Calendar 2005–06

Research Institutes and Centres 117 Biomedical and Bioinformatics Research Centre Tel.: 2609 8456 E-mail: ytzhang@ee.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.shiae.cuhk.edu.hk/biomedical.htm Biomedical engineering, medical imaging, and virtual surgery have an enormous impact on health care and surgical training. Almost all aspects of medicine are enhanced by interactive computer-based technologies. Biomedical engineers are increasingly involved in the development of novel, reliable, noninvasive technologies for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of disease. For example, medical electronic devices and biosensors improve home/mobile healthcare; microarray technologies offer immense potential for studying cellular transactions; and visualization and virtual reality provide excellent means for surgery training and planning. Current research in the centre includes: • Coclear Implants • Virtual Anatomy and Dexterous Simulators for Minimal Access Cardiothoracic and Neuro-endoscopic Surgeries • Systematic Synthesis of Nano-informatics Chips by Nano-Robotics Manipulation Multimedia Research Centre Tel.: 2609 8407 Fax. 2603 5024 E-mail: cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.shiae.cuhk.edu.hk/multimedia.htm Multimedia technologies constitute a multi-disciplinary field that extends beyond engineering to the arts, sciences, and humanities. Main contributive areas include engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, communications, design, ergonomics and human factors, cognitive psychology and philosophy. The impact of multimedia applications is tremendous – it can range from medicine to entertainment, from bridging the societal digital divide to remote space exploration. Current research projects include: • Mobile Wireless Multimedia Communication • An Automatic Multi-layer Video Content Classification Framework • Automatic Multimedia Fission, Categorization and Fusion for Personalized Visualization in Multimedia Information Retrieval

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