HST.582J/6.555J/16.456J
Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

New Announcements:

5/5/08 Quiz 2 Review Session is happening 5:30 - 7:00 PM on Monday, May 5th in 56-169. John Fisher will be covering parts of PS Y as well as answering any quesions students have.

5/5/08 Quiz 2 is happening during lecture (9:30 - 11:00 AM) this Thursday, May 8th, in the usual lecture room 56-154. One sheet of notes (front and back) will be allowed.

PS Y solutions and quiz topics have been posted in the Materials section.

3/14/08 Quiz 1 is happening during lecture (9:30 - 11:00 AM) next Tuesday, March 18th, in the usual lecture room 56-154. One sheet of notes (front and back) will be allowed.

PS X solutions, quiz topics, and a special autocorrelation review example from John Fisher have been posted in the Materials section.

2/26/08 Solutions to Problem Set 2, as well as the lecture notes for the following week have been posted in the Materials section.

2/18/08 Solutions to Problem Set 1 have been posted in the Materials section.

2/11/08 Lab 1 and Problem Set 2 have been posted in the Materials section. Notes for this upcoming week of lectures have also been uploaded in Materials.

2/08/08 Notes for the Matlab Tutorial have been posted in the Materials section.

2/06/08 The Matlab self-test has been posted in the Materials section as well as sent through email. As stated in the self-test, if you cannot complete the tasks in about 10 minutes, it is strongly recommended that you come to the tutorial on Friday in 14-0637 from 11AM-12:30PM.

2/06/08 A welcome email has been sent out to the 6.555-students@mit.edu email list. If you did not recieve this email, please contact Bo (boz@mit.edu) to resolve the problem. You can view a copy of the email here.

1/30/08 The Spring 2008 offering of Biomedical Signal and Image Processing begins February 5th at 9:30am in 56-154. Hope to see you then!

General Information:

Semester: Spring, 2008
Lectures: Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 - 11:00am
Room 56-154 (map)
Laboratories: Section 1:Wednesday, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Section 2: Friday, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Room: 14-0637 (map)
Teaching Staff:

Instructor: Julie Greenberg
Telephone: 617-258-6086
Email: jgreenbe@mit.edu
Room: E25-518

Instructor: William (Sandy) Wells
Telephone: 617-253-8753
Email: sw@csail.mit.edu
Room: 32-D410

Instructor: John Fisher
Telephone: 617-253-0788
Email: fisher@csail.mit.edu
Room: 32-D468

Instructor: Gari Clifford
Telephone: 617-253-7937
Email: gari@mit.edu
Room: E25-505

TA: Bo Zhu
Email: boz@mit.edu
Lab Hours: WF, 11am-3pm.
Office hours by appointment.

Overview: This course presents the fundamentals of digital signal processing with particular emphasis on problems in biomedical research and clinical medicine. It covers principles and algorithms for processing both deterministic and random signals. Topics include data acquisition, imaging, filtering, coding, feature extraction, and modeling. The focus of the course is a series of labs that provide practical experience in processing physiological data, with examples from cardiology, speech processing, and medical imaging. The labs are done on Athena in MATLABŪ during weekly lab sessions that take place in an electronic classroom. Lectures cover signal processing topics relevant to the lab exercises, as well as background on the biological signals processed in the labs.
Grading:
  • 60% lab reports (5 total)
  • 25% quizzes (2 total)
  • 10% problem sets (5 total)
  • 5% class participation

Problem sets are graded on a 0-4 scale, as follows:

4
Problem set contains few to no errors, indicating a thorough understanding of the material.
3
Problem set contains some errors, indicating a less-than-thorough understanding of the material.
2
Problem set is complete, but numerous errors indicate a lack of understanding of the material.
1
Problem set is incomplete.
0
Problem set not handed in, or is handed in late without prior arrangement.