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Dr. Maria Valdes Hernandez

  • Lecturer in Medical Image Analysis

Organisation Associations

School of Regeneration and Repair
School of Population Health Sciences
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Edinburgh Neuroscience
Edinburgh Imaging
Small Vessel Disease Research
School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences

Research in a nutshell

Areas of Expertise:

  • Image processing, analysis and integration with meta-data from/for large multicentre longitudinal clinical studies
  • Streamlining image processing where confidentiality of the data is necessary
  • Image processing for large scale multicentre studies
  • Medical image processing and analysis in the presence of inhomogeneities and with low quality in the acquisition
  • Set-up of image processing and analysis pipelines
  • Set-up and management of projects that involve image processing and integration with associated meta-data
  • Application of state-of-art computational algorithms to practical problems that involve image processing
  • Streamlining multidimensional signal analyses
  • Systematic review of technical literature
  • Large data synthesis
  • Set-up image processing and analysis management systems
  • Automatic assessment of image features with clinical relevance

Consultancy services:

  • Set-up medical image processing and analysis pipelines
  • Implementation of state-of-art image processing algorithms
  • Systematic review of technical literature
  • Set-up image processing and analysis management systems
  • Professional evaluation of image processing algorithms
  • Application of computational algorithms to image data analysis
  • Professional advice on areas of expertise related above
  • Supervision and project management on areas of expertise related above
  • Teaching and couching on areas of expertise related above

Full research profile, including publications