• Scientists introduce a foundation model for cervical cytology screening
    A team led by Professor Wang Qian from the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at ShanghaiTech University has published a new study in Cell Reports Medicine. The paper, titled “UniCAS: A foundation model for cervical cytology screening,” presents a specialized AI foundation model built for automated cervical cancer screening using ThinPrep Cytology Test (TCT) slides.Cervical cancer ...
    2026-01-30
  • BME team develops stretchable Doppler ultrasound patch for continuous blood flow monitoring
    A research team led by Assistant Professor Peng Chang from the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) has published a groundbreaking study in the journal Measurement. The paper reports a stretchable wearable Doppler ultrasound patch designed for continuous blood flow monitoring. This lightweight and flexible patch, which adheres stably to the skin during daily activities, has the po...
    2026-01-29
  • Dual-pathway framework overcomes the naturalness-intelligibility trade-off in reconstructing authentic speech from brain signals
    Recently, the research group led by Assistant Professor Li Yuanning from the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at ShanghaiTech University proposed an efficient acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework that achieves reconstruction of sentence-level speech with both naturalness and intelligibility, using only about 20 minutes of high-density electrocorticography (ECoG, a technique that d...
    2026-01-14
  • ​BME Professor Shen Dinggang wins the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award
    Professor Shen Dinggang from the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at ShanghaiTech University received the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award (EIA) at the 2025 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), becoming the first Chinese scholar to win this honor since the award was established 17 years ago. The MICCAI Society is the premier c...
    2025-10-03
  • ShanghaiTech researchers pioneer human-like sensing in robots with flexible bioelectronics
    On September 10, the group led by Assistant Professor Yu You from the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech, along with collaborators, published a research paper titled “Printed sensing human-machine interface with individualized adaptive machine learning” in the journal Science Advances. This work introduces a advanced 3D-printed flexible human-machine interface technology....
    2025-09-17
  • Numerous abstracts from BME accepted for ISMRM 2025 Annual Meeting
    The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2025 Annual Meeting will be held from May 10 to 15. During the call for papers for ISMRM 2025, the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at ShanghaiTech University achieved remarkable success, with 43 submissions accepted, comprising 10 oral presentations and 2 power pitch presentations. The exceptional outcome underscores BME’...
    2025-02-20
  • New method proposed for the assessment of focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening outcomes
    Recently, the research team led by Assistant Professor Cheng Bingbing from the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech University published a research paper titled “Multiple Instance Learning-Based Prediction of Blood-brain Barrier Opening Outcomes Induced by Focused Ultrasound” in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. The study developed a deep learning method to achie...
    2024-12-16
  • Shen Dinggang wins IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award
    On July 16, Professor Shen Dinggang, founding dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the Technical Achievement Award for 2024 from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).IEEE EMBS is one of the most influential academic organizations in the field of biomedical engineering. The Technical Achievement Award is established to recognize individuals or teams ...
    2024-07-19
  • ASBME 2023 for exploration of the future direction of biomedical engineering
     The 2023 ShanghaiTech Annual Symposium on Biomedical Engineering (ASBME 2023) was held in the University Auditorium on November 11. The symposium aims to promote extensive exchanges about the latest academic achievements in biomedical engineering and to explore the future direction of the discipline and transfer prospects. Twelve well-known scholars from the field of biomedical eng...
    2023-12-11