IUIBS: Pathology and Medical Technology

Affiliated Research areas

• Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
• Systems and Communication Engineering
• Signal processing

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Radiomics
• Medical Simulation
• Visualization
• Medical image computing
• eHealth

Summary

- Pulmonary tuberculosis: Study of clínical, microbiological and genetic aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Medical Technology: Biomedical data computing and analysis. Health Information Systems Design of new biomedical sensing modalities Design of new image processing, understanding and visualization algorithms. Construction of anatomy and functional atlases. Development of surgical navigation systems and minimally invasive surgery Development of image guided therapy systems. Development of virtual surgical training systems. Translational research and development. Cooperation for development.
- Thoracic surgical pathology: Study of the surgical diseases of the thorax, specially the surgical treatment of hyperhidrosis and its secondary effects.
- In vitro human hair follicles cultivation: Study of hair growth in cell cultive medium. Clinical implications.
- Heart failure in elderly patients: Study of evolutive complications of cardiac insufficiency in elderly population.
- Prognostic factors of the surgical patient: Study of surgical complications of surgery for abdominal pathology, specially in neoplasic diseases.
- Infectious respiratory diseases and immunogenic bases: Immunological and genetic study of the pulmonary infectious diseases, specially acquiered community pneumonias.
- Epidemiology and genetics of allergic diseases: Genetic study of allergic diseases, specially the bronchial allergic asthma. Study under the epidemiological point of view in Canary Islands.