Dr Alba Garcia Seco De Herrera
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872907
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Location
5B.538, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am a Lecturer at the School of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) at the University of Essex, I held a postdoctoral fellow at the National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health (NLM/NIH), USA. I received my doctorate degree in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2015. I received a Master's in Science in Telemedicine and Bioengineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2009 and a Diploma in Mathematics at the Complutense University in Madrid in 2008. My research interest lie primarily in the area of Computer Vision for Biomedical Imaging with a special focus on image retrieval and evaluation. I also cast the problem of image understanding as a cross-modality matching scenario in which visual content and textual information need to be combined.
Qualifications
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PhD Computer Science University of Geneva,
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M.S. Telemedicine and Bioengineering Technical University of Madrid,
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B.S.-M.S. Mathematics Complutense University of Madrid,
Appointments
Other academic
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Communicatios Eingineering Branch, United States National Library of Medicine (1/7/2015 - 30/6/2017)
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Research Assistant, Institute of Information Systems, HES-SO Valais-Wallis (15/3/2011 - 28/2/2019)
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Research Assistant, Division of Neuroimage, General Electric Healthcare (1/8/2010 - 31/1/2011)
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Research Assistant, Division of Neuroimage, CIEN Foundation (1/4/2010 - 31/7/2010)
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Research Assistant, Division of Applied Mathematics, King Juan Carlos University (1/1/2010 - 31/3/2010)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Team Project Challenge (CE101)
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Databases and Information Retrieval (CE205)
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Text Analytics (CE807)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (6)
Seco de Herrera, AG., Schaer, R. and Müller, H., (2017). Shangri-La: a medical case-based retrieval tool. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 68 (11), 2587-2601
Martinez-Gomez, J., Arias, J., Seco de Herrera, AG. and Müller, H., (2016). Medical image modality classification using discrete Bayesian Networks. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 151, 61-71
García Seco de Herrera, A., Schaer, R., Markonis, D. and Müller, H., (2015). Comparing Fusion Techniques for the ImageCLEF 2013 Medical Case Retrieval Task. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 39, 46–54-46–54
Kalpathy-Cramer, J., Seco de Herrera, AG., Demner-Fushman, D., Antani, S., Bedrick, S. and Müller, H., (2015). Evaluating performance of biomedical image retrieval systems - an overview of the medical image retrieval task at ImageCLEF 2004-2013. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 39, 55-61
Molina, V., Martín, C., Ballesteros, A., Seco de Herrera, AG. and Hernández-Tamames, JA., (2011). Optimized voxel brain morphometry: association between brain volumes and the response to atypical antipsychotics. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 261 (6), 407-416
Molina, V., Galindo, G., Cortés, B., García Seco de Herrera, A., Ledo, A., Sanz, J., Montes, C. and Hernández-Tamames, JA., (2010). Different Gray Matter Patterns in Chronic Schizophrenia and Chronic Bipolar Disorder Patientes Identified Using Voxel-Based Morphometry. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Book chapters (3)
Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Müller, H., (2015). Comprehensive Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback Using Multimedia Data. Springer
Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Müller, H., (2014). Meaningful bags of words for medical image classification and retrieval. In: Comprehensive Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback Using Multimedia Data. Springer
García Seco de Herrera, A. and Müller, H., (2014). Fusion Techniques in Biomedical Information Retrieval. In: Fusion in Computer Vision. Springer. 209- 228
Conferences (35)
Garcia, A., Long, LR. and Antani, S., Graph Representation for Content–based fMRI Activation Map Retrieval
Garcia, A., Eickhof, C., Andrearczyk, V. and Müller, H., (2018). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2018 Caption Prediction Tasks
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Villegas, M., García Seco de Herrera, A., Eickhoff, C., Andrearczyk, V., Dicente Cid, Y., Liauchuk, V., Kovalev, V., Hasan, SA., Ling, Y., Farri, O., Liu, J., Lungren, M., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Piras, L., Riegler, M., Zhou, L., Lux, M. and Gurrin, C., (2018). Overview of ImageCLEF 2018: Challenges, Datasets and Evaluation
Eickhoff, C., Schwall, I., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Müller, H., (2017). Overview of ImageCLEFcaption 2017 – Image Caption Prediction and Concept Detection for Biomedical Images
Ionescu, B., Müller, H., Villegas, M., Arenas, H., Boato, G., Dang-Nguyen, D-T., Dicente Cid, Y., Eickhoff, C., García Seco de Herrera, A., Gurrin, C., Islam, B., Kovalev, V., Liauchuk, V., Mothe, J., Piras, L., Riegler, M. and Schwall, I., (2017). Overview of ImageCLEF 2017: Information extraction from images
Abacha, AB., García Seco de Herrera, A., Wang, K., Long, LR., Antani, S. and Demner-Fushman, D., (2017). Named Entity Recognition in Functional Neuroimaging Literature
Abacha, AB., Seco De Herrera, AG., Gayen, S., Demner-Fushman, D. and Antani, S., (2017). NLM at ImageCLEF 2017 caption task
García Seco de Herrera, A., Long, LR. and Antani, S., (2016). Content–based fMRI Brain Maps Retrieval
García Seco de Herrera, A., Schaer, R., Antani, S. and Müller, H., (2016). Using Crowdsourcing for Multi-label Biomedical Compound Figure Annotation
García Seco de Herrera, A., Schaer, R., Bromuri, S. and Müller, H., (2016). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2016 Medical Task
Villegas, M., Müller, H., García Seco de Herrera, A., Schaer, R., Bromuri, S., Gilbert, A., Piras, L., Wang, J., Yan, F., Ramisa, A., Dellandrea, E., Gaizauskas, R., Mikolajczyk, K., Puigcerver, J., Toselli, AH., Sánchez, J-A. and Vidal, E., (2016). General Overview of ImageCLEF at the CLEF 2016 Labs
Villegas, M., Müller, H., Gilbert, A., Piras, L., Wang, J., Mikolajczyk, K., García Seco de Herrera, A., Bromuri, S., Amin, MA., Mohammed, AK., Acar, B., Uskudarli, S., Marvasti, NB., Aldana, JF. and del Mar Roldan Garcia, M., (2015). General Overview of ImageCLEF at the CLEF 2015 Labs
García Seco de Herrera, A., Markonis, D., Joyseeree, R., Schaer, R., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A. and Müller, H., (2015). Semi–Supervised Learning for Image Modality Classification
García Seco de Herrera, A., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A. and Müller, H., (2015). Medical case-based retrieval: integrating query MeSH terms for query-adaptive multi-modal fusion
García Seco de Herrera, A., Müller, H. and Bromuri, S., (2015). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2015 medical classification task
García Seco de Herrera, A., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., Schiavi, E. and Müller, H., (2014). 2D-Based 3D Volume Retrieval Using Singular Value Decomposition of Detected Regions
García Seco de Herrera, A., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., Markonis, D., Schaer, R. and Müller, H., (2014). Crowdsourcing for Medical Image Classification
Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Müller, H., (2013). Medical Image Retrieval using Bag of Meaningful Visual Words: Unsupervised visual vocabulary pruning with PLSA
García Seco de Herrera, A., Markonis, D. and Müller, H., (2013). Bag-of-Colors for Biomedical Document Image Classification
Aswani, N., Beckers, T., Birngruber, E., Boyer, C., Burner, A., Bystroň, J., Choukri, K., Cruchet, S., Cunningham, H., Dědek, J., Dolamic, L., Donner, R., Dungs, S., Eggel, I., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., Fuhr, N., Funk, A., García Seco de Herrera, A., Gaudinat, A., Georgiev, G., Gobeill, J., Goeuriot, L., Gómez, P., Greenwood, M., Gschwandtner, M., Hanbury, A., Hajič, J., Hlaváčová, J., Holzer, M., Jones, G., Jordan, B., Jordan, M., Kaderk, K., Kainberger, F., Kelly, L., Kriewel, S., Kritz, M., Langs, G., Lawson, N., Markonis, D., Martinez, I., Momtchev, V., Masselot, A., Mazo, H., Müller, H., Palotti, JA., Pecina, P., Pentchev, K., Peychev, D., Pletneva, N., Pottecherc, D., Roberts, A., Ruch, P., Sachs, A., Samwald, M., Schneller, P., Stefanov, V., Tinte, MA., Ure v sová, Z., Vargas, A. and Vishnyakova, D., (2013). Khresmoi – multilingual semantic search of medical text and images
Aswani, N., Beckers, T., Birngruber, E., Boyer, C., Burner, A., Bystroň, J., Choukri, K., Cruchet, S., Cunningham, H., Dědek, J., Dolamic, L., Donner, R., Dungs, S., Eggel, I., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., Fuhr, N., Funk, A., García Seco de Herrera, A., Gaudinat, A., Georgiev, G., Gobeill, J., Goeuriot, L., Gomez, P., Greenwood, M., Gschwandtner, M., Hanbury, A., Hajič, J., Hlaváčová, J., Holzer, M., Jones, G., Jordan, B., Jordan, M., Kaderk, K., Kainberger, F., Kelly, L., Kriewel, S., Kritz, M., Langs, G., Lawson, N., Markonis, D., Martinez, I., Momtchev, V., Masselot, A., Mazo, H., Müller, H., Palotti, JA., Pecina, P., Pentchev, K., Peychev, D., Pletneva, N., Pottecherc, D., Roberts, A., Ruch, P., Sachs, A., Samwald, M., Schneller, P., Stefanov, V., Tinte, MA., Ure v sová, Z., Vargas, A. and Vishnyakova, D., (2013). Khresmoi Professional: Multilingual Semantic Search for Medical Professionals
García Seco de Herrera, A., Kalpathy-Cramer, J., Demner-Fushman, D., Antani, S. and Müller, H., (2013). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2013 medical tasks
García Seco de Herrera, A., Markonis, D., Schaer, R., Eggel, I. and Müller, H., (2013). The medGIFT Group in ImageCLEFmed 2013
Aswani, N., Beckers, T., Birngruber, E., Boyer, C., Burner, A., Bystroň, J., Choukri, K., Cruchet, S., Cunningham, H., Dědek, J., Dolamic, L., Donner, R., Dungs, S., Eggel, I., Foncubierta-Rodríguez, A., Fuhr, N., Funk, A., García Seco de Herrera, A., Gaudinat, A., Georgiev, G., Gobeill, J., Goeuriot, L., Gómez, P., Greenwood, M., Gschwandtner, M., Hanbury, A., Hajič, J., Hlaváčová, J., Holzer, M., Jones, G., Jordan, B., Jordan, M., Kaderk, K., Kainberger, F., Kelly, L., Mriewel, S., Kritz, M., Langs, G., Lawson, N., Markonis, D., Martinez, I., Momtchev, V., Masselot, A., Mazo, H., Müller, H., Pecina, P., Pentchev, K., Peychev, D., Pletneva, N., Pottecherc, D., Roberts, A., Ruch, P., Samwald, M., Schneller, P., Stefanov, V., Tinte, MA., Ure v sová, Z., Vargas, A. and Vishnyakova, D., (2012). Khresmoi: Multimodal Multilingual Medical Information Search
García Seco de Herrera, A., Markonis, D., Eggel, I. and Müller, H., (2012). The medGIFT Group in ImageCLEFmed 2012
Markonis, D., García Seco de Herrera, A., Eggel, I. and Müller, H., (2012). Multi-scale visual words for hierarchical medical image categorization
Müller, H., García Seco de Herrera, A., Kalpathy-Cramer, J., Demner-Fushman, D., Antani, S. and Eggel, I., (2012). Overview of the ImageCLEF 2012 medical image retrieval and classification tasks
Markonis, D., García Seco de Herrera, A., Eggel, I. and Müller, H., (2011). The MedGIFT group at ImageCLEFmed 2011
Kalpathy-Cramer, J., Müller, H., Bedrick, S., Eggel, I., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Tsikrika, T., (2011). Overview of the CLEF 2011 medical image classification and retrieval tasks
Martín, A., Garamendi, JF., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Schiavi, E., (2011). Medical Images Rician Based Denoising
García Seco de Herrera, A., Garamendi, JF., Pajares, G., Schiavi, E. and Hernández-Tamames, JA., (2011). Effect of Multichannel Inverse Scaling Denoising in Detection of Injured White Matter in Fractional Anisotropy Maps
Tsikrika, T., García Seco de Herrera, A. and Müller, H., (2011). Assessing the Scholarly Impact of ImageCLEF
Ríos, M., García Seco de Herrera, A., García, J., Hernández-Tamames, JA. and Schiavi, E., (2010). Traumatic Brain injury rehabilitation in the chronic stage: changes in brain volume and BOLD signal
García Seco de Herrera, A., Garamendi, JF., Schiavi, E. and Hernández-Tamames, JA., (2010). Filtrado Multicanal de Ruido en DWI Mediante Variación Total e Iteraciones de Bregman
Álvarez-Linera, J., Hernández-Tamames, JA., Rábano, A., Díaz, MC., García Seco de Herrera, A., Alfayate, E., García, S., Dobato, JL. and Peraita, H., (2009). Neuropsychological and imaging (MR) biomarkers in the early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Reports and Papers (1)
Markonis, D., Schaer, R., Garcia, A. and Müller, H., (2017). The Parallel Distributed Image Search Engine (ParaDISE)
Thesis dissertation (2)
García Seco de Herrera, A., (2015). Use Case Oriented Medical Visual Information Retrieval & System Evaluation. PhD Thesis
García Seco de Herrera, A., (2009). Validation of DARTEL registration technique. Application to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Schizophrenia using Voxel Based Morphometry. Master's Thesis
Grants and funding
2018
The creation of an innovative SaaS based product that helps content agencies and brands to create video content and distribution strategies for marketing,
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Stategy Board)