Introduction

摘要

In 2001, the SPIE conference (#4335) on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems brought engineers, materials scientists, medical doctors, and biologists together to exchange their ideas on this important topic. After having a positive experience at that conference, annual conferences were organized on the same topic. The proceedings of conference 9805 contains papers presented at the 2016 conference. Papers presented in the earlier conferences can be found in the following proceedings volumes: #4335 (2001), #4702 (2002), #5047 (2003), #5394 (2004), #5768 (2005), #6177 (2006), #6532 (2007), #6935 (2008), #7295 (2009), #7650 (2010), #7984 (2011), #8348 (2012), #8695(2013), #9064(2014) and #9438 (2015).