Plenary Lecture 4
Applying Image Processing Techniques for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor Carlos M. Travieso-Gonzalez
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN.
E-mail: carlos.travieso@ulpgc.es
Abstract: The use of image processing methods is a useful tool in order to extract information from persons for different application. In particular, soft biometrics application can be applied to detect race, age, gender, expression, etc. In this case, I have used that information to extract the grade of emotions. It can be an important and interesting indicator for medical doctors, and to have more diagnostic evidences about a decision or criterion in neurodegenerative diseases. There is to difference the concept of expression and the grade of expression or arousal. For this kind of diseases, the important concept is the grade of expression because it says if the person loses or not that grade, with independence of the valence, positive or negative. The neurodegenerative disease is present on the arousal. This kind of studies can represent new paradigms for the medicine and in great input from the technology field. The adding value of this kind of proposal is its low cost and easy use
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Carlos M. Travieso-González received the M.Sc. degree in 1997 in Telecommunication Engineering at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; and Ph.D. degree in 2002 at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain). He is Full Professor and Head of Signals and Communications Department at ULPGC. He belongs to ULPGC from 2001, teaching subjects on signal processing, pattern recognition and learning theory. His research lines are biometrics, biomedical signals and images, data mining, classification system, signal and image processing, machine learning, and environmental intelligence. He has researched in more than 50 International and Spanish Research Projects, some of them as head researcher. He is co-author of 4 books, co-editor of 23 Proceedings Book, Guest Editor for eight JCR-ISI international journals and up to 24 book chapters. He has over 440 papers published in international journals and conferences (71 of them indexed on JCR – ISI - Web of Science). He has published 7 patents in Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. He has been supervisor on 8 PhD Thesis (10 more are under supervision), and 130 Master Thesis. He is founder of The IEEE IWOBI conference series and President of its Steering Committee, of The InnoEducaTIC conference series; and of The APPIS conference series. He is evaluator of project proposals for European Union (H2020), Medical Research Council (MRC – UK), Spanish Government (ANECA), Research National Agency (ANR – France), DAAD (Germany), Argentinian Government and Colombian Institutions. He has been reviewer in different indexed international journals (<70) and conferences (<220) since 2001. He is member of IASTED Technical Committee on Image Processing from 2007 and member of IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems from 2011. He will be APPIS 2020 General Chair and IEEE-IWOBI 2020, and was APPIS 2019 General Chair and IEEE-IWOBI 2019, IEEE-IWOBI 2018 General Chair, APPIS 2018 General Chair, InnoEducaTIC 2017 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2017 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2015 General Chair, InnoEducaTIC 2014 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2014 General Chair, IEEE-INES 2013 General Chair, NoLISP 2011 General Chair, JRBP 2012 General Chair and IEEE-ICCST 2005 Co-Chair. He is Associate Editor on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience journal (Hindawi – Q2 JCR-ISI) and Entropy (MDPI – Q2 JCR-ISI). He was Vice-Dean from 2004 to 2010 in Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers in ULPGC; and Vice-Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies from March 2013 to November 2017