| Biomedical Engineering Specialties |
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| BmeCentral (Biomedical Engineering Central) classifies areas of research within biomedical engineering
according to seventeen categories. These categories are not necessarily mutually
exclusive in scope, and professionals often engage in research that bridges
more than one specialty.
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| Please select a biomedical engineering category. |
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| Definition of Biomedical Engineering |
Biomedical engineering is a discipline that integrates the engineering sciences with the life sciences to improve human health on three levels:
1) advance the knowledge of living systems by applying engineering, biology, imaging and computational sciences as diagnostic tools;
2) improve the function of living systems by designing devices, systems and constructs based on biological and non-biological components;
3) prevent the injury to living systems by building models, algorithms and devices that may predict or guide behavior.
N.B.: BmeCentral recognizes the term “bioengineering” to be different than “biomedical engineering” because the former may include agricultural
and bio-organic engineering while the latter does not.
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