IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (R-BME)
Journal: IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (2020)

R-BME publishes methodological and clinical reviews on biomedical engineering.Acceptable papers range in content from engineering methodologies or clinical applications, experimental science and technological development, up to formal mathematical theory of interest to biomedical engineering.Review articles must summarize in a clear, critical, and well documented way (i.e., through extensive referencing) the author's opinion about the subject matter and should also offer a vision for possible future developments.Review articles that do not meet this criterion would not be suitable for publication in R-BME.As per IEEE policy on standards for publications, review and editorial handling of manuscripts is part of the paper submission process to guarantee quality control.R-BME will also contain a section entitled "In the Spotlight" that will present brief yearly reviews of themes important for the EMB Society as defi ned by the themes of its annual international conference.These "In the Spotlight" briefs are written by a Board of Acting Editors, appointed by the Editor-in-Chief for a period of three years.Readers are encouraged to submit manuscripts as Methodological Reviews or Clinical Application Reviews.The goal of Methodological Reviews is to present a critical review of current methods important in biomedical engineering, understood in its most general sense.These methodological reviews will be authored by the top experts in the biomedical engineering fi eld.The most useful reviews are the ones that conceptually relate various methods, present validation among them according to accepted metrics, evaluate pros and cons, and comment on future directions.These papers will be up to 15 pages long with at least 100 references.The writing style should target an audience at the level of the biomedical engineering Ph.D. student.The target audiences are biomedical Ph.D. students, academicians, and design engineers in the industry.The goal of Clinical Application Reviews is to present a critical review of methods applied to a current clinical problem, where biomedical technology is playing a crucial role.The article should be written from an organ/systems physical modeling or clinical perspective; i.e., dealing with the physical properties and/or clinical issues and then covering the methods.These clinical reviews should preferably be authored by a team (e.g., biophysicists, biomedical engineers, and a clinician).The most useful reviews will start by explaining the clinical problem, its variables, and how one of several competing biomedical technologies are playing a role, their pros and cons, discussions of bottlenecks and what needs to be done to overcome them.These manuscripts will be up to 20 pages long, and will have at least 100 references, divided between clinical and bioengineering.The writing style will be at the Scientifi c American level.The target audiences consist of clinicians, design engineers in the industry, and students/academics belonging to IEEE but not necessarily in biomedical engineering.To qualify for publication, these must be previously unpublished and not be under consideration elsewhere.