Martin Black award for the best paper published in 2010

Abstract

The publishers of Physiological Measurement (PMEA), IOP Publishing, in association with the journal owners, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), jointly award an annual prize for the best paper published in PMEA during the previous year.The responsibility for deciding the ultimate winner falls to the Editorial and International Advisory boards of the journal. A shortlist is constructed using the comments and ratings of our expert referees. For the 2010 award, 6 papers were considered. After the construction of the shortlist, it was then down to our board members to personally assess and rank the papers.This year, we had a close contest with a worthy winner. We have much pleasure in advising readers that the 2010 Martin Black award goes to Martin Mendez et al for their paper investigating the automatic screening of obstructive sleep apnea. Automatic screening of obstructive sleep apnea from the ECG based on empirical mode decomposition and wavelet analysis Martin Mendez, Jeroen Corthout, Sabine Van Huffel, Matteo Matteucci, Thomas Penzel, Sergio Cerutti and Anna Maria Bianchi 2010 Physiol. Meas. 31 273–89 All of the shortlisted papers were of great merit, and the full top-6 is listed below (in alphabetical order). In 2011, we have already published many high quality papers that should make next year's award very competitive. We look forward to seeing the outstanding work that will be published by our authors during the rest of the year.Richard Bayford Editor-in-Chief Jon Ruffle Publisher References Edlow B L, Meeri N K , Durduran T, Zhou C, Putt M E, Yodh A G, Greenberg J H and Detre J A 2010 The effects of healthy aging on cerebral hemodynamic responses to posture change Physiol. Meas. 31 477–95Haar P J, Broaddus W C, Chen Z, Fatouros P P, Gillies G T and Corwin F D 2010 Quantification of convection-enhanced delivery to the ischemic brain Physiol. Meas. 31 1075–89Mendez M O, Corthout J, Van Huffel S, Matteucci M, Penzel T, Cerutti S and Bianchi A M 2010 Automatic screening of obstructive sleep apnea from the ECG based on empirical mode decomposition and wavelet analysis Physiol. Meas. 31 273–89Mintchev M P, Deneva M G, Aminkov B I, Fattouche M, Yadid-Pecht O and Bray R C 2010 Pilot study of temporary controllable gastric pseudobezoars for dynamic non-invasive gastric volume reduction Physiol. Meas. 31 131–44Stjerna S, Alatalo P, Mäki J and Vanhatalo S 2010 Evaluation of an easy, standardized and clinically practical method (SurePrep) for the preparation of electrode–skin contact in neurophysiological recordings Physiol. Meas. 31 889–901Zolgharni M, Griffiths H and Ledger P D 2010 Frequency-difference MIT imaging of cerebral haemorrhage with a hemispherical coil array: numerical modelling Physiol. Meas. 31 S111–25