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Marta Diez-Ferrer, Debora Gil, Elena Carreño, Susana Padrones, Samantha Aso, Vanesa Vicens, et al. (2017). "Positive Airway Pressure-Enhanced CT to Improve Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation " . European Respiratory Journal, .
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Debora Gil, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Elisa Minchole, Carles Sanchez, Noelia Cubero de Frutos, Marta Diez-Ferrer, et al. (2017). "Classification of Confocal Endomicroscopy Patterns for Diagnosis of Lung Cancer " In 6th Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures: Translational Research in Medical Imaging (Vol. 10550, pp. 151–159).
Abstract: Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) is an emerging imaging technique that allows the in-vivo acquisition of cell patterns of potentially malignant lesions. Such patterns could discriminate between inflammatory and neoplastic lesions and, thus, serve as a first in-vivo biopsy to discard cases that do not actually require a cell biopsy.
The goal of this work is to explore whether CLE images obtained during videobronchoscopy contain enough visual information to discriminate between benign and malign peripheral lesions for lung cancer diagnosis. To do so, we have performed a pilot comparative study with 12 patients (6 adenocarcinoma and 6 benign-inflammatory) using 2 different methods for CLE pattern analysis: visual analysis by 3 experts and a novel methodology that uses graph methods to find patterns in pre-trained feature spaces. Our preliminary results indicate that although visual analysis can only achieve a 60.2% of accuracy, the accuracy of the proposed unsupervised image pattern classification raises to 84.6%.
We conclude that CLE images visual information allow in-vivo detection of neoplastic lesions and graph structural analysis applied to deep-learning feature spaces can achieve competitive results.
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Mireia Sole, Joan Blanco, Debora Gil, G. Fonseka, Richard Frodsham, Oliver Valero, et al. (2017). "Is there a pattern of Chromosome territoriality along mice spermatogenesis? " In 3rd Spanish MeioNet Meeting Abstract Book (pp. 55–56).
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Mireia Sole, Joan Blanco, Debora Gil, G. Fonseka, Richard Frodsham, Oliver Valero, et al. (2017)." Unraveling the enigmas of chromosome territoriality during spermatogenesis" In IX Jornada del Departament de Biologia Cel•lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia.
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Mireia Sole, Joan Blanco, Debora Gil, G. Fonseka, Richard Frodsham, Francesca Vidal, et al. (2017). "Noves perspectives en l estudi de la territorialitat cromosomica de cel·lules germinals masculines: estudis tridimensionals " . Biologia de la Reproduccio, 15, 73–78.
Abstract: In somatic cells, chromosomes occupy specific nuclear regions called chromosome territories which are involved in the
maintenance and regulation of the genome. Preliminary data in male germ cells also suggest the importance of chromosome
territoriality in cell functionality. Nevertheless, the specific characteristics of testicular tissue (presence of different
cell types with different morphological characteristics, in different stages of development and with different ploidy)
makes difficult to achieve conclusive results. In this study we have developed a methodology to approach the threedimensional
study of all chromosome territories in male germ cells from C57BL/6J mice (Mus musculus). The method
includes the following steps: i) Optimized cell fixation to obtain an optimal preservation of the three-dimensionality cell
morphology, ii) Chromosome identification by FISH (Chromoprobe Multiprobe® OctoChrome™ Murine System; Cytocell)
and confocal microscopy (TCS-SP5, Leica Microsystems), iii) Cell type identification by immunofluorescence
iv) Image analysis using Matlab scripts, v) Numerical data extraction related to chromosome features, chromosome
radial position and chromosome relative position. This methodology allows the unequivocally identification and the
analysis of the chromosome territories of all spermatogenic stages. Results will provide information about the features
that determine chromosomal position, preferred associations between chromosomes, and the relationship between chromosome
positioning and genome regulation.
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Pau Cano, Alvaro Caravaca, Debora Gil, & Eva Musulen. (2023). "Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori using AutoEncoders for the Detection of Anomalous Staining Patterns in Immunohistochemistry Images ".
Abstract: This work addresses the detection of Helicobacter pylori a bacterium classified since 1994 as class 1 carcinogen to humans. By its highest specificity and sensitivity, the preferred diagnosis technique is the analysis of histological images with immunohistochemical staining, a process in which certain stained antibodies bind to antigens of the biological element of interest. This analysis is a time demanding task, which is currently done by an expert pathologist that visually inspects the digitized samples.
We propose to use autoencoders to learn latent patterns of healthy tissue and detect H. pylori as an anomaly in image staining. Unlike existing classification approaches, an autoencoder is able to learn patterns in an unsupervised manner (without the need of image annotations) with high performance. In particular, our model has an overall 91% of accuracy with 86\% sensitivity, 96% specificity and 0.97 AUC in the detection of H. pylori.
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Katerine Diaz, Jesus Martinez del Rincon, & Aura Hernandez-Sabate. (2017). "Decremental generalized discriminative common vectors applied to images classification " . Knowledge-Based Systems, 131, 46–57.
Abstract: In this paper, a novel decremental subspace-based learning method called Decremental Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors method (DGDCV) is presented. The method makes use of the concept of decremental learning, which we introduce in the field of supervised feature extraction and classification. By efficiently removing unnecessary data and/or classes for a knowledge base, our methodology is able to update the model without recalculating the full projection or accessing to the previously processed training data, while retaining the previously acquired knowledge. The proposed method has been validated in 6 standard face recognition datasets, showing a considerable computational gain without compromising the accuracy of the model.
Keywords: Decremental learning; Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors; Feature extraction; Linear subspace methods; Classification
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Mireia Sole, Joan Blanco, Debora Gil, G. Fonseka, Richard Frodsham, Oliver Valero, et al. (2017)." Análisis 3d de la territorialidad cromosómica en células espermatogénicas: explorando la infertilidad desde un nuevo prisma" . Revista Asociación para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción, 22(2), 105.
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Debora Gil, Rosa Maria Ortiz, Carles Sanchez, & Antoni Rosell. (2018). "Objective endoscopic measurements of central airway stenosis. A pilot study " . Respiration, 95, 63–69.
Abstract: Endoscopic estimation of the degree of stenosis in central airway obstruction is subjective and highly variable. Objective: To determine the benefits of using SENSA (System for Endoscopic Stenosis Assessment), an image-based computational software, for obtaining objective stenosis index (SI) measurements among a group of expert bronchoscopists and general pulmonologists. Methods: A total of 7 expert bronchoscopists and 7 general pulmonologists were enrolled to validate SENSA usage. The SI obtained by the physicians and by SENSA were compared with a reference SI to set their precision in SI computation. We used SENSA to efficiently obtain this reference SI in 11 selected cases of benign stenosis. A Web platform with three user-friendly microtasks was designed to gather the data. The users had to visually estimate the SI from videos with and without contours of the normal and the obstructed area provided by SENSA. The users were able to modify the SENSA contours to define the reference SI using morphometric bronchoscopy. Results: Visual SI estimation accuracy was associated with neither bronchoscopic experience (p = 0.71) nor the contours of the normal and the obstructed area provided by the system (p = 0.13). The precision of the SI by SENSA was 97.7% (95% CI: 92.4-103.7), which is significantly better than the precision of the SI by visual estimation (p < 0.001), with an improvement by at least 15%. Conclusion: SENSA provides objective SI measurements with a precision of up to 99.5%, which can be calculated from any bronchoscope using an affordable scalable interface. Providing normal and obstructed contours on bronchoscopic videos does not improve physicians' visual estimation of the SI.
Keywords: Bronchoscopy; Tracheal stenosis; Airway stenosis; Computer-assisted analysis
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Rosa Maria Ortiz, Debora Gil, Elisa Minchole, Marta Diez-Ferrer, & Noelia Cubero de Frutos. (2017). "Classification of Confolcal Endomicroscopy Patterns for Diagnosis of Lung Cancer " In 18th World Conference on Lung Cancer.
Abstract: Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) is an emerging imaging technique that allows the in-vivo acquisition of cell patterns of potentially malignant lesions. Such patterns could discriminate between inflammatory and neoplastic lesions and, thus, serve as a first in-vivo biopsy to discard cases that do not actually require a cell biopsy.
The goal of this work is to explore whether CLE images obtained during videobronchoscopy contain enough visual information to discriminate between benign and malign peripheral lesions for lung cancer diagnosis. To do so, we have performed a pilot comparative study with 12 patients (6 adenocarcinoma and 6 benign-inflammatory) using 2 different methods for CLE pattern analysis: visual analysis by 3 experts and a novel methodology that uses graph methods to find patterns in pre-trained feature spaces. Our preliminary results indicate that although visual analysis can only achieve a 60.2% of accuracy, the accuracy of the proposed unsupervised image pattern classification raises to 84.6%.
We conclude that CLE images visual information allow in-vivo detection of neoplastic lesions and graph structural analysis applied to deep-learning feature spaces can achieve competitive results.
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