Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society Research Articles

Fostering Future Professionals: A Review of the IEEE EMBS Student Mentoring Program

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is dedicated to fostering professional development for its student members. One of the primary ways that EMBS accomplishes this mission is through its student activities committee (SAC) student mentoring program.

Empowering Student Leaders: The New Initiative to Establish Regional Student Activities Committees and Student Regional Representatives in the IEEE EMBS

The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is a leading international organization dedicated to promoting the integration of engineering and medicine to improve human health. The EMBS Student Activities Committee (SAC) is responsible for promoting and supporting student involvement in the society, and the recent initiative to install regional student activities committees (RSACs) and student regional representatives (SRRs) is a major step forward in the efforts to better serve the members of the society. This review article aims to provide an overview of this new initiative and its potential benefits for the EMBS community.

Insights Into Health Care Innovation and the Future of EMBS

As my term comes to end as president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) (‘21, ‘22), I wish to share with you some of our exciting technical activities during my tenure, strategic planning over the next five years (2022–2027), and insights for the future beyond 2027.

Successful International EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Innovation Held in Hungary.

The 1st IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the University of Pécs International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Innovation (ICBEI) was held on 24-26 October 2022, in Pécs, Hungary. The conference opened with welcome talks by Prof. Attila Miseta, the rector of the University of Pécs (UP), Prof. Miklos Nyitrai, the dean of the UP, and Prof. Metin Akay, the president of IEEE EMBS, who delivered the first keynote talk at the conference. Then, we enjoyed three more exceptional keynote talks by Dr. Yasemin Akay, Dr. Gabor Forgacs, and Dr. Istvan Ulbert (Figure 1). With the participation of 230+ people, nine keynote lectures, and nine health care companies holding exhibitions, the conference was exceptional and well organized by Dr. Luca Toth, Dr. Adam Schiffer, and Dr. Peter Maroti, M.D., Ph.D., from the Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Innovation (Figure 2). The conference organizing team did a fantastic job. The attendance by several medical school students, the participation of health care companies (Figure 3), the hackathon competition, and several workshops were the highlights of the event. The first day of the conference concluded with a special wine tasting sponsored by the University of Pécs Wine Research Institute. Then, the conference organizing committee appreciation dinner hosted by Luca Tóth, Adam Schiffer, and Péter Maróti in the historical city of Pécs was indeed an exceptional social and cultural event (Figure 4).

IEEE EMBS International Student Conferences -Insights From 2022 Editions.

Student members within IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) are one of the most active segments among all other membership levels. Student-led initiatives all around the world have shown the necessity to give students the opportunity to present solutions to educational challenges, aiming to make the learning of young people an enriching and continuous experience while honing their organizational skills. IEEE EMBS SAC [1], formed under vice president for member and student activities, has taken the responsibility to initiate and implement programs for undergraduate and graduate student members of the society. One of these programs, IEEE EMBS ISC, is the flagship event under the oversight of the Professional Development Portfolio. The purpose of the ISCs is to help students learn to manage an IEEE-style conference in a low-pressure environment and improve on their soft skills like leadership, communication, teamwork, and project management. Moreover, it gives them a platform to practice giving and receiving peer feedback on scientific writing and presentations, as well as making international connections which could turn into future collaborations.

Adaptive algorithms: a bibliographic review

The analysis of a research work developed in the company C.V.G CARBONORCA of Venezuela is presented, which has two gas purification plants for the cooking area, designed to purify the gas that comes from the cooking ovens. Each plant is made up of solenoid valves, pneumatic valves, transmitters, process mimic panel and a supervisory system. All these elements are governed by a SIEMENS S5-115U PLC which is in a state of obsolescence, which is why the replacement of these automata by ALLEN BRADLEY ContolLogix automata was designed, in order to guarantee continuity in operations in plant. The research was done with a descriptive design of the field experimental type. A code for each gas treatment plant was obtained in RSLOGIX 5000 v17.00.00 and the update of the database of the supervisory system. The operation of the program was also verified through a simulation of the plant in a supervisory system, the deployment of which was designed for this purpose.
 Keywords: Automation, Modernization, ControlLogix, Supervisory System, Mimic Panel
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Student Leaders Today, Professional Leaders Tomorrow

One of the core missions of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is to be a platform for enhancing the personal and professional development of its members. This month we focus on two related priority areas of the IEEE EMBS Student Activities Committee (SAC) [1], namely Leadership Development and Professional Development Portfolios, and bring you up close to the student and professional leaders actively building these programs. The Leadership Development Portfolio, currently led by Agnieszka Łach from Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, focuses on nurturing and supporting student leaders of the EMBS globally. The Professional Development Portfolio, currently led by Josée Rosset from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, aims to help EMBS student members develop their skills and experiences in the practice of biomedical engineering.

The effect of input noises on the activity of auditory neurons using GLM-based metrics * *Part of this work has been presented at the Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019. The results and analysis have been substantially expanded.

Objective. The auditory system is extremely efficient in extracting auditory information in the presence of background noise. However, people with auditory implants have a hard time understanding speech in noisy conditions. The neural mechanisms related to the processing of background noise, especially in the inferior colliculus (IC) where the auditory midbrain implant is located, are still not well understood. Understanding the mechanisms of perception in noise could lead to better stimulation or preprocessing strategies for such implants. We thus wish to investigate if there is a difference in the activity of neurons in the IC when presenting noisy vocalizations with different types of noise (stationary vs. non-stationary), input signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and signal levels. Approach. We developed novel metrics based on a generalized linear model (GLM) to investigate the effect of a given input noise on neural activity. We used these metrics to analyze neural data recorded from the IC in ketamine-anesthetized female Hartley guinea pigs while presenting noisy vocalizations. Main results. We found that non-stationary noise clearly contributes to the multi-unit neural activity in the IC by causing excitation, regardless of the SNR, input level or vocalization type. However, when presenting white or natural stationary noises, a great diversity of responses was observed for the different conditions, where the multi-unit activity of some sites was affected by the presence of noise and the activity of others was not. Significance. The GLM-based metrics allowed the identification of a clear distinction between the effect of white or natural stationary noises and that of non-stationary noise on the multi-unit activity in the IC. This had not been observed before and indicates that the so-called noise invariance in the IC is dependent on the input noisy conditions. This could suggest different preprocessing or stimulation approaches for auditory midbrain implants depending on the noisy conditions.

JTEHM: The EMB Journey to Open Access.

The ultimate goal of engineering in medicine and biology (EMB) researchers is to improve medical care for patients and communities all over the world by providing a collaborative environment for engineer-scientists and clinicians. In order for this collaboration to occur, however, there must be a widely indexed platform that promotes communication among researchers across a spectrum of nations, both economically developed and underdeveloped, and between engineer-scientists and clinicians who are less likely to have access to IEEE Xplore. In response to this need, the EMB Society (EMBS) created the Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM), its first Gold Open Access (OA) journal. At its inception in 2012, JTEHM outlined a bold, comprehensive objective: Our unique mission-to bring together scientific researchers, practicing clinicians, and engineers to develop actionable, practical solutions for patients, families, and caregivers-requires open communication and free access.

Committee on man and radiation (COMAR): Update on 5G

The Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) is a technical committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and has been part of that organization since 1997.

Activities to Invigorate a Student Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

An IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) student chapter can play an important service role for collegiate biomedical curricula, supporting (a) faculty and administrators as they offer biomedical programs and work to strengthen industry/community relationships, and (b) students as they engage in engineering skill development and seek industry employment, graduate school opportunities, or medical school placement. This paper summarizes recent projects and activities sponsored by the Kansas State University (KSU) Student Chapter of the IEEE EMBS - efforts intended to maintain interest in the student chapter while supporting its service role. Such a role will become more important in upcoming years in light of the increasing demand for biomedical engineers, especially in the Midwest United States, a reality which motivated the inception of a new KSU undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering starting in Fall 2018. The KSU IEEE EMBS student chapter can play a large role in the overall success of this new curriculum, and the projects and activities summarized in this paper are offered as examples to programs that may wish to benefit from an IEEE EMBS student chapter in a similar and meaningful way.

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.

The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is a scientific conference dedicated to mathematical, algorithmic, and computational aspects of biological and biomedical imaging, across all scales of observation. It fosters knowledge transfer among different imaging communities and contributes to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging. ISBI is a joint initiative from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The 2018 meeting will include tutorials, and a scientific program composed of plenary talks, invited special sessions, challenges, as well as oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed papers. High-quality papers are requested containing original contributions to the topics of interest including image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image processing and analysis, dynamic imaging, visualization, image quality assessment, and physical, biological, and statistical modeling. Accepted 4-page regular papers will be published in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE and included in IEEE Xplore. To encourage attendance by a broader audience of imaging scientists and offer additional presentation opportunities, ISBI 2018 will continue to have a second track featuring posters selected from 1-page abstract submissions without subsequent archival publication.

Cochlear implant features and listening effort induction: measurement of the mental workload experienced during a word in noise recognition task

Cochlear implant features and listening effort induction: measurement of the mental workload experienced during a word in noise recognition task

Extended student quality improvement programs of Xiamen University.

This paper describes the recent educational activities and programs organized by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Xiamen University Student Club. The educational programs covered the undergraduate student mentoring program, seminar series, the top-quality course project, and student scientific projects and contests. These activities have successfully cultivated our students strong interests in the field of biomedical engineering, and also trained our students the skills of solving real-world problems and experience of teamwork collaborations. Our initiatives provide a good example of well-organized education practice for IEEE EMBS student organizations.

The effects of Z-score Neurofeedback on procedural learning

The effects of Z-score Neurofeedback on procedural learning

EMBS at half a century: IEEE's original life science and biomedical engineering initiative grows stronger every year.

I recently had the opportunity to give a short talk describing the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) to students and faculty of the University of Florida. While looking over background material, I came to appreciate how deep and long the roots of our Society travel and how strong and wide it currently stands.

Land of the Rising Stars: JSMBE Hosts EMBC 2013

This year?s IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) will take place for the first time in Japan. Held at the Osaka International Convention Center, it will be a joint meeting between the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the 52nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE). This joint conference will provide members with the opportunity to network extensively with physicians, which conference leadership considers crucial for the success of individual biomedical engineers as well as for the field as a whole. In fact, the JSMBE board of directors consists of equal numbers of engineers and medical doctors, and all submitted papers are reviewed by both engineers and medical doctors.

Leading the Solution: Bruce Wheeler, President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

"We are part of the solution," according to Dr. Bruce Wheeler, professor and interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. As the new president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Wheeler maintains leadership priorities that touch every stage of a biomedical engineer?s career?from the undergraduate level through the many roles and types of careers a senior engineer can enjoy?and include every way EMBS can take on the challenge of improving health care in response to present and imminent demands. He offers biomedical engineers a large-scale vision, showing them they are in a prime position to answer the questions the world will face as its population soars and the demand for health care increases, even as current modes of delivery struggle to achieve systemic adaption. In addition, he hopes to provide practical steps EMBS and its members can take to achieve that vision.

Editorial: From "Information Technology in Biomedicine" to "Biomedical and Health Informatics"

The IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (T-ITB) will be retitled as the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) starting in January, 2013. The IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine was launched with four issues per year in 1997. After more than a decade of steady growth, the journal ventured into new challenges: open access of publication and rapid expansion in all health informatics-related fields. In this concluding issue of T-ITB the authors would like to take this opportunity to report briefly some historical retrospectives of journal with known statistics of it and to extend a special appreciation from the current editorial office to readers, authors, reviewers, associate editors, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) relevant committees, IEEE publication staff, and especially two previous Editors-in-Chief for their great contributions to make the Transactions successful. The launching of the J-BHI as the new title of T-ITB is an outcome of the vision of the EMBS's 2011 Publications Committee. The title change and scope revision were accomplished through more than two years of team efforts by T-ITB Editorial Board, EMBS Executive Office, Publication Committee, and AdCom. In the next editorial to be published on January issue of J-BHI, we will discuss the rationale behind the title change and scope revision as well as the grand challenges in health informatics with future perspectives.

The Tenth IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging [A Look At

s in previous years, the 2012 IEEE Summer School was held on Berder’s Island, Morbihan Gulf, Brittany, France (for more details, the reader may visit http://ieeess.enstbretagne.fr/). Since 1994, nearly 500 promising young researchers (Ph.D. students, postdoctoral scientists, and researchers in the industry) have attended this school, which offers a unique place for high-level and in-depth scientific exchanges while fostering participation in the adventure of research. The school not only contributes to a major mission of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)—training of the next-generation researchers—but also provides the Society with worldwide visibility (in addition to that provided by its top journals and regional and international conferences). The high number of applicants results in a difficult selection process for the international committee members, where special attention is paid not only to applicants’ scientific performance, motivation, and reference letters but also to gender issues and the applicants’ countries of origin, especially emerging countries. The 2012 IEEE Summer School gathered 46 researchers from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Korea, China, India, Syria, and, for the first time, from Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Mexico (Figure 1). Many European countries were represented, including the United Kingdom, The Tenth IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging