Vrij Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

ETRO is the department of Electronics and Informatics at the Engineering Faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Within ETRO three laboratories are covering a wide range of generic technologies in Micro- and Photonelectronics (LAMI), Speech & Audio Processing (DSSP), Multidimensional Signal Processing & Communication (IRIS). Image/video processing and machine vision (now generalized to multidimensional signal processing) are central research activities. Early activities in biomedical engineering were focused on smart data acquisition systems, signal processing and diagnostic functions. Afterwards activities were diversified to various medical imaging modalities and data fusion. We also moved into new application domains like remote sensing, security, industrial inspection, gaming, personalized health systems, e-health, active vision, multimedia. ETRO has a long history on (medical) image processing and (medical) signal processing. Research on these topics has been funded by EU, the Belgian government, the Brussels Government, the university, iMinds, Innoviris, FWO, IWT/Vlaio and others. ETRO also has strong bounds to the university hospital UZ-Brussel, but has collaborations with other Brussels hospitals. They currently hold several patents on segmentation methods for medical image analysis and on visualization of medical data. Within this medically oriented team in ETRO, they have worked on several research themes in the context of serious gaming, including social networks for behaviour change and fitness, serious games for rehabilitation of children from cerebral palsy and data storage and mining.