The University of Macau (UM) today (22 April) held a University of Macau Development Foundation Named Professorship Lecture. Cai Xiaochuan, University of Macau Development Foundation Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics, who is also an associate dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology and the director of the Centre for Applied Mathematics, was the keynote speaker. He gave a lecture titled ‘Mathematical Algorithms and Clinical Tests for Predicting Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Health’. The talk attracted many UM faculty members and students.
During the lecture, Cai discussed the recent applications of supercomputers and computational biomechanics in precision medicine. According to him, the human body has about 100,000 kilometres of blood vessels, large and small, which are constantly supplying nutrients to all organs at a rate of about one second per cycle. As we age, the health of blood vessels declines. Haemodynamics can be used to analyse health problems related to blood flow, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, as well as hypertension, from a mathematical and physical perspective. In recent years, due to the development of supercomputers and computational mathematics, computer-aided diagnosis based on haemodynamics is becoming a new tool to provide patients with convenient and accurate diagnoses and predictions, and to provide analysis of the healthiness of subnormal individuals.
| Source: Rector’s Office | |
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