Main description:

Forecast advances in medical and biological technology will transform medical care and treatment. This is due in great part to interaction and collaboration between medical sciences and engineering. These advances will result in substantial progress in health care and in the quality of life of the population. Computer models in particular have been increasingly successful in simulating biological phenomena. These are lending support to many applications, including cardiovascular systems, the study of orthopaedics and biomechanics, and electrical simulation, amongst others. Another important contribution, due to the wide availability of computational facilities and the development of better numerical algorithms, is the ability to acquire, analyse, manage and visualise massive amounts of data. This book includes the topics from the Eighth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology: Cardiovascular System; Computational Fluid Dynamics in Biomedicine; Biomechanics; Model of Physiological Processes; Data Acquisition and Analysis; Virtual Reality in Medicine.

Contents:

Section 1: Cardiovascular system Equivalence of two approaches to study the stress-strain relation in the myocardium; The variation of dobutamine induced heart stress with heart rate; Prediction of stent endflare, arterial stresses and flow patterns in a stenotic artery; Fractal behaviour of pathological heart rate variability dynamics; Microvascular disorders induced by malaria infected red blood cells: a computational mechanical study using the biological particle method; Mechanical characterization of deep vein thrombosis in a murine model using nanoindentation Section 2: Computational fluid dynamics Comparison of blood flow patterns in cerebral aneurysms; Modelling of flow through the circle of Willis and cerebral vasculature; Computational hemodynamics analysis in realistic 3D geometries of the human coronary atherosclerosis; Numerical investigation of the flow field in the upper human airways; Numerical simulations of high frequency respiratory flows in a model bifurcating lung geometry; Numerical prediction of the focal sites of ozone-induced tissue injury in the respiratory tract; Computational hemodynamics coupled with mechanical behaviour of the surrounded materials, in the specific case of the brachial artery Section 3: Biomechanics Biomechanical consideration for dorsal-lumbar and lumbar sagittal spine disorders; A new brace for the treatment of scoliosis; Parameters of kinaesthesis during gaits derived from an ultrasound-based measuring system; Evaluating elbow joint kinematics with the Stewart Platform Mechanism; Dynamics of the human stomach Section 4: Physiological processes The human body exposed to a magnetotherapy device magnetic field; Electronic active model for saccadic eye movements; Vestibular apparatus: dynamic model of the semicircular canals; A mathematical model to predict the performance of advanced therapies in wound healing; Modeling of capacitance relaxation phenomena in a malignant membrane Section 5: Data acquisition and analysis A novel 3D torso image reconstruction procedure using a pair of digital stereo back images; Computer simulations and modeling in oncology: methods and applications; PKAIN: an artificial immune network for parameter optimization in pharmacokinetics; Readability of reassigned scalograms and extraction of spectra features for signal analysis Section 6: Virtual reality in medicine An internal examination training system supporting abnormal labor conditions; Development of a training system for interventional radiology