Recent progress in establishment of the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering is summarized. An Institute of Medicine report on emerging technologies for breast cancer detection and screening is announced. Book Reviews Medical imaging methods and results are reported in journals, magazines, proceedings of meetings, and on the Internet. Clearly, there is an unmet need to evaluate the books in the field and disseminate the results to readers of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 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 significant variation in the 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 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 potential reviewers.