Saturnino Luz
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- Usher Institute
- Edinburgh Medical School: Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
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9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Dr Luz works in medical informatics, devising and applying machine learning, signal processing, natural language processing and dimensionality reduction methods in the study of behaviour and communication in healthcare contexts. His main research interest is the computational modelling of behavioural and biological changes caused by neurodegenerative diseases, with focus the analysis of vocal and linguistic signals in Alzheimers's disease. He has also employed these methods in the investigation of interaction in multidisciplinary medical team meetings, doctor-patient consultations, telemedicine and health promotion. Dr Luz leads the Technology and Communication Research Group at the Centre for Dementia Prevention, and a team of researchers working on the Horizon 2020 project SAAM.
Postgraduate teaching
Saturnino is currently recruiting a PhD student and interested to hear from those considering a PhD in any areas relevant to his research.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Sofia de la Fuente Garcia: "Human-Robot Interaction for Dementia Prevention and Research with a Focus on Cognitive Well-Being". MRC Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme.
- Pierre Albert: "Interaction Analytics for Automatic Assessment of Communication Quality in Primary Care", MRC Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme.
- Minhong Wang: Agent state based modelling of pattern formation in pluripotent stem cells
Project activity
- Supporting Active Ageing through Multimodal coaching (SSAM), EU Horizon 2020, Personalised Medicine; 2017-2020, €3,996,400. The SAAM project we focuses upon innovative, technology-enabled approaches to support the aging population living at home, with a novel and practical emphasis on ambient sensing and learning of user needs and preferences, and effective coaching by leveraging the user’s social support networks. Over three years, the project’s partners will develop and test new methods allowing Europe’s aging population to remain active, independent and longer in their homes.
- Interaction Analytics for Automatic Assessment of Communication Quality in Primary Care. Health Research Board, 2016-2019; €313,000. The INCA project investigates technological mechanisms for electronic gathering and automated analysis of physician-patient interaction during medical interviews. It applies state of the art technology in speech processing, text analytics and social signal processing, and investigate the impact of models through which comprehensive, data-intensive communication analysis could be conducted. This interaction analytics research will use routinely collected audio-visual data from consultations between patients and trainee general practitioners.
- Genealogies of Knowledge: Evolution and Contestation of Concepts across Time and Space. AHRC, 2016-2020, £796,000. This project explores how our understanding of central scientific and cultural concepts has evolved since they first emerged. The project draws on a specially constructed electronic corpus of translations and recensions of key texts, both in the humanities and the sciences (with specific emphasis on medicine). Dr Luz leads the Natural Language Processing and Text Visualisation work packages.
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Predicting sex, age, general cognition and mental health with machine learning on brain structural connectomes
(21 pages)
In:
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 44, pp. 1913-1933
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26182
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Multilingual Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech: a Signal Processing Grand Challenge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.05562
Research output: › Preprint (Published) -
An Automated Mood Diary for Older User’s using Ambient Assisted Living Recorded Speech
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Published) -
Exploring Environmental and Geographical Factors Influencing the Spread of Infectious Diseases with Interactive Maps
In:
Sustainability, vol. 14, pp. 9990
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14169990
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Task-based Quantitative Evaluation of the Concordance Mosaic Visualization
(7 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IV56949.2022.00028
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Corpus Summarization and Exploration using Multi-Mosaics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3531073.3534468
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Map-based Interfaces and Interactions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3531073.3535258
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Review 2: "The Acoustic Dissection of Cough: Diving into Machine Listening-based COVID-19 Analysis and Detection"
In:
Rapid Reviews: Infectious Diseases (RR\ID)
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Impact of clinical symptoms and diagnosis: the electronic Person-Specific Outcome Measure (ePSOM) development programme
In:
Journal of patient-reported outcomes, vol. 6, pp. 33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-022-00433-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
An Informatics-Based Approach for Sustainable Management of Factors Affecting the Spread of Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_5
Research output: › Chapter (Published)