World Experts on Biomedical Engineering and BioRobotics Visited BART LAB

On Dec 17, 2009, Prof. Brian Davies (Imperial College, London), Prof. Yongmin Kim (University of Washington, Seatle), Prof. Andrew Laines (Columbia University, New York), Prof. Holland Cheng (University of California, Davis), and Prof. Peter Engelhardt (Helsinki University of Tech, Helsinki) paid an hour tech tour at BART LAB. Several nice comments and suggestions were made to us. Prof. Davies is the world’s famous research to develop the “Acrobot”, an orthopedic surgical robot which is the first robot to perform on the human. Prof. Kim is the past president of IEEE Engineering on Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). His contributions are very well-known on portable ultrasound machines. Prof. Laines is the famous professor for Medical Imaging, especially, Image Enhancement using Wavelet Applications on MR, Ultrasound, and Nuclear Images. Prof. Cheng and Prof. Engelhardt are famous on molecular imaging, especially, living cells.