Frontiers of artificial intelligence in medical imaging

This book is designed to consider the recent advancements in hospitals to diagnose various diseases accurately using AI-supported detection procedures. The book also includes several chapters on machine learning, convoluted neural networks, segmentation, and deep learning-assisted two-class and m...

Materials technology for the energy and environmental nexus, volume 2

The ‘materials nexus’ represents the role or connection of materials in building the path for greener energy and sustainable environment. This two-volume set covers the state-of-the-art of materials technology for greener energy and sustainable environment, including current issues, anticipated d...

Quantum mechanics in the single photon laboratory

Developed from a series of laboratory class experiments designed and developed by the authors, this book provides an overview of fundamental experiments that can be used to practically demonstrate the underlying principles of quantum physics and quantum information science.

Simulation of complex systems

Ultra-BriefThis book provides the most fundamental and essential techniques to simulate complex systems, from the dynamics of molecules to the spreading of diseases, from optimization using ant colonies to the simulation of the Game of Life.

Electronic tongues

This book provides the reader with the history, fundamentals and theoretical aspects of electronic tongues and their applications. Includes theoretical aspects of detection techniques and applications highlights novel nanomaterials and nanotechnology strategies and features in computational metho...

Small particle ring accelerators and paul traps

This book covers small particle ring accelerators and Paul trap simulators for research and proof-of-principle experiments of advanced concepts.

An astronomical inclusion revolution

This book responds to the critical need for astronomers to understand, operationalize, and assess the efficacy of DEI efforts on research collaboration. It explores the historical context, present landscape, and best inclusion strategies that all astronomers should know, and is intended to benefi...

Collective light emission

This book looks at recent developments and the future of collective light emissions for many quantum emitters. It includes new perspectives and research directions for this renewing subject, and will be a valuable resource for researchers, scientists and graduate students in quantum optics.

Higher-spin field theory

Light scattering and absorption by particles

This book provides a thorough overview of how particles of any size or shape scatter light and introduces the Q-space analysis of light scattering for researchers in physics and related applied sciences.

Advances in physics of rydberg atoms and molecules

This book covers recent analytical advances in the study of Rydberg atoms and molecules. It presents classical descriptions of electron trajectories in Rydberg atoms, offering a deep physical insight into their dynamics. It surveys shifts and shapes of the corresponding spectral lines. It is idea...

An introduction to the physics of nuclear medicine (second edition)

This book gives an introduction to the physics of nuclear medicine including the principles of radiation detection physics, methods used in radionuclide therapy and techniques to produce images for diagnosis and intraoperative monitoring.

Dynamical properties in nanostructured and low-dimensional materials (second edition)

This edition focusses on changes that relate to magnetic excitations, mixed (or hybrid) excitations, and nonlinear excitations. Most studies of these artificially engineered materials have been driven by their potential for device applications that involve smaller and smaller physical dimensions.

Electromechanical machinery theory and performance (second edition)

This textbook provides an introduction to power transformers, rotating ac machines, and photovoltaic power systems. An introduction to power electronic converters is covered, with applications to variable speed drives for AC motors and generators.

Molecular response and genetic engineering for stress in plants, volume 2

This book will be helpful for researchers, teachers, and students in the fields of Entomology, Plant Pathology, Plant Protection, Resistance Plant Breeding, and Plant Biotechnology as it provides excellent knowledge and comprehension of biotic stress.

Model-based approaches in biomedical engineering

This practical guide explores the application of modelling in biomedical engineering and healthcare. The book uses a careful selection of topics that showcase the role of computational modelling in biomedical engineering.

Visible light

This book offers an overview of the state-of-the-art of visible light communication (VLC) systems across emerging areas of increasing importance within the field. It is an excellent guide for new researchers entering the VLC field.

Gravity, magnetic and electromagnetic gradiometry (second edition)

Gradiometry is concerned with the extraction of useful information from the spatial variation of the gravity, magnetic and electric fields, The author provides readers with a comprehensive and up to date overview of the history, applications, and current developments in relation to some of the mo...

Diamane

Diamane is a newly discovered carbon nanoallotrope that displays exceptional mechanical, optical, electrical, thermal, and vibrational properties, which can be an asset for new technologies. This book comprehensively covers the physics, synthesis, functionalization, characterization and advanced ...

Lens design

Lens Design: Automatic and quasi-autonomous computational methods and techniques is the first book that interactively describes the newest lens design tools. Detailing design methods for a variety of lens forms, this book shows that fixed focus and zoom lenses can be optimized, and it will help e...

Foundations of regenerative biology and medicine

Regenerative biology and medicine is a rapidly developing field that can revolutionize medicine. This book introduces the essentials of regenerative biology and medicine to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, as well as students and professionals outside the field who need (a...

Practical radiobiology for proton therapy planning

This book covers the principles, advantages and potential pitfalls that occur in proton therapy, especially its radiobiological modelling applications. It is intended to educate, inform and stimulate further research questions by blending the relevant physics, biology and medical aspects of this ...

Introduction to pharmaceutical biotechnology, volume 3

Introduction to Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Animal tissue culture and biopharmaceuticals provides background information on all aspects of this fascinating subject, including stem cell treatment, in vitro organ systems and cell culture technology. This book and the previous two volumes are a mu...

Understanding stellar evolution

Understanding Stellar Evolution is based on a series of graduate-level courses taught at the University of Washington since 2004. It describes the structure and evolution of stars, with emphasis on the basic physical principles and the interplay between the different processes inside stars. Based...

Sun protection

Sun Protection differentiates itself from other texts by adopting a risk management approach to determine whether, how, and in what circumstances, harm might be caused, and to explore the feasibility of various strategies in controlling exposure to solar UV radiation. This multi-disciplinary book...

Bionanomaterials

This reference text brings together comprehensive reviews of the latest research in the field of bionanomaterials, with a focus on fundamentals and biomedical applications. The major applications covered include nanobiosensing, nanomedicine, diagnostics, therapeutics, tissue engineering and green...

Web content mining

This book illustrates the concepts and applications of web mining from the nature of web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. Starting with an overview of data mining, it introduces web mining and draws comparisons between data mining and web mining. After this in...

Photo acoustic and optical coherence tomography imaging, volume 3

Ultra-Brief CopyThis book covers the state-of-the-art techniques of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) imaging, helping to advance scientific research for the diagnosis of retinal diseases.

Explicit symmetry breaking in electrodynamic systems and electromagnetic radiation (second edition)

This second edition expands on the introduction to the concept of symmetries in electromagnetism and explicit symmetry breaking. It addresses some of the recent developments in the field of radiation from magneto-electric materials and ferroelectric materials and correlate them to the nature of s...

New windows on the universe

This book focuses on key multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies in contemporary astronomical research. Examples include exciting areas such as colliding black holes and neutron stars, the discovery of planetary systems around stars other than our own, and the determination of the Hubble con...

Aurivillius phase materials

This book provides an overview of Aurivillius phase layer structured ferroelectrics, with a focus on in-depth classification of layer structured materials and their role in developing environmentally sustainable compounds. It is an essential reference for professionals and academics working in th...

Secondary ion mass spectrometry and its application to materials science (second edition)

In this edition, a more detailed overview of the principles of SIMS is given, and of how the development of dual-beam instruments has blurred the traditional fields of dynamic and static SIMS to enable greater analytical possibilities. This is an ideal text for final year undergraduates, first ye...

Ultrafast lasers and optics for experimentalists

Ultrafast lasers are increasingly used in science by people who are not specialist laser physicists. This book clearly, and without dense physics or mathematics, presents the fundamental concepts of ultrafast lasers and optics that are needed to effectively work in a laser lab.