The book provides an insight into the advantages and limitations of the use of fractals in biomedical data. It begins with a brief introduction to the concept of fractals and other associated measures and describes applications for biomedical signals and images. Properties of biological data in relations to fractals and entropy, and the association with health and ageing are also covered. The book provides a detailed description of new techniques on physiological signals and images based on the fractal and chaos theory.
The aim of this book is to serve as a comprehensive guide for researchers and readers interested in biomedical signal and image processing and feature extraction for disease risk analyses and rehabilitation applications. While it provides the mathematical rigor for those readers interested in such details, it also describes the topic intuitively such that it is suitable for audience who are interested in applying the methods to healthcare and clinical applications. The book is the outcome of years of research by the authors and is comprehensive and includes other reported outcomes.
By:
Dinesh Kumar (RMIT University Melbourne Australia),
Sridhar P. Arjunan (RMIT University,
Melbourne,
Australia),
Behzad Aliahmad (RMIT University,
Melbourne,
Australia)
Imprint: Productivity Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781498744218
ISBN 10: 1498744214
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 04 October 2016
Audience:
General/trade
,
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
ELT Advanced
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Introduction History of Fractal Analysis Fundamentals of fractals Definition of Fractal Complexity of biological systems Fractal Dimension Summary of this book References Physiology, Anatomy and Fractal Properties Introduction Conceptual understanding Chaos, Complexity, Fractals and entropy Chaos Theory Complex Systems Entropy Fractal and fractal dimension Computing Fractal dimension Relationship of Fractals and Self-similarity Fractals in Biology Properties of natural and synthetic objects Human physiology Summary References Fractal Dimension of Biosignals Introduction Fractal Dimension and Self-similarity Different methods to estimate fractal dimension of a waveform Fractals and Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electromyogram (EMG) and Electroencephalogram (EEG) Fractal dimension for Gait Analysis Summary References Fractals analysis of electrocardiogram Heart activity and fractal properties Heart rate variability Fractal properties of ECG An Example Poincare plot of heart-rate variability Application - ECG and Heart rate variability Summary References Fractals analysis of Surface Electromyogram Introduction Surface Electromyogram (sEMG) Fractal analysis of sEMG Summary References Fractals analysis of Electroencephalogram Electroencephalogram Techniques for EEG Analysis Fractal properties of EEG An example - Measuring alertness using Fractal properties of EEG References Fractal analysis of biomedical images Introduction Fractal geometry and self-similarity Entropy, fractals and tortuosity Binary Box-count Fractal dimension Differential (3D) Box-counting dimension Spectral fractal dimension Higuchi's fractal dimension Summary References Fractal Dimension of Retinal Vasculature Introduction to human eye anatomy Eye fundus retinopathy - Disease manifestation in retina FD and age related changes of retinal vasculature FD and Hypertensive retinopathy FD and risk of stroke event FD and Diabetic retinopathy Summary References Fractal Dimension of Mammograms Introduction Mammography and Properties of breast tissue Fractal irregularities of breast tissues Fractal based detection of Breast cancer and the tumor types Summary References Fractal Dimension of Skin Lesions Introduction Fundamentals of Skin Skin legions and abnormalities Skin cancer and associated changes to FD FD of the ageing skin Summary References Case study I: Age associated change of complexity Background Physiological basis Ageing muscles and fractal properties Ageing heart and changes to ECG Ageing eyes and FD of eye-fundus images Summary References Case study 2: Health, well-being and Fractal properties Introduction Risk of stroke and retinal fractal Muscle fatigue and fractal properties Summary References
