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2007
MASTER'S PROGRAMME IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 120 hp
Aim/vision
Biomedical Engineering encompasses fundamental concepts in engineering, biology and medicine to develop innovative approaches and new devices, materials, implants, algorithms, processes and systems for the assessment and evaluation of technology; for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease; for patient care and rehabilitation and for improving medical practice and health care delivery.
Programme goals
The Biomedical Engineering curriculum supports and sustains "Engineering for Health" through a relevant mixture of compulsary and elective courses arranged in a track structure. This enables in-depth as well as broad-based studies. A master in biomedical engineering should be able to:
- formulate and solve engineering problems in the medical domain, encompassing the design of devices, algorithms, systems, and processes to improve human health and integrating a thorough understanding of the life sciences
- use, propose and evaluate engineering tools and approaches relating to life science problems
- identify and manage the particular problems related to the acquisition, processing and interpretion of biomedical texts, signals and images
- integrating engineering and life science knowledge, using modeling and simulation techniques
- communicate engineering problems in the life science domain
Disposition of the Programme
The Master of Science programme in Biomedical Engineering, at Linköping University (LiU) consist of a broad compulsory part comprising approximately 50 ECTS credits. Specialization in depth in four tracks: medical informatics, biomedical signals and instrumentation, bioenginering and medical imaging. Each track has approximately 25 compulsary ECTS credits and 15 elective ECTS credits. A final thesis work comprising 30 ECTS points within the main subjects completes the programme.
Content of the Programme
The programme content ensures that the graduates are able to demonstrate the following competencies after graduation:
- comprehensively analyse the origin and processing of physiological signals using various models for analysis
- describe haemodynamic models of the circulatory, respiratory, digestive and endocrine systems a there analysing techniques
- recognize methods, technologies and systems used for intensive care and therapy and enlighten ethical and social issues in highly specialized health care
- comprehensively analyse of physical properties of light and its impact and interaction with biological tissue related to the tissue optical properties based on light transport
- evaluate biomedical imaging technologies and their impact on biological tissue and the influence on image quality
- the ability to analyse the role of information technology in the health care sector
- use multivariate statistical methods with applications in bioscience and related research areas and be able to analyse data using statistical software
- reflect on problems, methods and traditions within the philosophy of science in general and present an overview of important philosophical problems related to biomedical engineering
Specializations
To deepen the studies in a particular biomedical engineering field, the student is required to choose one of the following four tracks:
- Medical Informatics: information management and processing at individual and population level, including indexing and retrieval of medical data and information, medical terminologies, models of and tools for medical decision making and decision support, knowledge discovery and representation, implementation and evaluation of decision support.
- Bioengineering: signal and systems at the molecular level, including methods and models in close interaction with biology and chemistry. Interfacing and balancing between engineering and the biological sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, and bioinstrumentation are fundamental.
- Biomedical Signals and Instrumentation: theoretical as well as experimental studies of biomedical signal and systems for diagnostic and therapeutic requirements. Activities include modelling and simulation, signal processing but also advanced health systems in hospitals and home health care settings.
- Biomedical Imaging: Specializing in imaging modalities and applying engineering principles to visualize systems in the biological sciences and medicine using high-order dimensions of signal analysis. Utilize mathematical methods and computing structures for learning and self-organization in finding and describing meaningful relations in multidimensional signals.
Master Thesis
The thesis should include high quality scientific research within the research area of the profile chosen by the students. Without special permission a thesis work may be performed in the following subject areas:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical instrumentation
- Biotechnology
- Computational Physics
- Image Processing
- Medical Informatics
- Physiological Measurement Technology
PhD courses in the programme
Certain PhD courses can be taken by master students. Please contact the graduate study directors:
In order to include graduate course in the degree the student must apply to the Board of Studies
Entrance requirements and degree
See general rules and regulations for master programmes at LiTH.
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