Browse 83 real Biomedical Engineering projects entered in 2023, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Mainstay of the treatment of wounds is the appropriate wound dressing. The purpose of dressing is to provide a clean surface, inhibit the pathogens using biocides, insert nutrients, promote…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Visually impaired individuals need a low-cost assistive aid that can provide a new form of mobility and navigation. Currently, the blind rely on canes, guide dogs, and other tools to navigat…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Every year, 124 million women receive Papanicolaou exams; and every year 4,000 die from cervical cancer. The root of this disparity lies in the outdated devices used to collect cervical cell…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this project is to develop a mobile app that can detect drug/alcohol intoxication levels in individuals using eye-pupil analysis. The app will utilize computer vision algorithms t…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
During a menstruating person’s lifetime, over 11,000 disposable menstrual products and their packaging are sent to landfills. Recent advances in textiles have made reusable fabric menstrual…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
With just 5% survival rates, pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Studies have discovered that an increase in polyamine concentration in biofluids cor…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Currently, there is no objective diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder that affects more than ten million people globally. Specialists use visible symp…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The needle bio-potential sensors for measuring muscle and brain activity need invasive surgical targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) and a demanding process to maintain, but surface bio-poten…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Cerebral palsy, the most common motor disability in childhood, causes mobility issues, leading to gait abnormalities. The spectrum of these abnormalities includes having stiff or flaccid mus…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cardiovascular surgery is a complex and high-risk procedure that requires precise navigation to ensure the success of the operation. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the d…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The project focuses on the development of a solar powered, portable respirator system that utilizes an Ambu bag and incorporates an LCD user interface to allow for the setting of specific pa…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular disease is the direct cause of 20% of deaths in the United States, and 32% of deaths worldwide, making it one of the leading causes of death in the world. The continuous monit…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the benchmark for CVD diagnosis, yet it is currently impractical for con…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Outbreak of pandemics such as Spanish Influenza, Ebola and Corona virus, the most recent one has had a challenge on mass testing of their infections and spread. Available medical personnel a…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder of elderly humans; it is the sixth leading cause of death worldwide. The Brain Guide Application proposed in this projec…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The ambition for our research was to test out if the at home monitoring device is reliable as the market advertiser's it to be. Many people around the world suffer from chronic joint pain wh…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
CS-M: Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease (CVDs) with Heart Sounds. CVDs are the number 1 cause of mortality worldwide and claim more than 17.9 million lives annually. But 80% of these mortali…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Scleral Buckling Surgery is a common eye procedure ophthalmic surgery residents need to master. However, they lack low-cost, quality training models. Surgical simulators are one way to pract…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Hypoxia is the state of insufficient tissue oxygenation to support homeostasis that, if untreated in time, can lead to tissue damage and organ failure. However, there is a lack of accurate a…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The fascia is a layer of connective tissue that connects to most internal structures of the human body to keep them in place. Myofascial tightness is tightness within the fascia that connect…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are a common cause of paralysis, rendering patients unable to utilize motor functions. In particular, cervical SCIs cause tetraplegia, one of the most severe form…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
To tackle the challenges of targeted drug delivery, we created three different milli-robotic approaches. To improve overall locomotion efficiency and load bearing capabilities during deliver…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The traditional way of using manual assistance for rehabilitation can’t satisfy the requirement of rehabilitation market due to limited number of rehabilitation therapists, high labor costs,…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a form of neuromodulation used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, migraines, Parkinson's Disease, anxiety, and PTSD. Outside of cl…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a chronic condition that devastates approximately 10% of the global population, and yet technology aimed at its management is invasive, costly, and solely monitors blood-glucose…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Visual impairment, more severely known as blindness, has been a persistent problem in the world of biomedical sciences in which an effective, modern, and universal solution has yet to be int…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Nowadays, rehabilitation engineering and biomedical engineering are always creating new techniques in order to improve people's quality of life. When talking about foot drop or steppage gait…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Introducing an innovative solution to a long-standing problem: Aphasia. This debilitating condition, commonly suffered by stroke victims, severely impairs verbal communication abilities by d…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The growing demand for patient organs has revealed 3D bio-printing as a potential solution for the global organ shortage. However, a deeper fundamental understanding of vascularization is re…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Myopia is the most common eyesight problem faced by most students. India has more than 10 million cases yearly, affecting almost 30-40% of the population. It is expected that by 2050 it will…