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<p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">Welcome
to the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council's (EPSRC),
<b>Life Sciences Interface Network for Patient Monitoring and Non-Invasive
Physiological Measurement</b>, based within the Imaging Science and
Biomedical Engineering Department (ISBE) at the University of Manchester.<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">After
imaging, non-invasive physiological measurement in one form or another
is one of the most important diagnostic methodologies used in health
care. It includes ECG, EMG and other bio-electric measurements; it underpins
patient monitoring and treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); the
operating theatre during anaesthesia, and it is an integral part of
services such as audiology. </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399"><br>
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Future developments in this field will have an enormous impact on the
development of information technology in medicine, especially telemedicine.
Thus, the benefits of research into these techniques is very widespread
in health care and in applied physiology in general. </font></p>
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Aims and Objectives</b></font> </td>
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<td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">Current
research in these areas is somewhat fragmented due to its multi-disciplinary
nature. There are many groups in various disciplines, institutions and types
of department developing relevant techniques and methods, and cross-interest
fertilisation in such a wide field is very difficult.<br>
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The main objectives of the Network are therefore: </font>
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<b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">To
organize strategic research workshops where groups of researchers will
identify areas for generic research and produce research plans.</font></b>
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<b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">To
host an on-line library of cross platform implementations of measurement
and signal processing techniques.</font></b></p>
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<b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">To
provide certified data-sets for evaluation of new methods.</font></b>
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<b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">To
publish literature reviews in specific areas to help disseminate novel
techniques rapidly and encourage discussion.</font></b> </p>
<p align="left"><img src="images/button_sphere_small.gif" width="12" height="12"><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">To
develop distance learning materials for education in new techniques.</font></b></p>
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<td bgcolor="#99CCFF" colspan="2"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#003399"><b><font size="2">Membership
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<td colspan="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#003399">Membership
is <b>FREE</b> and is open to academics, clinicians, student researchers
and those involved in the medical engineering industry. To register, simply
complete our short questionnaire which can be found on the 'Membership'
page. <br>
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<font color="#003399">Please feel free to <a href="mailto:pamela.m.griffiths@man.ac.uk">contact
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