Specialization profile--Biomedical signal procesing

Biomedical Signal Processing focuses on signal processing for the acquisition, modeling, analysis and processing of biomedical signals. These can be natural signals from the body, as with signals measured in the heart or brain (EEG, ECG), or multichannel signals from imaging systems (e.g. ultrasound, MRI or photo-acoustic imaging).

Suggested courses

AP3232	Medical imaging signals and systems		6 EC		details
AP3531	Acoustical imaging		6 EC		details
BM41055	Anatomy and physiology		4 EC		details
EE4530	Applied convex optimization		5 EC		details
EE4555	Active implantable biomedical microsystems		5 EC		details
EE4595	Wavefield imaging		5 EC		details
EE4650	Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging		5 EC		details
EE4685	Machine learning, a Bayesian perspective		5 EC		details
EE4715	Array processing		5 EC		details
EE4750	Tensor networks for green AI and signal processing		4 EC		details
EE4C12	Machine learning for Electrical Engineering		5 EC		details
ET4127	Themes in biomedical electronics		4 EC		details
ET4130	Bioelectricity		3 EC		details
ET4386	Estimation and detection		5 EC		details
IN4307	Medical visualization		5 EC		details

MSc project proposals

Some examples of thesis topics (this list is not exhaustive):

BE	Deciphering multispectral optical signals exposed on a capacitive CMOS platform
SPS	Machine learning for Optimizing Workflow in the Operating Room (MLOR)
	Automatic analysis of acoustic and semantic aspects of speech in psychiatric disorders
	Brain-computer interfaces based on EEG recording of imagined speech
	Heart rate extraction from speech signals
	Assessment of patient’s therapy response based on smartphone data
	Contactless determination of vital parameters for improved healthcare (with Intelliprove)
	Cell-to-sensor distance estimation for epicardiac measurements
	Improving signal quality of a wearable device for electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement
	Dynamic brain network analysis
	Cardiac Arrhythmia Data Analysis (several projects)
	Optimizing the analysis of auditory event-related potentials in EEG (with Erasmus Medical Center)
	Analysis of electrophysiologic data acquired on PhysioHeartTM platform (ex-vivo beating heart)
	Thesis topics at CWI
	Generative AI for suppressing tinnitus
	EEG-based Brain Signatures for Personalized Therapeutic Intervention in Chronic Pain
	Decoding Emotions: Advanced Analysis of Vocal Expressions in Children With Hearing Impairment
	Active Noise Reduction for MRIs
	In ear (with hearing aid) based Biomedical Signal Processing
	Audio processing in wireless earbuds (Several assignments with the company Dopple)

Thesis examples

SPS	2024	Florens Helfferich	Multiplicative Contrast Source Inversion method in Electrical Properties Tomography (CSI-EPT) based on Jacobi matrix inversion
		Michael Kraaijeveld	Using our tools backwards, AF detection by confusing time and frequency
	2023	Georgios Hadjigeorgiou	Evaluation of Direct FID-Based Dielectric Parameter Retrieval in MRI
		Jory Edelman	Deep Learning Enhanced Contrast Source Inversion And Phase Error Based Conductivity Correction For Electrical Properties Tomography
		Marien Verseput	Compressed Sensing in Low-Field MRI
		Chengyan Wang	Interpretable Parametric Modelling of the Heart based on ECG Signals
		Kenneth Stunnenberg	Using Tensor Decompositions To Obtain Biomarkers From Auditory Event-Related Potentials
		Anjali Suresan	Location Estimation of Atrial Activity from Epicardial Electrogram measurements
		Lexi Zhu	Coded Excitation for Doppler Ultrasound Imaging of The Brain
		Francesca De Carlo	Ultrasound Imaging through Aberrating Layers using a Virtual Array
		Shuoyan Zhao	Prediction of Post-induction Hypotension by Machine Learning
		Alan Hamo	Machine learning algorithm to estimate cardiac output based on arterial blood pressure measurements
		Teodor Licurici	Estimating Transmembrane Currents and Local Activation Times from Atrial Epicardial Electrograms
		Xuan Gao	Comparative analysis of clutter filtering techniques on freehand micro-Doppler ultrasound imaging
	2022	Zhuangzhuang Yu	Machine Learning of Ultrasound Data: Cardiovascular Parameters Detection Using Carotid Artery Measurements
		Xiaoning Shi	Energy-efficient seizure detection for wearable EEG
		Haoran Bi	Extreme precipitation nowcasting using deep generative model
		Renjie Dai	Detecting Medical Equipment in the Catheterization Laboratory using Computer Vision
		Enpu Chen	Reconstruction and Rendering of Buildings as Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
		Jinchen Zeng	Automatic Camera Extrinsics Estimation in the Catheterization Laboratory
		Yitong Tao	Frequency Domain Joint Estimation of HRF and Stimulus from fUS Data
		William Hunter	Improving the Estimation of Epicardial Activation Times Using Spatial Information
		Yanan Hu	Search by Image: Deep Learning Based Image Visual Feature Extraction
		Yingfeng Jiang	Automated Personnel Activities Observation in the Catheterization Laboratory
		Cees Kos	Sensor-to-Cell Height Estimation for Conductivity Estimation in Cardiac Cells
		Ruben Wijnands	Analyzing dynamic functional connectivity using state-space models on mice fUS data
		Jordi de Vries	Estimation of Atrial Fibre Directions Based on Epicardial Electrograms
		Tijs Moree	Estimating atrial activity in epicardial electrograms
	2021	Arda Kaygan	Analyzing Functional Ultrasound Images of the Brain Using Tensor Decompositions
		Gaia Zin	Investigation of focal epilepsy using graph signal processing
		Sarthak Agarwal	Quantifying the dynamic interactions between physiological signals to predict the exposure from chemicals
		Karen van der Werff	Image Reconstruction for Multicoil Low-field MRI
		Maarten Enthoven	Differentiating Task-Based Functional Ultrasound Signals via Data-Driven Decompositions
		Bas Liesker	Correction of Field Inhomogeneities in Low-Field MRI During Image Reconstruction
		Teun de Smalen	Boundary Element Method in coil design for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
		Javier Guinea Perez	Mice tracking using infrared subcutaneous implants for error detection
	2020	Prernna Bhatnagar	Numerical Body Model Inference for Individualized RF exposure Prediction in Neuroimaging at 7T MRI
		Kriti Dhingra	Accelerating (Compressed) SENSE Scans in MRI
		Yuchen Yin	Atrial Fibrillation classification from a short single lead ECG recording
		Maria Macarulla Rodriguez	Low-field MR Imaging Using a Nonuniform Fast Fourier Transform
		Manojna Vedula	Myelin Imaging in Brain using Inhomogeneous Magnetization Transfer(ihMT) at 3T and 7T
		Karishma Kumar	Two-Dimensional Blood Flow Estimation in the Brain with Ultrafast Ultrasound
	2019	Joris Belier	Wave Dynamics in Inverse Krylov Subspaces
		Rajesh Rajwade	Magnetic Resonance Imaging motion correction in k-space
		Bart Kölling	Atrial activation time estimation using cross-correlation between higher order neighboring electrodes
		Chenhong Ji	Nonrigid Image Registration using 3D Convolutional Neural Network with Application to Brain MR images
		Sherine Brahma	Signal Modelling and Imaging of Low Field MRI
		Xin An	Transverse 3D Electrical Properties Tomography
		Bram Visser	Calibration of a Single element ultrasound transducer using an aberration mask
		Pranav Prakash	Identication of Quasi Normal Modes
		Yiting Lu	Development of Data Processing Algorithms for UWB Radar-based Long-Term Health Monitoring
		Bastian Generowicz	Improving Ultrafast Doppler Imaging using Subspace Tracking
	2018	Yuyang Wang	An automated ECG signal quality assessment method with supervised learning algorithm
		Lars Rehbein	Model-Based Iterative Image Reconstruction for Echo-Planar Imaging
		Haidong Hao	Vessel Layer Separation of X-ray Angiographic Images using Deep Learning Methods
	2017	Jiying Dai	CSI-EPT: Towards practical implementation
	2016	Michiel Gerlach	Dielectric Shimming: Optimization Techniques for Dielectric Pads in MRI
		Andrejs Fedjajevs	Ultrasound Imaging Using a Single Element Transducer
		Pim van der Meulen	Regularized Least Squares Imaging for High Resolution Ultrasound
		Patrick Fuchs	MRI based Electrical Properties Tomography: Electromagnetic inversion
	2015	Marina Nano	Automated Detection of Central Apnea in Preterm Infants
		Vana Panagiotou	Blind Segmentation of Time-Series
		Di Feng	Heart Rate Variability Analysis Based on Instantaneous Frequency Estimation

Contact person

For more information about the research group, possible thesis topics, and suggestions for your ISP:

dr.ir. Richard Hendriks

Signal Processing Systems Group

Department of Microelectronics