MATLAB Programming for Biomedical Engineers and Scientists

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

• 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

Dr. King received a BSc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Manchester University in 1989, an MSc. (with distinction) in Cognition, Computing and Psychology from Warwick University in 1992, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from Warwick University in 1997. He has been a postdoctoral researcher with the Computational Imaging Sciences Group and the Division of Imaging Sciences at King's College London, working mainly on registration, image-guided interventions and soft-tissue modelling. From 2001-2005 he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at Mekelle University in Northern Ethiopia. His research focuses on motion estimation and modelling.

Dr Paul Aljabar is a mathematician who enjoys developing computer programmes and algorithms to help address challenges in health and biomedicine. After obtaining his BSc (Hons.) at King's College London in 1987, he taught mathematics in secondary (high) schools in London for twelve years before taking up a research career and obtaining a doctorate in Computational Image Analysis at Imperial College London (2007). Since then, his work has focused on building tools to analyse clinical images and data and to support medical practitioners in diagnosing disease and planning treatment. Paul has taught on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses on topics that include programming, computer graphics and the modelling and analysis of biomedical data.