IEEE NPSS and the BIOMETRICS COUNCIL

The new IEEE Biometrics Council is made up of 17 IEEE societies which have overlapping competence and fields of interest and The Computer Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Signal Processing Society, and many other Societies including Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society will have contributions to make to the Council’s broad scope of interest. The characterization of human beings includes macroscopic and microscopic features and traits and it is not surprising that the measurements are derived from many different measurement and analysis technologies. Automation, pattern recognition, and statistical methods of data analysis and information mining will play a large role in classifying human features. NPSS has played a major role in medical imaging by its contributions to devices, measurement technology, data reduction, feature analysis, and classification and can contribute some technology of import to the broad field of interest encompassed by the new Council. The numbers of papers from our meetings that will spill over into Biometrics Council publications that emerge as the Council grows is likely to be small, but we participate as supporters of this new enterprise.
Randy Brill can be reached at the Radiology Department, Vanderbilt University Medical College, Mcn-S-1314, 1161 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37232-0012; Phone: +1 615 322 3190; Fax: +1 615 322 3764; E-mail: aaron.brill@vanderbilt.