Young Investigators Competition

2nd European Medical and Biological Conference - EMBEC'02
Vienna, December 4 - 8, 2002

Deciding upon the two '1st Prize' winners of the Young Investigators Competition at EMBEC'02, was a real challenge for the experts who reviewed the papers and presentations, and for Heinz-Bodo Schmiedmayer, the Chair of the EMBEC'02 YIC Committee. Submissions from a total of 186 entrants had to be considered. The organisers decided to award the five best papers presented orally as well as the three best posters. Most of the papers that were entered in the competition were in the fields of Biosignal Processing (37), Modelling and Simulation (15), Bioimpedance (13) and Image Processing (13). This distribution was similar to the trends in author-interest for the whole conference.

The competition winners are presenting their research and themselves in this issue of the News. Please take the time to visit these reports and learn more on the activities of the top biomedical engineering scientists of the future.

Winners of the Young Investigators Competition were:

For the best oral presentation
  1. Brandon Travis
 In vivo quantification of the turbulent stresses in bileaflet mechanical heart valve leakage flow
Topic: CARDIOVASCULAR MECHANICS
  1. Doron Bushi
 Cardioembolism - hemodynamic evaluation of cardioembolic trajectory
Topic: CARDIOVASCULAR MECHANICS
  1. Sónja Gonçalves
 In vivo measurement of the skull and brain resistivity using a method based on electric impedance tomography
Topic: BIOIMPEDANCE
  1. Hugo Magalhaes
 A Matlab smart adaptive system for the control of neuromuscular blockade
Topic: COMPUTERS IN MEDICINE
  1. Hirokazu Takahashi
 Multiple gating stimulation for selective activation of nerves in between electrodes
Topic: FUNCTIONAL ELECTROSTIMULATION
For the best poster presentation
  1. Bae-Hyung Kim
 Multiple transmit focusing with modified orthogonal Golay codes
Topic: IMAGE PROCESSING
  1. Amalric Montalibet
 Electrical conductivity interface scanning by ultrasonically-induced Lorentz force
Topic: INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT APPLIED IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
  1. Björn Schelter
 Application of graphical models in bilateral essential tremor
Topic: METHODS FOR DESCRIBING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CORTICAL NETWORKS