Acoustic Sensors for Biomedical Applications

Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology (under Techno India Group), Kolkata, India. He is also a Visiting Professor at Duy Tan University, Vietnam, He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015), Research Scientist of Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Modeling in Human Physiology, Territorial Organization of- Scientific and Engineering Unions, Bulgaria. Associate Researcher of Laboratoire RIADI, University of Manouba, Tunisia. He is an associated Member of University of Reading, London, UK and Scientific Member of - Politcnica of Porto. In addition, he was awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India during the period of consideration 2015-17 during Faculty Research Awards organized by Careers 360 at New Delhi, India on March 20, 2018. Before he joined Techno India, he was Assistant Professor of JIS College of Engineering and Bengal College of Engineering and Technology. He has authored/edited more than 30 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 270 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. f Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI, IGI Global,UK, Scopus), Int. J. of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IGI Global,US, DBLP,ACM dl), Co- Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Synthetic Emotions (IGI Global,US, DBLP,ACM dl) and International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IGI Global,US, DBLP,ACM dl). He is the Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH), Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC Press (FOCUS/Brief Series) and Advances in Geospatial Technologies (AGT) Book Series, (IGI Global), US, serves as an editorial board member of several international journals, including International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), Inderscience, Associated Editor of IEEE Access (SCI-Indexed), and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis as well as Data Mining. He has been on program committees of over 50 international conferences, a workshop organizer of 5 workshops, and acted as a program co-chair and/or advisory chair of more than 10 international conferences. He has given more than 40 invited lectures in 10 countries, including many invited plenary/keynote talks at the international conferences such as ITITS2017 (China), TIMEC2017 (Egypt) and SOFA2018 (Romania), BioCom2018 (UK) etc. Amira S. Ashour is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Department-EEC, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. She has been the Vice Chair of Computer Engineering Department, Computers and Information Technology College, Taif University, KSA for one year from 2015. She has been the vice chair of CS department, CIT college, Taif University, KSA for 5 years. Her research interests are Smart antenna, Direction of arrival estimation, Targets tracking, Image processing, Medical imaging, Machine learning, Signal/image/video processing, Image analysis, Computer vision, and Optimization. She has 7 books and about 100 published journal papers. She is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), IGI Global, US and a Series Co-editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH), Elsevier (Book Series). She is an Associate Editor for the IJRSDA, IGI Global, US as well as the IJACI, IGI Global, US. She is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), Inderscience. Waleed S. Mohamed is currently a Professor of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. He is Consultant of Gastroenterology & Diabetology and Consultant of Ultrasonography and Color Doppler

Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Biomedical Signals.- Chapter3: Acoustic Wave Technology.- Chapter4: Acoustic Sensors.- Chapter5: Acoustic Sensors in Biomedical Applications.- Chapter6: Conclusion.