Análisis de la actividad muscular respiratoria mediante técnicas temporales,frecuenciales y estadísticas 

    Mañanas Villanueva, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 1999-11-08)

    La enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) es la enfermedad crónica de los pulmones más común representando una causa importante de incapacidad y de muerte. La actividad respiratoria está definida en gran medida por ...

    Breathing pattern characterization in patients with respiratory and cardiac failure 

    Garde Martínez, Ainara (Date of defense: 2010-07-21)

    El objetivo principal de la tesis es estudiar los patrones respiratorios de pacientes en proceso de extubación y pacientes con insuficiencia cardiaca crónica (CHF), a partirde la señal de flujo respiratorio. La información ...

    Color Constancy and Image Segmentation Techniques for Applications to Mobile Robotics 

    Vergés Llahí, Jaume (Date of defense: 2005-07-27)

    Aquesta Tesi que pretén proporcionar un conjunt de tècniques per enfrontar-se al problema que suposa la variació del color en les imatges preses des d'una plataforma mòbil per causa del canvi en les condicions d'il·luminació ...

    Development of devices and techniques for electroporation and electrical impedance spectroscopy analysis of adherent cells 

    García Sánchez, Tomás (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)

    The present PhD dissertation is focused on the design and implementation of a microelectrode system capable of performing electroporation and electrical impedance measurements to adherent cell monolayers cultured in standard ...

    Development of nonlinear techniques based on time-frequency representation and information theory for the analysis of EEG signals to assess different states of consciousness 

    Melia, Umberto (Date of defense: 2014-12-03)

    Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings provide insight into the changes in brain activity associated with various states of anesthesia, epilepsy, brain attentiveness, sleep disorders, brain disorders, etc. EEG's are complex ...

    Evaluación no invasiva de la función muscular respiratoria mediante el análisis de la señal mecanomiográfica en pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica 

    Sarlabous Uranga, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2013-10-22)

    El estudio y evaluación de la función muscular respiratoria en enfermedades respiratorias a través de técnicas no invasivas representa un tema de gran interés, dado que hasta la fecha no existen métodos satisfactorios ...

    Human activity recognition using a wearable camera 

    Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)

    Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust multiple motion features ...

    Identification, synchronisation and composition of user-generated videos 

    Bano, Sophia (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)

    The increasing availability of smartphones is facilitating people to capture videos of their experience when attending events such as concerts, sports competitions and public rallies. Smartphones are equipped with inertial ...

    Improvements in the registration of multimodal medical imaging : application to intensity inhomogeneity and partial volume corrections 

    Jiménez González, Xavier (Date of defense: 2016-12-23)

    Alignment or registration of medical images has a relevant role on clinical diagnostic and treatment decisions as well as in research settings. With the advent of new technologies for multimodal imaging, robust registration ...

    Invasive and non-invasive assessment of upper airway obstruction and respiratory effort with nasal airflow and esophageal pressure analysis during sleep 

    Morgenstern de Muller, Christian Rudolf (Date of defense: 2010-02-25)

    La estimación del esfuerzo respiratorio durante el sueño es de una importancia crítica para la identificación correcta de eventos respiratorios en los trastornos respiratorios del sueño (TRS), el diagnóstico correcto de ...

    Methods and models in signal processing for gait analysis using waist-worn accelerometer : a contribution to Parkinson’s disease 

    Sayeed, Taufique (Date of defense: 2015-07-16)

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that predominantly alters patients' motor performance and compromises the speed, the automaticity and fluidity of natural movements. After some years, patients fluctuate ...

    Methods for noninvasive localization of focal epileptic activity with magnetoencephalography 

    Migliorelli, Carolina (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)

    Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a noninvasive brain signal acquisition technique that provides excellent temporal resolution and a whole-head coverage allowing the spatial mapping of sources. These characteristics make MEG ...

    Microchannel enhanced neuron-computer interface: design, fabrication, biophysics of signal generation, signal strength optimization, and its applications to ion-channel screening and basic neuroscience research 

    Wang, Ling (Date of defense: 2011-12-15)

    En el presente trabajo, utilizamos técnicas de microfabricación, simulaciones numéricas, experimentos de electrofisiología para explorar la viabilidad en me- jorar la interface ordenador-neurona a través de microcanales, ...

    Multiscale image analysis of calcium dynamics in cardiac myocytes 

    Vallmitjana Lees, Alexander (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)

    Cardiac myocytes constitute a unique physiological system. They are the muscle cells that build up heart tissue and provide the force to pump blood by synchronously contracting at every beat. This contraction is regulated ...

    Reducción de artefactos en señales electroencefalográficas mediante nuevas técnicas de filtrado automático basadas en separación ciega de fuentes. 

    Romero Lafuente, Sergio (Date of defense: 2010-06-21)

    El análisis cuantitativo y la interpretación de las señales electroencefalográficas (EEG) permiten la comprensión de la función cerebral, ayudando al diagnóstico de estados disfuncionales. Sin embargo, es conocido que ...

    Valoración de la respuesta tisular tras a pancreatotomía media realizada con un dispositivo asistido por radiofrecuencia 

    Quesada Diez, Rita (Date of defense: 2014-12-10)

    The current approach to managing the distal pancreas after pancreaticoduodenectomy is to anastomose the stump to either the jejunum or the stomach. However, occlusion of the main pancreatic duct (usually sutured, ligated ...