Emerging Trends of Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Biomedical circuits and systems are heading toward a multidisciplinary race in two main directions. On the one hand, advanced smart medical devices must be built to improve human healthcare conditions. On the other hand, breakthroughs are required in mimicking the brain when designing learning algorithms and corresponding hardware implementations for numerous applications. In this monograph, we review the main emerging trends and report the trends of biomedical circuits and systems. We report most related circuits and systems activities for biosignal recording and processing, advanced imaging techniques and corresponding circuits and systems, power harvesting and wireless data communications, as well as body area networks, biosensors, and neural prostheses. The research direction in each one of these circuits and systems occupies a large place in several international conferences and prestigious journals, not only in many IEEE societies but also in several other publications.