Robotics specialization
Robotics is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field, with computer science engineering serving as one of its important foundations. Cloud based robotics (intelligent swarm robots, cognitive robots), medical robotics (health care providing robots, therapeutic robots, rehabilitation and surgical robots), service robots (robots caring for the elderly, home robots, support robots) form the topics of the MSc program, in which control engineering, robotics, image processing, artificial intelligence provide the major fields that are educated. The Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics provides research projects, industrial and international partners for the practical side of the program.
Biomedical engineering specialization
Medical image processing and medical informatics is one of the most complex research and development areas of modern health care, and is primarily based on fields of information technology such as Big Data, business intelligence, cloud computing, IT security, embedded systems and sensor technology. Its essence is to support medical imaging techniques (CT, PET, MRI, ultrasound), instruments (mass spectrometers, EEG, ECG), telemedicine, tissue engineering, 3D image and model creation and clinical decision support from computer engineering perspective. Besides software engineering, medical image diagnostics, data mining and artificial intelligence as also among the covered fields.
Evidence based medicine (EBM) is also among one of the most complex research directions in modern medicine. Also, this area is not educated at such level in Hungary. The aim of EBM is to base clinical decision making – both in diagnosis and therapy – on the best available so-called evidences (results of well-designed, large sample, optimally experimental clinical studies). This includes the synthesising of the results (and their biostatistical analysis), the quantification of possible risks and benefits based on these (using modelling), which provides way to the best clinical decision. This requires knowledge in biostatistics, modelling, control engineering and artificial intelligence; these are covered in the curriculum. Practical projects are provided by the Physiological Controls Group, and the collaborating medical and health care institutions and their databases.
Mobile application and game development specialization
The computer game industry and mobile applications are important fields in the IT in the last few years. Nowadays desktop applications are migrating to mobile and wearable devices and there is an increasing emphasis on data visualization and software gamification in industry and society as well. The graphical solutions used in game development, the VR devices and software solutions, the devices and elements of the extended, augmented, mixed reality, the AI elements and tools are parts of industrial solutions concerning the Industry 4.0 concept. These are used more and more extensively during the industrial design and development, and in data visualization. The specialization deals with application development on various mobile platforms. It deals with the hardware and software components of the devices used in the games and VR, getting to know the game engines and mastering their theoretical background. So this specialization can provide useful knowledge to every software developer not only in the field of computer games, but also in the scientific research, in the education and in the industry.
