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Considerable attention from the international scientific community is currently focused on the wide ranging applications of wavelets. For the first time, the field's leading experts have come together to produce a complete guide to wavelet transform applications in medicine and biology. Wavelets in Medicine and Biology provides accessible, detailed, and comprehensive guidelines for all those interested in learning about wavelets and their applications to biomedical problems.
List of contents
Summary of the Contents
I. Wavelet Transform: Theory and Implementation
1. The Wavelet Transform: A Surfing Guide
2. A Practical Guide to the Implementation of the Wavelet Transform
II. Wavelets in Medical Imaging and Tomography
3. An Application of Wavelet Shrinkage to Tomography
4. Wavelet Denoising of Functional MRI Data
5. Statistical Analysis of Image Differences by Wavelet Decomposition
6. Feature Extraction in Digital Mammography
7. Multiscale Contrast Enhancement and Denoising in Digital Radiographs
8. Using Wavelets to Suppress Noise in Biomedical Images
9. Wavelet Transform and Tomography: Continuous and Discrete Approaches
10. Wavelets and Local Tomography
11. Optimal Time-Frequency Projections for Localized Tomography
12. Adapted Wavelet Techniques for Encoding Magnetic Resonance Images
III. Wavelets and Biomedical Signal Processing
13. Sleep Images Using the Wavelet Transform to Process Polysomnographic Signals
14. Estimating the Fractal Exponent of Point Processes in Biological Systems Using Wavelet- and Fourier-Transform Methods
15. Point Processes, Long-Range Dependence and Wavelets
16. Continuous Wavelet Transform: ECG Recognition Based on Phase and Modulus Representations and Hidden Markov Models
17. Interference Canceling in Biomedical Systems: The Mutual Wavelet Packets Approach
18. Frame Signal Processing Applied to Bioelectric Data
19. Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Using Wavelet-Based Neural Networks
IV. Wavelets and Mathematical Models in Biology
20. A Nonlinear Squeezing of the Continuous Wavelet Transform Based on Auditory Nerve Models
21. The Application of Wavelet Transforms to Blood Flow Velocimetry
22. Wavelet Models of Event-Related Potentials
23. Macromolecular Structure Computation Based on Energy Function Approximation by Wavelets
About the author
Aldroubi\, Akram; Unser\, Michael
Summary
This book is the first comprehensive guide to the wavelet transform's applications in medicine and biology. It is addressed to an audience of scientists, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians who are interested in learning about wavelets and their applications to biomedical problems.
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"The book is well-produced, and on the whole well-written. It should be useful to research students entering the field, and could be inspiring to mathematics undergraduates interested in real, and indisputably useful, applications of their subject."
-David Griffel,The Mathematical Gazette
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"The book is well-produced, and on the whole well-written. It should be useful to research students entering the field, and could be inspiring to mathematics undergraduates interested in real, and indisputably useful, applications of their subject."
-David Griffel,The Mathematical Gazette
