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Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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. |
Conferences > EMB 2007 Education > Berkeley > Cornell > MIT > Stanford > SynBERC > TAMEST > UWM LI Medicine & Biology > Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Organizations Reference > IEC > OSHA
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Introduction
to Mediacl Imaging
Xiaochen Xu -
TI 
Chairman
Vice Chairman