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WC

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research and/or the expertise of visiting professors.

Individual issues including projects, theoretical studies about research topics with seminar presentations and reports on the work done.

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research and/or the expertise of visiting professors.

General considerations on the applicability of signal processing in the epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Unidimensional signal processing. Space-time signal processing. Epidemic detection models. Case studies and practical work with real data.

COB859

Individual issues including projects, theoretical studies about research topics with seminar presentations and reports on the work done.

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research and/or the expertise of visiting professors.

Signal interpolation and approximation methods. Identification of biological systems. Introduction to pattern recognition. Bi-dimensional signal analysis. Application and assessment of techniques in biological signals and images.

Pattern recognition in Biological Signals. Pattern detection in the time domain and in transformed signals. Pattern classification. Heuristic deterministic and statistical methods. Decision trees. Neural networks and hybrid methods. Application and assessment of techniques in biological signals (ECG, EEG, etc) and epidemiological data.

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research.

Individual issues including projects, theoretical studies about research topics with seminar presentations and reports on the work done.

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research and/or the expertise of visiting professors.

Concepts of temperature and heat, heat capacity, heat transmission mechanisms, laws of thermodynamics, ultrasound absorption, thermal fields, Pennes equation, computer modelling, applications in physiotherapy.

General equations of hydrodynamics. Euler-Lagrange System. Continuity equation, momentum conservation. Acoustic waves in fluids. Plane, cylindrical and spherical waves. Helmholtz Equation. Green’s Function. Green’s Theorem. Boundary conditions. Piston and spherical source radiation. Diffraction. Scattering by cylinders and spheres. Tensor algebra. Continuum mechanics. Movement equation. Longitudinal and Transverse waves, propagation and coupling.

Piezoelectric Effect. Constitutive Equations and piezoelectric material properties. Electromechanical description of ultrasound transducers and representation based on Mason and KLM models. Transducer operation in continuous and pulsed modes. Analysis of the influences of backing and matching layers in transducer behavior. Linear, phased-array and sector transducers. Acoustic lenses and focused transducers. Spatial distribution of the field radiated by transducers.

Introduction; wave scattering and absorption by a particle, some applications; simple scattering; simple scattering of a pulse wave; wave propagation in media with low concentration of particles; transportation theory applied to scattering; scattering in continuous media; multiple scattering.

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research and/or the expertise of visiting professors.

Characterization of respiration signal using a pneumotachograph; Frequency spectrum; Maximum and minimum volume; Maximum and minimum flow; Frequencies; Band width; Assembly of an optical sensor using a PSD; Optical sensor test with realistic continuous flow values and comparison with a pneumotachograph; Signal processing with digital signal processing techniques for information extraction.

Individual issues including projects, theoretical studies about research topics with seminar presentations and reports on the work done.

Course comprising variable topics according to current trends in research and/or the expertise of visiting professors.

Variable aspects in physiology and pathophysiology, mainly related to the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

Methods for measurement and monitoring of hemodynamic quantities, cardiac and pulmonary mechanics and pulmonary gas exchanges: vascular pressures, cardiac output, peripheral blood flow, vascular resistance and compliance, airway resistance, work of breathing, partial pressure of blood and breathed gases, hemoglobin saturation, alveolar ventilation, anatomical and physiological dead space, alveolar-arterial differences, pulmonary diffusion capacity, heterogeneity in pulmonary ventilation and perfusion, Estimation of physiological variables using mathematical methods.