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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.
By Ngai-Man (Man) Cheung and Dawn Koh
A mobile imaging system has been studied for early diagnosis of skin cancer. It computes visual features from a user-captured skin lesion image, and analyzes them to estimate the likelihood of malignancy, using an off-the-shelf smartphone. New resource-constrained image …
By H. Yu, G. Chen, and Z. Guo
An intelligent knee-ankle-foot robot, which is compact, modular, and portable, has been developed to help stroke patients to carry out gait rehabilitation at outpatient and home settings. The robot was designed with a novel compact compliant force controllable …
By Y. Sun, J. Sun, N. Thakor, & A. Bezerianos
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is associated with abnormal wiring (or structural connectivity) in the brain. This project is a novel investigation into the relationship of this abnormal wiring to the functional connectivity of neural populations in healthy …
Dawn Chin-Ing Koh is Dawn Chin-Ing Koh is a biomedical scientist with specific interests in neuroscience and cancer research. She has extensive experience using both in vitro (cell lines) and in vivo (mouse models) studies in her research. As part of her postdoctoral research …
Ngai-Man (Man) Cheung is an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, in 2008. From 2009-2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Image, …
Guo Zhao is a Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2012. His research interests include neurorehabilitation exoskeleton, neuromuscular modeling, …
Chen Gong is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering, NUS with his supervisor Dr. Yu Haoyong. He received his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2011. His background is in Mechanical Engineering & Automation, with a minor in Computer Science. …
Haoyong Yu is an Assistant Professor of Department of Biomedical Engineering at NUS. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2002. Before joining NUS in September 2010, he worked in DSO National Laboratories of Singapore as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, …
Anastasios (Tassos) Bezerianos (SM’08) is a Research Professor in the ECE, National University of Singapore and Senior Principal Research Fellow of Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE) and Professor at the Medical School of Patras University, Greece. His research interests at large are in Neuroengineering …
J. Sun (M’10) is an assistant professor of School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received the B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Information Systems, and the M.S. degree in Acoustics from Nanjing University, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and …
