Last Update: March 18, 2007



Target audience:

Post-graduate students in Biomedical Engineering and affine areas, in a broad sense, including Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. Post-graduate students in the areas of Biology, Medical and Veterinary Sciences are also welcome. Both PhD students and Master (second cycle) students will find motives of interest.

Objectives:
The aim of this School is to present in a unified way the theoretical basis and design tools for modelling and control of physiological systems with emphasis on biomedical applications.

Motivation and overview:
Modern developments in the technology of sensors and actuators for biomedical systems allow the possibility of application of information processing methods to biomedical problems related to health care. On the other side, the full exploitation of these possibilities requires powerful methodologies and theories for monitoring and control design. This School aims at presenting an introduction to such methods with a strong interplay with actual clinical applications. For that sake an interdisciplinary approach is followed with lectures given by biomedical and control engineers, medical doctors and applied mathematicians. The diversity of points of view is therefore insured by expert lectures with these different backgrounds.

The course comprises lectures covering the following subjects:

• Knowledge extraction, modelling and identification in biomedical systems.
• Basic and advanced control for drug delivery systems
• Compartmental models
• Sensors and signal processing
• Fault tolerance
• Applications and clinical case studies (e.g. anaesthesia, neuromuscular blockade, cancer therapy, diabetes, HIV1)