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We are entering a new wave of circuits and
systems inspired by biology, healthcare and life style. The CAS community
has shown its excellence in the fields of bioinspired
silicon with a leadership in neural networks, image processing and speech
recognition to areas of silicon replacing biology with applications such as
silicon cochlear, retina and neural prosthetics. We feel that the CAS
community has the basic ingredients and critical mass to broaden its
bio-scope to capture areas in both life sciences,
physical sciences and engineering with application to medical problems. It
is timely to create a BioCAS Technical Committee
which covers areas of circuits and systems applied to:
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Biotechnology - protiometics, genomics, drug delivery, tissue
engineering;
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Medical imaging -
MNR, NMR, medical image processing and new hardware imaging modalities;
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Bionics -
artificial cochlear, retina, medical monitoring, telemetry, biosensors,
sensor interfacing;
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Biomechanics -
robotics, image guided surgery, prosthetics;
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BioMEMS - cardiology, fluid biomechanics;
Never before has the merger between
engineering and medicine been so strong and the CAS Society believes it can
make a major contribution to the interdisciplinary glue bonding the two
disciplines.
The aim will be to have membership from all
major international bioengineering institutions and to cover the areas of
biotechnology, bionics, imaging and biomechanics. It is hoped that the
Committee will have medical practitioners as well as biochemists and
radiographers as members of the Committee from major hospitals such as USC,
Johns Hopkins, Emery, Imperial, etc.
For other details, please consult the BioCAS TC Bylaws.
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