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FRACTAL-BASED POINT PROCESSES Previous


PUBLICATIONS

2020

N. Mohan, S. B. Lowen, and M. C. Teich, "Photon-Count Fluctuations Exhibit Inverse-Square Baseband Spectral Behavior that Extends to <1 μHz," Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 013170 (2020). [PDF]


2009

M. C. Teich, "Fractal Point Events in Physics, Biology, and Communication Networks," Distinguished Lecture presented at the College of Engineering, Boston University (4 March 2009). [YouTube Video] [PDF]


2005

S. Bahar, "A Conversation with Mal Teich," The Biological Physicist 5 (4), 1-5 (2005). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, Fractal-Based Point Processes (Wiley, 2005). [PDF-TOC] [PDF-Ch1] [PDF-Ch2] [PDF-Ch3] [PDF-Ch4] [PDF-Ch5] [PDF-Ch6] [PDF-Ch7] [PDF-Ch8] [PDF-Ch9] [PDF-Ch10] [PDF-Ch11] [PDF-Ch12] [PDF-Ch13] [PDF-AppA] [PDF-AppB] [PDF-AppC] [PDF-Bib&Idx]


2001

S. B. Lowen, T. Ozaki, E. Kaplan, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, "Fractal Features of Dark, Maintained, and Driven Neural Discharges in the Cat Visual System," Methods 24 (Fractals in Neuroscience), 377-394 (2001) (invited paper). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, S. B. Lowen, B. M. Jost, K. Vibe-Rheymer, and C. Heneghan, "Heart Rate Variability: Measures and Models," in Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Vol. II, Dynamic Analysis and Modeling, edited by M. Akay (IEEE Press, New York, 2001), ch. 6, pp. 159-213 (invited). [PDF]


2000

M. C. Teich and B. E. A. Saleh, "Branching Processes in Quantum Electronics," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. 6, 1450-1457 (2000) (invited paper). [PDF]


1999

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Toward Fractal Coding in Auditory Prostheses," in Cochlear Implants, edited by S. B. Waltzman and N. L. Cohen (Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 1999), pp. 57-59. [PDF]

C. Heneghan, S. B. Lowen, and M. C. Teich, "Analysis of Spectral and Wavelet-Based Measures Used to Assess Cardiac Pathology," in Proc. 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Phoenix, AZ, 1999), paper SPTM-8.2. [PDF]


1998

S. Thurner, M. C. Feurstein, S. B. Lowen, and M. C. Teich, "Receiver-Operating-Characteristic Analysis Reveals Superiority of Scale-Dependent Wavelet and Spectral Measures for Assessing Cardiac Dysfunction," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5688-5691 (1998). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, "Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heart-Rate Variability for Heart-Failure and Heart-Transplant Patients," Proc. Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 20, 1136-1141 (1998) (invited paper). [PDF]

S. Thurner, M. C. Feurstein, and M. C. Teich, "Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heartbeat Intervals Discriminates Healthy Patients from Those with Cardiac Pathology," Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1544-1547 (1998). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen, T. Ozaki, E. Kaplan, and M. C. Teich, "Information Exchange Between Pairs of Spike Trains in the Mammalian Visual System," in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1998, edited by J. M. Bower (Plenum, New York, 1998), pp. 447-452. [PDF]

M. C. Teich and B. E. A. Saleh, "Cascaded Stochastic Processes in Optics," Traitement du Signal (Grenoble) 15, 457-465 (1998) (invited paper). [PDF]


1997

S. Thurner, S. B. Lowen, M. Feurstein, C. Heneghan, H. G. Feichtinger, and M. C. Teich, "Analysis, Synthesis, and Estimation of Fractal-Rate Stochastic Point Processes," Fractals 5, 565-595 (1997). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen, S. S. Cash, M.-m. Poo, and M. C. Teich, "Quantal Neurotransmitter Secretion Rate Exhibits Fractal Behavior," J. Neurosci. 17, 5666-5677 (1997). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen, S. S. Cash, M.-m. Poo, and M. C. Teich, "Neuronal Exocytosis Exhibits Fractal Behavior," in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1997, edited by J. M. Bower (Plenum, New York, 1997), pp. 13-18. [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Estimating Scaling Exponents in Auditory-Nerve Spike Trains Using Fractal Models Incorporating Refractoriness," in Diversity in Auditory Mechanics, edited by E. R. Lewis, G. R. Long, R. F. Lyon, P. M. Narins, C. R. Steele, and E. Hecht-Poinar (World Scientific, Singapore, 1997), pp. 197-204 (invited paper). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, C. Heneghan, S. B. Lowen, Y. Ozaki, and E. Kaplan, "Fractal Character of the Neural Spike Train in the Visual System of the Cat," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 529-546 (1997). [PDF]


1996

M. C. Teich, C. Heneghan, S. B. Lowen, and R. G. Turcott, "Estimating the Fractal Exponent of Point Processes in Biological Systems Using Wavelet- and Fourier-Transform Methods," in Wavelets in Medicine and Biology, edited by A. Aldroubi and M. Unser (CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1996), ch. 14, pp. 383-412 (invited). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, R. G. Turcott, and R. M. Siegel, "Temporal Correlation in Cat Striate-Cortex Neural Spike Trains," IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag. 15 (5), 79-87 (1996). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, "Self-Similarity in Sensory Neural Signals," in Proc. 22nd Ann. Northeast Bioeng. Conf., edited by J. K-J. Li and S. S. Reisman (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1996), pp. 36-37 (invited paper). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, "Fractal Behavior of the Electrocardiogram: Distinguishing Heart-Failure and Normal Patients Using Wavelet Analysis," Proc. Int. Conf. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 18, 1128-1129 (1996) (invited paper). [PDF]

R. G. Turcott and M. C. Teich, "Fractal Character of the Electrocardiogram: Distinguishing Heart-Failure and Normal Patients," Ann. Biomed. Eng. 24, 269-293 (1996). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Refractoriness-Modified Fractal Stochastic Point Processes for Modeling Sensory-System Spike Trains," in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1995, edited by J. M. Bower (Academic, San Diego, 1996), pp. 447-452. [PDF]

C. Heneghan, S. B. Lowen, and M. C. Teich, "Wavelet Analysis for Estimating the Fractal Properties of Neural Firing Patterns," in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1995, edited by J. M. Bower (Academic, San Diego, 1996), pp. 441-446. [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "The Periodogram and Allan Variance Reveal Fractal Exponents Greater than Unity in Auditory-Nerve Spike Trains," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 3585-3591 (1996). [PDF]


1995

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Estimation and Simulation of Fractal Stochastic Point Processes," Fractals 3, 183-210 (1995). [PDF]

R. G. Turcott, P. D. R. Barker, and M. C. Teich, "Long-Duration Correlation in the Sequence of Action Potentials in an Insect Visual Interneuron," J. Statist. Comput. Simul. 52, 253-271 (1995). [PDF]


1994

R. G. Turcott, S. B. Lowen, E. Li, D. H. Johnson, C. Tsuchitani, and M. C. Teich, "A Nonstationary Poisson Point Process Describes the Sequence of Action Potentials Over Long Time Scales in Lateral-Superior-Olive Auditory Neurons," Biol. Cybern. 70, 209-217 (1994). [PDF]

M. C. Teich and S. B. Lowen, "Fractal Patterns in Auditory Nerve-Spike Trains," IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag. 13 (2), 197-202 (1994) (invited paper). [PDF]


1993

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Estimating the Dimension of a Fractal Point Process," Proc. SPIE 2036 (Chaos in Biology and Medicine), edited by W. L. Ditto, 64-76 (1993). [PDF]

R. G. Turcott and M. C. Teich, "Long-Duration Correlation and Attractor Topology of the Heartbeat Rate Differ for Healthy Patients and Those with Heart Failure," Proc. SPIE 2036 (Chaos in Biology and Medicine), edited by W. L. Ditto, 22-39 (1993). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Fractal Auditory-Nerve Firing Patterns May Derive from Fractal Switching in Sensory Hair-Cell Ion Channels," in Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations, (AIP Conference Proceedings 285), edited by P. H. Handel and A. L. Chung (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1993), pp. 745-748. [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Fractal Renewal Processes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 39, 1669-1671 (1993). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Fractal Renewal Processes Generate 1/f Noise," Phys. Rev. E 47, 992-1001 (1993). [PDF]


1992

M. C. Teich, "Fractal Neuronal Firing Patterns," in Single Neuron Computation, edited by T. McKenna, J. Davis, and S. F. Zornetzer (Academic Press, Boston, 1992), ch. 22, pp. 589-625 (invited). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Auditory-Nerve Action Potentials Form a Non-Renewal Point Process Over Short as Well as Long Time Scales," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92, 803-806 (1992). [PDF]

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Fractal Renewal Processes as a Model of Charge Transport in Amorphous Semiconductors," Phys. Rev. B 46, 1816-1819 (1992). [PDF]


1991

S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, "Doubly Stochastic Poisson Point Process Driven by Fractal Shot Noise," Phys. Rev. A 43, 4192-4215 (1991). [PDF]


1990

M. C. Teich, R. G. Turcott, and S. B. Lowen, "The Fractal Doubly Stochastic Poisson Point Process as a Model for the Cochlear Neural Spike Train," in The Mechanics and Biophysics of Hearing (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol. 87), edited by P. Dallos, C. D. Geisler, J. W. Matthews, M. A. Ruggero, and C. R. Steele (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990), pp. 354-361 (invited paper). [PDF]

M. C. Teich, D. H. Johnson, A. R. Kumar, and R. G. Turcott, "Rate Fluctuations and Fractional Power-Law Noise Recorded from Cells in the Lower Auditory Pathway of the Cat," Hearing Res. 46, 41-52 (1990). [PDF]


1989

M. C. Teich, "Fractal Character of the Auditory Neural Spike Train," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 36, 150-160 (1989) [Special issue on neurosystems and neuroengineering]. [PDF]


1988

M. C. Teich and R. G. Turcott, "Multinomial Pulse-Number Distributions for Neural Spikes in Primary Auditory Fibers: Theory," Biol. Cybern. 59, 91-102 (1988). [PDF]




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