Biotech, Pharmaceutical, and Medical

Industry Segments

• Bioinformatics
• Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics
• Biosignal Processing and Data Analysis
• Biomedical Imaging
• Medical Devices and Instrumentation Design
• Lab Automation and Instrument Control

See also: MathWorks products for computational biology

Biomedical Imaging

MathWorks tools provide engineers and scientists with a complete environment for processing, analyzing, and visualizing medical images. These tools are used in a wide range of medical applications, including computer-aided diagnosis, modality design, microarray analysis, gel imaging, and microscopy.

Using MATLAB® and companion toolboxes, you can:

• Read and write DICOM images
• Acquire images from PC-compatible frame grabber cards and video devices
• Visualize images, video sequences, and volumes
• Perform standard image processing and analysis techniques
• Develop new imaging algorithms
• Reconstruct a series of related images into a volume
• Create customized GUIs

Using Simulink® software, you can create system simulations and automatically generate code, effectively replacing error-prone, manual methods of coding software for target-specific hardware.

In addition, a growing number of third parties have developed useful medical imaging tools, such as SPM2, using the open and flexible MATLAB environment.

Using morphology tools such as dilation and erosion with edge detection can help detect and outline a prostate cancer cell. Original image on left courtesy of Alan W. Partin, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.