Browsing Programa de Doctorat en Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions by Title

Hemodynamic modeling of cerebral aneurysms

Geers, Adrianus Johannes (Date of defense: 2015-01-12)

Cerebral aneurysms are localized, pathological dilatations of cerebral arteries. Their rupture causes a subarachnoid hemorrhage and is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Over the last decade, the ...

How do infants represent others?: biases towards native language and rational agents

Colomer Canyelles, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)

Much of the information infants acquire they learn it by observing and interacting with others. However, not all individuals provide information that is functionally and/or culturally relevant. Infants’ capacity of identifying ...

Human-centered learning design with technology

Garreta Domingo, Muriel (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)

To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in all stages of the ...

Human-centered machine learning for music emotion recognition

Gómez Cañón, Juan sebastián (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)

This doctoral thesis is focused on music in terms of emotion -- such algorithms compose the computational task of music emotion recognition (MER). MER evaluates emotionally relevant features from music, correlates them ...

Human-computer interaction with older people

Sayago Barrantes, Sergio (Date of defense: 2009-07-24)

L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es centra en factors ...

Identification of versions of the same musical composition by processing audio descriptions

Serrà Julià, Joan (Date of defense: 2011-02-23)

This work focuses on the automatic identification of musical piece versions (alternate renditions of the same musical composition like cover songs, live recordings, remixes, etc.). In particular, we propose two core ...

Image analysis and deep learning to support endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

López-Linares, Karen (Date of defense: 2019-06-11)

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a focal dilation of the aorta that may lead to its rupture. The most common treatment for AAAs is endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). EVAR implies lifelong postoperative surveillance ...

Image based analysis and modeling of the detailed cardiac ventricular anatomy

Paun, Bruno (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)

The role of trabeculations and their normal morphological expression in the human heart is still unclear. Clinical studies have shown that excessive trabeculation can cause heart failure due to diastolic and systolic ...

Image processing algorithms as artistic tools in digital cinema

Zabaleta Razquin, Itziar (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)

The industry of cinema has experienced a radical change in the last decades: the transition from film cinematography to its digital format. As a consequence, several challenges have appeared, but, at the same time, many ...

Image similarity for registration and manifold learning: application to brain analysis

Zimmer, Veronika Anne (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)

The aim of this thesis is to explore and develop measures for image comparison in two main areas of medical image analysis: image registration and manifold learning for population analysis. In particular, the main contributions ...

Improvements to incentives in incentive-driven blockchain technologies

McMenamin, Conor (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

In this thesis, we present a set of protocols in areas at the core of current blockchain technology literature; consensus, decentralized finance and distributed computing. These areas are bound by a critical dependency ...

Improving sound retrieval in large collaborative collections

Favory, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)

Capturing sounds on a recording medium to enable their preservation and reproduction started to be possible during the industrial revolution of the 19th century, originally achieved through mechanic and acoustic devices, ...

In-depth exploration of the syntactic capabilities of autoencoding language models for downstream applications

Pérez-Mayos, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-06-15)

Pretrained Transformer-based language models have quickly replaced traditional approaches to model NLP tasks, pushing the state of the art to new levels, and will certainly continue to be very influential in the years ...

Incorporating prosody into neural speech processing pipelines: applications on automatic speech transcription and spoken language machine translation

Öktem, Alp (Date of defense: 2019-02-25)

In this dissertation, I study the inclusion of prosody into two applications that involve speech understanding:~automatic speech transcription and spoken language translation. In the former case, I propose a method that ...

Individual traits versus invariances of cognitive functions: a model-based study of brain connectivity

Pallarés Picazo, Vicente (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)

Es conocido en la literatura de neuroimagen que las redes cerebrales funcionales reflejan rasgos personales. Estas características individuales, podrían interferir al caracterizar la cognición entendida como la manera en ...

Information fusion and learning from diverse clinical cohorts and heterogeneus data

Martí Castellote, Pablo-Miki (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)

This PhD thesis explores how data science can be leveraged to learn from diverse cohorts and fuse information from heterogeneous data, aiming to advance understanding and improve prediction in healthcare settings. It covers ...

Information processing in the cortex: the relevance of coherent oscillations for neuronal communication

Buehlmann, Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-07-20)

Les oscil·lacions d'activitat neuronal són un fenomen omnipresent a l'escorça cerebral. La funció d'aquestes oscil·lacions, però, no està clara. ¿Són només un epifenomen de les elevades taxes de descàrrega de potencials ...

Information propagation in the cortex across the sleep-wake cycle: a computational study

Razi, Farhad (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)

During the deep phases of sleep we do not normally wake up by a thunder, but we nevertheless notice it when awake. The exact same sound gets to our ears and cortex through the thalamus and still, it triggers two very ...

Information representation and processing in neuronal networks: from biological to artificial systems and from first to second-order statistics

Lawrie, Sofía (Date of defense: 2022-03-28)

Neuronal networks are today hypothesized to the basis for the computing capabilities of biological nervous systems. In the same manner, artificial neuronal systems are intensively exploited for a diversity of industrial ...

Interaction and participation in collaborative storytelling systems

Colás Álvarez, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)

Storytelling is one of the oldest models of cultural expression in human history. Thanks to the evolution of information technologies, the Web 2.0 paradigm has impacted in this field: some modern audiences actively participate ...