Collaborations

The LABO has been or is active in various national and international projects as core partners.

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European projects

• DhErgo
  • Ergonomic evaluation of a product often requires building up of physical mock-up or a prototype, having a group of experts or a representative sample of users to test it and to give their discomfort feeling. This is an expensive and time-consuming process especially when the product design has to be modified and re-validated. Digital Mock-Ups (DMU) together with Digital Human Models (DHM), are more and more used in the early phase of product design in order to reduce the product development time and cost. In order to help the designer to evaluate the future product, the digital human should ideally behave like a real human being, not only in terms of anthropometry but also in terms of motion, discomfort perception and work related tissue injury. Therefore the main objective of the project is to develop more advanced digital humans for ergonomic design of products (DHErgo), which are capable of answering the above requirements. (this project is running)
• VPH-Noe
  • The VPH Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) is designed to foster, harmonise and integrate pan-European research in the field of i) patient-specific computer models for personalised and predictive healthcare and ii) ICT-based tools for modelling and simulation of human physiology and disease-related processes. (this project is running)
• VPH-MIP
  • The VPH-MIP is an Erasmus Mundus project that aims to create a trans-european academic Master program in order to train futur multidisciplinary workforces requested by the VPH initiative (see VPH-NoE above). It aims to train students to specifities from various medical, technical and biological fields. (this project is running)
• LHDL
  • The overall objective of the Living Human Digital Library (LHDL) project is to develop interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus. More specifically, LHDL aims to create the technical infrastructure for the LHP: Living Human Project. LHP will create a silico model of the human musculo-skeletal apparatus which can predict how mechanical forces are exchanged internally and externally, from the whole body down to the protein level. LHDL created the MAF2 development library, the PhysiomeSpace for data sharing and the LhpBuilder application software. (this project is finished)
• MULTIMOD
  • Definition of a new paradigm for multimodal medical visualisation using traditional 2D slices, 3D reconstruction and linked cursors that is designed to take advantage of the existing visual training of biomedical professionals. (this project is finished)
• BIONET
  • Coordination action to give the diverse and multidisciplinary facets of European biomechanics enhanced coherence and thus make a significant impact on the important problems of the day. (this project is finished)
• VAKHUM
  • About the creation of a unique database of 3D morphology and kinematics of the Human. (this project is finished)
• JPD
  • This project aimed to build up a simulation environment supporting and improving the design of standard joint implants. (this project is finished)

National projects

• ICTRehab (funded by the Brussels government through ISRIB agency)
  • The ICT4Rehab project addresses a new rehabilitation paradigm in the domain of muscle spasticity rehabilitation. It will require the integration of various data sources, the development of novel algorithms and putting into practice several ICT tools supporting 2D/3D user interaction. Two important aspects of clinical spasticity management will be combined: (i) maintaining optimal patient motivation during her/his physical therapy, and (ii) data handling and processing of the spasticity-related clinical data. A portable rehabilitation system with local intelligence providing patient feedback and ensuring clinical relevance of the physical activity will be developed. Fusion of clinical data acquired in controlled (hospital) conditions with data coming from the personalised system will be used (i) to verify the appropriateness of the rehabilitation schemes and (ii) to enhance the quality and frequency of the follow-up of the patient's progress. The project's main results will be: a ICT4Rehab platform that will include the developed technology several demonstrators (a Serious Gaming demonstrator and a Clinical Analysis demonstrator). Developments will be guided by the goals of generalising the methodology to other pathologies requiring motivational sustainability and clinical analysis, and to lead to a technological platform for future developments in diverse areas. (this project will start on February the 1st 2011)

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