• Fetal and neonatal hemodynamic assessment of aortic coarctation - imaging and computational modelling

  Calvet Mirabent, Àngels (2019)

  Aortic Coarctation (AoC) is one of the most difficult cardiac defects to diagnose before birth, occurring in 5-7% of congenital heart diseases. It consists of a narrowing of the distal aortic arch causing a decrease of ...
• Business model of an app to control the arterial hypertension

  Coll Pérez, Núria (2017-10-10)

  In this final project, a business model of a mobile application that helps to control the arterial hypertension (a chronic disease that unfortunately affects between 16 % and 37 % of the world population) is presented ...
• Design of a 3D printed surgical guide to assist bone graft surgical interventions

  Puig Sallés, Joan (2017-10-10)

  3D printing seems to be the tool that will lead personalize medicine in the near future; combined with the potential of medical imaging, now it is possible to use the images of each patient to create 3D specific printed ...
• Automatic scar segmentation on late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance images of patients with Tetralogy of Fallot

  Ros Freixedes, Laura (2017-10-10)

  Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease, and one of the first to be successfully repaired by congenital heart surgeons. Even though the long-term outcome is favourable in ...
• Evaluating signal analysis results with machine learning algorithms: Application to electroencephalogram of epilepsy patients

  Montano Hernández, María (2017-10-10)

  Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects 50 million people worldwide. Some of these patients are pharmacoresistant and continue to suffer from seizures even under antiepileptic drugs treatment. For these patients, ...
• Mobility for the severely disabled: a head-controlled wheelchair

  Torrente Martí, Guillem (2017-10-10)

  Today, there are approximately 75 million wheelchair users worldwide. From this collective, there is a percentage of people, the severely disabled, whose motor capabilities below the neck are damaged, and despite the ...
• Economic decision making in primate anterior cingulate cortex- behavioral and electrophysiological study

  Andreu Guarro, Meritxell (2017-10-10)

  Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is related to cognitive function and seems to have an important role in decision-making. After training, rhesus macaques can serve as a good model to study choice behaviour. During ...
• Understanding the role of signaling in pattern formation in mouse embryonic organoids

  Bercowsky Rama, Arianne (2017-10-10)

  Small aggregates of 300-500 mouse embryonic stem cells are able to self-organize into polarized structures that exhibit collective behavior that mirrors those observed in early mouse embryos. This includes symmetry breaking, ...
• Place cells: From theory to analysis

  Tomàs Cuesta, David (2017-10-10)

  The study of Place Cells, hippocampal neurons tuned to spatial locations in the environment, is central to elucidate how the brain encodes and retrieves spatial information. Advances in genetic and imaging technologies ...
• Assessing electroencephalographicrecordings for epilepsy patients at differentscales of spatial resolution

  Grau Granada, Andrea (2017-03-31)

  The characterization of neuronal activity is challenging due to the intrinsic complexity of The brain and its dynamics. It is important to understand the activity in brain functions and also in brain diseases. Epilepsy ...
• Assessment of bone regeneration with calcium phosphate-based biomaterials in an osteonecrosis animal model

  Martí i Simó, Albert (2017-03-31)

  Osteonecrosis of the femoral is a musculoskeletal disorder that has been described as a loss of subchondral bone integrity caused by an irreversible loss of osteocytes. Although there exist several pathogenic mechanisms ...
• Tracing The Brain Space: Methods For The Study Of Epileptogenic Networks

  Sisó Ribes, Genís (2017-03-31)

  Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disease, imposing an important toll in terms of mortality and morbidity, especially among young subjects. A third of epileptic patients do not fully respond to anticonvulsants ...
• Multiscale analysis of the hip joint: from body motion to cartilage stresses

  Baucells Costa, Alejandro (2017-03-30)

  Introduction: Hip osteoarthritis is a pathology related to hip-cartilage degeneration. Although the etiology of this disease is not well defined, it is known that age is a determinant risk factor. However, hip arthritis ...
• Multiscale tubular features and representation

  Font Calvarons, Adrià (2017-03-30)

  This project aims at building an automatic vessel segmentation pipeline to be used in medical images. Such a goal is shared by many disciplines within medicine, facing considerable amounts of images containing tubular ...
• A new clinical tool for the quantification of myocardial CT perfusion imaging in patients with suspected Ischemic Heart Disease

  Ruiz Muñoz, Aroa (2017-03-22)

  The standard assessment of myocardial perfusion has several limitations since it is mainly based on its relative distribution. In the clinical practice, the evaluation of perfusion by using Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging ...
• Development of an ultrasound-based indoor localization system for hospital use

  Macià Muñoz, Glòria (2017-03-22)

  Nowadays, healthcare professionals face many challenges providing care while managing expenses. The capability to track the location of patients and medical equipment in real time and over time gives the hospital the ability ...
• Intracranial EEG analysis during spatial memory tasks: the role of high frequency oscillations

  Triay Bagur, Alexandre (2017-03-22)

  Historically, declarative memory has been indirectly studied using spatial navigation experiments in rodents. Theories of hippocampal function expanded with the discovery of neural ensembles (place cells, grid cells) able ...
• New Tool for Acquiring Tacit Knowledge in Healthcare

  Parcerisas Albés, Adrià (2016-02-24)

  Over the last ten years, knowledge management (KM) has penetrated increasingly in organisational and management processes in healthcare as a concept and a set of good practices in order to systematically identify, capture ...
• Bacteriophage-based synthetic biology

  Vidiella Rocamora, Blai (2015-12-14)

  The biology is complex and there is a sort of organisms that interacts worldwide. In that big system, there are the viruses, organisms that are not “alive” while they are out of the host organism. When viruses enter inside ...
• Analysis of gene expression in stem cells: FOXO transcription factors as master regulators of stemness

  Martín Martínez, Irene (2015-12-03)

  Nowadays, it exist the necessity to understand the intrinsic mechanism that governs stem cells which constitutes a regeneration system. The expression of genes, transcription factors, microRNAs and pathways acting as a ...

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