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April 2021 VOL. 24, NO. 2

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-Abdulsalam Yassine

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editor-in-chief

Bed-Based Health Monitoring Using Pressure Sensitive Technology: A Review
-Madison Cohen-McFarlane, Stephanie Bennett, Bruce Wallace,
Rafik Goubran, and Frank Knoefel

Bruno Andò
Associate Professor
DIEEI - University of Catania
Catania, Italy
bruno.ando@unict.it

associate editor-in-chief

Biomedical Diagnosis of Infant Cry Signal Based on Analysis of Cepstrum
by Deep Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks
-Salim Lahmiri, Chakib Tadj, and Christian Gargour

Internet of Things for Sleep Monitoring
-Dominic J. Jaworski, Aerin Park, and Edward J. Park

Automated Biosignal Quality Analysis of Electrocardiograms
-Mohamed Abdelazez, Sreeraman Rajan, and Adrian D. C. Chan

Wendy Van Moer
wendy.w.vanmoer@ieee.org

senior editorial assistant

Recent Advances in Sparse Representation Based Medical Image Fusion
-Yu Liu, Xun Chen, Aiping Liu, Rabab K. Ward, and Z. Jane Wang

Kristy Virostek
virostek5@verizon.net

Progress in the Assessment of Arterial Stiffness
-Miodrag Bolic, Hilmi R. Dajani, Masayoshi Yoshida, and Voicu Z. Groza

Thermal Noise Measurement and Characterization for Modern
Semiconductor Devices

Synchronous Demodulation for Low Noise Measurements

I&M editorial board

-Chih-Hung Chen

Bruno Andò
Wendy Van Moer
Max Cortner
Salvo Baglio
Shervin Shirmohammadi
Juan Manuel Ramirez-Cortes
Sebastian Yuri C. Catunda
George Xiao
Sergio Rapuano
Marco Parvis
Ruqiang Yan
Lee Barford
Veronica Scotti, Legal Representative

-Erfan Ghaderi and Behraad Bahreyni

Noise-Parameter Measurements of Very-Low-Noise Amplifiers at Ambient
and Cryogenic Temperatures

Machine Learning in Measurement Part 1: Error Contribution and
Terminology Confusion

Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Using Deep Learning

-Alexander Sheldon and Leonid Belostotski

-Shervin Shirmohammadi and Hussein Al Osman
-Gabriel Thomas, Simone Balocco, Danny Mann, Avery Simundsson, and Nioosha Khorasani

Application of Machine Learning in Outdoor Insulators Condition
Monitoring and Diagnostics

FOPID Control with Parameter Optimization for Hydrostatically-Actuated
Autonomous Excavators

-Ayman El-Hag

managing editor

Beverly Lindeen
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-Amirreza Mirbeygi Moghaddam, Witold Kinsner, Gustavo Koury Costa,
Lokesh Kumar, Khurram Butt, and Nariman Sepehri

advertising sales manager

Aviva Rothman
Project Manager, Naylor Association Solutions
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Responding to Illegal Activities Along the Canadian Coastlines
Using Reinforcement Learning

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-Mohammed Abouheaf, Shuzheng Qu, Wail Gueaieb, Rami Abielmona, and Moufid Harb

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Health Monitoring Systems for the Elderly During COVID-19 Pandemic:
Measurement Requirements and Challenges

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Guest Editorial

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Calendar 5
Erratum 12

New Products 127
Society Officers 132

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