BME Departments

• Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  The Biomedical Engineering Department was established in January 2000 as part of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The University provides a fertile environment for biomedical engineers to develop innovative and outstanding opportunities to pursue some of the most important biomedical problems facing our society. The program focuses on three important avenues of studies: biomechanics (orthopaedics and cardiac), biomedical imaging, and cellular and tissue engineering.

Other

• Philips Medical Systems
  Philips Medical Systems is a leading supplier of diagnostic imaging equipment, information technology and related healthcare services.
• Visible Human Project
  The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM’s 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals.

Software

• 3D Slicer
  The 3D Slicer is freely available, open-source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data.
• AFNI
  AFNI is a set of C programs for processing, analyzing, and displaying functional MRI (FMRI) data – a technique for mapping human brain activity. It runs on Unix+X11+Motif systems, including SGI, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X. It is available free (in C source code format, and some precompiled binaries) for research purposes.
• Computer Vision Software
  It includes reasearch code, image processing toolkits, display tools and mathematical toolkits.
• FSL(FMRIB Software Library)
  FSL is a comprehensive library of functional and structural brain image analysis tools. FSL runs under Linux, Macos X, Windows XP, SunOS and IRIX and is very easy to install.
• ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit)
  ITK is an open-source software system to support the Visible Human Project. Currently under active development, ITK employs leading-edge segmentation and registration algorithms in two, three, and more dimensions.
• LastWave
  LastWave is a signal processing oriented command language.
• MegaWave2
  MegaWave2 is a free software intended for image processing. It is made of a C library of modules, that contains original algorithms written by researchers; a Unix/Linux package designed for the fast developpement of new image processing algorithms.
• MRIcro
  MRIcro allows Windows and Linux computers view medical images. It is a standalone program, but includes tools to complement SPM (software that allows neuroimagers to analyse MRI, fMRI and PET images). MRIcro allows efficient viewing and exporting of brain images.
• Newmat C++ matrix library
  This C++ library is intended for scientists and engineers who need to manipulate a variety of types of matrices using standard matrix operations. Emphasis is on the kind of operations needed in statistical calculations such as least squares, linear equation solve and eigenvalues.
• SCI Institute Software and Data
  Some useful softwares, like SCIRun, Map3d,…
• SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping)
  SPM refers to the construction and assessment of spatially extended statistical process used to test hypotheses about [neuro]imaging data from SPECT/PET & fMRI.
• Tecplot 360
  Tecplot 360 is CFD & Numerical Simulation Visualization Software. It combines vital engineering plotting with advanced data visualization in one tool.
• VXL(Vision-something-Libraries)
  VXL (the Vision-something-Libraries) is a collection of C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation.
• WaveLab 802
  WaveLab is a collection of Matlab functions that have been used by the authors and collaborators to implement a variety of computational algorithms related to wavelet analysis.

Universities

• Eindhoven University of Technology – Department of Biomedical Engineering
  The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is a cooperation between Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Maastricht University (UM) and Maastricht University Hospital (azM) all located in The Netherlands. State-of-the-art research at TU/e and UM is clustered into three divisions: Biomechanics & Tissue Engineering, Molecular Bioengineering & Molecular Imaging, and Biomedical Imaging & Modeling. As from September 2003 more than 400 students participate in the educational programs. More than 200 Department employees are involved in education and research.
• Rutgers University
  Departments of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering.