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Instrumentation and measurement in medical, biomedical, and healthcare systems
Journal Contribution - Journal Article
Proper measurement is crucial in the medical, biomedical,
and healthcare fields because it forms the basis of
medical diagnosis, prognosis, and evaluation. In fact,
it is known that “measuring is the cornerstone of medical research
and clinical practice” [1]. Medical professionals such as
doctors or clinical laboratory scientists must have confidence
in the results reported by their instruments or their measurement
methods to make the correct decision for their patient.
While in many industries incorrect measurements would simply
lead to customer dissatisfaction or loss of money, in the
medical field incorrect measurements could be fatal and lead
to loss of life. Hence, we can say that proper instrumentation
and measurement is vital in the medical field.
In this article, we take a look at the latest biomedical topics
from the perspective of Instrumentation and Measurement
(I&M), and we summarize the latest medical I&M topics published
in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
(TIM), to familiarize medical practitioners and researchers in
how to achieve a proper medical I&M paper. We also briefly introduce
the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s
(IMS) main medical conference, the IEEE Symposium on Medical
Measurements and Applications (IEEE MeMeA), which
promotes the I&M aspects of the medical field in general, and
we present guidelines on the I&M aspects that are useful for
authors with primarily biomedical backgrounds who would
like to publish in IEEE TIM.
Journal: IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag.
ISSN: 1094-6969
Issue: 5
Volume: 19
Pages: 6-12
Publication year:2016
Keywords:instrumentation, statistical methodology, measurement, Biomedical
CSS-citation score:1