Abstract :
On 13-15 May 2008, the 16th Annual Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering was held at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran. A total of 42 papers were presented in sessions on biomedical engineering that included biomedical system modeling, pattern recognition and classification, biological signal processing, signal processing, and image processing (three sessions). John Webster gave the keynote address ``Future Bioinstruments: Expectations and Challenges.¿¿ He also presented an all day workshop ``How to Develop and Implement State-of-the- Art Bioinstruments,¿¿ and gave other talks: ``Bioengineering Curricula: A Fresh Look and New Expectations,¿¿ and ``How to Find a Topic for Ph.D. Research in Biomedical Engineering.¿¿
