Dr Maria Valdes Hernandez (Fellow of the High Education Academy)
Row Fogo Lecturer in Medical Image Analysis
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Edinburgh Imaging
Contact details
- Email: M.Valdes-Hernan@ed.ac.uk
Research activities
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Polygenic architecture of human neuroanatomical diversity
In:
Cerebral Cortex
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Structural neuroimaging differentiates vulnerability from disease manifestation in colombian families with Huntington’s disease
In:
Brain and Behavior
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1343
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Brain peak width of skeletonised mean diffusivity (PSMD) and cognitive function in later life
In:
Frontiers in psychiatry, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00524
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Spatial Gradient of Microstructural Changes in Normal-Appearing White Matter in Tracts Affected by White Matter Hyperintensities in Older Age
In:
Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00784
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Sleep and brain morphological changes in the eighth decade of life
In:
Sleep medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2019.07.015
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
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
Personal skills
- Honest, objective, direct and transparent
- Unbiased and reliable as does not have affiliation or financial interests with any commercial organisation, consortia or institution outside The University of Edinburgh
- Track record of high productivity, commitment and quality output
- Highly innovative, communicative and enthusiast
Personal statement
“My experience does not come from my academic qualifications and achievements: it is the result of my many mistakes and countless hours doing donkey work. My strength is not to see what nobody else has seen, but to think what nobody else have thought about the things that everybody sees”.
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