Conference: «Is there a future in biomedical signal processing?»

Abstract

The presentation will begin by addressing the question of the title in light of recent trends in cardiac research. The answer is then translated to my own research area which involves various aspects on detection and characterization of atrial fibrillation, being the most commonly encountered arrhythmia. Different signal processing methods recently developed by the group in Lund will be presented, both model-based and heuristic ones.

About the lecturer

Leif Sörnmo received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Lund University, Lund, Sweden, in 1984. Since 1990, he has been with the Signal Processing Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, where he is currently a Professor of biomedical signal processing and responsible for the BME program. He is the author of Bioelectrical Signal Processing in Cardiac and Neurological Applications (Elsevier, 2005). His research interests include statistical signal processing, modeling of biomedical signals, methods for analysis of atrial fibrillation, multimodal signal processing in hemodialysis, and power-efficient signal processing in implantable devices. Dr. Sörnmo is a Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Electrocardiology, and Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing.