Signals and Systems Analysis In Biomedical Engineering

INTRODUCTION TO BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
General Characteristics of Biomedical Signals
General Properties of Physiological Systems
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REVIEW OF LINEAR SYSTEMS THEORY
Linearity; Causality, Stationarity
Analog Systems
Systems Described by Sets of ODEs
Linear System Characterization
Discrete Systems and Signals
Stability of Systems
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THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Introduction
Properties of the Laplace Transform
Some Examples of Finding Laplace Transforms
The Inverse Laplace Transform
Applications of the Laplace Transform
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FOURIER SERIES ANALYSIS OF PERIODIC SIGNALS
Introduction
Properties of the Fourier Series
Fourier Series Examples
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THE CONTINUOUS FOURIER TRANSFORM
Introduction
Properties of the CFT
Analog-to-Digital Conversion and the Sampling Theorem
The Analytical Signal and the Hilbert Transform
The Modulation Transfer Function in Imaging
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THE DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM
Introduction
The CFT, ICFT, DFT and IDFT
Data Window Functions
The FFT
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INTRODUCTION TO TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS
Introduction
The Short-term Fourier Transform (STFT)
Gabor and Adaptive Gabor Transform
Wigner-Ville & Pseudo-Wigner Transforms
Cohen's General Class of JTF Distributions
Introduction to JTFA Using Wavelets
Applications of JTF Analysis to Physiological Signals
JTFA Software
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INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF STATIONARY NOISE AND SIGNALS CONTAMINATED WITH NOISE
Introduction
Noise Descriptors and Noise in Systems
Calculation of Noise Descriptors with Finite Discrete Data
Signal Averaging and Filtering for Signal-to-Noise Ratio Improvement
Introduction to the Application of Statistics and Information Theory to Genomics
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BASIC MATHEMATICAL TOOLS USED IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Introduction
Some General Properties of Physiological Systems
Some Properties of Nonlinear Systems
Physical Factors Determining the Dynamic Behavior of Physiological Systems
Means of Characterizing Physiological Systems
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INTRODUCTION TO THE MATHEMATICS OF TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING
Introduction
Algebraic Reconstruction
The Radon Transform
The Fourier Slice Theorem
The Filtered Back-Projection Algorithm (FBPA)
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APPENDICES
Cramer's Rule
Signal Flow Graphs and Mason's Rule
Bode (Frequency Response) Plots
Computational Tools for Biomedical Signal Processing and Systems Analysis

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
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