The IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering is a premier reference to promote the field of biomedical engineering, bioengineering, biomedical informatics, and bioinformatics and systems biology. It covers the science and technologies of advanced biomedical signal and image processing, biomaterial, neural and cardiovascular engineering, biomedical informatics, computational biology, and bioinformatics. The books in this series may be used as senior/graduate level texts for biomedical, bioengineering, biomedical informatics, and life sciences students, and also as references for medical and clinical researchers at medical schools and hospitals