Biomedical engineering in Ukraine: development of computer modeling of biological objects

Abstract

The formation of scientific research in the fields of physiology, biology and ecology in Ukraine is studied. It is proved that the development of information technology and software for research and improvement of natural and artificial biological objects began in the middle of the 20th century with the widespread use of computer technology. It is established that in the 1990s, Ukrainian scientists from research institutions of the NAAS system using economic-mathematical modeling developed computer programs that optimized the functioning of biological objects by using large amounts of data in plant growth optimization models. It is established that at the beginning of the 21st century the researches of Ukrainian scientists A.B. Achasov, S.A. Baliuk, S.Yu. Bulygin, M.M. Kotova, R.V. Ternova, D.O. Timchenko in the field of biomedical engineering developed in collaboration with foreign scientists. In particular, the effectiveness of economic and mathematical models created by American scientists in the form of computer applications to establish the ecological role of plants, they theoretically confirmed in the soil and climatic conditions of Ukraine and China. The value of the WEPP (Water Erosion Prediction Project) computer simulation model, which is used to calculate the processes of water erosion in the soil, has been established. Dynamic computer model WEPS (Wind Erosion Prediction System), which is used to plan soil protection technologies against wind erosion. The dynamic computer model EuroSEM (European Soil Erosion Model), which was developed to better describe erosion phenomena in agroecosystems. It is proved that the priority direction of research of Ukrainian scientists in establishing the efficiency of biological objects is the use of space imaging technologies, which contributed to the stabilization and increase of efficiency of agroecosystems.