Biosignal and Bioinstrumentation Laboratory
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The Biosignal and Bioinstrumentation Laboratory (B2Lab) conducts research, teaching and transfers technology to support and facilitate the healthcare environments and professionals in several research fields, from otolaryngology to neonatology, from psychiatry to paediatric neurology, to cite a few. Specifically, by combining the design of biomedical instrumentation, linear and nonlinear signal processing and feature extraction methodologies and the deployment of artificial intelligence techniques, it aims at developing objective and automatic tools that can be used for the early detection, classification and monitoring of multiple pathologies and disorders. The B2Lab develops innovative methods and tools to help researchers and clinicians create modelling methods and software to analyse biosignals, such as electrodermal activity, heart rate variability (HRV), electroencephalography (EEG), voice recordings, and more. In this contest, the B2Lab developed an embedded portable patch/plaster module to measure bioimpedance in a noninvasive assessment of pain and multimodal approaches to studying and monitoring the healthy ageing of the Italian population. The B2Lab also applies these approaches in neuroscience to investigate neural processing that occurs during specific activities to provide for physiological correlates that can better and more objectively describe them and discover possible correlations between multiple physiological systems. Among the others, recent research has been focused on the processing and recognition of deep-fake human faces and the role of their expressed emotions, the elaboration of so-called pseudowords (meaningless but pronounceable terms), emotion and perception of climate change issues, as well as the relationship between videogames dynamics and human performance, and hyperscanning paradigm were through neuroimaging experiments the brains of two or more participants are monitored simultaneously whilst they interact. These activities are presented and discussed in four courses held at the Biomedical Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programs to educate and train students in using and understanding the functioning of biomedical instrumentation (course of Strumentazione Biomedica), how to correctly elaborate the signals they acquire based on the originating physiological systems (course of Elaborazione dei Segnali Biomedici), and how this knowledge and skills can be applied to investigate over neural activities (course of Bioingegneria per le Neuroscienze) and to develop experimental paradigms or automatic tool for rehabilitation purposes (course of Bioingegneria della Riabilitazione). PeopleAssociate Professors: Antonio Lanatà Post-Doc: Lorenzo Frassineti PhD Students: Federico Calà, Pietro Tarchi, Mustafa Can Gursesli Research Fellows: Maria Chiara Lanini, Anna Magherini |
Responsable Location School of Engineering |
Ultimo aggiornamento
21.03.2025