BME in Musculoskeletal Research
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Engineering Robotic Surgery
This thematic series will review the status quo in robotic surgery, its surrounding clinical environment, as well as the key technologies that will shape the future.
BME in Musculoskeletal Research
This thematic series will review and feature innovative biomedical engineering concepts in musculoskeletal research, development and surgery
Engineering Tissue and Disease Models
This thematic series, inspired by TERMIS 2018 and led by thought leaders in the field, will address outstanding challenges in tissue and disease modelling.
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Compressed sensing MRI: a review from signal processing perspective
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Fully convolutional architecture vs sliding-window CNN for corneal endothelium cell segmentation
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BMC Biomedical Engineering: a home for all biomedical engineering research
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Robots in laparoscopic surgery: current and future status
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An upper body garment with integrated sensors for people with neurological disorders – early development and evaluation
Thematic series
Succeeding as a woman in biomedical engineering
In this interview, our Editorial Advisor Chae-Ok Yun shares insights into her daily working life, the difficulties she had to overcome during her early steps and provides advice for your young women aspiring to become engineers.
Sang Yup Lee
Dr. Sang Yup Lee is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently the Dean of KAIST Institutes, Director of BioProcess Engineering Research Center, and Director of Bioinformatics Research Center. He has published more than 580 journal papers, 82 books/book chapters, and more than 630 patents.
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From Connor S. Murphy [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)]
Featured article: Engineering adipose tissue for modeling disease
This review discussed the applications of tissue-engineered adipose tissue for disease modeling, provided a basic background to adipose depots, and described 3D in vitro adipose models for obesity, diabetes, and cancer research applications.
Modified from Jason Knauer [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]
Featured article: Robots in laparoscopic surgery
Robots used for laparoscopic surgery is one of the most active areas of surgical robots. This article is an overview of the research and development of laparoscope-holder robots, master-slave robots and hand-held robotic forceps.
Aims and scope
BMC Biomedical Engineering is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of biomedical engineering, including fundamental, translational and clinical research. It combines tools and methods from biology and medicine with mathematics, physical sciences and engineering towards the understanding of human biology and disease and the improvement of human health.
Sections:- Biomaterials, nanomedicine and tissue engineering
- Medical technologies, robotics and rehabilitation engineering
- Biosensors and bioelectronics
- Computational and systems biology
- Biomechanics
- Biomedical Imaging
Editor
Lingling Tian, BMC
Chair
Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science andTechnology
Section Editors
Alan Lefor, Jichi Medical University
António Veloso, University of Lisbon
Yong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhi Yang, University of Minnesota
Jong Chul Ye, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dimitrios Zeugolis, NUI Galway
Section Editor Alan Lefor on BMC Biomedical Engineering
In this interview, Prof. Alan Lefor discusses his vision for BMC Biomedical Engineering, provides an outline of his research interests and and shares some tips for our authors.
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BMC Series blog
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Mitigating Violence against Women and Children in East Africa
23 January 2020
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