Prospective students
In the Hirano Laboratory, we use measurement engineering, signal processing and machine learning to build medical devices and systems that solve problems found in clinical practice. We welcome students who want to apply engineering to medicine and who enjoy turning their own ideas into working systems.
What you will learn
- Hardware: developing sensors for biosignals such as pulse waves, ECG and blood pressure, designing and building measurement circuits (amplifiers and filters), and assembling and evaluating measurement devices
- Software: programming to acquire and analyse measured data, signal processing such as noise removal and feature extraction, and estimation and prediction using machine learning and mathematical models of the body
- Turning a clinical problem into a research question and carrying it through experiments, analysis and presentation
Links with hospitals and partners
- Several projects are carried out with clinical departments such as the Department of Stroke and the Blood Purification Centre at Fujita Health University Hospital.
- We collaborate with universities such as Hiroshima University, and with medical device manufacturers.
- Our results are published in leading international journals and presented at major international conferences.
Where our graduates go
Fujita Health University
Hospitals and clinics
- Fujita Health University Hospital
- Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital
- Kariya Toyota General Hospital
- Kamiiida Daiichi General Hospital
- Konan Kosei Hospital
- Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center Nagoya Daini Hospital
- Ichinomiya Nishi Hospital
- Daiko Sunadabashi Clinic
Companies
- Nihon Kohden Corporation
- Fukuda Denshi Chubu Hanbai Co., Ltd.
Shizuoka University
Companies
- Nihon Kohden Corporation
- NIDEK CO., LTD.
- Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.
- Suzuki Motor Corporation
- IVIS, Inc.
Further study
- Graduate school at the same university
- Graduate schools at other universities
In no particular order.
Visits and enquiries
- You are welcome to visit the lab or ask about our research at any time. Please email us with your preferred dates.