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BME 463: Computers in Medicine, Fall 2008 (Tompkins)

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Catalog Description

463 Computers in Medicine. (Crosslisted with BME) I; 3 cr. Study of microprocessor-based medical instrumentation. Emphasis on real-time analysis of electrocardiograms. Labs and programming project involve design of biomedical digital signal processing algorithms. P: ECE 330, Comp Sci 302.

Course Prerequisite(s)

See catalog description above.

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

fundamentals of linear system theory
Fourier and Laplace transforms
fundamentals of computer programming

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

W. J. Tompkins (ed.) Biomedical Digital Signal Processing: C Language Examples and Laboratory Experiments for the IBM PC. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.
Lab notes from Bob's Copy Shop.

Course objectives

Integration of materials from prior analog and digital coursework into a course demonstrating design of microcomputer-based medical instrumentation with a focus on techniques for biomedical digital signal processing.

Topics covered

Basic medical instruments and signals (2 lectures).
Electrocardiographic instrumentation concepts (3 lectures).
Signal conversion of biomedical signals (2 lectures).
Basics of digital filtering (2 lectures).
Finite impulse response filters (3 lectures).
Infinite impulse response filters (2 lectures).
Integer filters (2 lectures).
Adaptive filters (1 lecture).
Signal averaging (1 lecture).
Data reduction techniques (2 lectures).
Other time and frequency domain techniques (1 lecture).
QRS filters (2 lectures).
ECG analysis systems (2 lectures).
VLSI in signal processing (1 lecture).

Class/laboratory schedule

Two 50-minute lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

ethical societal health and safety manufacturability

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course serves students in a variety of engineering majors. The information below describes how the course contributes to the college's educational objectives.

providing perspectives on the societal role of biomedical engineering and experience in critical analysis of ethical issues in the field developing advanced expertise in design, analysis, and fabrication techniques within a student-selected engineering concentration area

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

weekly homework assignments
exams
lab reports
software design project

Person(s) who prepared this description

Willis J. Tompkins

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Date last modified: 25-Jul-2007
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