Necessity of noise in physiology and medicine

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 459-470

  Sejdić, Ervin ^a   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicine; Noise; Physiology

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROACH; BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS; ITS APPLICATIONS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; NOISE; REMOVE NOISE; THERAPEUTIC POTENTIALS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MEDICINE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCURACY; AGING; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DECISION MAKING; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENERGY; EPISODIC MEMORY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING; HEART RATE; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LOW BACK PAIN; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; MEDICINE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OSCILLATOR; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RECALL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL NETWORK; STANDING; STRENGTH; TREMOR; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; WHITE NOISE;

MEDICINE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OSCILLOMETRY; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84880044869     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.03.014     Document Type: Article

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