Meet the editor

Robert Koprowski, MD (1997), PhD (2003), Habilitation (2015), is an employee of the University of Silesia in Poland, Institute of Computer Science, Department of Biomedical Computer Systems. For 20 years he has studied the analysis and processing of biomedical images with particular emphasis on the full automation of measurement for a large inter-individual variability of patients. He is the author of dozens of papers with

the impact factor (IF) and more than a hundred other papers, as well as the author or co-author of six books. Additionally, he is the author of several national and international patents in the field of biomedical devices and imaging. Since 2011, he has been a reviewer of grants and projects (including EU projects) in the field of biomedical engineering.

Contents

*by Rafik Menassel*

*by Haijun Luan*

of Groundwater Quality

*by Mohamed Abdelsabour Fahmy*

Using Algebraic Fractals in Steganography *by Oleg Sheluhin and Dzhennet Magomedova*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 85**

**Chapter 6 103**

Optimization of Fractal Image Compression

Fractal Analysis for Time Series Datasets: A Case Study

*by Sanjeev Kimothi, Asha Thapliyal and Narendra Singh*

Establishing the Downscaling and Spatiotemporal Scale Conversion Models of NDVI Based on Fractal Methodology

ISMFGA Structures Subjected to Moving Heat Source

A New BEM for Modeling and Optimization of 3T Fractional Nonlinear Generalized Magneto-Thermoelastic Multi-Material

Fractal Analysis of Strain-Induced Microstructures in Metals *by Ricardo Fernández, Gaspar González-Doncel and Gerardo Garcés*
