IEEE Long Island Section, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
of the IEEE Long Island Section

The Long Island Chapter of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB-18) serves LI technical and business professionals in the medicine and biology fields. We promote and advance knowledge by providing lectures, seminars and reference material in related topics.

For upcoming EMB Society lectures and meetings, please visit the calendar page.
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Innovative Infusion Pump Technologies
Izabella Gieras - Aramark/Mt. Sinai Hospital
2010 June 15

The lecture highlights the hospital-wide infusion pump replacement project, covering the technology overview, application, design, human factors engineering principles, clinical acceptability and the overall project management. Based on the recent advancements in infusion therapies, the lecture also covers the integration of these pumps with various peripheral applications, further supporting the safe and effective healthcare environment.

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Particle Separation in low Re-flow Conditions
Mary D Frame - Stony Brook University
2010 May 5

Dr Frame's research is on micro-fluidics in vivo and in micro-channels. Her interest lies in the two phase particulate low Re-flow. There are two applications: Oxygen delivery to the capillaries by red blood cells in vivo, and, Particle separation in a lab on a chip. There are no theories to predict particle distribution at branch points, however, her empirical data shows some insights into how the shape of the bifurcation is related to the volume flow vs. the particle flux.

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External Oscillatory Blood Pressure
Mindaugas Pranevicius & Osvaldas Pranevicius - Pranevicius Biotech
2010 April 22

This presentation focuses on a novel blood pressure measurement method and device, the operation of which is based on the external oscillatory perturbations. External Oscillatory Blood Pressure (EOBP) development was awarded National Instruments medical device development grant in 2008; presented in American Society of Anesthesiologist meeting in 2009 and in Society for Technology in Anesthesia meeting in 2010.

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Introduction to Medical Imaging
Xiaochen Xu - TI
2010 March 9

New technologies in medical imaging are revolutionizing medical diagnostics and treatment. Radiographies with no film, CT scanners able to image a beating heart and ultrasound machines that can produce 3D images with systems of the size of a laptop are just some examples. This presentation gives an overview of these fascinating systems, with a description of the fundamental physics, the engineering and the medical applications.

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Systems Approach to Epidemiology
Aaron Kershenbaum - Columbia University
2010 January 28

At the center of epidemiology is the problem of determining relationships between disease and exposure to possible causes. The relationships are complex as there are often many contributing causes and these causes usually interact with one another. Similarly, many genetic predispositions to disease are the combined effects of several genetic factors as well as their interactions with environmental factors. Thus, the analysis of a disease and its causes can be thought of as the analysis of a large complex system.

Because the data used in the analysis is usually inexact and often contains errors and also because many of the contributing factors are not known, the analysis usually relies heavily on statistics. While statistical analysis is robust and forgiving, in order to get meaningful results using it one must have a clear understanding of the possible functional forms these relationships can take, in order to check assumptions being made in interpreting statistical results. Similarly, two important causative factors may be missed if considered separately or as part of a linear function (as in regression analysis) but may reveal themselves clearly when considered as multiplicative factors of as a Boolean AND where both must be present in order for them to have an effect.

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Stratify Arrhythmia Risk Using Digital Electrocardiography
Eric J. Rashba - Electrophysiology Laboratories, Stony Brook University
2009 October 22

The lecture focuses on research of cardiac electrical systems, including a synopsis of research and publications on the prediction and prevention of sudden cardiac death. Other topics covered include electrophysiologic effects of late percutaneous coronary interventions in acute myocardial infarction and identification of factors that predict survival benefit from ICD implantation among patients with Non-ischemic cardiomyapathy.

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Circuit Design Using Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation
Patrick Noonan - National Instruments
2008 May 21

Virtual Instrument technology has widely been used for test, measurement and system level design. This lecture discusses an approach of using Virtual Instrumentation and applying it in conjunction with SPICE-based simulation technology to improve overall product design, development and test. A demonstration of a sensor/imaging circuit used in biomedical instrumentation, is showcased using SPICE and virtual instrumentation technology to highlight these concepts.

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Pick a Palette and Beyond: Report Generation with LabVIEW
Terry Stratoudakis - ALE System Integration
2007 September 13

Every automated test and control application needs some form of report generation, whether it is for ISO compliance, for internal tracking, or to convey the results in a meaningful form. The methodologies for automated report generation in LabVIEW are reviewed. Topics include standard VIs to create, print, save & perform format changes, express VIs to generate reports in Standard, DIAdem and DIAdem formats, HTML VIs to create and save HTML files, report Layout VIs and advanced VIs for special functions.

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