Circuits, Signals, and Systems for Bioengineers

John Semmlow was a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Rutgers University and in the Department of Surgery of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School UMDNJ for 32 years. Over that period he published over 100 review journal articles and has been appointed a Fellow of the IEEE, the AIMBE, and the BMES. He retired in June of 2010, but still remains active in research, particularly cardiovascular diagnosis and human motor control. He is actively pursuing a ‘second career’ as an artist, designing and building computer controlled kinetic art: sculptures that move in interesting and intriguing ways.

• Part I - SIGNALS1. The Big Picture: Bioengineering Signals and Systems2. Signal Analysis in the Time Domain3. Signal Analysis in the Frequency Domain: The Fourier Series and the Fourier Transformation4. Signal Analysis in the Frequency Domain - Implications and ApplicationsPart II - SYSTEMS5. Linear Systems Analysis in the Time Domain - Convolution6. Linear Systems Analysis in the Frequency Domain: The Transfer Function7. Linear Systems in the Complex Frequency Domain: The Laplace Transform8. Analysis of Discrete Linear Systems - The z-Transform and Applications to Filters9. System Modeling and Simulink10. Stochastic, Nonstationary, and Nonlinear Systems and Signals11. Two-Dimensional Signals - Basic Image AnalysisPART III - CIRCUITS12. Circuits Elements and Circuit Variables13. Analysis of Analog Circuits and Models14. Circuit Reduction - Simplifications15. Basic Analog Electronics - Operational Amplifiers