Bioengineering

Course title: Bioengineering

Code: FEIT01Z021

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 2+2+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course goals/Competences: The basic goal of the course is student to gain knowledge for the scientific and technological bases for established and emerging subfields of bioengineering, including: biosensors, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, biomechanics, biomaterials, tissue engineering, biological imaging, and biomedical optics and lasers, neuroengineering, and biomolecular machines.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Introduction to Physiology and Biomedicine: Introduction to basic characteristics, structure and function of physiological processes - including cardio-vascular system, cells, dynamics of brain waves, ion channels etc. Technical Basics of the measuring instruments and procedures. Processing of biomedical signals: Analysis of biomedical signals in time and time-frequency domain. Quantitative analysis of invasive and noninvasive biomedical measurements and implications for diagnosis and detection of diseases and clinical conditions. Processing of Biomedical Images: Marking and characteristics detection from biomedical images - MRI, X-ray, laser-optical tomography and the like. Modeling and simulation of biological systems: Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of biological processes and systems; study of their interaction and qualitative behavior. Nonlinear Biomedical Systems: Study of time-variant oscillatory characteristics of biomedical systems - theoretical and practical analysis of the cardio-respiratory interaction and oscillatory processes of blood flow. Qualitative transitions in cardio-respiratory synchronization and determination of direction.

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