Posts Categorized: Lifesciences Newsletter

IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.

Safety Engineering: A Life Sciences Approach

Mary Capelli Schellpfeffer, MD, MPA, spoke at a recent IEEE Metro Area Workshop. Here she recounts her work in safety engineering.

TalkAble: A Talking Hand Glove for Hearing Impaired

By Kuldeep Singh V Rajput
TalkAble is a low-cost assistive technology for people suffering from hearing disability. Hearing impaired people generally use hand sign language to communicate. The main idea of TalkAble is to translate this sign language into speech. This affordable device gives them access …

Healthcare Symposium Finds Three Recurring Themes

By Emily Sopensky
Recently, a day-long symposium, “Join the Evolution to the Revolution – Transforming and Innovating Healthcare Through New Technologies”, co-produced by the Intelligent Health Association and IEEE, was held just prior to the annual Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibit Read …

Kuldeep Singh V Rajput

Kuldeep Singh V Rajput is a Project Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He received the B. Tech degree from the B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology. His research interests are in the field of VLSI, Computer Vision and Graphics, Haptics, …

Emily Sopensky

Emily Sopensky co-founded the RFID in Healthcare Consortium in 2008 as an educational not-for-profit addressing technology primarily in healthcare facilities. Initially created 5 years ago by the RHCC, 2014 is the first year the Symposium has substantial IEEE involvement (Life Sciences and Engineering Medicine and …

Wearable Medical Devices: Advancing Bio-Health Engineering

Professor Y.T. Zhang speaks about the future of wearable medical devices.

Smart Implants for Surgery

By Henry Ip and Guang-Zhong Yang
Increasingly, “smart” implants which incorporate information processing components are coming into use. Long-term monitoring is now possible, as new power sources emerge.

Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Wearable Medical Device and Flexible Biosensor for m-Health

By Xiao-Rong Ding, Jing Liu, Ni Zhao, and Yuan-Ting Zhang
Wearable sensors hold the promise of early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The key technologies of miniaturization, intelligence, networking, digitalization, and standardization are disussed.

IEEE Wearable Devices and Sensor Informatics at HIMSS 2014

By Surapa Thiemjarus and Jing Liu
The 2014 HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Florida, showcased an Intelligent Medical Home and a Connected Patient Gallery, along with keynote speeches and technical presentations. We bring you photos and highlights of the Conference.

Guang-Zhong Yang

Guang-Zhong Yang is director and co-founder of the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, UK. Professor Yang’s main research interests are in medical imaging, sensing and robotics. In imaging, he is credited for a number of novel MR phase contrast velocity imaging and computational modelling techniques …