This book focuses on bioinformatics, the study of the management and analysis of information used in biological systems.  Particular emphasis explains to the reader how to study and extract useful information, such as relatedness of species, function of specific sequences, and genome organization from genomic sequences.This book focuses on the algorithmic aspects of bioinformatics and not on databases and software packages.  There are two important discriminating characteristics that sets the book apart.  It connects the algorithmic aspects and approaches to bioinformatics with the...

This book develops and details a rigorous, canonical modeling approach for analyzing spatio-temporal brain wave dynamics. The nonlinear, nonstationary behavior of brain wave measures and general uncertainty associated with the brain makes it difficult to apply modern system identification techniques to such systems. While there is a substantial amount of literature on the use of stationary analyses for brain waves, relatively less work has considered real-time estimation and imaging of brain waves from noninvasive measurements. This book addresses the issue of modeling and imaging brain waves...

This book details a number of electrocardiogram (ECG) denoising techniques based on total variation denoising and different wavelet transforms. The transforms covered include Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) and the Stationary Bionic Wavelet Transform (SBWT). The book includes three chapters that are wavelets and wavelet transforms, a denoising technique based on SBWT and WATV, and an ECG denoising technique based on LWT and TVM. The book is relevant to researchers, students, and academics in signal processing and biomedical engineering.

This book offers expert guidance on materials for total hip arthroplasty (THA), providing readers with quick access to well-organized summaries on biomaterials such as metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. It also includes in-depth coverage of biocompatibility and implant problems such as necrosis, ulceration, high toxicity with metals, and allergic reactions. Coverage also emphasizes the mechanical properties of the materials used for prostheses applications, immunity to corrosion, enhanced biocompatibility, complete inertness to the body environment, and the high capacity to join with...