Biomedical signal processing and interpretation

Prof. Dr. Jané, Raimon
Group Leader


Torre I - Planta 9 | Baldiri Reixach, 4 | 08028 | Barcelona
Email : rjaneibecbarcelona.eu

Research Topics

Multichannel-Multimodal Biomedical Signal Processing / Sleep-disordered breathing analysis and interpretation / Non-invasive respiratory monitoring / Respiratory sounds analysis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease / Advanced signal processing techniques to define new indices of cardiac risk / Multimodal interactions interpretation of blood pressure, electrocardiogram and respiration

The group’s research addresses the design and development of advanced signal processing techniques and the interpretation of biomedical signals to improve monitoring, diagnosis, disease prevention and pathology treatment. We explore new methods and techniques for multi-channel and multimodal acquisition, processing, modelling and interpretation of clinically relevant information from biomedical signals. Our main objective is to improve the non-invasive diagnosis capability through the characterization of physiological phenomena, and to enhance early detection of major diseases and cardiac, respiratory and sleep disorders.

Respiratory sound detection and interpretation in a novel single channel portable device for snore-based screening of Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS)

The specific objectives of the group are the proposal and design of novel signal processing algorithms and the development of a new biosignal databases developed jointly with hospitals to assess and validate the performance of the developed algorithms. To validate the clinical information of some new surface signals, we developed specific invasive/non-invasive protocols with the collaboration of our hospital partners. Currently, we are also studying the proposed algorithms in animal models to test performance in studies with well-controlled physiological conditions.

The group focuses its research in a translational way to promote that scientific and technology contributions can be transferred. Currently, our scientific prototypes are used in the hospitals for research purpose and for industrial developments

• We have proposed a new method to classify subjects according to their Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS) severity through snoring signals (Medical Engineering Physics 34, 1213-1220), in collaboration with the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona.
• We have studied an original definition of regular and non-regular snores and developed a new adaptive detection method, as a novel powerful tool for screening SAHS severity in clinical applications (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing 50, 373-381), in collaboration with the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona.
• We have studied the feasibility and efficacy of an automatic noninvasive analysis method for the differentiation of obstructive and central hypopneas based solely on a single-channel nasal airflow signal (Respiration, 2012, DOI: 10.1159/000342010), in collaboration with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (Karlsruhe), the Klinikum Bethanien and the company MCC-Med, Germany.
• We analyzed the periodic breathing during ascent to extreme altitude quantified by spectral analysis of the respiratory volume signal as indicator of a subject’s condition at high altitude during physical exercise (IEEE-EMBC 2012, 707-710), in collaboration with the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland.
• We proposed a new method to non-invasive assessment of the diaphragm muscle efficiency (Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, DOI:10.1016/j.jelekin.2012.12.007), in collaboration with the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona.
• We developed new methods to classify patients with mechanical ventilation to predict successful weaning process (IEEE-EMBC 2012, 698-701 and 4349-4352), in collaboration with the Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona.
• We designed and analysed multimodal signals from a rat model of SAHS in collaboration with Daniel Navajas’ group at IBEC and the Biophysics and Bioengineering Unit of the School of Medicine, University of Barcelona.

• Prof. Dr. Raimon Jané | Group Leader
• Dr. José Antonio Fiz | Senior Researcher
• Dr. Beatriz Giraldo | Senior Researcher
• Dr. Abel Torres | Senior Researcher
• Dr. Ainara Garde | Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr. Jordi Sola-Soler | Postdoctoral Researcher
• Andrés Arcentales | PhD Student
• Luís Estrada | PhD Student
• Joana Mesquita | PhD Student
• Leonardo Sarlabous | PhD Student
• Oiane Urra | PhD Student
• Alejandro Calvo | Master Student
• Mirella López | Master Student
• Beatriz Martínez | Master Student
• Juan Pablo Tellez | Master Student
• Manuel Lozano | Research Technician
• Maria Puy Ruiz de Alda | Research Technician

• Sarlabous, L., Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2013). Index for estimation of muscle force from mechanomyography based on the Lempel–Ziv algorithm. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 23(3), 548-557.
• Morgenstern, C., J., R. W., Schwaibold, M., Bolz, A. & Jané, R. (2013). Feasibility of Noninvasive Single-Channel Automated Differentiation of Obstructive and Central Hypopneas with Nasal Airflow. Respiration, 85(4), 312-318.
• Garde, A., Voss, A., Caminal, P., Benito, S. & Giraldo, B. (2013). SVM-based feature selection to optimize sensitivity–specificity balance applied to weaning. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 43(5), 533-540.
• Sola-Soler, J., Fiz, J. A., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2012). Multiclass classification of subjects with sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome through snoring analysis. Medical Engineering & Phys, 34(9), 1213–1220.
• Mesquita, J., Sola-Soler, J., Fiz, J. A., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2012). All night analysis of time interval between snores in subjects with sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome. Med Biol Eng Comput., 50(4), 373-81.
• Sarlabous, L., Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2012). Evaluation and adaptive attenuation of the cardiac vibration interference in mechanomyographic signals. Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012, 3400-3.
• Giraldo, B., Gaspar, B. W., Caminal, P. & Benito, S. (2012). Analysis of Roots in ARMA Model for the Classification of Patients on Weaning Trials. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012, 698-701.
• Garde, A., Giraldo, B., Jané, R., Latshang, T. D., Turk, A. J., Hess, T., Bosch, M. M., Barthelmes, D., Hefti, J. P., Maggiorini, M., Hefti, U., Merz, T. M., Schoch, O. D. & Bloch, K. E. (2012). Periodic breathing during ascent to extreme altitude quantified by spectral analysis of the respiratory volume signal. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012, 707-10.
• Chaparro, J. A., Giraldo, B., Caminal, P. & Benito, S. (2012). Performance of Respiratory Pattern Parameters in Classifiers for Predict Weaning Process. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012, 4349-52.
• Fiz, J. A. & Jané, R. (2012). Snoring Analysis. A Complex Question. J Sleep Disor: Treat Care, 1(1).
• Mesquita, J., Poree, F., Carrault, G., Fiz, J. A., Abad, J. & Jané, R. (2012). Respiratory and spontaneous arousals in patients with Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012, 6337-40.
• Morgenstern, R., Morgenstern, C., Jané, R. & Lee, S. (2011). Usefulness of an expandable interbody spacer for the treatment of foraminal stenosis in extremely collapsed disks: preliminary clinical experience with endoscopic posterolateral transforaminal approach. J Spinal Disord Tech., 24(8), 485-491.
• Fiz, J. A., Sola-Soler, J. & Jané, R. (2011). Métodos de análisis del ronquido. Medicina Clínica, 137(1), 36-42.
• Sarlabous, L., Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Gea, J., Martinez-Llorens, J., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2011). Evaluation of the respiratory muscles efficiency during an incremental flow respiratory test. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 3820-3.
• Chaparro, J. A., Giraldo, B., Caminal, P. & Benito, S. (2011). Analysis of the respiratory pattern variability of patients in weaning process using autoregressive modeling techniques. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 5690-3.
• Arcentales, A., Giraldo, B., Caminal, P., Benito, S. & Voss, A. (2011). Recurrence quantification analysis of heart rate variability and respiratory flow series in patients on weaning trials. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 2724-7.
• Fiz, J. A., Sola-Soler, J. & Jané, R. (2011). Métodos de análisis del ronquido. Medicina Clínica, 2011(137), 36-42.
• Morgenstern, C., Schwaibold, M., Randerath, W., Bolz, A. & Jané, R. (2011). Comparison of upper airway respiratory resistance measurements with the esophageal pressure/airflow relationship during sleep. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 3205-8.
• Garde, A., Giraldo, B., Sornmo, L. & Jané, R. (2011). Analysis of the respiratory flow cycle morphology in chronic heart failure patients applying principal components analysis. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 1725-8.
• Sola-Soler, J., Fiz, J. A., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2011). Bayes classification of snoring subjects with and without Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome, using a Kernel method. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 6071-4.
• Mesquita, J., Fiz, J. A., Sola-Soler, J., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2011). Normal non-regular snores as a tool for screening SAHS severity. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 3197-200.
• Jané, R., Fiz, J. A., Sola-Soler, J., Mesquita, J. & Morera, J. (2011). Snoring analysis for the screening of sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome with a single-channel device developed using polysomnographic and snoring databases. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 8331-3.
• Leder, R., Schlotthauer, G., Penzel, T. & Jané, R. (2010). The natural history of the sleep and respiratory engineering track at EMBC 1988 to 2010.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 1, 288-91.
• Morgenstern, C., Schwaibold, M., Randerath, W., Bolz, A. & Jané, R. (2010). An Invasive and a Noninvasive Approach for the Automatic Differentiation of Obstructive and Central Hypopneas. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng., 57, 1927-1936.
• Arcentales, A., Giraldo, B., Caminal, P., DIaz, I. & Benito, S. (2010). Spectral analysis of the RR series and the respiratory flow signal on patients in weaning process.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 2485-8.
• Correa, R., Laciar, E., Arini, P. & Jané, R. (2010). Analysis of QRS loop in the Vectorcardiogram of patients with Chagas' disease.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 2561-4.
• Torres, A., Sarlabous, L., Fiz, J. A., Gea, J., Martinez-Llorens, J., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2010). Noninvasive measurement of inspiratory muscle performance by means of diaphragm muscle mechanomyographic signals in COPD patients during an incremental load respiratory test.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 2493-6.
• Correa, L., Laciar, E., Mut, V., Giraldo, B. & Torres, A. (2010). Multi-parameter analysis of ECG and Respiratory Flow signals to identify success of patients on weaning trials.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 1 6070-3 Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 6070-3.
• Garde, A., Sornmo, L., Jané, R. & Giraldo, B. (2010). Correntropy-based nonlinearity test applied to patients with chronic heart failure.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 2399-402.
• Sarlabous, L., Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Gea, J., Martinez-Llorens, J., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2010). Interpretation of the approximate entropy using fixed tolerance values as a measure of amplitude variations in biomedical signals.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 5967-70.
• Mesquita, J., Fiz, J. A., Sola-Soler, J., Morera, J. & Jané, R. (2010). Regular and non regular snore features as markers of SAHS. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 6138-41.
• Morgenstern, C., Schwaibold, M., Randerath, W., Bolz, A. & Jané, R. (2010). Automatic non-invasive differentiation of obstructive and central hypopneas with nasal airflow compared to esophageal pressure.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 6142-5.
• Fiz, J. A., Jané, R., Sola-Soler, J., Abad, J., García, M. & Morera, J. (2010). Continuous analysis and monitoring of snores and their relationship to the apnea-hypopnea index. Laryngoscope, 120, 854–862.
• Garde, A., Sörnmo, L., Jané, R. & Giraldo, B. (2010). Correntropy-Based Spectral Characterization of Respiratory Patterns in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng., 57, 1964-1972.
• Garde, A., Sörnmo, L., Jané, R. & Giraldo, B. (2010). Breathing Pattern Characterization in Chronic Heart Failure Patients Using the Respiratory Flow Signal. Ann Biomed Eng., 38, 3572-80.
• Caminal, P., Giraldo, B., Vallverdú, M., Benito, S., Schroeder, R. & Voss, A. (2010). Symbolic Dynamic Analysis of Relations Between Cardiac and Breathing Cycles in Patients on Weaning Trials. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 38, 2542-2552.
• Garde, A., Schroeder, R., Voss, A., Caminal, P., Benito, S. & Giraldo, B. (2010). Patients on weaning trials classified with support vector machines. Physiological Measurement, 31(7), 979.
• Arizmendi, C., Romero, E., Alquezar, R., Caminal, P., Diaz, I., Benito, S. & Giraldo, B. (2009). Data mining of patients on weaning trials from mechanical ventilation using cluster analysis and neural networks.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 4343-6.
• Fiz, J. A., Prat, J. M. & Jané, R. (2009). Treatment of Patients With Simple Snoring. Arch Bronconeumol., 45, 508-15.
• Gea, J., Gáldiz, J., COmtois, N., Zhu, E., Salazkin, I., Fiz, J. A. & Grassino, A. (2009). Modifications of Diaphragmatic Activity Induced by Midline Laparotomy and Changes in Abdominal Wall Compliance. Arch Bronconeumol., 45, 30-5.
• Gea, J., Zhu, E., Gáldiz, J., Comtois, N., Salazkin, I., Fiz, J. A. & Grassino, A. (2009). Functional consequences of eccentric contractions of the diaphragm. Arch Bronconeumol., 45, 68-74.
• Garde, A., Sornmo, L., Jané, R. & Giraldo, B. (2009). Correntropy-based analysis of respiratory patterns in patients with chronic heart failure. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 4687-4690.
• Correa, L., LAciar, E., Mut, V., Torres, A. & Jané, R. (2009). Sleep apnea detection based on spectral analysis of three ECG-derived respiratory signals. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 4723-6.
• Correa, A., Laciar, E., Orosco, L., Gómez, M., Otoya, R. & Jané, R. (2009). An energy-based detection algorithm of epileptic seizures in EEG records. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1384-7.
• Garde, A., Giraldo, B., Jané, R. & Sörnmo, L. (2009). Time-varying respiratory pattern characterization in chronic heart failure patients and healthy subjects. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 4007-10.
• Morgenstern, C., Schwaibold, M., Randerath, W., Bolz, A. & Jané, R. (2009). Automatic differentiation of obstructive and central hypopneas with esophageal pressure measurement during sleep. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 7102-5.
• Correa, R., Laciar, E., Arini, P. & Jané, R. (2009). Analysis of QRS loop changes in the beat-to-beat Vectocardiogram of ischemic patients undergoing PTCA. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1750-3.
• Orosco, L., Laciar, E., Correa, A., Torres, A. & Graffigna, J. (2009). An epileptic seizures detection algorithm based on the empirical mode decomposition of EEG.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 2651-4.
• Diez, P. F., Mut, V., Laciar, E. & Torres, A. (2009). Application of the empirical mode decomposition to the extraction of features from EEG signals for mental task classification.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1, 2579-82.
• Sarlabous, L., Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Gea, J., Martinez-Llorens, J. & Jané, R. (2009). Evaluation of the respiratory muscular function by means of diaphragmatic mechanomyographic signals in copd patients. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 3925-8.
• Sarlabous, L., Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Gea, J., Galdiz, J. & Jané, R. (2009). Multistate Lempel-Ziv (MLZ) index interpretation as a measure of amplitude and complexity changes. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc..
• Morgenstern, C., Schwaibold, M., Randerath, W., Bolz, A. & Jané, R. (2009). Assessment of changes in upper airway obstruction by automatic identification of inspiratory flow limitation during sleep.. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng., 56, 2006-15.
• Morgenstern, C., Jané, R., Schwaibold, M. & Randerath, W. (2008). Characterization of inspiratory flow limitation during sleep with an exponential model. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 2439-42.
• Diez, P. F., LAciar, E., Mut, V., Avila, E. & Torres, A. (2008). A comparative study of the performance of different spectral estimation methods for classification of mental tasks.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1155-8.
• Orini, M., Giraldo, B., Bailón, R., Vallverdú, M., Mainardi, L., Benito, S., Díaz, I. & Caminal, P. (2008). Time-frequency analysis of cardiac and respiratory parameters for the prediction of ventilator weaning.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 2793-6.
• Martinez-Rivera, C., Abad, J., Fiz, J. A., Rios, J. & Morera, J. (2008). Usefulness of truncal obesity indices as predictive factors for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.. Obesity (Silver Spring), 16, 113-8.
• Fiz, J. A., Gnitecki, J., Kraman, S. S., Wodicka, G. R. & Pasterkamp, H. (2008). Effect of Body Position on Lung Sounds in Healthy Young Men*. Chest, 133(3), 729-736.
• Morgenstern, C., Jané, R., Schwaibold, M. & Randerath, W. (2008). Automatic classification of inspiratory flow limitation assessed non-invasively during sleep.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 1132-5.
• Garde, A., Giraldo, B., Jané, R., Diaz, I., Herrera, S., Benito, S., Domingo, M. & Bayés-Genis, A. (2008). Characterization of periodic and non-periodic breathing pattern in chronic heart failure patients.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 3227-30.
• Torres, A., Fiz, J. A., Jané, R., Laciar, E., Galdiz, J. B., Gea, J. & Morera, J. (2008). Rényi entropy and Lempel-Ziv complexity of mechanomyographic recordings of diaphragm muscle as indexes of respiratory effort.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 2112-5.
• Correa, L. S., Laciar, E., Torres, A. & Jané, R. (2008). Performance evaluation of three methods for respiratory signal estimation from the electrocardiogram.. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 4760-3.
• Sola-Soler, J., Jané, R., Fiz, J. A. & Morera, J. (2008). Formant frequencies of normal breath sounds of snorers may indicate the risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 3500-3.
• Solanes, I., Casan, P., Sangenis, M., Calaf, N., Giraldo, B. & Guell, R. (2007). Factores de riesgo de mortalidad en la EPOC. ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA, 43(8), 445-449.
• Fiz, J. A., Jané, R., Izquierdo, J., Homs, A., Garcia, M. A., Gomez, R. & Monso, E. (2006). Analysis of Forced Wheezes in Asthma Patients. RESPIRATION, 73(1), 55-60.

Projects

• MIMCRID: Multimodal invasive and non-invasive biomedical signal interpretation and modelling in cardiac, respiratory and neurological disorders

  MICINN. Raimon Jané (Coordinator)

• INDI-MUSICA: Indexes obtained from computational models and multiscale-multimodal biomedical signals for the diagnosis of cardiac pathologies

  CIBER-BBN (Raimon Jané)

• MUDIRES: Multimodal Diagnosis by Interpretation of Multiscale Signals in the Respiratory System

  CIBER-BBN (Raimon Jané, Coordinator)

• Investigación en Señales y Sistemas Biomédicos

  CIBER-BBN (Raimon Jané, Coordinator)

• VPHTk Virtual Physiological Human Toolkit

  CIBER-BBN (Raimon Jané)

• Respiratory Sound Analysis

  Health Sciences Research Institute, Germans Trias I Pujol Foundation. Raimon Jané, Coordinator

• ULTRASEN-4BIO: Characterization and validation of novel ultrasensitive piezoresistive all-organic sensors for multimodal biomedical signals

  CIBER-BBN (Raimon Jané, Coordinator)

Collaborations

• Dr. James J. Yue Yale Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, Yale University


• Prof. Dr. Konrad Bloch Pulmonary Division at University of Zurich (Switzerland).


• Prof. Dr. Thomas Penzel Interdisciplinary Sleep Center, Charité University Hospital, Berlin


• Prof. Dr. Jaume Veciana Grupo de Nanociencia Molecular y Materiales Orgánicos del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (NANOMOL-CSIC), Barcelona
  


• Prof. Dr. Lotfi Senhadji Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l’Image (LTSI), Université de Rennes 1, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM (France).


• Dra. Marta Sitges IDIBAPS, Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Spain).


• Prof. Ramon Farré Unitat de Biofísica i Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina, Barcelona (Spain).


• Dr. Joaquim Gea Servei Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar-IMIM, Barcelona (Spain).


• Prof. Javier Pavía Grupo de Imagen Médica (GIB). Universidad de Barcelona, Spain


• Prof. Andreas Voss University of Applied Sciences Jena (Germany).


• Prof. Domènec Ros Grupo de Imagen Médica (GIB). Universidad de Barcelona, Spain


• Prof. Winfried J. Randerath Institut für Pneumologie, Klinik Bethanien, Solingen (Germany).


• Prof. Antonio Bayes Genis Grup ICREC, Servei Cardiología Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol


• Prof. Alejandro Frangi Grupo de Imagen Computacional y tecnologías de Simulación en Biomedicina (CISTIB). Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain


• Prof. Manuel Doblaré Grupo de Mecánica Estructural y Modelado de Materiales. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain


• Prof. Andrés Santos Grupo de Tecnologías de Imágenes Médicas (BIT). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain


• Dr. Salvador Benito Emergency Unit of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain


• Dr. Alfredo Hernández Laboratoire Trataiment du Signal et de l’Image. Université de Rennes 1. Instituto Francés de Salud, France (INSERM), France.


• Dr. Josep Morera Prat Servicio de Neumología. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain


• Prof. Pablo Laguna Instituto de Investigación de Aragón (I3A). Universidad de Zaragoza. Spain.


• Prof. Leif Sörnmo Signal processing group. Lund University. Sweden.


• Prof. Armin Bolz Institute of Biomedical Engineering. University of Karlsruhe, Germany.


• Dr. Eric Laciar Departamento de Electrónica y Automática. Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina.


• Dr. Matthias Schwaibold MCC-Med GmbH & Co. KG, Karlsruhe, Germany.

• Research laboratory with full equipment

  for acquisition and processing of biomedical signal to test new sensors and to define clinical protocols (preliminary tests and control subjects)

• Non-invasive Vital Signs Monitor for small lab animals (mice and rats) (Mouse-Ox Plus)
• BIOPAC system for multichannel cardiac and respiratory biomedical signal acquisition
• Databases of biomedical signals from Hospitals and Animal Laboratories
• Snoring analyzer equipment (SNORYZER)
• Sensors, electrodes and microphones to obtain cardiac, respiratory, neural, muscular and sleep biomedical signals
• Polisomnographic equipment available in the Sleep Laboratory of collaborator Hospital
• Beat to beat arterial blood pressureand haemodynamic monitor equipment
• Computing server for high performance biomedical signals

23/04/2013

Measuring signals at the 11th "Recerca en directe" Science Fair

IBEC's Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group took part in this year's "Recerca en directe" science fair at La Pedrera, where they introduced an activity that helped visitors record and process their own biomedical signals.

12/03/2013

"‪CASEIB 2012 celebrado en Donostia-San Sebastián‬"

IBEC group leader Raimon Jané, in his role as president of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (SEIB), features in a video about the society's CASEIB 2012 annual meeting in San Sebastián in November.

01/03/2013

"Raimon Jané, presidente de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica"

An interview with IBEC group leader Raimon Jané appears in the latest edition of CIBER-BBN's newsletter.

05/12/2012

Presidency of SEIB for IBEC group leader

Biomedical signal processing and interpretation group leader Raimon Jané was elected as president of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (SEIB) at its annual meeting (CASEIB) in San Sebastián.

19/06/2012

"Separ y Ciber-BBN apuestan por la innovación"

Last week Biomedical signal processing and interpretation group leader Raimon Jané was an invited speaker at a special institutional joint session of the CIBER-BBN (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina) and SEPAR (Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica) at SEPAR's 45th National Meeting in Madrid.

05/06/2012

IBEC signs collaboration agreements with IGTP

Last week IBEC signed two collaboration agreements with the Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) to carry out and promote scientific and translational research.

18/04/2011

“System Automatically Monitors Apnea-Hypopnea Index”

Some recent research by the Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group has been featured in the section 'Literature Review: A roundup of the most important recent studies' in ENT Today magazine.