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MATLAB Programming for Biomedical Engineers and Scientists,

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Editors: By Andrew P. King and Paul Aljabar

Publication Date: 28 Jun 2017

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MATLAB Programming for Biomedical Engineers and Scientists provides an easy-to-learn introduction to the fundamentals of computer programming in MATLAB. This book explains the principles of good programming practice, while demonstrating how to write efficient and robust code that analyzes and visualizes biomedical data. Aimed at the biomedical engineer, biomedical scientist, and medical researcher with little or no computer programming experience, it is an excellent resource for learning the principles and practice of computer programming using MATLAB.

This book enables the reader to:

Analyze problems and apply structured design methods to produce elegant, efficient and well-structured program designs
Implement a structured program design in MATLAB, making good use of incremental development approaches
Write code that makes good use of MATLAB programming features, including control structures, functions and advanced data types
Write MATLAB code to read in medical data from files and write data to files
Write MATLAB code that is efficient and robust to errors in input data
Write MATLAB code to analyze and visualize medical data, including imaging data

Key Features

Many real world biomedical problems and data show the practical application of programming concepts
Two whole chapters dedicated to the practicalities of designing and implementing more complex programs
An accompanying website containing freely available data and source code for the practical code examples, activities, and exercises in the book
For instructors, there are extra teaching materials including a complete set of slides, notes for a course based on the book, and course work suggestions

About the author

By Andrew P. King, Reader in Medical Image Analysis, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, King's College London. and Paul Aljabar, Head of Imaging Science, Perspectum Ltd.

1. Introduction to Computer Programming and MatLab

Introduction

The MatLab Environment

Help

Variables, Arrays and Simple Operations

Data Types

Loading and Saving Data

Visualising Data

Matrices

MatLab Scripts

Comments

Debugging

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Control Structures

Introduction

if Statements

Comparison/Logical Operators

switch Statements

for Loops

while Loops

break and continue

Nesting Control Structures

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Functions

Introduction

Functions

Checking for Errors

Function m-files and script m-files

M-files and the MatLab Search Path

Naming Rules

Scope of Variables

Recursion: A function calling itself

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Program Development and Testing

Introduction

Incremental Development

Are we Finished? Validating User Input

Debugging a Function

Common Reasons for Errors when Running a Script or a Function

Error Handling

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Data Types

Introduction

Numeric Types

Characters and Strings

Identifying the Type of a Variable

The Boolean Data Type

Matrices

Cell Arrays

Converting Between Types

Advanced Data Types

Summary

Assessment Exercises

File Input/Output

Introduction

Recap on Basic Input/Output Functions

Simple Functions for Dealing with Text Files

Reading from Files

Writing to Files

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Program Design

Introduction

Top-Down Design

Incremental Development and Test Stubs

Bottom-Up Design

A Combined Approach

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Visualisation

Introduction

Visualisation

Visualising Multiple Datasets

3-D Plotting

The meshgrid Command

Imaging Data

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Code Efficiency

Introduction

Time and Memory Efficiency

Tips for Improving Time Efficiency

Recursive and Dynamic Programming

Dynamic Programming to Improve Performance

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Images and Image Processing

Introduction

Images on a Computer

Accessing Images in MatLab

Image Processing

Summary

Assessment Exercises

Developing Graphical User Interfaces

Building a GUI with the Guide Tool

Controlling Components: Callback Functions and Events

Maintaining State

Summary

Assessment Exercises

ISBN: 9780128122037

Page Count: 324

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