Questions tagged [medicine]
For mathematical problems arising from medicine, the science and practice of studying, preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries.
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Applications of mathematics in clinical setting
What are some examples of successful mathematical attempts in clinical setting, specifically at the patient-disease-drug level?
To clarify, by patient-disease-drug level, I mean the mathematical work ...
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SVD vs Fourier analysis for data.
Fourier analysis is useful for analysis in the frequency domain. SVD on the other hand is useful for analysis of data, and expressing noise in the data. I have a problem that needs extensive data ...
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Algebra and cancer research
Let me start by acknowledging the existence of this thread: Mathematics and cancer research
It is well-known that mathematical modeling and computational biology are effective tools in cancer research....
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Job sites for applied/interdisciplinary Mathematics?
I was wondering whether there're job sites that post jobs in applied/interdisciplinary mathematics, more specially, say postdocs or higher positions in mathematics and medical imaging, mathematics and ...
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Applications of algebraic geometry/commutative algebra to biology/pharmacology
Are there applications of algebraic geometry/commutative algebra to biology/pharmacology?
It might be that some Gröbner basis technique is used somewhere? I know there are some applications to ...
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Applications of knot theory to biology/pharmacology
What are the applications of knot theory to biology/pharmacology?
I guess there should be some, since proteins are quite long and some of their properties are probably related to whether they are ...
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"Graphical models" and "gene finding and diagnosis of diseases" ?
Quote Wikipedia: Applications of graphical models include ... gene finding and diagnosis of diseases...
Unfortunately there is no comment what are these applications...
Can one comment on this ?
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Applications of group theory to mathematical biology (pharmacology)
Are there applications of group theory — broadly, say, representation theory, Lie algebras, $q$-groups, etc — to mathematical biology?
In particular, I am interested in applications to pharmacology — ...
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Mathematics and cancer research
What are applications of mathematics in cancer research?
Unfortunately, I heard quite little about applications of mathematics, but I heard something about applications of physics, and let me put this ...