Special issue on medical measurements [Guest Editorial]

This special issue of the IEEE I&M Magazine contains a concise but significant selection of contributions to the research in measurement for medicine, as provided by researchers from universities and industry, who are interested in developing novel solutions to the instrumentation and measurement (I&M) problems that are encountered in modern health care. The papers are mainly extended versions of contributions presented at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), sponsored by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. MeMeA is an annual conference devoted to all aspects of interaction between measurement and medical fields with the aim of highlighting how measurements represent a real challenge for collecting correct and trustworthy data for patient healthcare. MeMeA is a place where measurement specialists, electronic and bioelectronic equipment designers and users of measurement methods and instrumentation can share their points of view, experiences, results and form new joint multidisciplinary and international research groups. MeMeA contributions include sensor design and calibration, instrument and virtual instrument design and calibration, measurement methods, analysis of measurement results, measurement image and signal processing for medicine.