Biomedical Devices and Systems Wearable, on-body or implated devices offer many people a significantly higher level of quality of life. Formal methods and smart interaction paradigms play an important role in the design of these medical devices.
Today, the patient is no longer the passive object of a medical treatment performed on him by doctors, but a partner at eye level who takes responsibility for himself, makes decisions and actively shapes his own health. However, as medical laypersons they need support in several respects, both as patients and as healthy persons. Wearable, on-body or implanted devices can make significant contributions here, provide targeted and needs-oriented information, compensate for restrictions, for example due to disability and chronic diseases, and have a direct effect on the body and physiological processes as medical devices/medical technology.
But healthy living does not only affect older people. Adolescents must learn to take responsibility for their own health. This is challenging and becomes particularly difficult when psychological problems are added. On-body sensors can measure physiological parameters such as heart rate variability, respiratory rate or movement patterns and, based on these, bring elements of behavioral therapies into everyday life.
The BMS Group focuses on
- research into telemedical procedures for querying and controlling implanted or near-body systems
- formal verification of safety-critical medical devices and compliance with the Medical Devices Act and the Medical Device Directive
- research into predictive maintenance approaches for implanted systems
- merging digital and physical/adaptable objects to reduce the effort involved in interacting with complex systems
- the design of generic interaction paradigms in ubiquitous IoT environments
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Dr.-Ing. Frerk Müller-von Aschwege
E-Mail: Frerk.Mueller-von.Aschwege(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-146, Room: E50
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Publications
2025
Effect of simultaneous physical and auditory stressors on cardiorespiratory response
Buj, Christian and Preuß, Meret and Mörsdorf, Maximilian and Schmidt, Anke and Guckel, Denise and Dumitrescu, Daniel and Klein, Franziska and Straetmans-Oehme, Lisa and Eichelberg, Marco and Hein, Andreas; Scientific Reports; April / 2025
Mobile Data Collection for Depression Analysis: An App Framework for Monitoring Mood and Depression Using Smartphone and Wearable Data:
Schröter, Eliane and Klein, Franziska and Elfert, Patrick and Bredehorn, Fynn and Räker, Julien and Aschwege, Frerk and Hein, Andreas; Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies; 2025
The fNIRS glossary project: a consensus-based resource for functional near-infrared spectroscopy terminology
Stute, Katharina and Gossé, Louisa K. and Montero-Hernandez, Samuel and Perkins, Guy A. and Yücel, Meryem A. and Cutini, Simone and Durduran, Turgut and Ehlis, Ann-Christine and Ferrari, Marco and Gervain, Judit and Mesquita, Rickson C. and Orihuela-Espina, Felipe and Quaresima, Valentina and Scholkmann, Felix and Tachtsidis, Ilias and Torricelli, Alessandro and Wabnitz, Heidrun and Yodh, Arjun G. and Carp, Stefan A. and Dehghani, Hamid and Fang, Qianqian and Fantini, Sergio and Hoshi, Yoko and Niu, Haijing and Obrig, Hellmuth and Klein, Franziska and Artemenko, Christina and Bajracharya, Aahana and Barth, Beatrix and Bartkowski, Christian and Borot, Lénac and Bulgarelli, Chiara and Busch, David R. and Chojak, Malgorzata and DeFreitas, Jason M. and Diprossimo, Laura and Dresler, Thomas and Eken, Aykut and Elsherif, Mahmoud M. and Emberson, Lauren L. and Exner, Anna and Ferdous, Talukdar Raian and Fiske, Abigail and Forbes, Samuel H. and Gemignani, Jessica and Gerloff, Christian and Guérin, Ségolène M. R. and Guevara, Edgar and Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. and Hosseini, S. M. Hadi and Jain, Divya and Kerr-German, Anastasia N. and Kong, Haiyan and Kroczek, Agnes and Longhurst, Jason K. and Lührs, Michael and MacLennan, Rob J. and Mehler, David M. A. and Meidenbauer, Kimberly L. and Moreau, David and Mutlu, Murat C. and Orti, Renato and Paranawithana, Ishara and Pinti, Paola and Jounghani, Ali Rahimpour and Reindl, Vanessa and Ross, Nicholas A. and Sanchez-Alonso, Sara and Seidel-Marzi, Oliver and Shukla, Mohinish and Usama, Syed A. and Talati, Musa and Vergotte, Grégoire and Yaqub, M. Atif and Yu, Chia-Chuan and Zainodini, Hanieh; Neurophotonics; April / 2025
The Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) for Monitoring Brain Function, Predicting Outcomes, and Evaluating Rehabilitative Interventional Responses in Poststroke Patients with Upper Limb Hemiplegia: A Systematic Review
Gong, Yongan and Lin, Ruixuan and Mutlu, Murat Can and Lorentz, Lukas and Shaikh, Usman Jawed and Graeve, Joscha D and Badkoubeh, Niloufar and Zeng, Roy Rongyue and Klein, Franziska and Lührs, Michael and Mathiak, Klaus and Zhang, Jack Jiaqi and Mehler, David MA; IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics; 2025
2024
Bridging Gaps in Fracture Rehabilitation: A Mobile Solution Proposal for Comprehensive Recovery.
Maszuhn, Matthias and Müller-von Aschwege, Frerk and Jansen, Felix and Hein, Andreas and Knol, Hester and Snowdon, David and Buschermöhle, Michael and Barth, Dominik and Haag, Luisa and Wohlers, Nadine and others; BIOSTEC (2); 2024
Evaluating the Viability of Neural Networks for Analysing Electromyography Data in Home Rehabilitation: Estimating Foot Progression Angle:
Siegel, Finn and Buj, Christian and Merfort, Ricarda and Hein, Andreas and Aschwege, Frerk; Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies; 2024
From lab to life: challenges and perspectives of fNIRS for haemodynamic-based neurofeedback in real-world environments
Klein, Franziska and Kohl, Simon H. and Lührs, Michael and Mehler, David M. A. and Sorger, Bettina; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 2024
Optimizing spatial specificity and signal quality in fNIRS: An overview of potential challenges and possible options for improving reliability in real-time applications
Klein, Franziska; Frontiers in Neuroergonomics; April / 2024
2023
Concept for General Improvements in the Treatment of Femoral Shaft Fractures with an Intramedullary Nail:
Siegel, Finn and Buj, Christian and Schwanbeck, Ralf and Petersik, Andreas and Hoffmann, Ulrich and Kemper, Jakob and Hildebrand, Frank and Kobbe, Philipp and Eschweiler, Jörg and Greven, Johannes and Merfort, Ricarda and Freimann, Christian and Schwaiger, Astrid and Aschwege, Frerk; Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies; 2023
