Biomedical Engineering
The Biomedical Engineering (BE) is an interdisciplinary area that employs
knowledge and methods of Math, Sciences and Engineering to investigate and solve
problems of Medicine and Biology.
In the PPGEE (Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering), the BE performs
research, mainly, in biomedical
instrumentation and signal processing applied to the study of the cardiac,
respiratory and nervous systems.
Devices for basic research and medical/hospital
equipment with technological innovation are developped. Mathematical
methods are applied aiming at extracting relevant information about
physiological systems and human health.
The currently investigated
themes encompass brain-computer-brain interfaces, mental practices for
patient neuro-rehabilitation, analysis of the brain electrical activities
related to cognitive and sensorial systems - including transient and steady-state auditory,
visual and somatosensory (by current pulses or temperature) evoked potentials -
cellular mechanisms of visual perception, pupillometry, heart rate variability,
maximum respiratory pressures.
It is worth noting that the Biomedical
Engineering team in the PPGEE involves professionals from different areas such as
Engineering (electrical, electronic, automation and control, mechanical,
civil), Physics, Computer Science, Biology, Medicine, Physiotherapy,
Phonoaudiology, Physical Education, Psychology, and Linguistics. Such
characteristics make this area a plural and fertile ground
for the emergence of new devices/inventions.
Research Group of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPGEE) UFMG.
