Autor: Joao Miguel Sanches

J. Miguel Sanches is from the new Department of Bioengineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico / Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he teaches in the area of signal processing and control. His research activity is in Biomedical Engineering, mainly, in image reconstruction and analysis of biological and medical imaging for computer aided diagnosis (CAD) purposes. Andrew F. Laine is a Director of the Heffner Biomedical Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City and is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics). His research inter­ests include quantitative image analysis; cardiac functional imaging: ultrasound and MRI, retinal imaging, intravascular imaging and biosignal processing. He is a Fellow of AIMBE and IEEE. Dr. Jasjit S. Suri is an innovator, scientist, a visionary, an industrialist and an internation­ally known world leader in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Suri has spent over 20 years in the field of biomedical engineering/devices and its management. He received his Doctorate from University of Washington, Seattle and Business Management Sciences from Weatherhead, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.