IEETA (www.ieeta.pt) is a research units of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The Institute has currently a full-time staff of 72 persons of which 47 are PhDs, developing their activities in four laboratories and three transverse activities, nurturing strong links with other research units of the University. IEETA was involved in the past in several EU projects in the area of health. It was recently the coordinator of TEAM-HOS (IST-11567) and INFOGENMED (IST-2001-39013) projects, and member of the INFOBIOMED network of excellence (IST2002-507585). Besides EU funded projects IEETA is also leading several research and development projects and technology transfer projects funded by the Portuguese Agency of Research. On-going general research and development (R&D) efforts focus on: signal and image processing; information systems; computer systems, electronics and robotics; bioinformatics; tomography and epilepsy.