Systems and Technologies in Digital Healthcare (in the field of Biomedical Engineering)

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The program produces biomedical engineering experts who are able to use modern information, telecommunication and computer technologies to monitor and control the condition of chronically ill outpatients remotely. The graduates are also able to find out in real time if chronic diseases have exacerbated, input information on chronic disease exacerbation and condition changes of treated patients into databases.

Program Structure and Key Courses

The curriculum includes the following courses:

Specialized Module

• Telemedicine Systems and Technologies 
• Monitoring Systems in Digital Healthcare
• Methods of Computer Processing and Analysis of Medical and Biological Data
• Automation of Biomedical Research
• Basics of Management and Marketing at Medical Industry Enterprises 
• Automated Image Analysis
• Technical Support of Medical Equipment
• Information Systems in Digital Healthcare
• Modern Problems of Biomedical Engineering 
• Bioengineering Systems and Technologies

Comprehensive Module

• Foreign Language
• Commercialization of Research and Development Results
• Communication in the professional environment

The program sets out to produce experts in development of biomedical engineering systems using modern information, telecommunication and computer telemedicine technologies for monitoring and treating inpatients. These systems can help uncover chronic disease exacerbation in real time and monitor the patient under treatment.

Students gain knowledge and expertise necessary for working in digital healthcare by taking courses that are focused on AI-aided automated design of remote monitoring systems. These systems are then used to process and analyze biomedical signals and data, as well to treat patients while monitoring them.

Two-year/four-semester program.

Thesis Defense June

Modes of Instruction lectures, practical sessions and laboratory classes.

Assessment Methods term theses, pass/fail tests and exams.

Study and research are carried out at the modern electronic laboratory ProLab CDIO. CDIO is an innovative education platform for producing next-generation engineers. It is a teaching structure for students to master the basics of engineering and technology as a part of the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) chain for developing real-world systems and products.

Teaching Laboratories:

• Medical Systems (equipped with modern medical instrument)
• Computational Modeling of Biological and Bioengineering Systems;
• Electronics and Microprocessor Engineering;
• Display room (equipped with National Instruments work stations and visual programming tools).

Research Laboratories:

• Mathematical Methods and Computer-Aided Systems for Processing and Analysis of Biomedical Data;
• Bioengineering Measurement Computing Systems;
• Human Health Assessment Methods and Systems.
• Master’s students enrolled at the branch department Medical Information and Bioengineering Systems conduct research and attend practice-oriented classes at the Almazov National Medical Research Center, Biomechanics Laboratory and the Albrecht National Research Center for Prosthetics and Rehabilitation.

Areas of Research

1. Research and development of telemedicine systems for early diagnosis and patient monitoring.
2. Intelligent data processing (ECG, EEG, Respiratory waves), including preprocessing, pattern recognition and inference methods.
3. Development of new algorithms and software for intelligent diagnosis and long-term patient monitoring.

Areas of research in detail

To support the students, the Department holds summer and winter schools. Laboratory classes and practical sessions help students understand how the mobile apps for biomedical devices are developed and how the main scientific principles are applied in this area. 

Online Courses

In 2018, professors from the Bioengineering Systems Department uploaded a new course in English entitled as The Development of Mobile Health Monitoring Systems to the online education platform Coursera. The course is aimed at teaching students to apply their knowledge on a variety of different topics – electronics, programming, mathematics – in medical device hardware and software development. If the students are interested in taking the course they can register at Coursera.

Students can apply for short-term (2-4 weeks) and long-term (6-10 months) internships, including double-degree programs. The key international partners of the department are the following:

Germany

• Technische Universität Ilmenau
• Leibniz Universität Hannover

Finland

• Lappeenranta University of Technology
• Aalto University
• Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Science

The UK

• The University of Salford

Austria

• Wien University of Applied Sciences

Czech Republic

• Prague Technical University

Zafar M. Yuldashev

Head of the Program

Doctor of Sciences, Head of the Department of Bioengineering Systems

Yulia O. Bobrova

Master Program coordinator

Assistant professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems

Anna Yu. Glazova

Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Alexander N. Kalinichenko

Doctor of Sciences, professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems

Anatolii P. Nemirko

Doctor, professor of technical science

Evgenii A. Pustozerov

Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Andrey Yu. Aksenov

PhD, Assistant professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems

Anna Y. Villevalde

Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Aleksey A. Anisimov

Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Gleb A. Mashevsky

Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Yulia A. Zhivolupova

Assistant professor at the Department of Bioengineering Systems

Guest Lecturers

Prof. Nathan Blaunstein: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beersheba, Israel), PhD, DSc in Radio Physics and Electronics including Quantum Electronics

Prof. Silvana Quaglini: University of Pavia (Italy). Full professor, faculty of engineering. Department of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering. Laboratory of biomedical informatics