Vicorob has secured a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The project, titled “Virtual Clinical Trials and Pre-clinical Experiments for Optimizing New Imaging and AI Algorithms in Breast Cancer,” aims to advance breast cancer screening techniques. Breast screening has had a significant impact in reducing…
Since the beginning of December VICOROB has three more professors in the group: Prof. Pere Ridao, Prof. Jordi Freixenet and Prof. Joan Martí. All three defended with brilliant presentations their opposition as full professors in the Computer Architecture and Technology Area of the Computer Architecture and Technology Department of the…
The project works to reduce the digital gap in the most complex schools that were generated during home confinement. It is an international project in which the Education and Technology research group (UdiGitalEdu) and the Pla de Salt school (Gironès) participate. The research was born out of an initiative that…
She came to VICOROB in the second year of the MAIA master. Now, at 32 years old, Liliana is in the 3rd year of her Ph.D. Her career started in Cali, Colombia, where she graduated as a biomedical engineer in 2014 from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente. Afterward, Liliana was working…
This year’s 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, was held from September 18th to 22nd 2022 in Singapore. It was the first time for MICCAI conference to be hosted in Southeast Asia. This year, Albert Clèrigues and Valeriia Abramova, two of VICOROB’s PhD…
Eduardo Ochoa is a 31-year-old Ph.D. student from El Salvador that is currently starting the third year of his doctoral studies at the Centre d’Investigacio en Robotica Submarina (CIRS) at VICOROB. Eduardo started his studies in El Salvador, where he graduated in Mechatronics Engineering at the Don Bosco University in 2014. In…
Els tallers de robòtica submarina, organitzats per l’Institut de Recerca en Visió per Computador i Robòtica, el departament d’Arquitectura i Tecnologia de Computadors, i l’Escola Politècnica Superior, consisteixen en la construcció d’un robot submarí teleoperat completament operatiu mitjançant la utilització de materials fàcilment accessibles i de baix cost, i la…
Understanding the marine ecosystem is key to monitoring, evaluating, and managing its functioning. To do this, the scientific community needs data. The PLOME project will obtain it with an underwater platform that will monitor the ecosystems of the seabed for extended periods. A scientific team led by the University…