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This book covers a wide range of subject areas, including assisted living, social robots, augmentative and alternative communication, connectivity, artificial intelligence, and robot design. Each chapter is authored by experts in their respective fields and offers readers theoretical and applied scientific papers that can serve as original research or review papers. This valuable volume is essential for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in developments in assistive technology. It explores trends and innovations in the field, demonstrating how assistive technology is enhancing the lives of people with disabilities or reduced mobility, and the elderly. The book is a comprehensive overview of the latest research and advancements in assistive technology, making it an essential addition to any library for both seasoned researchers and those just starting to explore the field. We are grateful to the authors for their invaluable contributions to this book, which would not have been possible without their generosity in sharing their knowledge and experiences.

Cryopreservation is the preservation of cells at sub-zero temperatures. Although useful, the process is not without its challenges. One of the major challenges is the formation of ice crystals in the cells to be preserved. However, vitrification, where glass is formed instead of crystals, can be achieved using cryoprotection agents (CPAs). This book provides a comprehensive overview of cryopreservation and its applications. It discusses advancements in the field, challenges, guidelines, and recommendations for successful germplasm conservation. Chapters discuss the use of CPAs, cryopreservation of fish sperm, cryopreservation of oocytes and sperms, female fertility preservation, cryopreservation of large structures and tissues, and much more.

Biomimetics is an innovative form of technology that emulates, imitates, or mimics nature in order to improve human lives by creating desirable solutions. It is the study of nature and natural phenomena in an attempt to understand its laws, principles, and underlying mechanisms, to obtain ideas from nature, and to apply concepts that may benefit science, engineering, pharmacy, dentistry, and medicine. Smart/intelligent biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are fine examples of biomimetics. Yet, biomimicry can go above and beyond the simplistic inspiration and use of natural properties as the basis for the innovation of new products. It bridges the gap between the lab and the industry via the intra-disciplinary design and formulation of functional solutions combining knowledge, methods, techniques, and advances in the fields of chemistry, biology, architecture, engineering, medicine, pharmaceutics, dentistry, and biomedical engineering. Three-dimensional printing, self-healing nanocoatings, hydrogels, bio-mechanical carbon nanotubes, stimuli-sensitive and -responsive cell/drug delivery systems, and robotics are some of the topics covered in this book. In a simplified style, the book provides interested readers with a practical reference approaching biomimetics and biomimicry from a realistic and translational perspective, discussing problems and offering solutions and including studies ranging from basics to the clinic to scale-up and industrial or go-to-market obstacles. Through Biomimetics - Bridging the Gap, you'll quickly discover that biomimicry is more than just looking at a silkworm (silk is one of the first examples in history) or at the shape of a flower, a damselfly, or even a humpback whale and becoming re-inspired. Biomimicry is an intra-/multi-disciplinary methodology and technological-oriented approach presently employed by the most innovative organizations on this planet.

Molecular docking is a widely used bioinformatics method in biology, medicine, and biochemistry. This method, which can model interactions between different receptors and their various ligands at the molecular level, can represent intermolecular interactions at an unprecedented resolution that may not be achieved by classical experimental approaches. This book describes different aspects of this method that can reveal the intermolecular biochemical and biophysical interactions and the affinities of partner molecules to each other. It is designed for academics, students, and professionals interested in this technique.

Telehealth includes clinical and non-clinical services, such as monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as delivery of preventative care and health promotion. Telemedicine is a more common term that describes remote clinical services. The major impact of COVID-19 has caused telemedicine to become mainstream since the end of 2019. Clinicians are having to use tele-consultation, tele-monitoring, tele-pharmacy, tele-rehabilitation, tele-surgery and other remote methods and technologies to assess and treat patients. In patient-centric telehealth/telemedicine, personalized data generated by the various monitoring technologies are jointly managed by patients and medical staff, moving us ever closer to the ideal of precision medicine. With contributions from many respected authors, this book incorporates updated developments as well as future prospects for the ever-expanding field of telehealth/telemedicine. It can also serve as a reference for anyone involved in this field, whether they are clinicians, researchers or patients.

Organoids are three-dimensional miniature tissue mimics established from embryonic stem cells, human pluripotent stem cells, adult stem cells, and cancer cells. These fascinating 3D organoids serve as a valuable tool for fundamental research, disease modeling, drug screening and discovery, regenerative medicine, and deciphering the mechanism of disease pathogenesis. This book emphasizes the emerging data and critical resources covering the fundamentals of organoids and their use in modeling and application in various diseases, especially cancer. The chapters deal with organoid bioengineering in cerebral organoids, retinal organoids, tumoroids, and organoid commercialization. This book is intended for a broad readership and is an indispensable resource for basic biologists, translational scientists, and clinicians.

Biosignal processing is an important tool in medicine. As such, this book presents a comprehensive overview of novel methods in biosignal theory, biosignal processing algorithms and applications, and biosignal sensors. Chapters examine biosignal processing for glucose detection, tissue engineering, electrocardiogram processing, soft tissue tomography, and much more. The book also discusses applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning for biosignal processing.

Features new research on the contributions of IoT and cloud technology in healthcare information systems for the improvement of patient care and disease management. The chapters showcase the interface between e-health and communication technologies and their contribution to building efficient and secure healthcare information systems.

Biomedical Engineering Design presents the design processes and practices used in academic and industry medical device design projects. The first two chapters are an overview of the design process, project management and working on technical teams. Further chapters follow the general order of a design sequence in biomedical engineering, from problem identification to validation and verification testing. The first seven chapters, or parts of them, can be used for first-year and sophomore design classes. The next six chapters are primarily for upper-level students and include in-depth discussions of detailed design, testing, standards, regulatory requirements and ethics. The last two chapters summarize the various activities that industry engineers might be involved in to commercialize a medical device.

This volume helps to meet the challenge processing of medical images by presenting a thorough overview of medical imaging modalities, its processing, high-performance computing, and the need to embed parallelism in medical image processing techniques to achieve efficient and fast results.

Biomedical and Health Informatics is an important field that brings tremendous opportunities and helps address challenges due to an abundance of available biomedical data. This book examines and demonstrates state-of-the-art approaches for IOT and Machine Learning based biomedical and health related applications.

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering focuses on recent AI technologies and applications that provide some very promising solutions and enhanced technology in the biomedical field.

This text is intended for use in an introductory course in bioinstrumentation taken by seniors and 1st year graduate students in departments of biomedical engineering and possibly electrical engineering.

Biomedical Information Technology, Second Edition, contains practical, integrated clinical applications for disease detection, diagnosis, surgery, therapy and biomedical knowledge discovery, including the latest advances in the field, such as biomedical sensors, machine intelligence, artificial intelligence, deep learning in medical imaging, neural networks, natural language processing, large-scale histopathological image analysis, virtual, augmented and mixed reality, neural interfaces, and data analytics and behavioral informatics in modern medicine. The enormous growth in the field of biotechnology necessitates the utilization of information technology for the management, flow and organization of data. All biomedical professionals can benefit from a greater understanding of how data can be efficiently managed and utilized through data compression, modeling, processing, registration, visualization, communication and large-scale biological computing. Presents the world''s most recognized authorities who give their "best practices" Provides professionals with the most up-to-date and mission critical tools to evaluate the latest advances in the field Gives new staff the technological fundamentals and updates experienced professionals with the latest practical integrated clinical applications

Intended to be a handy, easily-accessible compilation of useful biomedical terminology, this volume also contains appendices showing conversion charts, common vital signs, laboratory values of physiologic importance, useful physical constants, definitions, and formulae.

Analysis and Application of Analog Electronic Circuits to Biomedical Instrumentation, Second Edition helps biomedical engineers understand the basic analog electronic circuits used for signal conditioning in biomedical instruments. It explains the function and design of signal conditioning systems using analog ICs-the circuits that enable ECG, EEG, EMG, ERG, tomographic images, biochemical spectrograms, and other crucial medical applications. This book demonstrates how op amps are the keystone of modern analog signal conditioning system design and illustrates how they can be used to build instrumentation amplifiers, active filters, and many other biomedical instrumentation systems and subsystems. It introduces the mathematical tools used to describe noise and its propagation through linear systems, and it looks at how signal-to-noise ratios can be improved by signal averaging and linear filtering. Features Analyzes the properties of photonic sensors and emitters and the circuits that power them Details the design of instrumentation amplifiers and medical isolation amplifiers Considers the modulation and demodulation of biomedical signals Examines analog power amplifiers, including power op amps and class D (switched) PAs Describes wireless patient monitoring, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication protocols Explores RFID, GPS, and ultrasonic tags and the design of fractal antennas Addresses special analog electronic circuits and systems such as phase-sensitive rectifiers, phase detectors, and IC thermometers By explaining the "building blocks" of biomedical systems, the author illustrates the importance of signal conditioning systems in the devices that gather and monitor patients'' critical medical information. Fully revised and updated, this second edition includes new chapters, a glossary, and end-of-chapter problems. What''s New in This Edition Updated and revised material throughout the book A chapter on the applications, circuits, and characteristics of power amplifiers A chapter on wireless patient monitoring using UHF telemetry A chapter on RFID tags, GPS tags, and ultrasonic tags A glossary to help you decode the acronyms and terms used in biomedical electronics, physiology, and biochemistry New end-of-chapter problems and examples

In order to effectively replace and regenerate a tissue, engineers must be familiar with mechanics, diffusion, electrical conductivity, heat transfer, kinetics, and a host of other concepts that are frequently studied. Each of these concepts is exposed in this book through introductions followed by mathematical equations with example problems.

Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Edition, is a comprehensive survey text for biomedical engineering courses. It is the most widely adopted text across the BME course spectrum, valued by instructors and students alike for its authority, clarity, and encyclopedic coverage in a single volume. Biomedical engineers need to understand the wide range of topics that are covered in this text, including basic mathematical modeling, anatomy and physiology, electrical engineering, signal processing and instrumentation, biomechanics, biomaterials science, tissue engineering, and medical and engineering ethics. The authors tackle these core topics at a level appropriate for senior undergraduate students and graduate students who are either majoring in BME or studying it as a combined course with a related engineering, biology or life science, or medical/pre-medical course.

Suitable for both graduate students and engineers in medical ultrasound research, this book provides a unified description of the physical principles of ultrasound imaging, signal processing, systems and measurements. It also includes over 1,000 references.

From a biomedical engineering perspective, this book takes an analytic, quantitative approach to describing the basic components of physiological regulators and control systems (PRCs). It also offers material on the potential of PRCs to treat immune system ailments, most notably AIDS and cancer.

"The Second Edition of the Biomaterials textbook consists of 32 chapters that have been conceived and organized as a practical educational roadmap to provide a fundamental understanding of key families of biomaterials and underscore their potential applications in clinical therapeutics. The 32 chapters are organized in 4 sections: Section 1: Biology, Biomechanics, Biomaterials Interactions Section 2: Biomaterials Testing, Statistics, Regulatory Considerations, Intellectual Property Section 3: Biomaterials Compositions Section 4: Biomaterials Applications"--

The field of biomedical engineering requires its practitioners to know and master not only engineering skills, but also a diversity of material in the biological sciences. This text helps biomedical engineering students and professionals strengthen their skills in the network of applied mathematics that ties together these diverse disciplines.

Demonstrates the benefits reaped from the application of digital image processing, computer vision, and pattern analysis techniques to biomedical images. This book focuses on post-acquisition challenges such as image enhancement, detection of edges and objects, analysis of shape, quantification of texture and sharpness, and pattern analysis.

Takes a problem-driven approach to biomedical signal processing by considering a wide range of problems in cardiac and neurological applications - the two 'heavyweight' areas of biomedical signal processing. This title presents a problem-driven, interdisciplinary presentation of biomedical signal processing.

Detailing the analysis and design of the hardware of an MRI system from an engineering perspective, this work provides a basic reference for the MRI engineer as well as graduate students in magnetic resonance and instrumentation. It also features color photographs that illustrate the principles discussed.