4th International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering 2017

Message from the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
It is with great pleasure that I welcome the participants of the fourth International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering. ICABME 2017 conference will be a platform to gather and disseminate the latest knowledge in biomedical engineering. Academicians, scientist, researchers and practitioners of Biomedical engineering will be able to share and discuss new ideas and applications in this domain including biomechanics, instrumentation, signal and image processing and others.

The faculty of engineering at the Lebanese university established a research center inside the faculty. One of research unit in this research center is the “technology for health”. This center will help our students and faculty members to propose new ideas in biomedical domains and this is the suitable place to put their innovation.
Our faculty of engineering contains many majors such as electrical, electronics, civil and mechanical engineering. Recently the petrochemical major is added to our curricula due to our vision for the future after discovering petrol and gas in Lebanon.
In order to promote good engineers and researchers, the faculty of engineering focuses on the areas of scientific recommendations, transfer of expertise, promotion of young scientists and engineers. In the faculty there are many research masters in Telecommunication, Civil engineering, renewable energy, Petroleum and biomedical.
Our program is one of the top ranked engineering programs in Lebanon thanks to the great efforts of our administration, faculty members and staff. Our graduates are innovators and professionals who serve and fuel the economic and technological development of Lebanon and regions beyond.
As usual, biomedical engineering is a part of our curriculum. This will be transferred as department in the few coming years. And this is great pleasure for us to be a part of the organizing committee of this conference in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology.
Finally I would like to congratulate the organizing committee for their tremendous efforts in organizing the conference.
I hope you will have a rewarding experience and an enjoyable time in Lebanon.
Rafic Younes
Dean of the faculty of engineering

Message from the Dean Of Doctoral School
of sciences and Technology
Distinguished Guests,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you all at the Lebanese University – Rafic Hariri campus and to this International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering. We are deeply proud to jointly organize this activity with many other private universities in Lebanon. This cooperation is an achievement of what we strive to carry out at Lebanese university. It is an expression of a dimension of our mission in Lebanon and forward to the globalized world. It is in fact a constituent of our global responsibility.

The doctoral school of sciences and technology (DSST) at the Lebanese university contains hard workers and high quality students from Lebanese university and from private universities as well. The DSST implemented three multidisciplinary platforms in specific research topics that meet the socio-economic needs and the scientific competencies of researchers in the Lebanese University (Health and environment, nanotechnology, biotechnology).
DSST had made a lot of collaborations with international universities to make students exchange program and with many local universities, company, and social associations.

At DSST, we seek academic excellence, and nowadays, international exposure of faculty and students has become an essential component of excelling academically. For that this participation of prominent international speakers in this conference will immensely contribute to our academic atmosphere. Indeed, your experience and knowledge, honorable and distinguished guests, will also enrich our cultural diversity and strengthen it academically. It is in fact a scientific cooperation in a cross-cultural context. Allow me to express my sincere appreciation for your presence in Lebanon and at Lebanese university in Beirut in spite of the unsettled circumstances in the region. With no doubt, the development of medical science has contributed throughout history to the betterment of different aspects of the daily life. Developments in the field of biomedical Engineering have always continued to take place. Our conference today is a step forward on this long journey.

Honorable Guests, to conclude, I would like to thank all people involved in the preparation and organization of this great event; the Organizing Committee, the Editorial Board, Sponsors, cosponsors and all speakers. We are grateful to all sponsors and friends who support this conference.
Finally, I wish you all success in this conference and let it be the beginning of a series of international conferences in cooperation with all our universities.

Enjoy your stay!
Fawaz El Omar
Dean of DSST

Welcome message from the Conference Chair
On behalf of the ICABME’17 organizing committee, it is a great pleasure and honor for me to welcome you all to the International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering being held here at the Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering and Doctoral School for Sciences and Technology, in Hadath, Lebanon.

I am very pleased that many researchers and high-level scientists from all around the world are able to be in Beirut today. I would also like to welcome the distinguished delegates from international institutions, inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, scientific community and private sector. This conference is jointly organized by the Lebanese University and other private universities. I would like to use this opportunity to warmly welcome our co-organizers and our co-chairs to this event.

Despite the fact that we have biomedical related majors in most of the universities in Lebanon, there is still a lack of biomedical research and application in this country. Currently, the most active research center in the biomedical domain is the AZM Center for Research in Biotechnology and its Applications located in Tripoli, Lebanon.

The AZM Center has great international relations with many European countries, in addition to the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition, many Master’s and PhD students benefit from the exchange programs that exist between the center and its foreign collaborators.

At this conference, there were 114 submitted papers from 33 different countries. Each paper was evaluated by at least two among 50 reviewers. 70 (61%) of these papers were accepted and were included in the final program.

ICABME’2017 is delighted to have four keynote speakers and fourteen invited speakers from France, Germany, Italy, USA, Spain, Canada, Qatar and Cairo.

For the success of this conference, there are indeed many people to thank. The scientific committee did an outstanding job in selecting and organizing a very high quality program. The technical committee also did a great job in promptly answering participants. Staff and trainers at the AZM Center and in the administration of the doctoral school played key roles in handling the conference logistics and local arrangements.

We are very grateful to IEEE Lebanon Section and IEEE EMBS Lebanon Chapter for their technical cosponsoring.

The organizing committee is very grateful to our gold sponsor MEDILAB and the other sponsors : AUF (Agence Universitatire pour le Francophonie) AZM and Saade Association, LASER Association, Order of Physicians for their generous sponsoring and support.

We are very grateful to many local partners’ universities such as AUL, AUST, BAU, BIU, IUL, LIU, MUT, NDU, RHU and ULF, for all their supports.

We have relevant ideas to be presented and discussed during these three days. I hope that we together will be able to acquire new knowledge, propose new research ideas and tackle various challenges, which will serve the society and our country in the coming years.

New challenges require new means and new tools. Not least, they require cooperation across borders.

Let us make brave innovations!

Welcome.
Mohamad Khalil

Conference Chair