Analysis of non-steady state physiological and pathological processes

Thesis

The analysis of non steady state physiological and pathological processes concerns the abstraction, extraction, formalisation and analysis of information from physiological systems that is obscured, hidden or unable to be assessed using traditional methods. Time Series Analysis (TSA) techniques were developed and built into a software program, Easy TSA, with the aim of examining the oscillations of hormonal concentrations in respect to their temporal aspects – periodicity, phase, pulsatilit...

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Authors: Hill, N

• Publication date: 2008
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-aoozay7g6
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: glycaemic variability; machine vision; diabetes; systems modelling; automated retinopathy; non linear dynamics; time series analysis; endocrinology
• Subjects: Endocrinology; Ophthamology; Metabolism; Biology and other natural sciences (mathematics); Physiology; Pathology; Software engineering; Diabetes; Mathematical biology; Medical Sciences