Multiscale Entropy and Its Applications in Medicine and Biology
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Entropy and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2015) | Viewed by 61798
Special Issue Editor
Interests: entropy; multiscale entropy; nonlinear analysis; empirical mode decomposition; biomedical data
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Dear Colleagues,
Multiscale entropy has been proposed to evaluate the complexity of time series by taking into account the multiple time scales in physical systems. For this purpose, the entropy values assigned to the time series under study are considered but the ones of the coarse-grained time series - that represent the system’s dynamics on different scales - are also analyzed. In biomedicine, multiscale entropy has risen as a complexity measure compatible with the unifying concept that healthy systems, regulated by various control mechanisms acting on multiple time scales, are more complex than pathologic ones for which such mechanisms are degraded. Multiscale entropy is, therefore, gaining many new applications in broad areas of medicine.
For this Special Issue of Entropy, we solicit contributions of new and original research on the concept of multiscale entropy and on the use of multiscale entropy in medicine and biology.
Dr. Anne Humeau-Heurtier
Guest Editor
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