Teaching

Courses

Two courses in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, 1 undergraduate and 1 graduate. Both are taught on real instrument recordings and laboratory experiments rather than tidied textbook data.

BME 310, Introduction to Biomedical Optics and Ultrasound

Undergraduate, spring, 3 credits

What light and sound do inside the body, and how an instrument turns that into a diagnosis. The course covers tissue optics, ultrasound and photoacoustics, how each interacts with living tissue, and where they are already used clinically for diagnosis and therapy.

Lectures run alongside small laboratory experiments, an imaging facility tour, and a final grant writeup and presentation on a subject the student chooses. MATLAB is used for the quantitative analysis.

BME 533, Biomedical Imaging Quantification and Analysis

Graduate, fall, 3 credits

How to get numbers out of biomedical signals and images, and then trust them. The course covers the conceptual, mathematical and computational side of signal and image processing, worked on real recordings from clinical instruments.

MATLAB programming is practically implemented for real data analysis. There are small laboratory experiments, an imaging facility tour, and a grant writeup and presentation of the student's own topic interest by the end.