BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

• Physiological systems modeling
• Time-frequency and time scale analysis
• Nonlinear dynamic analysis
• Adaptive and parametric filtering and estimation
• Pattern recognition and soft computing techniques
• Data mining and processing

MEDICAL PHYSICS, BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION PROTECTION

• Medical physics in diagnostic and interventional radiology
• Medical physics in nuclear medicine
• Medical physics in radiotherapy
• Biomedical imaging and novel imaging modalities
• Image processing, analysis and classification
• Radiation protection

BIOSENSORS AND BIOINSTRUMENTATION

• Physical sensors and sensor systems
• Bioelectric, biological and chemical sensors and sensor systems
• Physiological monitoring / Instrumentation / Integrated systems
• Implantable technologies, sensors and systems
• Wearable sensors / Body area and wireless sensor networks / Telemetric systems

BIO-MICRO/NANO TECHNOLOGIES

• Internal, implanted and portable miniaturized systems
• BioMEM / NEMS
• Microfluidics / Lab-on-a-chip devices
• Nano-biotechnology

BIOMATERIALS

• Biomaterials for sensing and actuation
• Biomimetic, bioinspired and patterned biomaterials
• Biomaterials in cellular and tissue engineering

BIOMECHANICS, ROBOTICS AND MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY

• Musculoskeletal models and human movement analysis
• Orthotic, prosthetic and rehabilitation robotics and biomechanics
• Cardiovascular and respiratory fluid mechanics and biomechanics
• Human-robot interaction / Robot-aided surgery
• Biologically inspired robotics / Micro-bio robotics
• Minimally invasive surgery

CARDIOVASCULAR, RESPIRATORY AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

• Cardiac and respiratory function and modeling
• Cardiovascular and respiratory signal processing and modeling
• Cardiovascular electrophysiology and regulation
• Respiratory disease / Sleep disorder / Respiratory engineering
• Endocrine systems, function, modeling and control

NEURAL AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING

• Brain physiology and modeling
• Neural signal processing
• Neural interfaces and regeneration
• Motor and sensory neuroprostheses / Brain-machine interface
• Rehabilitation and wearable technologies
• Brain functional imaging / Neurological disorders

MOLECULAR, CELLULAR AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

• Biomaterial-cell interactions
• Cellular force transduction
• Embryonic and stem cells in regenerative medicine
• Electrical fields at the cell and protein scale
• Electroporation
• Tissue engineering / Scaffolds in tissue engineering

BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

• Bioinformatics and computational modeling of complex omic data
• Systems biology / Systems medicine
• Translational biomedical informatics for clinical applications
• Modeling of molecular, cellular and organ pathways

CLINICAL ENGINEERING AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

• Clinical engineering / Health technology management
• Health technology policy, economics and ethics / Health technology assessment
• Technology development, commercialization, assessment and management
• Safety and human factors engineering for medical devices and systems
• IT in medicine / Equipment interconnectivity and integration
• Clinical engineering and disaster preparedness

HEALTH INFORMATICS, E-HEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE

• Personal, pervasive, preventive, and participatory health systems
• Ambient assisted living / Smart homes
• Body area networks / Wireless technologies
• mHealth / eHealth / Telemedicine
• Health information management / Electronic health records
• Decision support methods and systems

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING IN HEALTHCARE

• Disease Classification and/or Prediction
• Personalized Treatment/Behavioral Modification
• Automatic Treatment/Recommendation
• Drug discovery/Manufacturing
• Clinical Trial Research
• Radiology and Ratiotherapy
• Smart Electronic Health Records

PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING

• Pharmaceutical Development in Industry
• Bio-/Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• Pharmaceutical Devices
• Pharmacokinetics

GENETIC ENGINEERING

• Forensic Genetics
• Molecular Markers
• Immunotherapy, Gene, Individual and Cancer Therapy
• Molecular Antropology
• Stem cell technology
• Genomics, Proteomics and Pharmagenomics
• GMO and Biosafety
• Genetic Screening and Counseling

VETERINARY ENGINEERING

• Diagnostic advancements
• Animal health
• Food safety
• One health

METROLOGY IN MEDICAL MEASUREMENTS

• Hearing, acoustics, infrasonics and ultrasonics
• Medical instrumentation uncertainty and calibrations
• Metrology for medical measurements
• Standards for medical applications