The 16th Annual BME Bio-Tech Contests 2014 took  place February 8, 2014. This year's theme of the contest is to develop and present a concept using Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical, and/or Electro-Optics to improve persons well-being or health, or assist a persons' disability, or to improve a persons' ability to manage tasks that usually require assistance. The contest focus is on students' individual ideas and in particular, the contest provides a forum for these future engineers to share those ideas that focus on technology assisted care.

Sponsored  by:

in part by IEEE CLAS Section  and Inter-academic cooperation.
      

The event took place at LMU courtesy of Dr. Nazmul Ula. Volunteer event support coordinated by Jackie Lee with Terry Kong, Owen Dominguez, Kevin Refermat, and Todd Volmari.

The finalists and their projects as selected by a panel of judges:
 

Biomedical Engineering Track
 

1st place
Study of Electrodes and Wound Healing
Adriana M. Ortencio

2nd place
Real Time Face Recognition System
Javier Eslava

3rd place
Selective Imaging in Assessment of Skin Aging
Gayatri Raval

Health Assessment Track

1st place
Human Eye Segmentation Techniques and Applications
Carlos Ramirez-Sanchez

2nd place
Online Natural-Medical Language Processing Differential Symptom Checker
Andrew Q. Ninh

3rd place
A Highly Accurate Automated Method for Atrial Fibrillation Detection
Elyar Ghafoori