Title :
Medical device excellence award winners
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Each year, a select number of medical devices are critically reviewed by a panel of experts composed of from clinical engineers, researchers, industry designers. The winners this year ranged from neonatal screening for hearing dysfunction to automated cervical cancer detection. All are innovative medical devices that represent the best of biomedical engineering ideas brought to practice and are being used to help improve the health of the general public. This session features some of this year´s prestigious gold and silver medal winners. Come hear about their devices and the stories behind them.
Keywords :
biomedical engineering; biomedical equipment; cancer; gynaecology; hearing; paediatrics; patient diagnosis; automated cervical cancer detection; biomedical engineering; clinical engineers; hearing dysfunction; industry designers; medical device excellence award winners; neonatal screening; public health; researchers; Awards; industry; medical device;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1404414