The scope of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) is the Field of Interest of the IEEE Signal Processing Society: “The theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices or techniques. The term “signal” includes audio, video, speech, image, communication, geophysical, sonar, radar, medical, musical, and other signals.” The format of the journal allows the exploration, in depth, of a signal processing topic by providing a tutorial article supported by several briefer articles in the topical area that provides the broadest possible examination of the topic considering the submissions. This format allows the Society to not only provide review issues on more mature signal processing topical areas, but also to explore new areas, particularly those at the nexus of other engineering disciplines that are dependent upon signal processing (e.g., biomedical engineering; language), as well as those not traditionally part of the engineering landscape (e.g., genetics; security; atmospheric prediction).

《IEEE信號處理選擇主題期刊》(JSTSP)的范圍是IEEE信號處理學會感興趣的領域：“通過數字或模擬設備或技術對信號進行濾波、編碼、傳輸、估計、檢測、分析、識別、合成、記錄和再現的理論和應用。“信號”一詞包括音頻、視頻、語音、圖像、通信、地球物理、聲納、雷達、醫學、音樂和其他信號。“該期刊的格式允許深入探索信號處理主題，它提供了一篇教程文章，由該主題領域的幾篇更簡短的文章支持，提供了考慮到提交的主題的盡可能廣泛的檢查。”這種形式使社會不僅可以提供關于更成熟的信號處理熱門領域的評論問題，而且還可以探索新的領域，特別是那些與依賴于信號處理的其他工程學科(例如，生物醫學工程；以及那些傳統上不屬于工程領域的領域(例如，遺傳學；安全；大氣預測)。