Fractal analysis in clinical screening and investigation

Title: Fractal analysis in clinical screening and investigation
Creator: Jelinek, Herbert F.; Cornforth, David
Relation: Classification and Application of Fractals: New Research p. 277-301
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2012
Description: Clinical interpretation, diagnosis and treatment are subject to integrating a myriad of different data, which in their turn characterise a large number of pathological attributes. More often than not this complex array of data is difficult to interpret by physicians and often not conducive to gaining an understanding of disease processes. The use of fractal analysis for the characterisation of disease acknowledges the complex factors leading to the data collected. This chapter looks at monofractal analysis applied to biological structures and to time series measurements relevant to the understanding of disease. We show that fractal analysis, while being a useful tool for characterisation of structure, can also lead to new understanding of disease progression.
Subject: fractal dimension; branching structures; pathology; diagnosis
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327936
Identifier: uon:25780
Identifier: ISBN:9781613241042
Language: eng

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