Editorial.

The article presents editorial, published in the January 1, 2004 issue of the biomedical journal, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (T-BME). He is completing his third year of service as Editor in Chief of the T-BME. He is starting by highlighting some of the important achievements during the past year. The impact factor of T-BME for 2002 is 1.66, up from 1.56 in 2001. These gains in efficiency were predicated on the dedicated, knowledgeable, and hardworking group of associate editors, reviewers and office staff. The breadth of T-BME continues to grow, but most of the published papers come from modeling and signal processing.