Fractals in physiology and medicine

Title: Fractals in physiology and medicine
Creator: Sturmberg, Joachim P.; West, Bruce J.
Relation: Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health p. 171-192
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4998-0_11
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: Calculus is a method of reasoning by computation of symbols and in medicine this has traditionally followed the path laid out by the physics of the nineteenth and twentieth century, with its smooth continuous functions and differential equations to make predictions. In the latter part of the twentieth century physical scientists began to look in earnest at complex phenomena and discovered to their surprise that the analytic functions they had touted for so long were not adequate for characterising the variations in any but the simplest of processes. This particular failing was discussed from a statistics perspective in an earlier chapter. It is now time to squarely face the general limitations of the traditional modelling techniques in medicine and address a calculus of medicine that is able to incorporate nonlinearity into its descriptions.
Subject: fractals; physiology; medicine
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342647
Identifier: uon:29002
Identifier: ISBN:9781461449980
Language: eng

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