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Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 4, No. 4, 2007 Computer-aided Analysis of Phisiological Systems Balázs Benyó Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Budapest University of Technology and Economics Magyar tudósok krt. 2, H-1117 Budapest Hungary bbenyo@iit.bme.hu Department of Informatics, Széchenyi István University Egyetem tér 1, H-9026 Gy?r, Hungary benyo@sze.hu Abstract: This paper presents the recent biomedical engineering research activity of the Medical Informatics Laboratory at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The research projects are carried out in the fields as follows: Computer aided identification of physiological systems; Diabetic management and blood glucose control; Remote patient monitoring and diagnostic system; Automated system for analyzing cardiac ultrasound images; Single-channel hybrid ECG segmentation; Event recognition and state classification to detect brain ischemia by means of EEG signal processing; Detection of breathing disorders like apnea and hypopnea; Molecular biology studies with DNA-chips; Evaluation of the cry of normal hearing and hard of hearing infants. Keywords: biomedical systems, physiological models, image analysis, signal processing, detection algorithms 1 Introduction Education, research and development related to the biomedical engineering are the main activities of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Several research and development project has been carried out in the Lab during last fifteen years. The main research areas of the last few years are briefly presented in this article. – 55 –  B. Benyó Computer-aided Analysis of Phisiological Systems 2 Computer-aided Identification of Physiological Systems The computer analysis is a set of theoretical processes, allowing us to descr