Biocomplexity and Fractal Analysis: Theory and Applications
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 1565
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biocomplexity; fractals in biomedicine; aging and age-related pathologies; biomarkers of aging and disease; biomedical imaging; image processing and analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The application of paradigms such as the theories of complexity, chaos, and fractals to biosystems provide the foundation for new approaches and new tools for the study of biology and biomedicine.
Biosystems, as complex systems with chaotic behavior, can generate so-called ‘strange attractors’ that occur at critical points and can be described by fractals. This concept highlights the usefulness of fractal analysis as a suitable tool to measure biocomplexity and its changes at both structural and functional levels. Fractal analysis can measure variations of complexity in biosystems that follow different trajectories over time. Fractal analysis is therefore a promising tool to give insight into the search for good biomarkers. Toward this aim, a relevant role is played by methods and tools to support the fractal analysis of biosystems through biomedical imaging and other medical signal acquisition systems.
This Special Issue welcomes all types of articles (original research articles, reviews, short communications, commentaries, etc.) in the fields of biocomplexity and fractality with the aim of focusing on advanced research in topics relating to the theory, design, implementation, and application of fractal analysis in biomedicine. Topics that are invited for submission include (but are not limited to):
- Complexity, chaos and fractality in biosystems: theories and applications;
- Fractal analysis for parametric description of temporal and spatial sequences in biosystems;
- Fractal modeling in physio-biology and medicine;
- Applications of fractal analysis for biology and biomedicine;
- Fractal analysis in medical imaging;
- Fractal and multifractal analyses in the biomedical field as potential tools for the early diagnosis of disease onset and progression, and for treatment assessment.
Dr. Annamaria Zaia
Dr. Pierluigi Maponi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biocomplexity
- fractal analysis
- biomathematical modeling
- computer-aided diagnosis
- biomarker
- computational tools
- biomedical imaging
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