Bioimaging (BIMG) Track

Bioimaging is the study of bio/medical phenomena based on the information provided in digital images.  It draws upon advances in signal processing, optics, probe chemistry, molecular biology, and machine learning, to provide answers to biological and medical questions from biological and medical images acquired in digital form.  Students in this track will gain understanding of the technologies involved in acquiring images, the mathematical principles underlying the processing and analysis of images, and the applications of imaging in both basic research and medicine.

This track aligns most naturally with a combined training of BME and Electrical & Computer Engineering.  A bioimaging specialist will have a broad background to enter biomedical technology companies developing new instrumentation and/or algorithms for digital imaging, to pursue a career in basic biomedical research by going to a graduate school, or to enter a medical school to pursue a medical career, particularly in radiology and pathology.

In addition to the general BME requirements, students in the CMBT Track must take the following:

BIMG Gateway Course (required)
18-290 Signals and Systems – Fall/Spring

BIMG Track Electives (choose 3)
03-534 Biological Imaging and Fluorescent Spectroscopy - Spring
18-491 Digital Signal Processing - Fall or Spring
18-792 Advanced Digital Signal Processing - Fall
18-798 Image, Video, and Multimedia - Spring, every other year
18-799A Special Topics in Signal Processing: Registration in Bioimaging - Intermittent
24-700 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: Computational Bio-modeling and Visualization - Spring
42-334 Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology - Spring
42-431 Introduction to Biomedical Imaging and Image Analysis – Fall
42-660 Surgery for Engineers ** – Fall/Spring
42-735/16-725 Medical Image Analysis – Intermittent
42-X00 BME Research **

** The 42-x00 research project (42-200/300/400 Sophomore/Junior/Senior Biomedical Engineering Research Project OR 39-500 CIT Honors Thesis) must be on a BME topic supervised or co-supervised by a BME faculty member and conducted for 9 or more units of credit.  Students may count EITHER 42-x00 BME Research OR 39-500 CIT Honors Research (with BME supervision) OR 42-660 Surgery for Engineers as a track elective.  Students MAY NOT count both research and Surgery for Engineers as track electives.

Sample Schedules

• BME & ECE double major, class of 2009-2011 (PDF)
• BME & ECE double major, class of 2012 (PDF)

Course Planning Worksheet (doc, pdf)

(Update 08/22/09)