Medical instrumentation

Referent : Laurent Goujon

This theme covers projects which aim to design and develop new medical devices to improve patient care by healthcare professionals.

Whatever the strategy adopted, our research generally faces recurring scientific hurdles:

in close collaboration with health experts, they must define the physical quantities that will be used to gather the information relevant for the project objective.
they have to carry out measurements on human beings, whether patients or healthcare practitioners, in their usual environment. This means choosing measurement chains capable of collecting several types of information, and adapted to the task in hand, i.e. minimizing disruption to the activity during which the measurement is taken.
given the diversity of the information gathered, the amount of data to be processed is large and varied. This implies being able to extract relevant indicators according to the objective sought, and therefore to use increasingly advanced analysis and information processing algorithms.