"Fractals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Patterns (real or mathematical) which look similar at different scales, for example the network of airways in the lung which shows similar branching patterns at progressively higher magnifications. Natural fractals are self-similar across a finite range of scales while mathematical fractals are the same across an infinite range. Many natural, including biological, structures are fractal (or fractal-like). Fractals are related to "chaos" (see NONLINEAR DYNAMICS) in that chaotic processes can produce fractal structures in nature, and appropriate representations of chaotic processes usually reveal self-similarity over time.
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D017709
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E05.599.125 G17.290
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2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fractals" by people in Profiles.
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Agent-based analysis of contagion events according to sourcing locations. Sci Rep. 2021 08 06; 11(1):16032.
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Updated fractal assessment of Italian Covid-19 disease. Acta Biomed. 2021 07 01; 92(3):e2021189.
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Assessing the ratio between new Covid-19 cases and new tests for Sars-Cov-2 in Italy by fractal investigation. Acta Biomed. 2021 07 01; 92(3):e2021188.
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Identification of an Epidemiological Model to Simulate the COVID-19 Epidemic Using Robust Multiobjective Optimization and Stochastic Fractal Search. Comput Math Methods Med. 2020; 2020:9214159.
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Time series and fractal analyses of wheezing: a novel approach. Phys Eng Sci Med. 2020 Dec; 43(4):1339-1347.
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A fractal kinetics SI model can explain the dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics. PLoS One. 2020; 15(8):e0237304.
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Does Fractal Analysis of the Right Side of the Heart Provide Insight into Pulmonary Hypertension? Radiology. 2018 08; 288(2):396-397.
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Usefulness of the Finet law to guide stent size selection in ostial left main stenting: Comparison with standard angiographic estimation. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2018 10; 19(7 Pt A):751-754.
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A cross-sectional study on the relationship between hematological data and quantitative morphological indices from kidney biopsies in different glomerular diseases. BMC Nephrol. 2018 03 14; 19(1):62.
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Fractal analysis of plaque border, a novel method for the quantification of atherosclerotic plaque contour irregularity, is associated with pro-atherogenic plasma lipid profile in subjects with non-obstructive carotid stenoses. PLoS One. 2018; 13(2):e0192600.