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Prof. Yong Zhang - Provost’s Chair Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prof. Yong Zhang

Provost’s Chair Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Speech Title: Upconversion Nanomaterials: Properties and Applications in Life Sciences and Medicine
Abstract:
Light has proven to be useful in a wide range of biomedical applications such as fluorescence imaging, photoacoustic imaging, optogenetics, photodynamic therapy, photothermal therapy, and light controlled drug/gene delivery. Taking photodynamic therapy (PDT) as an example, PDT has been proven clinically effective in early lung cancer, bladder cancer, head and neck cancer, and is the primary treatment for skin cancer as well. However, clinical use of PDT is severely constrained by the low penetration depth of visible light through thick tissue, limiting its use to target regions only a few millimeters deep. One way to enhance the range is to use invisible near-infrared (NIR) light within the optical window (700–1100nm) for biological tissues, extending the depth up to 1cm with no ...View More

Prof. Cathy H. Wu - Departments of Computer & Information Sciences and Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, USA

Prof. Cathy H. Wu

Departments of Computer & Information Sciences and Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, USA
Speech Title: Integrative Text Mining and Semantic Computing for Data-Driven Biomedical Knowledge Discovery
Abstract:
In this talk, Dr. Wu will cover research in integrative literature mining, data mining and semantic computing for knowledge discovery. To realize the value of genomic scale data, her team has developed a semantic computing framework connecting text mining, data mining and biomedical ontologies. Natural language processing and machine learning approaches are employed for information extraction from the literature, along with an automated workflow for large-scale text analytics across documents. The ontological framework allows computational reasoning, and through federated SPARQL queries, it connects complex entities and relations such as gene variants, protein post-translational modifications and diseases mined from heterogeneous ...View More

Prof. Congo Tak Shing CHING -  College of Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, China

Prof. Congo Tak Shing CHING

College of Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, China
Speech Title: The use of electrical impedance for noninvasive characterization of tissues.
Abstract:
In our days impedance is significant not only in our daily life but also in medical diagnostics. Medical communities have successfully applied it to the non-invasive diagnostics of various conditions of the human body. The intention of developing non-invasive medical diagnostics (NIMD) ...View More

Prof. Lee Ann Laurent-Applegate - Department of Musculoskeletal Medicine DAL, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland

Prof. Lee Ann Laurent-Applegate

Department of Musculoskeletal Medicine DAL, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland
Speech Title: Bioengineering for Musculoskeletal Medicine: Importance of Cellular Choice in the Swiss Cell Therapy and Transplantation Program
Abstract:
The Swiss Federal Transplantation program began in the Lausanne University Hospital in 1991 focusing on tissue of all ages from fetal to aged skin. In the late1990’s, cellular therapies were developed for wound healing studying fetal skin of different gestation periods. Research was oriented for cell selection techniques and procedures for use of cell sources in the clinic. First clinical trials using progenitor skin cells as novel cell sources began in 2000 with “biological bandages” used for pediatric burn patients followed by chronic wounds in adults (Lancet, Cell Transplantation & Experimental Gerontology). ...View More

Prof. Huiyu (Joe) Zhou  - Professor Huiyu Zhou, School of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK

Prof. Huiyu (Joe) Zhou

Professor Huiyu Zhou, School of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK.
Homepage: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/informatics/people/huiyu-zhou
Speech Title: Mouse detection and tracking by deep learning.
Abstract:
The study of mouse social behaviours has been increasingly undertaken in neuroscience research. However, automated quantification of mouse behaviours from the videos of interacting mice is still a challenging problem, where object tracking plays a key role in locating mice in their living spaces. In this talk, we present a novel method to continuously detect and track several mice and individual parts without requiring any specific tagging. We evaluate our proposed approach against several baselines on our new datasets, where the results show that our method outperforms the other state-of-the-art approaches in terms of accuracy.