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Automated Feature Extraction From Large Cardiac Electrophysiological Data Sets, And A Population Dynamics Approach To The Distribution Of Space Debris In Low-Earth Orbit, John Jurkiewicz

Theses and Dissertations

We present two applications of mathematics to relevant real-world situations.

In the first chapter, we discuss an automated method for the extraction of useful data from large file-size readings of cardiac data. We begin by describing the history of electrophysiology and the background of the work's setting, wherein a new multi-electrode array-based application for the long-term recording of action potentials from electrogenic cells makes large-scale readings of relevant data possible, opening the way for exciting cardiac electrophysiology studies in health and disease. With hundreds of simultaneous electrode recordings being acquired over a period of days, the main challenge becomes achieving …