Biomedical measurements

Techniques which are well established in traditional engineering applications need new hardware and software to work efficiently in the biomedical arena. Much of our work includes fusing multiples sources of data, or fusing data with underlying models of movement or tissue properties to improve predictions, sometimes with the development of novel instrumentation. Current applications are in cancer diagnosis and therapy, stroke rehabilitation and orthopaedics. Recent projects have included monitoring heat distribution and tissue changes from ultrasound images in cancer therapy (HIFU), developing protocols and instrumentation to assess arm movement (with immediate application in stroke rehabilitation), and ultrasound and microwave measurements on soft tissue. We are pursuing methods to integrate the detection of electrical as well as mechanical properties of tissue.

Some underlying methodologies

• Image and signal processing
• Instrumentation
• Data fusion