Fractals in Biology and Medicine (eBook)

Fractal Structures in Biological Systems.- Mandelbrot’s Fractals and the Geometry of Life: A Tribute to Benoît Mandelbrot on his 80th Birthday.- Gas Diffusion through the Fractal Landscape of the Lung: How Deep Does Oxygen Enter the Alveolar System?.- Is the Lung an Optimal Gas Exchanger?.- 3D Hydrodynamics in the Upper Human Bronchial Tree: Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distribution.- Fractal Aspects of Three-Dimensional Vascular Constructive Optimization.- Cognition Network Technology: Object Orientation and Fractal Topology in Biomedical Image Analysis. Method and Applications.- The Use of Fractal Analysis for the Quantification of Oocyte Cytoplasm Morphology.- Fractal Structures in Neurosciences.- Fractal Analysis: Pitfalls and Revelations in Neuroscience.- Ongoing Hippocampal Neuronal Activity in Human: Is it Noise or Correlated Fractal Process?.- Do Mental and Social Processes have a Self-similar Structure? The Hypothesis of Fractal Affect-Logic.- Scaling Properties of Cerebral Hemodynamics.- A Multifractal Dynamical Model of Human Gait.- Dual Antagonistic Autonomic Control Necessary for 1/f Scaling in Heart Rate.- Fractal Structures in Tumours and Diseases.- Tissue Architecture and Cell Morphology of Squamous Cell Carcinomas Compared to Granular Cell Tumours’ Pseudo-epitheliomatous Hyperplasia and to Normal Oral Mucosae.- Statistical Shape Analysis Applied to Automatic Recognition of Tumor Cells.- Fractal Analysis of Monolayer Cell Nuclei from Two Different Prognostic Classes of Early Ovarian Cancer.- Fractal Analysis of Vascular Network Pattern in Human Diseases.- Quantification of Local Architecture Changes Associated with Neoplastic Progression in Oral Epithelium using Graph Theory.- Fractal Analysis of Canine Trichoblastoma.- Fractal Dimension as a Novel Clinical Parameter in Evaluation of the Urodynamic Curves.- Nonlinear Dynamics in Uterine Contractions Analysis.- Computer-Aided Estimate and Modelling of the Geometrical Complexity of the Corneal Stroma.- The Fractal Paradigm.- Complex-Dynamical Extension of the Fractal Paradigm and its Applications in Life Sciences.- Fractal-like Features of Dinosaur Eggshells.- Evolution and Regulation of Metabolic Networks.- Cytoskeleton as a Fractal Percolation Cluster: Some Biological Remarks.- A Mystery of the Gompertz Function.- Fractional Calculus and Symbolic Solution of Fractional Differential Equations.- Fox-Function Representation of a Generalized Arrhenius Law and Applications.