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BME 492 - Biomedical filters, human perception of light, hardware control over the cloud
Engineering Design Project II images, color models, corner and using the mobile app as an interface,
Credit Hours: 2 line detection, segmentation, and camera integration. It also
enhancement, restoration, object
provides students with an advanced
Prerequisite: BME 491 detection, and the 2D wavelet hands-on experience of recent
The objective of this course is to transform. advancement in AI and Computer
provide guided experience in wide BME 431 - Bioinformatics Vision powered mobile and Internet
areas of biomedical engineering to computing technologies and their
student teams working on design Credit Hours: 3 applications. Application uses cases
projects. The projects will integrate Prerequisite: CSC 201 + BME 301 covered include facial detection,
various engineering skills into visual tracking, segmentation, object
operational engineering prototypes. The course introduces the most detection, text recognition, and
important and basic methods, tools
The projects will emphasize problem landmark identification. It also gives
definition, design conceptualization, and concepts used in Bioinformatics. a brief introduction to mobile game
modeling, fabrication and system The covered topics include development.
bioinformatics databases, sequence
integration in software and hardware BME 440 - Magnetic Resonance
aspects. The course is split into two and structure alignment, protein Imaging
folding, protein-protein interaction,
and is taken over two semesters
to allow students enough time and protein structure prediction, Monte Credit Hours: 3
improve the quality of their design Carlo simulation, and molecular Prerequisite: BME 310
dynamics. Emphasis will be put on
project. BME491 is a pre-requisite
to BME492. In this course students the understanding and utilization Introduces physics of magnetic
of these concepts and algorithms.
design, implement, and test the resonance. Covers magnetic field
solution they proposed in BME 491. To solve the problems on their own modalities, relaxation times, gradient
research. and RF coils, pulse sequences,
functional MRI, contrast agents,
Major Elective BME 432 - Healthcare hardware, imaging techniques,
artifacts, and applications.
Management Systems
Credit Hours: 3 BME 460 - Therapeutic Devices
BME 445 - Biomedical Prerequisite: CSC 201 Credit Hours: 3
Ultrasound Prerequisite: BME 310
Credit Hours: 3 This course covers key principles, Invasive and non-invasive therapeutic
practices, and personalities of
Prerequisite: BME 310 healthcare management including devices used in medical applications
leadership, organizational behavior, including: Artificial Kidney, artificial
Fundamentals of acoustic strategic planning, quality control,
propagation, plane wave and acoustic marketing, hospital information oxygenators (heart lung machine),
impedance, wave propagation in systems. The content is broadly artificial liver, pacemakers, syringe
oblique and normal cases, Doppler applicable to healthcare facilities of pumps and infusion bumps,
effect circular piston and near and far every kind. ventilators and bio-artificial organs
field approximation, imaging modes, such as bio-artificial pancreases.
US transducers and their different BME 433 - Medical Mobile BME 490 - Special Topics in
types, The design of imaging and Applications Biomedical Engineering
therapeutic transducers.
Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3
BME 420 - Medical Image Prerequisite: CSC 201 Prerequisite: BME 325 + Department
Processing Approval
Credit Hours: 3 This course teaches students The course will introduce a selected
cross-platform mobile application
Prerequisite: BME 320 + CEN 330 development with a focus on special topic in the Biomedical
advanced topics including navigation, Engineering area, includes any
This course introduces digital image persistence both remote (Firebase
processing techniques as they apply & Google Cloud Storage) and local, specialized topic in BME chosen by
to medical images. Topics covered RESTful API integration, localization, a faculty who has experienced in
include two-dimensional discrete reverse-geocoding, and geofencing that particular area, but the topic is
systems, two-dimensional Fourier services on Google Maps API, device not covered by other courses in the
transform, design of two-dimensional curriculum.
sensors for orientation, motion, and

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