TECH4HEALTH
PIONEERING SMART TECH TOWARDS A HEALTHIER WORLD
EXPERTISE
Our team is committed to challenge the state-of-the-art by thinking outside the HealthTech box. We cover skills ranging from medical device and sensor design, multi-physics simulations, digital health, computer-aided diagnosis and therapy, surgical navigation, embedded system electronics, multi-modal low-level signal processing, medical image analysis, multi-modal and foundation models, computational imaging, secure communication, edge computing, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, explainable and federated AI, trustworthy and transparent AI, … . We offer our expertise in blending hardware, firmware, software and physical models ranging from rehabilitation engineering, improved preoperative planning, intra-operative visualization of functional regions, neurosurgical navigation, 4D perfusion and angiography, biomarkers for cognitive impairment assessment, surgical skill assessment, intra-abdominal pressure monitoring, indirect calorimetry, multimodal wearables, markerless motion capturing, pathology
CONTACT VUB Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Etterbeek Prof. dr. ir. Johan Stiens Director of the ETRO.RDI consortium
Johan.stiens@vub.be
Dr. ir. Birgit Morlion Innovation and Valorisation Strategy Manager
Birgit.morlion@vub.be
GROUP OF EXCELLENCE IN APPLIED RESEARCH - GEAR
Healthy living and a sustainable future of health and care delivery is undoubtedly embedded in technology and linked to interdisciplinary innovations. The TECH4HEALTH consortium is determined to contribute to this (r)evolution. Two departments of the faculty of Engineering Sciences Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) and Industrial Engineering Technology (INDI)- join forces to build a healthier society in a sustainable way. Our consortium builds on 50+ years of multidisciplinary engineering experience, grounded in fundamental & strategic basic research. We excel in translating findings into applied research and innovative products co-created with industry partners, societal organisations, government, academic hospitals and other health actors. Over the last 20 years, 8 deep-tech spin-offs were successfully created, leading to more than 200 additional jobs.