Medical Imaging Book Review New results in medical imaging are reported in journals, magazines, proceedings of meetings, and on the Internet. Some of these results are introduced, placed in context and systematically summarized in books. Clearly, there is an unmet need to evaluate the books in the field and disseminate the results of the review process. In this issue, we introduce a Book Review as the first of a series that will be managed by Ge Wang, Ph.D., who recently joined the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging as Associate Editor. We invite interested individuals and organizations to recommend books for review, make suggestions, and serve as book reviewers.
Publishers can submit finished copies of their books for consideration.
Specific guidelines have been developed for book reviews in the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, based on the best examples we found in major peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science, the Proceedings of the IEEE, and other IEEE Transactions and magazines. We found tremendous variation in quality, depth and length of these reviews - Some are short and contain a few general comments. Others are very detailed, citing references and commenting in detail on the technical quality and even suggesting research directions. Although there are neither strict rules nor a universal format for book reviews, we make the following comments that indicate the standards we will maintain. This information may be of particular interest to book publishers and reviewers.