Fractals in Biology and Medicine: Volume IV (Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction)

Mandelbrot’s Fractals and the Geometry of Life: A Tribute to Benoît Mandelbrot on his 80 th Birthday....Pages 3-16
Gas Diffusion through the Fractal Landscape of the Lung: How Deep Does Oxygen Enter the Alveolar System?....Pages 17-30
Is the Lung an Optimal Gas Exchanger?....Pages 31-42
3D Hydrodynamics in the Upper Human Bronchial Tree: Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distribution....Pages 43-53
Fractal Aspects of Three-Dimensional Vascular Constructive Optimization....Pages 55-66
Cognition Network Technology: Object Orientation and Fractal Topology in Biomedical Image Analysis. Method and Applications....Pages 67-73
The Use of Fractal Analysis for the Quantification of Oocyte Cytoplasm Morphology....Pages 75-82
Fractal Analysis: Pitfalls and Revelations in Neuroscience....Pages 85-94
Ongoing Hippocampal Neuronal Activity in Human: Is it Noise or Correlated Fractal Process?....Pages 95-106
Do Mental and Social Processes have a Self-similar Structure? The Hypothesis of Fractal Affect-Logic....Pages 107-119
Scaling Properties of Cerebral Hemodynamics....Pages 121-129
A Multifractal Dynamical Model of Human Gait....Pages 131-140
Dual Antagonistic Autonomic Control Necessary for 1/ f Scaling in Heart Rate....Pages 141-151
Tissue Architecture and Cell Morphology of Squamous Cell Carcinomas Compared to Granular Cell Tumours’ Pseudo-epitheliomatous Hyperplasia and to Normal Oral Mucosae....Pages 155-164
Statistical Shape Analysis Applied to Automatic Recognition of Tumor Cells....Pages 165-174
Fractal Analysis of Monolayer Cell Nuclei from Two Different Prognostic Classes of Early Ovarian Cancer....Pages 175-186
Fractal Analysis of Vascular Network Pattern in Human Diseases....Pages 187-192
Quantification of Local Architecture Changes Associated with Neoplastic Progression in Oral Epithelium using Graph Theory....Pages 193-201
Fractal Analysis of Canine Trichoblastoma....Pages 203-207
Fractal Dimension as a Novel Clinical Parameter in Evaluation of the Urodynamic Curves....Pages 209-214
Nonlinear Dynamics in Uterine Contractions Analysis....Pages 215-222
Computer-Aided Estimate and Modelling of the Geometrical Complexity of the Corneal Stroma....Pages 223-230
Complex-Dynamical Extension of the Fractal Paradigm and its Applications in Life Sciences....Pages 233-244
Fractal-like Features of Dinosaur Eggshells....Pages 245-256
Evolution and Regulation of Metabolic Networks....Pages 257-268
Cytoskeleton as a Fractal Percolation Cluster: Some Biological Remarks....Pages 269-275
A Mystery of the Gompertz Function....Pages 277-286
Fractional Calculus and Symbolic Solution of Fractional Differential Equations....Pages 287-298
Fox-Function Representation of a Generalized Arrhenius Law and Applications....Pages 299-308