Nicolás Vila Blanco
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Nicolás Vila Blanco

Google Scholar ID: W776a20AAAAJ
Lecturer in AI, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Computer VisionMedical Image ProcessingDeep LearningArtificial Intelligence
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Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - AGE-US: Automated Gestational Age Estimation Based on Fetal Ultrasound Images
  • - Efficient Multi-Modal Whole Heart Segmentation via Cascaded U-Net: A Practical Solution for Clinical Settings
  • - Randomised-crossover clinical trial on the substantivity of a single application of a gel containing chlorhexidine and o-cymen-5-ol on the oral biofilm and saliva
  • Projects:
  • - Identification of new molecular biomarkers with high diagnostic accuracy to detect untreated periodontitis and its response to treatment
  • - Randomized clinical trial on the antibacterial efficacy of a single application of a chlorhexidine and cymenol gel on dental plaque biofilm and saliva
  • - Detection of COVID19 disease and triage of patients with artificial intelligence learning from chest x-rays
  • - Development of an image processing library specific for X-ray imaging
Research Experience
  • Currently an assistant professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Education
  • PhD in Information Technology Research from the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Coruña, M.Sc. in Data Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Granada and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Vigo.
Background
  • Research work focuses on the area of medical image processing using Deep Learning techniques.