Fractals in Biology and Medicine

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.