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I have been doing a lttle reading (in my introducing fractals guide.)  Problem is the book was published in 2000; same as your links.  WBT provide more info than the section in nmy book.   Interesting that fractal geometry will show roughness & iregularities; which are what will show up with medical issues.  Virus' & bacteria are fractal.  Cancer cells are fractal too.

Opportunities in medicine as a"fractal Geometrist"  no clue. 

I just wanted to thank you for these articles!  My friend has cancer and he wants to learn all about it as he can.

Do they know that the sars-virus is really a mandelbulb hybrid?
(Image from the Swedish national encyclopedia)


Source:
http://www.ne.se/lang/sars/586787

A former employer of mine uses results from fractal geometry to accurately predict blood flow in human livers. Image acquisition through computer tomography or magneto resonance tomography cannot resolve the smallest and thinnest branches of blood vessels. But fractal geometry can quite reliably infer overall blood flow from just the first few thickest branches.

These predictions are then used in operation planning of liver transplants from living donors. It is crucial that both parts of the liver contain complete vessel subtrees, and that every last bit of tissue is being fed. Such crucial cuts were a black art that only a very small number of doctors could make, because they basically had to do it blindfolded. Now fractal geometry is illuminating the darkness, and enables many more surgeons to perform that kind of surgery reliably and successfully.

(Clarification: the respective software is not available as standalone product. My former employer offers these things as a service. The input imagery usually requires some careful preprocessing, and the algorithm itself needs to be tuned a bit for every single case. Then our M.D. would sanity check the results, and work with the client surgeon to arrive at a viable operation plan.)

I was aware about the irregularities in heart beats.  It was mentioned in a small book I read a few years ago.

I really think there will be opportunities for fractal specialists in the medical field soon.