Recommended Textbooks

This page provides details of some textbooks which I have found helpful in my research.

Health Data Analysis

• Secondary analysis of electronic health records: A textbook on using data generated during routine clinical care for scientific research. Includes case studies based on data from the MIMIC Database.
• Photoplethysmography: A textbook on photoplethysmography, including chapters on ‘Wearable Photoplethysmography Devices’ and ‘Photoplethysmography signal processing and synthesis’, which are publicly available here.
• Advanced Methods and Tools for ECG Data Analysis
• The Handbook of Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring

Statistics

• An Introduction to Medical Statistics: A comprehensive textbook on statistics for use in clinical studies.
• Statistics Notes in the BMJ: Although not strictly a textbook, this series of notes provides a very helpful introduction to several statistical topics frequently encountered in medical research, written by Bland, Altman et al.

Engineering Techniques

• The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• Engineering better care: A report on “a systems approach to health and care design and continuous improvement”.
• Biomedical Instrumentation Lecture Notes: A helpful course introducing several types of physiological measurement (ECG, EEG, respiration, pulse oximetry and blood pressure).
• Digital Signal Processing: Includes an introduction to using Python.
• Introduction To Algorithms

Data Science

• R for Health Data Science: See also the author’s website.
• Defining Data Science and AI: A glossary of helpful definitions from The Alan Turing Institute.

Coding

• Git & GitHub Tutorial for Beginners: A series of YouTube videos providing introductory tutorials to Git and GitHub.
• Verson Control with Git: Course documents serving as an introduction to Git and GitHub.
• Prodigious Python: An introduction to Python

Physiology

• Snapshots of Haemodynamics: A concise overview of several aspects of haemodynamics
• An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology
• Anatomy and Physiology: An open access textbook with very helpful diagrams published by OpenStax.

Research Methods

• The Turing Way handbook: The Turing Way handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science.
• Twitter for Scientists: I haven’t read it, but it looks helpful at first glance.