Bioengineering – IBIO-01/A
The Scientific Disciplinary Sector IBIO-01/A – Bioengineering, is the merger of the two previous SSDs ING-INF/06 (Electronic and Computer Bioengineering) and ING-IND/34 (Industrial Bioengineering). Below is a summary of the main lines of research and development activities supported over the last five years by national (PNRR, POS, POC, PRIN), regional (Living Labs, Regional Partnerships, Clusters) and third-party (regional and extra-regional clients) project funding, which are intended to be developed further.
Main Research Areas
- Intelligent systems and systems for representing medical, biological, and health-related knowledge;
- Decision support systems in the medical field: development of frameworks to enable early and minimally invasive diagnosis services, personalized follow-up monitoring, and optimization and personalization of surgical, pharmacological, and rehabilitative treatment pathways.
- Biomedical data and signal processing systems: acquisition, treatment, and processing of physiological signals such as ECG, EMG, sEMG, EEG, and ECoG for the assessment of the functional status and motor and cognitive performance of patients with neurological, cardiorespiratory, and orthopedic disorders;
- Processing of bioinformatic data from high-throughput or deep-sequencing platforms;
- Immersive and interactive systems for bioengineering: design and development of environments based on VR, AR, MR paradigms, haptic feedback, and biofeedback;
- Assistive and surgical robotic systems: processing of physiological and ergonomic information related to wearable robots, and support and training systems for open and laparoscopic robotic surgery;
- Medical image analysis systems: processing and extraction of knowledge from medical radiological images such as CT, MR, PET, fMRI, and from histopathological images such as biopsies or surgical resections.
- Digital Twin and systems for identifying biological, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral models, and Systems Biology;
- Health Big Data Analytics systems: knowledge extraction and methodologies based on the new paradigms of Radiomics and Radiogenomics;
- Precision Medicine systems based on the processing of multi-omic data, including pathological features and multi-domain genomic and transcriptomic data obtained using bioinformatics techniques;
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) algorithms to facilitate the clinical transferability of systems supporting diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy;
- Hospital or healthcare information systems.
- Optimization systems of interest in medical informatics and clinical and health engineering.
- Systems for monitoring psychological-cognitive and motor-functional impairment;
- Computational advanced methods for psychophysiological and electrophysiological assessment (ECG, sEMG, EEG, ECoG, and neuropsychological variables) in the field of precision rehabilitation;
- Human-centered and user-oriented methodologies for the ideation, conceptualization, and robotic and mechatronic design of innovative biomedical devices and machines.
- Nanomedicine for therapeutic applications and modulation of the immune system through the design and creation of nanoparticles and microparticles, which integrate pharmacological and mechanical characteristics for the controlled release of drugs.
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