The idea of this book originated in the works presented at the First Latinamerican Conference
on Mathematics in Industry and Medicine held in Buenos Aires Argentina from November 27 to
December 1 1995. A variety of topics were discussed at this meeting. A large percentage of the
papers focused on Wavelet and Harmonic Analysis. The theory and applications of this topic
shown at the Conference were interesting enough to be published. Based on that we selected some
works which make the core of this book. Other papers are contributions written by invited
experts in the field to complete the presentation. All the works were written after the
Conference. The purpose of this book is to present recent results as well as theo retical
applied aspects of the subject. We have decided not to include a section devoted to the
theoretical foundations of wavelet methods for non specialists. There are excellent
introductions already available for example Chapter one in Wavelets in Medicine and Biology
edited by A. Aldroubi and M. Unser 1996 or some of the references cited in the chapter.
