Research
Functional Optical Neuroimaging (fNIRS)
My main line of research is about optical neuroimaging; the functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS). My interest in diffuse optical imaging ranges from developing the device and dealing with the image reconstruction until the data analysis and interpretation.
Mostly, in collaboration with Prof. Yang and Prof. Darzi group at Imperial College London, I have applied fNIRS to neuroergonomics; the observation of the brain at work. During my time at Imperial, I developed ICNNA a tool for fNIRS analysis with statistical, topological (manifold embedding) and graph theoretical capabilities.
Now, fNIRS is coming at the center of our research at the Biosignal Processing and Medical Computing Lab at INAOE.
Related projects
Other people involved
- Imperial College London
- Prof. Lord Ara W. Darzi of Denham
- Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang
- Dr. Daniel Leff
- Dr. Kunal Shetty
- Dr. Harsimrat Singh
- INAOE
- Dr. Carlos G. Treviño
- Dr. Luis Villaseñor Pineda
- Dr. Samuel Estala Arias
- Dr. Alejandro Antonio Torres García
- Mr. Javier Herrera Vega
- Mrs. Shender María Ávila Sansores
- Mr. Samuel Antonio Montero Hernández
- Mrs. Bibiana Cuervo Soto
- University College London
- Dr. Ilias Tachtsidis
- Previous collaborators
- Prof. Claire Elwell (University College London -UCL) - A little bit pretentious on my side... ;)
- Dr. Javier Andreu (Imperial College)
- Dr. Dave James (Imperial College)
- Dr. Giulia Paggetti (Technische Universität München (TUM))
- Dr. Gloria Menegaz (University of Verona)
Links of interest
Please do let me know of any other important links you think I may be missing, so I can include it.
Labs
- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL) at UCL
- Photon Migration Laboratory at the Optics Division of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Harvard University.
- Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental Research Lab (CONQUER ColLabOrative) at Drexler University
- Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University in St. Louis
- Medical Optics Group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain
- The NIRS Brain Imaging Laboratory at tat the University of Pittsburgh
Bodies
- Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- NIRS/NIRI Newsletter. A great digest of mostly everything published about fNIRS by Felix Scholkmann.
- International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT)
- International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (ISCBFM)
- Organization of the Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Journals
- Human Brain Mapping (IF (2014): 6.92)
- NeuroImage (IF (2014): 6.13)
- Physics in Medicine an Biology (PMB) (IF (2014): 2.92)
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (IF (2014): 2.9)
- Journal of Biomedical Optics (IF (2014): 2.75)
- Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (IF (2014): 1.48)
- Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (IF (2015): Coming soon)
- NeuroPhotonics (IF (2014): <5years)
Conferences
- Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- (2018) 5th Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy community, Tokyo, Japan, 5-8 Oct 2018
- (2017) I Mexican Symposium on NIRS Neuroimaging (MexNIRS) 2017, Puebla, Mexico, 20-21st Oct 2017
- (2017) fNIRS UK 2017, London, UK, 7th Sep 2017
- (2016) 4th Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy community, Paris, France
- (2016) 2f-NIRS Workshop, Montpellier, France, 14th Apr 2016
- (2014) 3rd Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy community, Montreal, Canada - Page is no longer active.
- (2012) 2nd Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy community, London, UK
- (2010) 1st Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy community, Boston, MA, USA
- Annual Meetings of the Organization of the Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
- (Next meeting 2017) OHBM 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 25-29 Jun
- OHBM 2018, Seoul, South Korea, 10-14 Jun
- OHBM 2019, Rome, Italy, 9-13 Jun
Funding
Companies and commercial devices
In no particular order.