Biomedical Signal Processing (Hardcover)

by Metin Akay (Author)

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"In general, the material is very well selected and well organized. Its style and illustrations are very clear and readable. The argumentation and discussions are also clear and logically correct. This text is unique in the field of biomedical signal processing in emphasizing the biomedical application aspects of signal analysis using numerous and up-to-date examples."
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Product Description
Sophisticated techniques for signal processing are now available to the biomedical specialist! Written in an easy-to-read, straightforward style, Biomedical Signal Processing presents techniques to eliminate background noise, enhance signal detection, and analyze computer data, making results easy to comprehend and apply. In addition to examining techniques for electrical signal analysis, filtering, and transforms, the author supplies an extensive appendix with several computer programs that demonstrate techniques presented in the text.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 377 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0120471450
• ISBN-13: 978-0120471454
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,601,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wow. What a mess., June 17, 1998

By A Customer

Let me begin by saying that I did not read this whole book. It is barely possible that the rest of the work is much better. However, I thought this was sufficiently unlikely that I did not continue past chapter 2.

What's the problem? It's full of mistakes! You've got your notational inconsistencies, your missing minus signs, your missing functions and your df's where there should be dt's. There are so many mistakes that it's really hard to understand what's going on. All this mathematical mess wouldn't be so bad if there were good explanatory text to go along with the formulae. But there isn't. I'm convinced the author knows his subject, but simply failed to convey this knowlege to the reader.

This book reads like a student's class notes hastily jotted down during a lecture. If you read the introduction (and you really should since this and the table of contents are the best part of this book) you will find, that this is in fact the case! It sure looks like the lectures were good, but I guess you had to be there, because the lecture notes are terrible.