The conference will be a hybrid event this year offering an exciting programme of plenary sessions, keynote talks, oral presentations, turbo talks, poster presentations and workshops, both online and in person.
This year’s conference programme is centred around four key tracks:
- Image and Signal Processing;
- Diagnostics, Devices and Sensors;
- in silico Modelling; and
- Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering.
“There will be an eclectic mixture of bioengineering topics reflecting the diversity of biomedical engineering in the UK – from cell to whole body, molecular imaging to medical imaging, microfluidics to cardiovascular fluidics. There will be an exciting session on artificial intelligence and some special sessions for early career researchers to provide support for their blossoming careers in UK biomedical engineering.”
Professor Gwen Reilly
University of Sheffield Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Insigneo Institute and chair of the Local Organising Committee
The University of Sheffield is one of the UK’s biggest and best engineering universities and Sheffield’s Faculty of Engineering is a major driver of research and innovation.
The Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine is a collaborative initiative between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration between over 150 academics and clinicians driving innovative research at the interface of healthcare, engineering and science to transform the future of healthcare technology.
In silico medicine (also known as “computational medicine”) is the application of in silico research to problems involving health and medicine. It is the direct use of computer simulation in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease. More specifically, in silico medicine is characterised by modelling, simulation, and visualisation of biological and medical processes in computers with the goal of simulating real biological processes in a virtual environment. This is almost certainly the most sophisticated application of computing technology in healthcare, and Sheffield has become the UK’s principal centre for this work.
Insigneo performs cutting-edge research in areas of fundamental and applied biomedical modelling, imaging and informatics.
