This book aims at informing on new trends, challenges and solutions, in the multidisciplinary field of biomedical engineering. It covers traditional biomedical engineering topics, as well as innovative applications such as artificial intelligence in health care, tissue engineering , neurotechnology and wearable devices. Further topics include mobile health and electroporation-based technologies, as well as new treatments in medicine. Gathering the proceedings of the 8th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC 2020), held on November 29 - December 3, 2020, in Portoroz, Slovenia, this book bridges fundamental and clinically-oriented research, emphasizing the role of education, translational research and commercialization of new ideas in biomedical engineering. It aims at inspiring and fostering communication and collaboration between engineers, physicists, biologists, physicians and other professionals dealing with cutting-edge themes in and advanced technologies serving the broad field of biomedical engineering.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies (WC2015). The congress took place in Portoroz, Slovenia, during the week of September 6th to 10th, 2015. The scientific part of the Congress covered different aspects of electroporation and related technologies and included the following main topics: * Application of pulsed electric fields technology in food: challenges and opportunities * Electrical impedance measurement for assessment of electroporation yield * Electrochemistry and electroporation * Electroporation meets electrostimulation * Electrotechnologies for food and biomass treatment * Food and biotechnology applications * In vitro electroporation - basic mechanisms * Interfacial behaviour of lipid-assemblies, membranes and cells in electric fields * Irreversible electroporation in clinical use * Medical applications: electrochemotherapy * Medical applications: gene therapy * Non-electric field-based physical methods inducing cell poration and enhanced molecule transfer * Non-thermal plasmas for food safety, environmental applications and medical treatments * PEF for the food industry: fundamentals and applications * PEF proce ss integration - complex process chains and process combinations in the food industry * Predictable animal models * Pulsed electric fields and electroporation technologies in bioeconomy * Veterinary medical applications