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ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Amputations affect over 1 million people worldwide each year. War and disease take a toll from too many who can hardly afford to pay. The goal of this project is to design and build a cost e…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to develop a more accessible and less invasive solution to today’s current prosthesis procedures. The cost of a prosthetic arm can range anywhere from $15,…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The objective of this project was to make an efficient diagnostic and telemonitoring tool for Parkinson’s disease through a mobile application - aimed at providing accessibility to everyone,…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
RNA-based infectious diseases have been sources of large-scale epidemics and pandemics resulting in millions of casualties worldwide. Detection of these biological agents normally involves m…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Substantial research indicates that Curcumin may be a potent treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s water insolubility, degradation by alkalinity (small intestine) and tendency to be metabo…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
This project uses the “Bag of Visual Words” computer vision algorithm to automatically detect age-related macular degeneration in retinal fundus images. Macular degeneration is the most prev…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The problem of blood loss is actual in any surgical operation. Nowadays, this issue is solved by huge and expensive devices. My goal was to create a mobile medical instrument able to make th…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to analyze the effectivity of 3D constructed external ears in conducting and transmitting various frequencies (Hz) and intensities (dB) of sound. This proc…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Each year, 15 million infants—one in every ten born worldwide—are susceptible to hypothermia. This makes thermal stability a necessity for infant survival, with negligence of a stable enviro…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
A rapid, microfluidic microRNA test using saliva is proposed as a tool to diagnose breast cancer in its early stages. Current means of diagnosing this disease requires expensive, highly tech…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Clinical trials of liver-directed gene therapies are rapidly increasing. Though exciting, there are obstacles to overcome. Significant viral injection is necessary to achieve therapeutic lev…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Vein imaging systems have been used in the medical industry for many years. Most of them work by using the Near Infrared Imaging technique. However, using such a technique made the devices e…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Undiagnosed type 1 diabetes can cause death if left untreated. Current detection methods utilize urine or blood, both of which are invasive to obtain, especially considering the young demogr…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Lung disease, which includes asthma, emphysema, cancer and cystic fibrosis, is one of the leading causes of death in the world, with more than 3 million deaths annually. Transplantation is u…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Oral hygiene is linked with several systemic diseases. The dental biofilm/plaque, responsible for these pathologies, is often resistant to brushing, leaving a pressing need for innovative so…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Popular balance ability monitoring methods such as scale scoring and posturography testing have many drawbacks, e.g. subjective judgments, complicated instruments, defined lab scenarios othe…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The magnetosomes are specific organelles of the Magnetospirillum magneticum(Magnetotactic bacteria), representing intracellular chain of magnetite(iron oxide) particles. The magnetotactic ba…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Cancer is a big problem for society, increases world-wide. Today there are many efficient cancer treatments, but one of the key problems is that cancer is often detected very late. The proje…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this project is to evaluate whether or not chitosan microspheres are able to successfully deliver drugs into different human cell lines (CEM, HeLa, HEK 293 cells). The indicat…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Many Hospitalized patients receive multiple drugs intravenously using an Infusion system, as part of their treatment. In such cases, any interaction between the various drugs must be prevent…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Stethoscope are the most widely used medical technology in the world, used in both developed and developing nations. A normal acoustic stethoscope can cost anywhere between $40 and $1,000 an…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Almost 5 million dental implants are placed annually in the United States, and they are now considered the standard of care for the replacement of lost teeth. Despite their increased use for…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness affecting nearly 300,000 people each year. The debilitating symptoms are largely unspecific save for a bulls-eye rash that only appears in…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Statement of the Problem: Children‘s prosthetic needs are complex due to their constant growth and psychosocial development. Existing technologies for customized computer-assisted prosthetic…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Three quarters of cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated deaths occur in resource-poor medical regions. The conventional stethoscope remains the primary tool used to diagnose CVD in these s…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Access to health care in low income communities and developing countries is limited. The purpose of this project was to develop a prototype of a string-based microfluidic device to detect an…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Propofol is the most common anesthetic agent used in the United States, but 60% of the time patients feel pain on injection (Jalota et al. 2011). This pain is hypothesized to be from the fre…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the name for a group of developmental disorders. ASD includes a range of symptoms, skills, and levels of disability. According to the Centers for Disease Co…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Free-space broadband functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy technique has been used to clinically measure the optical properties of ganglion cysts and lipomas tumors. The fNIR system m…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Peripheral neuropathy afflicts 20 million United States citizens and leads to sensory loss in the extremities as well as infection, injury, and amputation. Daily ambulation alone can cause d…