Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Respiratory Control

I: Modeling of Respiratory Control During Exercise.- Why and How One Models Exercise on a Computer (A Tutorial).- Analysis of the Exercise Hyperpnea Using Dynamic Work-Rate Forcing.- Optimal Regulation of Ventilation During Exercise.- Consequences of Lung Volume Optimization on Exercise Hyperpnea.- Experimental Design and Analysis for Assessing Gas Exchange Kinetics during Exercise.- II: Chemical Control of Ventilation — Empirical Models and Parameter Estimation.- Parameter Estimation Theory for Respiratory Physiology.- Dynamic End-Tidal Forcing Technique: Modeling the Ventilatory Response to Carbon Dioxide.- Dynamic Models and Parameter Estimation: The Hypoxic Ventilatory Response.- Design and Analysis of Experiments for Studying Hypoxic-Hypercapnic Interactions in Respiratory Control.- Estimation of Dynamic Chemoreflex Gain from Spontaneous Breathing Data.- III: Neural Control and Breathing Pattern Analysis.- A Three-Phase Model of Respiratory Rhythm Generation.- Conceptual Model of Ventilatory Muscle Recruitment and Diaphragmatic Fatigue.- Phase Resetting of the Respiratory Oscillator: Experiments and Models.- Distinguishing Random from Chaotic Breathing Pattern Behavior.- Forebrain Mechanisms Related to Respiratory Patterning During Sleep-Waking States.- IV: Sleep and Respiratory Control Stability.- Chemoreception in Sleep.- Potential Causes of Recurrent Apneas during Sleep.- Minimal Modeling of Human Respiratory Stability.- Sleep State and Periodic Respiration.- Modeling the Effect of Sleep State on Respiratory Stability.- Contributors.