ‘geometric reasoning’.

Program