Bioengineering is the application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical and other engineering principles to understand, modify or control biological (plant and animal – including human) systems, and also to design and manufacture products for monitoring physiological functions, assisting in diagnoses, assessing prognoses and helping in treatment of patients. Thus, it has emerged today as an important aid to diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation. A Short Introduction to Biomedical Engineering presents a bird’s eye view of the important components of biomedical engineering for the benefit of undergraduate and postgraduate students. It also provides a glimpse of emerging trends in biomedical engineering like telemedicine and the wider use of computers in health care.
Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari graduated in Medicine and Surgery from Calcutta University in 1989. He then got his PhD in Biomedical Engineering, on neural network aided analysis of electrophysiological signals in stress and exercise, from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1995. He has been instrumental in designing and developing the syllabus on Medical Informatics for the proposed C-level (M. Tech. equivalent) Bioinformatics Course under the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. He is at present the Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the TIFAC-CORE in Biomedical Technology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri and Centre for Digital Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.