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Hello and welcome to the lecture Biomedical Signal Analysis in winter term.

My name is Björn Eskoffir. If you don't recognize that from your lecture preparation, you're in the wrong course.

So now is the chance to leave or stay if you think this might be interesting.

My motto is don't panic. That's a citation from Doug Adams.

And whenever you see something that you don't understand at once, do it as I would do. Don't panic and ask me.

Biomedical Signal Analysis is a course where you will learn how to understand the body and the biomedical signals that it generates.

So generation of biomedical signals is our first part of the lecture.

You will understand how to measure biomedical signals and what happens during the measurement.

So we will talk about measurement of biomedical signals.

And the third part, and by far the largest part, will be analysis of biomedical signals.

That's of course my dearest part and the part which you engineers and computer science guys will understand and like the most.

However, as a prerequisite for building very good systems, you will need to understand all the assumptions and all the prerequisites.

And that's why we start with some biology and some basics.

I want to first of all give an introduction and information about the course.

So we will start with a little bit of a show of hands.

It's very important that you get activated, especially in the afternoon.

If you feel like me, you're already a little bit exhausted for the day.

So we will have activation sessions and we will talk about them as we go along in the lecture.

And we will have also in the beginning, next lecture, a little quiz to activate your brain.

Because the brain is like a muscle, it also needs to warm up and get up to speed for content.

So everybody hands up, otherwise this wouldn't work.

Who has a bachelor degree? You can put your hands down.

Okay, some.

Who has a bachelor degree? You can put your hands down.

That's complicated, right? You have to think.

Okay. All right. That's about half the course. That's good.

So thank you very much. That answers also my second question.

Who is in the master's program? Because you should have a bachelor degree, right?

Yeah, that should be the others.

I don't test whether this worked or not. I don't care.

Because I just wanted to have an overall picture.

But I want to know what experience you have.

So we will do a Danish auction. Does anyone know how a Danish auction works?

No?

A Danish auction works not with the price going up, but with the price going down.

And the first one to call yes is the one to get the product or whatever.

So like in a Danish auction, I'm calling numbers. So everybody hands up.

You can put your hand down when the number that I'm calling is higher than the number of semesters that you still have to study.

Okay?

Yeah, it's not easy. It shouldn't be easy.

So ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

And of course, you think it's one, but you never know, right?

So let's see whether you pass all the exams and it's only one semester still to study.

Okay, let's do it inverted. Now, simple.

Who of you is studying medical engineering?

Okay, thanks. Hands down.

Who is studying computer science?

Okay, that's about a third. Thank you.

Who is studying information and communications technology?