Computational modeling in bioengineering and bioinformatics

Computational Modeling in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics promotes complementary disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of research and development in complex medical and biological systems, and in the environment, public health, drug design, and so on. It provides a common platform by bridging these two very important and complementary disciplines into an interactive and attractive forum. Chapters cover biomechanics and bioimaging, biomedical decision support system, data mining, personalized diagnoses, bio-signal processing, protein structure prediction, tissue and cell engineering, biomedical image processing, analysis and visualization, high performance computing and sports bioengineering. The book's chapters are the result of many international projects in the area of bioengineering and bioinformatics done at the Research and Development Center for Bioengineering BioIRC and by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Kragujevac, Serbia. Presents recent advances at the crossroads of biomedical engineering and bioinformatics, one of the hottest areas in biomedical and clinical research Discusses a wide range of leading-edge research topics, including biomechanics and bioimaging, biomedical decision support systems, data mining, personalized diagnoses, bio-signal processing, protein structure prediction, tissue and cell engineering, amongst others Includes coverage of biomechanical, bioengineering and computational methods of treatment and diagnosis

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1. Computational modeling of atherosclerosis 2. Data mining approach for breast cancer prognosis prediction 3. Topological and parametric optimization of stent design -- numerical methods 4. Lab-on-a-chip and epithelial lung cells modeling 5. Aortic Dissection: Numerical Modeling, Virtual Surgery 6. The biomechanics of lower human extremities 7. Different theoretical approaches to investigation of antioxidative mechanisms 8. Computational modelling of dry powder inhalers for pulmonary drug delivery 9. Computer modeling of cochlea mechanics 10. Numerical modeling of cell separation in microfluidic chips 11. Computational analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysm before and after endovascular aneurysm repair 12. Sports biomechanics.