A Message from the Vice President of Publications on New Developments in Signal Processing Society Publications

Bioimaging h as c ontinued t o e volve across a wide spectrum of applications from d iagnostics t o pe rsonalized therapy t o m echanistic understanding of bio logical pr ocesses. T he f ield continues t o be c hallenged w ith e ver increasing de mand o n mo re r obust methods and integration with clinical and molecular data. The 2 013 I EEE International S ymposium on B iomedical I maging w ill be h eld April 7-11, a t t he W estin H otel in S an Francisco, Ca. ISBI is a joint initiative of the IEEE S ignal P rocessing S ociety (SPS) and I EEE E ngineering in Medicine a nd Biology Society (EMBS). ISBI has a s trong t radition of fostering integration be tween d ifferent im aging communities a nd o f c ontributing to a n integrative imaging approach accessing all s cales o f observation. We are soliciting all a spects o f bio logical and medical im aging, f rom mathematical i mage r econstruction for medical applications t o integration o f image-based modeling with g enomic data f or hy pothesis g eneration a nd network inference. The m eeting w ill f eature p reconference tutorials, f ollowed by a strong s cientific program o f ple nary t alks a nd s pecial sessions as w ell a s oral a nd poster presentation o f pe er-reviewed contributed papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. T HIS is a time of rapid changes in the publication world, with the opportunities that electronic publishing generates. Taking advantage of these changes, the IEEE Signal Processing Society staff and volunteers are looking for ways to better serve their authors and readers. In addition, the IEEE is also more broadly pursuing innovations in content delivery. I would therefore like to alert you to the advances that are already in place and developments to look for in the future. Electronic publishing through IEEE Xplore offers the possibility of augmenting papers with multimedia examples—in-cluding audio, image, and video les—which provide concrete illustrations of the utility of a new algorithm. I encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities, which are especially relevant to many …