Biomedical Simulations Resource (BMSR)

Advanced Methods of Physiological System Modeling
Volume I (1987)
by Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Ph.D.

This volume is based on the presentations made during the 1st Workshop on Advanced Methods of Physiological System Modeling, organized by the Biomedical Simulations Resource (BMSR). This meeting was the first of a series that the BMSR organizes on the subject in its effort to foster interaction and collaboration in biomedical modeling and simulation. The focus of this volume is on nonlinear modeling methods and the use of sophisticated test inputs for physiological system analysis. This volume contains 20 articles, in addition to an overview of nonlinear modeling methods, which address various theoretical and methodological issues, and discuss the application of nonlinear modeling methods to a variety of systems of physiological interest.

Table of Contents

Nonlinear and Nonstationary Modeling of Physiological Systems: An Overview
V.Z. Marmarelis

Part 1 - Applications of Advanced Modeling Methods To Physiological Systems
Analyzing Interacting Nerve Cell Spike Trains to Assess Causal Connections
D.R. Brillinger

Linear and Nonlinear Behavior of Photoreceptors During the Transduction of Small Numbers of Photons

A.S. French & J.E. Kuster

White-Noise Analysis in Visual Physiology

K.-I. Naka, M.-A. Itoh & N. Ishii

Analysis of the Auditory System Using Pseudorandom Noise

A.R. Moller

Bioelectrode Polarization Phenomena: A Fractal Approach

H.H. Sun, B. Onaral & X. Wang

Nonlinear Systems Analysis of the Functional Properties of the Hippocampal formation

T.W. Berger, G.B. Robinson, R.L. Port & R.J. Sclabassi

Nonlinear Systems Analysis of the Somatosensory System

R.J. Sclabassi, D.N. Krieger & T.W. Berger

Quasi-Linear, Time-Varying, and Nonlinear Approaches to the Identification of Muscle and Joint Mechanics

I.W. Hunter & R.E. Kearney

Dynamics of Cat X and Y Retinal Ganglion Cells, and Some Related Issues in Nonlinear Systems Analysis

J.D. Victor

Spatiotemporal White Noise Analysis of Retinal Receptive Fields

M.C. Citron

Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Analysis of Directionally Selective Cortical Neurons

R.C. Emerson & W. J. Vaughn

Constraints on the Estimation of Spatial Receptive Field Profiles of Simple Cells in Visual Cortex

L.A. Palmer, A. Gottschalk & J.P. Jones

Part 2 - Advanced Methodologies For Physiological System Modeling
Functional Expansions, Parallel Cascades and Nonlinear Difference Equations
M. Korenberg

Interpretation of Kernels of Functional Expansions
W. Krenz & L. Stark

Kernel Synthesis from Nonlinear Multiplicative Lateral Inhibition

R.B. Pinter

Relationships Between Kernels Measured with Different Stimuli

S.A. Klein

Wiener Kernel Estimation: A Comparison of Cross-Correlation and Stochastic Approximation Methods

Y. Goussard

A Practical Nonstochastic Approach to Nonlinear Time-Domain Analysis

E.E. Sutter

Are Expert Systems Models for Human Thought Processes?

A.T. Bahill

Recent Advances in Nonlinear and Nonstationary Analysis
V.Z. Marmarelis