This centre coordinates the biomedical engineering research activities in the University of Hong Kong. Existing projects involve other experts from Departments of Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Anatomy, Neurophysiology, Physiology, Periodontology and Public Health, and Pathology in the University of Hong Kong. Past and current collaborators include experts from University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Iowa, National Cheng Kung University, Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei, Concordia University, South East University, University of Science and Technology in China, University of New Brunswick, South China University of Science and Technology.
The main research area is in the application of computing, electronics and other technology in biomedical field, especially in medical signal processing related to health care. One active area is to extract and detect changes of very weak evoked potential signal from high noise background by adaptive filtering, artificial neural network filters and wavelet methods. Other projects include fast and sensitive non-evasive detection of venous air embolism; analysis and modeling of the multi-catheter multi-channel electrode signal in heart chambers, and blind signal method for signal estimation.
In the medical image processing area, projects include detection of tumours in MRI images, processing of pathological images, thermogram images analysis, and matching of x-ray images. |
