title: Introduction to the BIOMED 2014 feature issue.
abstract: The guest editors introduce a feature issue containing papers based on research presented at the BIOMED 2014 conference, held in Miami, FL, April 26-30, 2014.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Christoph K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Hitzenberger
authors.affiliation: Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Andersson-Engels
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Vadim
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Backman
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Boppart
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Hao F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: (000.1200) Announcements, awards, news, and organizational activities; (170.0170) Medical optics and biotechnology