Why is EIT so hard, and what are we doing about it?

co-organized by Bartt lomiej Grychtol, of the Fraunhofer Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology in Mannheim, Germany. A new award for best student paper was presented to Robert Winkler (Winkler et al 2014), and runner-up award to Melody Dodd (Dodd and Mueller 2014). This continues the tradition of successful conferences on biomedical applications of electrical impedance tomography, as was the case with the 14 hosted by JosepSoì a and Fabian Braun of the Centre suisse d'´ electronique et de microtechnique. This conference will be followed by a focus issue in Physiological Measurement that will be published in 2016. This issue contains papers stemming from discussion and feedback during the 2014 conference, and is also an opportunity for new researchers to join the community and describe recent innovations. There were 77 accepted submissions (including three keynotes, 45 oral presentation, and 29 posters). All authors were invited to prepare new peer-reviewed papers for inclusion in this issue of Physiological Measurement. Manuscripts were put through a process of careful review before selection, and 18 were accepted (of 27 submitted), covering an important range of topics.