Saturnino Luz
Reader
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
- Edinburgh Medical School: Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
NINE
9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Dr Luz works in the field of medical informatics, focusing on communication and analysis of time-based modalities in healthcare settings.
He investigates inference in high-dimensional data sets, and has employed machine learning and signal processing methods in the analysis of multidisciplinary medical team meetings, doctor-patient consultations and telemedicine, and in tasks involving prediction and diagnosis of cognitive status with applications to dementia. Dr Luz leads the Translation Reseach Group on Technology and Communication at the Centre for Dementia Prevention.
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
Research activities
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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The successful uptake and sustainability of rapid infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance point-of-care testing requires a complex `mix-and-match' implementation package
In:
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03492-4
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Analysing patterns of right brain-hemisphere activity prior to speech articulation for identification of system-directed speech
In:
Speech Communication, vol. 107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2019.01.001
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Using artificial intelligence to assess clinicians' communication skills
In:
BMJ, vol. 364, pp. l161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l161
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
A Method for Analysis of Patient Speech in Dialogue for Dementia Detection
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
A comparison of linear and mosaic diagrams for set visualization
(14 pages)
In:
Information Visualization, pp. 1473871618754343
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871618754343
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Participant outcomes and preferences in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials : The electronic Person Specific Outcome Measure (ePSOM) development programme
In:
Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, vol. 4, pp. 694-702
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TRCI.2018.10.013
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Setting research priorities for global respiratory medicine within the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit in Respiratory Health (RESPIRE)
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 0201314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.08.020314
Contribution to journal › Review article (Published) -
An approach for exploring a video via multimodal feature extraction and user interactions
(12 pages)
In:
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-018-0268-0
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Automated classification of primary care patient safety incident report content and severity using supervised Machine Learning (ML) approaches
In:
Health Informatics Journal
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Perception changes with and without a video channel : A study from a speech-to-speech, machine translation mediated map task
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom.2017.8268279
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published)