Biomedical Cybernetics University of Malta

Overview

Here Biomedical Cybernetics at  University of Malta  refers to the classical definition of cybernetics as applied to biological and biomedical systems, that is, the technology-abstracted study of biological and biomedical systems and signals, and concepts such as the following: systems theory, analysis, modelling, behaviour and control; data, signal and image acquisition, analysis and processing; study and extraction of information, pattern and intelligence; understanding of knowledge directed processes; decision-making processes; and the design and development of devices to achieve the above; and the application of digital technologies to medicine, healthcare and wellbeing.

The programme has a taught component that provides you with the required skills and a research component that engages you to apply your background and newly learnt skills to a specific research problem broadly related to the areas of medicine and biology.

Careers

• The demand for clinicians, scientists and engineers having skills in cybernetic principles as applied to the broad areas of medicine and biology is bound to increase due to the growth in medical and biological data complexity and the various ways by which such medical and biological data would need to be processed and used.

• If you are a successful student who has completed the Masters of Science in Biomedical Cybernetics, you would be adding a strong technical component to your background in any area related to medicine and biology.

• If you are a technical and engineering graduate, you will obtain training that will enable you to apply your technical background specifically to problem in medicine and biology, an area which is becoming more and more dominated by technology, data acquisition and processing.

• As a graduate from this course, you will also be eligible to follow doctoral studies in areas broadly related to biomedical cybernetics.