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
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Retinal Biomarkers Discovery for Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in an Older Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52791-4_31
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
A Framework for Jointly Assessing and Reducing Imaging Artefacts Automatically Using Texture Analysis and Total Variation Optimisation for Improving Perivascular Spaces Quantification in Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52791-4_14
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Aging-sensitive networks within the human structural connectome are implicated in late-life cognitive declines.
In:
Biological Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.06.010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Examining the relationship between semiquantitative methods analysing concentration-time and enhancement-time curves from dynamic-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and cerebrovascular dysfunction in small vessel disease
(14 pages)
In:
Journal of Imaging , vol. 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging6060043
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Rationale and design of a longitudinal study of cerebral small vessel diseases, clinical and imaging outcomes in patients presenting with mild ischaemic stroke: Mild Stroke Study 3
In:
European Stroke Journal, pp. 239698732092961
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987320929617
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
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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