FE5E Economy IX: 3+1+0
FE5SSN Image synthesis in nuclear medicine IX: 3+1+1
FE5MI Medical informatics IX: 3+2+0
1. Data and information in health sector. Patients' data. Classification and coding of data and procedures. Patient's record. Necessity for standardization. Biomedical data and signals. Alphanumerical (text) data, 1D signals (ECG, EEG), 2D signals (images), 3D signals (image sequences or volume representation).
2. Data processing and communications. Patient-oriented information systems. Electronic healthcare record. Medical information processing. Statistical methods. Processing of biosignals. Image processing methods. Data archiving and searching. Data bases. Medical information exchange: types of communications and networks; protocols; security, privacy and data protection.
3. Institutional information systems. Hospital information system. Standard communication protocol. Medical imaging communication. Medical informatics standards in Europe and worldwide: CEN-TC 251, ISO-TC 215, IEEE, HL7, DICOM. Benefits from medical informatics.
Preferred literature:
FE5TM Telemeicina IX: 3+2+0
1. Basic principles of telemedicine. History. Basic requirements. Biomedical data and signals. Alphanumerical (textual) data, 1D signals (ECG, EEG), 2D signals (images), 3D signals (sequences of images or volume representations). Data archiving and searching. Data transfer: types of communications and networks; protocol hierarchy; confidency, privacy and data protection.
2. Data archiving and communications. PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) standard. Data compression. Store-and-forward and interactive communications. Telecommunication requirements in Telemedicine. Internet in Telemedicine. Ethic, legal and economic aspects of Telemedicine.
3. Basic telemedicine services. General services and applications: teleconsultation, teleeducation, telediagnosis, telemonitoring, telecare. Particular services: telepathology, teleradiology, teledermatology, telepsychiatry, telesurgery, etc. Establishing Telemedicine in medical institutions.
Preferred books:
O. Ferrer-Rocca and M. Sosa-Iudicissa, Eds., Handbok of Telemedicine, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1998.
P. Spasić, I. Milosavljević, O. Jančić-Zguricas (Eds.), Telemedicine, bilingual monography (Serbian-English), Akademija medicinskih nauka Srpskog lekarskog društva, 2000.
K. Kayser, J. Szymas, R. Weinstein, Telepathology, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
FE5PM Semiconductor microstructures IX: 3+1+1
Methods of band structure calculation. Effective-mass Shrodinger equation. Envelope wave functions. kp method. Microscopics approaches: pseudopotential and tight binding methods. Electron and hole states quantization in semiconducor microstructures. Inversion and accumulation layer. Bound and free states. Semiconductors quantum wells and superlattices. Subband spectrum. Multidimensional confinement structures: quantum wires and quantum dots. Electric and magnetic field effects. Self-consistent solution of Schreodinger and Poisson equations. Carrier density. Multivalley semiconductor based quantum wells. Optical properties. The interaction Hamiltonian. Interband and intraband (intersubband) absorption. Electrooptical and magnetooptical propetries. Excitons. Nonlinear optical effects. Transport properties. Vertical and parallel transport. Tunneling. Diffusion and balistic transport. Quantum Hall effect. Microstructures fabrication tachnology. Molecular beam epitaxy. Metal-organic chemical vapour deposition. Ethcing. Litogrphy. Atomic layer epitaxy. Semiconductor microstructures devices. High electron mobility transistors. Resonant tunneling diodes and transistors. Negative differential mobility. Quantum interference devices. Quantum well photodetectors and lasers.
FE5AMP Analysis and modeling of semiconductor components IX: 3+1+1
FE5LT Laser engineering IX: 3+1+1
FE5POT Propagation of optical waves IX: 3+1+1
FE5SDO Digital image processing systems IX: 3+2+0
1. Digital image basics. Sensors and acquisition of images. Image as 2D signal. Visualization of nonvisible information: ultrasound, X-ray, magneto-resonance (MR) imaging. Signal preprocessing and digitizing. Correction of imaging defects. Displaying, printing and storage of images.
2. Basic image processing. Contrast and histogram manipulation. Filtering in space and transform domain. Noise removal. Image sharpening. Edge detection. Image enhancement and restoration. Color image processing.
3. High-level processing. Image segmentation, object extracting and classification. Processing of binary images - mathematical morphology methods. Image coding and compression. Computed tomography principles. Image reconstruction from projections.
Preferred books:
John C. Russ, Image Processing Handbok, 3rd Ed., CRC Press and IEEE Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000.
Rafael Gonzales, Richard Woods, Digital Image Processing, 2nd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 2002
Jasjit Suri, Kamaledin Setarehdan, Sameer Singh, Eds., Advanced Algorithmic Approaches to Medical Image Segmentation, Springer, 2002
FE5OR Management IX: 3+1+0
Operating systems and operations management: the context of operational management, industrial organization, management science methodology, history of management science, organizational structure. Microeconomics: utility function, supply and demand function, production, revenue, profit, cost control, linear regression, econometric models. Forecasting: importance of forecasting, qualitative and quantitative methods, time series analysis. Planning: planning concepts, types of plan in organization, modeling of planning process, resource allocation, job scheduling, assignment problem, transportation problem, linear programming, simplex method, duality in linear programming, shadow prices. Decision analysis: structuring decision process, decision making in uncertainty, decision making under risk, investment analysis and decision, multicriteria decision making, decision support systems. Location of facilities: factors influencin location decision, the layout of facilities, material handling, minimizing transportation cost. Project management, project planning, Gannt charts, network diagrams, critical path method, PERT/time, PERT/cost. Inventory management: inventory cost, reviewing and replenishment policies, mathematical models in inventory control, just in time production and inventory system. Quality assurance and maintenance: total quality control, classical statistical methods, quality standards, reliability and maintainability, maintenance systems, renewal models. Information technology and trends in management.
Recommended textbooks:
1. Joseph Martinich, Production and Operations Management : An Applied Modern Approach; John Wiley & Sons; (1996) 944 pages
2. Richard J. Tersine, Production / Operations Management: Concepts,
3. Joseph G. Monks, Operations Management Theory And Practice, Second edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985, 728+48 pages
4. Ray Wild, Production And Operations Management, Fourth Edition, Cassel, London , 1989, 792 pages.
FE5KEK Quantum electronic devices IX: 3+2+0
Nanostructures. Classical and quantum regime. Mesoscopic structures. Materials: III-V alloys, II-VI alloys, silicon. Nanotechnologies. Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), self-assembled structures, interdiffusion, litography. Pseudomorphic structures. Carbon nanotubes. Characterization techniques (RHEED, PL, SEM). Fundamentals of physics. Carrier transport in semiconductor devices. Electronic structure of inverse layers, quantum wells, and superlattices. Subbands. Two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Quantum wires and quantum dots. Density of states. Stark effect. Landau levels. Quantum effects in heterostructure transistors. Modulation doped field effect transistor (MODFET). Quantum Hall effect. Heterostructure bipolar transistor (HBT). Resonant tunneling nanostructures. Tunneling probability. Single barrier. Double barrier. Tunneling time. Esaki-Tsu formula for resonant tunneling. Quasi-classical approximation (WBK). Coherent (Fabri-Perot) resonant tunneling. Quantum interference devices. Landauer-Buttiker formalism. Two-terminal devices. Quantum interference transistors. Aharonov-Bohm effect. Influence of scattering and asymmetry. Multi-terminal devices. Devices based on 1DEG and 0DEG. Transport regimes of 1D and 0D electron gas. Localisation and resonant tunneling. Weak localisation. Universal conductance fluctuation. Coloumb lockade. Single electron devices. Optical properties of nanostructures. Interband absorption. Intersubband transitions. Nonlinear optical properties of nanostructures. Electro-optical effect. Excitons in nanostructures. Electro-optical modulators. Nanostructural lasers. Materials and technologies. Gain of quantum well lasers. Auger recombination. Transparency condition. Threshold current. Modulation characteristics. Quantum wire and dot lasers. Intersubband (quantum cascade) lasers. Nanostructural optoelectronic detectors. Materials and technologies. Quantum well infrared detectors (QWIP’s): basic principles, responsivity, quantum efficiency, gain, noise, and detectivitty. Thermovision applications. Current state and perspectives of research and application of nanotechnologies and nanodevices.
Literature:
1. John H. Davies, The physics of low-dimensional semiconductors, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
2. S.-L. Chuang, Physics of optoelectronic devices, John Wiley&Sons, New York, 1995.
3. S. Datta, Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
All three textbooks contain excersis and problems.