Circuits, Signals, and Systems for Bioengineers

John Semmlow was a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Rutgers University and in the Department of Surgery of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School UMDNJ for 32 years. Over that period he published over 100 review journal articles and has been appointed a Fellow of the IEEE, the AIMBE, and the BMES. He retired in June of 2010, but still remains active in research, particularly cardiovascular diagnosis and human motor control. He is actively pursuing a ‘second career’ as an artist, designing and building computer controlled kinetic art: sculptures that move in interesting and intriguing ways.

Part I - SIGNALS 1. The Big Picture: Bioengineering Signals and Systems 2. Signal Analysis in the Time Domain 3. Signal Analysis in the Frequency Domain: The Fourier Series and the Fourier Transformation 4. Signal Analysis in the Frequency Domain - Implications and Applications Part II - SYSTEMS 5. Linear Systems Analysis in the Time Domain - Convolution 6. Linear Systems Analysis in the Frequency Domain: The Transfer Function 7. Linear Systems in the Complex Frequency Domain: The Laplace Transform 8. Analysis of Discrete Linear Systems - The z-Transform and Applications to Filters 9. System Modeling and Simulink 10. Stochastic, Nonstationary, and Nonlinear Systems and Signals 11. Two-Dimensional Signals - Basic Image Analysis PART III - CIRCUITS 12. Circuits Elements and Circuit Variables 13. Analysis of Analog Circuits and Models 14. Circuit Reduction - Simplifications 15. Basic Analog Electronics - Operational Amplifiers