BIP | Biomedical Image Processing Group |

Neuromuscular diseases diagnosis through computerized image analysis

Scope A very important clue for the diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases is the histological characterization of biopsy samples. However, the morphological analyses of muscle biopsies are mostly subjective and hard to...

Computer-assisted detection/diagnosis of melanocytic skin patterns in dermatoscopic images

Scope In collaboration with the Dermatology Unit of Virgen del Rocío University Hospitals and Bajo Guadalquivir Hospitals we aim at developing detection systems for dermatoscopic images of melanocytic lesions that can...

Fat/muscle/bone segmentation of CT images for plastic surgery planning

Scope As the main bottleneck in virtual reality surgical planning systems is the delineation of the tissues of interest, automated segmentation approaches become a key factor for the feasibility of such systems. In this...

Analysis of retinographies to help diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy

Scope The diabetic retinopathy is a common disease among diabetes patients that can cause blindness. In fact, it is the most frequent cause of blindness and vision loss in the working population of the Western world. Early...

Burn depth determination from photographic images

Scope A correct first treatment is essential for a favorable evolution of a burn injury. To develop an appropriate course of treatment, it is necessary to know the depth of the burn: correct visual assessment of burn depth...

Segmentation of color–textured images

Scope Until a few years ago, segmentation techniques were proposed mainly for grey level images since for a long time these have been the only kind of visual information that acquisition devices were able to take and...

Surgical planning tool for intervention in patients with facial lipodystrophy

Scope The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) has become a chronic disease in recent years thanks to the development of powerful new drugs, allowing patients to develop an almost normal life. However, one of the side...

Analysis of retinographies to help diagnosis of glaucoma

Scope Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, and its incidence rate is expected to increase because of the aging population, affecting approximately 80 million people in 2020. Once loss of a visual...

Detection of microcalcifications in mammograms

Scope Mammography has been shown to be the most effective imaging modality for the early detection of breast cancer; it has been shown that when mammograms are independently read by two radiologists (double reading), an...

Segmentation of abdominal organs and tumors

Scope When surgical planning with a software tool, the problem of tissue with diffuse edges segmentation is very often faced. That is the case when physicians try to segment soft abdominal tissues. This problem is coped in...

Implementation and Simulation of Bioinspired Processing Systems using the AER protocol for event transmission and communication

Scope The main barrier that researchers face when trying to mimic the bio-inspired systems is the massive connectivity present in the biological like systems. In today technologies it is plausible to fabricate on a single...