Mexico City, February 2, 2024.- From November 14 to 16, 2023, the Universidad Panamericana, campus Mexico, hosted the nineteenth edition of the International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis of Medical Information. Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM 2023).
The event, which was attended by more than 92 people from 11 different countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States), brought together experts, researchers and students from the area of Biomedical Engineering in the following disciplines: Medical and Biomedical Imaging, E-Health, Digital Pathology, Gait Analysis and Biosignals, Representation Based Biosignal Analysis and Analysis of Medical Procedures Through Imaging.
On this occasion, researchers, professors, students, and members of the research group in Intelligence and Computational Vision (INVICO-UP) of the Faculty of Engineering were part of the organizing committee, these are:
- Jorge Brieva(General Chair).
- Ernesto Moya-Albor(Program Chair).
- Hiram Ponce(Technical Events Chair).
- Félix Martínez(Social Media Chair).
- Mariana Villanueva(Social Events Chair).
- Orlando Yael Rivas Scott(staff).
- Student Carlos Alberto López Figueroa(staff).
- Student Andres Emiliano Escobedo Gordillo(staff)
- Student Andrés Gabriel Romero Arellano(staff)
Dr. Jorge Brieva, Dr. Ernesto Moya-Albor, and Dr. Hiram Ponce, tenured researchers D of the School of Engineering and members of the INVICO-UP group, were part of the SIPAIM 2023 Scientific Committee. In addition, Dr. Brieva, Dr. Moya-Albor and Dr. Felix Martinez, tenured researcher C, participated as moderators in the presentation of papers.
Internationally renowned researchers
The inauguration of SIPAIM 2023 was attended by members of the Steering Committee of the SIPAIM Foundation, Dr. Claudia Fabiola Ortega Barba, Director of Research at the Panamericana campus Mexico; Dr. Alejandro Ordóñez Torres, Director of the School of Engineering and Dr. Jorge Brieva Rico, General President of the SIPAIM 2023 Organizing Committee, as well as a member of the Steering Committee of the SIPAIM Foundation.
On this occasion, four keynote lectures were given by renowned international researchers such as Dr. Celia Cintas, Ph. Celia Cintas (IBM Research Africa), Dr. Christopher Woods (National Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, UNAM), Dr. Mariam Aboian (Yale School of Medicine, USA) and Dr. Alejandro López (Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC).
In addition, two special industry liaison sessions were held and 64 oral presentations of research articles, divided into 12 sessions during the three days, were made, which will be indexed in Scopus y IEEE Xploreand eight posters of work in progress were presented.
UP Presence
Panamericana was represented through its researchers and students, who presented seven research papers and two posters of preliminary work in the following sessions Global Health, Representation based Biosignal Analysis, Biosignals, Heart and Lung, and Body Imaging. and Body Imaging.
On the one hand, the student and research fellow Andrés Escobedo-Gordillo (Mechatronics and Information Technology Engineering) presented the work sEMG Based Hand Gesture Recognition for Rehabilitation Prosthetics Based on Machine Learning Methodsdeveloped by Mechatronics Engineering students Miguel Sepúlveda, Jesús Villa, Ximena Villanueva, Sebastián García-Casas and Fernando Díaz, under the tutelage and in co-authorship with researchers Dr. Brieva, Dr. Moya-Albor and Dr. Ponce.
On the other hand, Dr. Moya-Albor presented the paper A Hermite Transform based Method for Physiological Signal Watermarkingin collaboration with Dr. Brieva, Dr. Sandra L. Gomez-Coronel (IPN), Dr. Miguel Ángel Gil-Ríos (UTL), Dr. Iván Cruz (CIMAT) and Dr. Claire Chalopin (FHNW, Germany). In addition, from this same collaboration between the authors, Dr. Iván Cruz presented the work Classification of Coronary Stenosis using a Support Vector Machine with Automatic Parameter Tuning.
In another paper, Andres Escobedo-Gordillo (Mechatronics Engineering and Information Technology Engineering) presented the work A Non-Contact Oxygen Saturation Estimation using Video Magnification and a Deep Learning Methodunder the direction of Dr. Jorge Brieva and co-authored with Dr. Ernesto Moya-Albor and Dr. Hiram Ponce.
High-value research
Andrés Gabriel Romero Arellano, research fellow and student of the Specialty in Graphics Simulators, presented the research article A Photoplethysmography Signal Encryption Approach Based on the Modular Derivative and Langton's Antunder the direction of Moya-Albor and co-authored with Brieva, student Alexia E. Pérez-Echeverría (Graphic Simulators Major) and Dr. L. Gomez-Coronel.
Dr. Roberto González Ojeda, research professor of the School of Engineering, presented the work In Vivo Human Vertebra Image Reconstruction and Mechanical Simulation co-authored with Alfredo González Ruíz, from the same faculty; Dr. Armando Ortiz Prado and Dr. Ismeli Alfonso López, both from UNAM.
Afterwards, the student Luis Alejandro Guillén Alvarez (Data Intelligence Engineer) presented the research work A Transfer Learning Applied for Malaria Disease Detection on Blood Smear Images in co-authorship and under the direction of Dr. Félix Martínez.
In the poster session, student and research scholar Carlos Alberto López Figueroa (Information Technology Engineering) presented Study on the Effect of Watermarking in Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy using a Deep Learning Strategyunder the direction of Dr. Moya-Albor and Dr. Brieva, and co-authored with Dr. Gomez-Coronel (IPN).
On the other hand, Mtro. Orlando Yael Rivas Scott, Professor of Subject and alumni of the Faculty of Engineering, presented the poster Contactless Monitoring of Respiratory Rate in Neonates in Intensive Care Unit using Computer Visionunder the direction of Dr. Jorge Brieva and co-authored with Dr. Ernesto Moya-Albor.
Events like this are undoubtedly a sign of the academic prestige of the School of Engineering of our Universidad Panamericana. Learn more about the educational offerings of this faculty at: https://www.up.edu.mx/educacion-universidad-facultad-de-ingenieria/
