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 To access student materials, please visit https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-companion/9780128122037 To register and access instructor materials, please visit http://textbooks.elsevier.com/web/Manuals.aspx?isbn=9780128122037 * 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 Front Cover -- MATLAB Programming for Biomedical Engineers and Scientists -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Aims and Motivation -- Learning Objectives -- How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction to Computer Programming and MATLAB -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Computer Programming -- 1.1.2 MATLAB -- 1.2 The MATLAB Environment -- 1.3 Help -- 1.4 Variables, Arrays and Simple Operations -- 1.5 Data Types -- 1.6 Loading and Saving Data -- 1.7 Visualizing Data -- 1.8 Curve Fitting -- 1.9 Matrices -- 1.10 MATLAB Scripts -- 1.11 Comments -- 1.12 Debugging -- 1.12.1 MATLAB Debugger -- 1.12.2 MATLAB Code Analyzer -- 1.13 Summary -- 1.14 Further Resources -- Exercises -- 2 Control Structures -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Conditional if Statements -- 2.3 Comparison/Logical Operators -- 2.4 Conditional switch Statements -- 2.5 Iteration: for Loops -- 2.6 Iteration: while Loops -- 2.7 A Note about Ef ciency -- 2.8 break and continue -- 2.9 Nesting Control Structures -- 2.10 Summary -- 2.11 Further Resources -- Exercises -- 3 Functions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Functions -- 3.3 Checking for Errors -- 3.4 Function m-Files and Script m-Files -- 3.5 A Function m-File Can Contain More than One Function -- 3.6 A Script m-File Cannot Also Include Functions -- 3.7 m-Files and the MATLAB Search Path -- 3.8 Naming Rules -- 3.9 Scope of Variables -- Be Careful About Script m-Files and Scope -- 3.10 Recursion: A Function Calling Itself -- 3.11 Summary -- 3.12 Further Resources -- Exercises -- 4 Program Development and Testing -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Incremental Development -- 4.3 Are We Finished? Validating User Input -- 4.4 Debugging a Function -- 4.5 Common Reasons for Errors when Running a Script or a Function -- 4.6 Error Handling -- 4.6.1 The error and warning Functions -- 4.6.2 The try and catch Method

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

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-structuredïÅ1⁄2program designsImplement a structured program design in MATLAB, making good use of incremental development approachesWrite code that makes good use of MATLAB programming features, including control structures, functions and advanced data typesWrite MATLAB code to read in medical data from files and write data to filesWrite MATLAB code that is efficient and robust to errors in input dataWrite MATLAB code to analyze and visualize medical data, including imaging data Content: Front Matter,Copyright,Dedication,Quote,About the Authors,PrefaceEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Introduction to Computer Programming and MATLAB, Pages 1-29 Chapter 2 - Control Structures, Pages 31-51 Chapter 3 - Functions, Pages 53-79 Chapter 4 - Program Development and Testing, Pages 81-107 Chapter 5 - Data Types, Pages 109-141 Chapter 6 - File Input/Output, Pages 143-160 Chapter 7 - Program Design, Pages 161-174 Chapter 8 - Visualization, Pages 175-192 Chapter 9 - Code Efficiency, Pages 193-219 Chapter 10 - Signal and Image Processing, Pages 221-253 Chapter 11 - Graphical User Interfaces, Pages 255-277 Chapter 12 - Statistics, Pages 279-296 References, Page 297 Index, Pages 299-301