For biomedical engineering students and professionals, Northrup (electrical and computer engineering, U. of Connecticut) explains mathematical techniques useful for describing and analyzing biomedical signals. He covers classical linear systems theory and its applications to biomedicine; the use of joint time-frequency analysis to characterize nonstationary physiological signals; the mathematics of tomographic imaging; noise and linear and nonlinear systems; the application of statistics to genomic systems; and the analytical signal and the Hilbert transform and its biomedical applications. This edition has been updated and revised to include new chapters on the analysis of nonlinear biochemical systems and oscillators and complex systems and ways to model them. Background in algebra, calculus, introductory differential equations, basic physics and chemistry, engineering systems analysis, biochemistry, and introductory cell biology is required. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)