Modelling of Physiological Systems, 5 op

Ydinsisältö

• Modelling of physiological systems compared to pure "engineering" problems. Model classes and types for physiological systems.
  Model-analogue, descriptive-predictive, empirical-mathematical. How to build models of physiological systems.
• Basics of kinetic and compartmental models.
• Finite element modelling (FEM) in modelling 3D physiological systems: basic principles, techniques and applications. Also the basics of finite difference method (FDM) and boundary element method (BEM).
• Modelling biological and physiological processes by cellular automata or agent-based methods.
• Finding parameters for the models.

Täydentävä tietämys

• Use of a priori information, computational tools and measurements in model construction.
• Modelling of epithelial tissue, cardiac activation and neural systems.