Undergraduate Concentrations

BIOSIGNALS AND IMAGING

Coordinator: Aaron Batista ()

Concentrations in Biosystems provide students with the opportunity to focus in areas such as Medical Imaging, Biological Signal Analysis, Medical Electronics, and Neurobological systems. Courses in Bioengineering are combined with courses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Neuroscience.

All bioengineering students must have a minimum of 3 engineering courses out of the 7 non-core courses (5 concentration courses and 2 engineering/science electives).

Students must choose a total of 5 elective courses from the following sets, with no more than 4 from any given set.

Bioengineering Signals and imaging courses

• BIOENG 1351: Computer Applications in Bioengineering
• BIOENG 2380: Medical Imaging Systems I
• BIOENG 2382: Medical Imaging Systems II
• BIOENG 2384: NMR Spectroscopy in medicine
• BIOENG 2630: Methods in Image Analysis

Electrical Engineering Courses

• Any course in the Department of Electrical Engineering

 

Computer Engineering Courses

• Any course in the Department of Computer Engineering

 

Computer Science Courses

• All courses in the Department of Computer Science except CS 0004, CS 0007, CS 0110, CS 0131, CS 0132, CS 0134

 

Neuroscience Courses

• Any courses in the Department of Neuroscience except NRSCI 0010

 

Information Science courses

• Introductory level Object Oriented Programming in JAVA
  INFSCI 0017: Object-Oriented Programming 1 for Information Science
  INFSCI 0019: Object-Oriented Programming 2 for Information Science
  

 

Pre-Req Course in the Biology Department

• Bioscience 1000: Introduction to Biochemistry

 

The second half of Organic Chemistry for pre-medical students

• CHEM 0320: Organic Chemistry 2

 

Courses at CMU

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• School of Computer Science
• CMU 15-075 and CMU 15-090 are not accepted

Substitution with other courses at Pitt or CMU is allowed with special permission.

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Imaging courses all over town

A number of courses relating to imaging, image analysis, and visualization are offered by various departments. Since this is an area of growing interest to many students, a separate list of these is compiled below:

• BIOENG 1380: Medical Imaging Systems I
• BIOENG 2382: Medical Imaging Systems II
• BIOENG 2384: NMR Spectroscopy in medicine
• BIOENG 2630 (CMU 16-725): Methods in Image Analysis
• CMU 03-533: NMR in Biomedical Sciences
• CMU 03-534: Biological Imaging and Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• CMU 03-620: Techniques in Electron Microscopy
• CMU 15-385/685: Computer Vision
• CMU 15-462: Computer Graphics I
• CMU 15-864: Advanced Computer Graphics
• CMU 16-421: Vision Sensors
• CMU 16-720 Computer Vision
• CMU 16-721: Advanced Perception
• CMU 16-722: Sensing and Sensors
• CMU 16-823: Appearance Modeling
• CMU 16-899B: Group Theory and Its Application in Robotics, Computer Vision/Graphics and Medical Image Analysis
• CMU 18-496/42-403:Bioimaging
• CMU 18-794: Pattern Recognition Theory
• CMU 18-795: Advanced Bioimage Informatics
• CMU 42-503/42-703: Advanced Bioimaging
• CMU 42-708: Special Topics: Registration in Bioimaging
• CMU 85-370/85-770: Perception
• EE 1390: Introduction to Computer Vision and Image Processing
• EE 2372 (CS 3790): Pattern Recognition
• EE 2390: Introduction to Image Processing
• EE 3392: Parallel Image Processing
• MSCBMP: 2860 Multiparametric Microscopic Imaging
  (Medical School summer course by Simon Watkins)

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Faculty doing biosignals and imaging related research

• Aizenstein, Howard
• Boada, Fernando
• Boninger, Michael
• Boston, Bob
• Chakraborty, Dev
• Chapman, Brian
• Cooper, Rory
• Cui, Tracy
• Gach, Michael
• Gandhi, Neeraj (Raj)
• Gartner, Mark
• He, Qiuhong
• Ishikawa, Hiroshi
• Jung, Kwan-Jin
• Loughlin, Patrick
• McNamee, Rebecca
• Pettegrew, Jay
• Redfern, Mark
• Robertson, Doug
• Salama, Guy
• Schwartz, Andrew
• Sclabassi, Robert
• Simpson, Richard
• Sparto, Patrick
• Stetten, George
• Sun, Mingui
• Wiener, Erik