BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, a new IEEE Engineering in Medicine and ... EMBS is sensitive to these trends, thus decided to add to its portfolio this Review ...
IEEE REVIEWS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL. 1, 2008
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Welcome to Our Inaugural Year
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ELCOME to the inaugural year of the IEEE REVIEWS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, a new IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) journal that uniquely complements the publication landscape by providing up-to-date and authoritative reviews of the most important bioengineering research. As the number of scientific and engineering journals has increased with the infusion of new topics and the steady rate of research worldwide, publication venues also are diversifying with a recent push to electronic publishing. However, the massive number of publications is conducive to hyper-specialization, narrowing the scope of the journals. It is difficult to reconcile this movement with the booming multidisciplinary research trend, of which bioengineering is the archetype. These antagonistic forces create the need for other publication formats that will offer timely, authoritative reviews for biomedical engineers conciliating both perspectives in well focused topics. EMBS is sensitive to these trends, thus decided to add to its portfolio this Review Journal. This “vertical dimension” in the publication manifold adds to the richness of the fabric and does not encroach in any of the other journals sponsored by the society. With the critical review scope in mind, IEEE RBME is structured unlike any of the TRANSACTIONS. “In the Spotlight” examines the important advances that occurred during the year within the technical footprint of the EMB society as expressed by the themes of its major conference. I, as the Editor-in-Chief, invited a group of Area Editors whose responsibility is to write a yearly column on what they considered the most salient results, innovations, or application in their respective areas.
IEEE RBME consists mainly of invited and contributed manuscripts that are divided in two major types: Methodological Reviews and Clinical Application Reviews. Each of these review types has different goals and targets different audiences. The Methodological Reviews focus on the state-of-the-art scientific advances in areas contributing to the biomedical engineering enterprise. Therefore, they intend to be useful reviews of advances for biomedical engineers and researchers. The Clinical Application Reviews show the impact of the developments germane to biomedical engineering, how they are being applied in translation research, and what other clinical problems are unsolved. They are anticipated to motivate further developments by the engineering community at large, as well as bioengineers, while addressing the impact of engineering in diagnostic, clinical management and well being. These are the objectives of IEEE RBME. It is our first attempt to implement these lofty goals, and we are all very excited. However, it is the readership that will ultimately judge the success of this enterprise, help us improve further the design, and hopefully participate by writing high-quality review articles. Excellence is the only way we know to resist the increase of entropy produced by the action of time, and it will serve as the guiding principle of IEEE RBME. Throughout the year, each completed article in IEEE RBME will be placed on IEEE Xplore in its final paginated form. All articles will be printed in one volume at the end of the year. Enjoy the first volume of IEEE RBME.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/RBME.2008.2008215
JOSE C. PRINCIPE, Editor-in-Chief University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
Jose C. Principe (M’90–SM’99–F’00) is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he teaches advanced signal processing and machine learning. He is BellSouth Professor and Founder and Director of the University of Florida Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL). He is involved in biomedical signal processing, in particular the electroencephalogram (EEG) and brain machine interfaces, and the modeling and applications of cognitive systems. In addition to his duties as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE REVIEWS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, Dr. Principe is a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. He is also past President of the International Neural Network Society, and formal Secretary of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Dr. Principe is an IEEE and AIMBE Fellow and a recipient of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Career and Achievement Service Awards. He is also a former member of the Scientific Board of the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Principe has been supervisory committee chair of more than 56 Ph.D. and 61 Master students, and he is author of more than 400 refereed publications.
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