Group Description

PhySense was newly established (October 2011) at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

PhySense focuses on integrating engineering/physics knowledge with physiology in order to provide an interdisciplinary research environment, working closely together with internationally known academic clinical centres. This is approached by integrating and improving information acquisition, handling and processing techniques, combined with basic knowledge on pathophysiology, in order to advance clinical sciences.

Therefore, the group provides methodologies and offers support for clinical and basic researchers to help to:

  • Define the research approach from the basic understanding of the disease towards the clinical study
  • Select/design the appropriate investigational tools to assess the relevant clinical parameters
  • Quantify the diagnostic information (from clinical information to imaging data) to extract the most pertinent information
  • Interpret the results and relate them to the pathophysiological knowledge