**Meet the editor**

Dr. Adriano O. Andrade graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil) in 1997. He received his MSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering respectively from the Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil) in 2000 and from the University of Reading (UK) in 2005. He completed a one year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the

University of New Brunswick (Canada) in 2010. Currently, he is Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Uberlândia. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Andrade's primary area of research is focused towards getting information from the neuromuscular system in order to understand its strategies of organization, adaptation and controlling. His research interests include Biomedical Signal Processing and Modelling, Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Walid A. Zgallai

Chapter 1 **Human Tremor:** 

**Section 1 Biomedical Signal Processing and Modelling 1** 

**Origins, Detection and Quantification 3**  Adriano O. Andrade, Adriano Alves Pereira, Maria Fernanda Soares de Almeida,

Chapter 2 **Second- and Third-Order Statistical Characterization of Non-Linearity and Non-Gaussianity** 

Chapter 3 **Fractal Physiology, Breath-to-Breath Variability and Respiratory Diseases: An Introduction to Complex Systems Theory Application in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 55**  Vasilios Papaioannou and Ioannis Pneumatikos

Chapter 4 **Wavelet Filter to Attenuate the Background Activity and High Frequencies in EEG Signals Applied in** 

**Track Small Airway Function in Children 103** 

Lidia Rascón Madrigal and Nelly Gordillo Castillo

Chapter 6 **Simulation of Subject Specific Bone Remodeling 141** 

Christine Fredel Boos and Roger Walz

**and Respiratory System Models** 

Ajay Sonar and James Carroll

Chapter 5 **Impulse Oscillometric Features** 

**the Automatic Identification of Epileptiform Events 81**  Geovani Rodrigo Scolaro, Fernando Mendes de Azevedo,

Erika G. Meraz, Homer Nazeran, Carlos Ramos, Liza Rodriguez,

**of Adult and Fetal ECG Signals and Noise 25** 

Guilherme Lopes Cavalheiro, Ana Paula Souza Paixão, Sheila Bernardino Fenelon and Valdeci Carlos Dionisio
