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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Deep attention super-resolution of brain magnetic resonance images acquired under clinical protocols
In:
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, vol. 16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2022.887633
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Topological relationships between perivascular spaces and progression of white matter hyperintensities: A pilot study in a sample of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
In:
Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.889884
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Epigenetic and integrative cross-omics analyses of cerebral white matter hyperintensities on MRI
In:
Brain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac290
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Assessment of perivascular space filtering methods using a three-dimensional computational model
In:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 93, pp. 33-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2022.07.016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Coupling cognitive and brainstem dysfunction in multiple sclerosis-related chronic neuropathic limb pain.
In:
Brain Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac124
Research output: 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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