Title | Fractals in Biology and Medicine [electronic resource] / edited by Gabriele A. Losa, Danilo Merlini, Theo F. Nonnenmacher, Ewald R. Weibel |
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Imprint | Basel : Birkhรคuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8119-7 |
Descript | IX, 362 p. online resource |
Fractal Design of Biological Structures and Functions -- Pattern Complexity in Organogenesis and Carcinogenesis -- Fractal Structure of Space and Time is Necessary for the Emergence of Self-Organization, Connectivity, and Collectivity in Cellular System -- Diffusion Screening, Acinus Size and Optimal Design of Mammalian Lungs -- Three-Dimensional Model of the Human Airway Tree Based on a Fractal Branching Algorithm -- Fractal Dimension, Form and Shape Factors for the Quantification of Nuclear Signature Profiles -- Fractal Signature Vectors and Lacunarity Class Distance Matrices to Extract New Adaptive Texture Features from Cell Nuclei -- Morphofractal Reorganization of Plasma Membrane and Nuclear Components during the Apoptosis of Breast Cancer Cells -- Fractal Analysis of Chromatin during Apoptosis -- Fractal Structures in Tumours and Diseases -- Asymptotic Fractals, Geostatistics and Hurst Parameter; Heterogeneity and Histological Grades in Breast Cancer -- The Fractal Dimension of the Inner Surface of Neoplastic Mammary Ducts in Mammary Fibroadenomas and Mammary Carcinomas of Dog and Cat: Preliminary Data -- Classification of Prostatic Cancer Using Artificial Neural Networks -- Fractal Dimension Exponent for Quantitative Evaluation of Liver Extracellular Matrix in Biopsy Specimens -- Two-Dimensional Fractal Geometric Analysis of Bone Marrow Tissue in Hyperplasia, Refractory Anemia and Acute Leukemia -- Color-Based Method for Fractal Dimension Estimation of Pigmented Skin Lesion Contour -- The EEG Signal in Hepatic Encephalopathy: from a Time-Domain Statistical Analysis toward Fractional Brownian Processes -- A Fractal Approach of Pathological Voices -- A Vowel Fractal Dimension Study -- Bone Architecture Measured by Fractal Dimension and Connectivity Indices is More Precociously Altered than Mineral Content in the Orchidectomized Rat -- Texture Analyses of X-Ray Micrographs (Fractal Geometry and Run Length) are Better Predictors of Bone Loss than Mineral Content in a Rat Model of Localized Disuse Osteopenia -- Fractal Scaling of Heartrate Dynamics in Health and Disease -- Information States in Cardiac Rhythm -- Some Remarks on the Fractal Dimension Applications in -- Nuclear Medicine -- Organization and Evolution of Living Systems -- Fractional Calculus and Memory in Biophysical Time Series -- The Biological Meanings of DNA Correlations -- On the Fractal Structure of Evolutionary Trees -- Metabolic Hypercycles, Universality and Fractals in Biological Evolution -- The Universal Dynamic Complexity as Extended Dynamic Fractality: Causally Complete Understanding of Living Systems Emergence and Operation -- Modelling -- A Headful of T4 Coliphage DNA: Dynamical Modelling -- On Lacunarity Analysis -- The Fractal Dimension of the Coastline as a Determinant of Western Leadership in Science and Technology -- A Fractional Calculus Approach to Adsorbate Dynamics in -- Nanoporous Materials -- Complex Aspects of the Riemann Hypothesis: a Computational -- Approach -- Fractals in Architecture: Some Examples