Montserrat Vallverdú

Montserrat VallverdúSenior researcher at Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (CREB) and Associate Professor at Barcelona Tech (UPC), specialization in automatic control engineering at the Graduate and Master’s levels and biomedical signal processing and modeling at PhD level. She is also member of the Bioinformatics and Biomedical Signals Laboratory (B2SLab) research group at the UPC and CIBER of Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN). Her main research focuses on the complexity and time-frequency analysis to the recovery of the clinically useful hidden information in cardiac, respiratory and brain signals, and on the identification and simulation of their involved physiological control mechanisms.

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Publications in journals and books

Vallverdú M., Crexells C., Caminal P. (1994).“Cardiovascular responses to intrathoracic pressure variations in coronary disease patients: a computer simulation”. Technology and Health Care, Official Journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine, vol. 2, pp. 119-140.

Nebot A., Cellier F.C., Vallverdú M. (1998).“Mixed quantitative/qualitative modeling and simulation of the cardiovascular system”. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 55, n. 2, pp. 127-155.

Lang E., Caminal P., Horváth G., Jané R., Vallverdú M., Slezsák I., Bayes de Luna A.(1998). “Spectral analysis of heart period variance (HPV) – a tool to stratify risk following myocardial infarction”. Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, vol. 22, n. 6, pp 248-256.

Baranowki R., Poplawska W., Vallverdú M., Chojnowska L., Orlowska E., Rydlewska-sadowska, Caminal P., Bayés de Luna A. (1999). “Analysis of QTc in 24-hour ECG”.Cardiology Journal formerly Folia Cardiologica, vol. 6, n. 4, pp. 325-422..

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Chojnowska L., Caminal P. (2000). “Time-Frequency analysis of the RT and RR variability to stratify hipertrophic cardiomyopathy patients”.Computers and Biomedical Research, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 33, n. 6, pp. 416-430.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2000). “Análisis no lineal de la variabilidad de la frecuencia cardíaca”. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Biomédica, vol. 21, n. 2, pp.29-34.

Carvajal R., Zebrowski J.J., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., L. Chojnowska, Poplawska W., Caminal P.(2002). “Dimensional analysis of heart rate variability in hypertrophic cardomyopathy patients”. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, vol. 21, n.4, pp. 71-78.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2002). “The effects of coronary occlusion location on the RR signal”. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, vol. 21, n.4, pp. 59-64.

Guillén P., Vallverdú M., Rojas R, Jugo D., Carrasco H., Caminal P. (2002). “Dinámica no lineal para caracterizar la variabilidad del ritmo cardiaco en pacientes chagasicos”. Ingeniería, automática y comunicaciones, vol. XXIII, n.1, pp.50-54.

Nebot A., Mugica F., Cellier F., Vallverdu M. (2003). “Modeling and Simulation of the Cardiovascular System with Generic Fuzzy Models”. SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation, vol. 79, n. 11, pp. 648-669.

Caminal P., Domingo L., Giraldo B.F., Vallverdú M., Benito S., Vázquez G., Kaplan D. (2004). “Variability analysis of the respiratory volume based on non-linear prediction methods”. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 42, pp.86-91.

Caminal P., Mateu J., Vallverdú M., Giraldo B., Benito S., Voss A. (2004). “Estimating respiratory pattern variability by symbolic dynamics”. Methods of Information in Medicine, vol. 43, pp. 22-25.

Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Giraldo B., Benito S., G. Vázquez, and Voss A. (2005). “Optimazed Symbolic Dynamics approach for the analysis of the respiratory pattern”. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 52, n. 11, 1832-1839.

Alonso J.L., Martinez P., Vallverdú M., Cygankiewicz I., Pitzalis M.V., Bayes Genis A., Cinca J., Rizzon P., Caminal P., Zareba W., Bayes de Luna A. (2005). “Dynamics of ventricular repolarization in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy versus normal subjects”. Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, vol. 10, n.2, pp. 121-128.

Carvajal R., Voss A., Wessel N., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2005). “Correlation dimension analysis of heart rate variability in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy”. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 78, pp. 133-140.

Truebner S., Cygankiewicz I., Schroeder R., Baumert M., Vallverdú M., Caminal M., Vazquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Voss A. (2006). “Compression entropy contribuyes to risk stratification in patients with cardiomyopathy”, Biomedizinische Technik, vol. 51, n.2, pp.77-82.

Baier V., Baumert M., Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Faber R., and Voss A. (2006).“Hidden Markov Models Based on Symbolic Dynamics for Statistical Modeling of Cardiovascular Control in Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, n. 1, pp. 140-143.

Gomis P., Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Wagner G.S. (2006). “Análisis fractal del control autonómico del ritmo cardiaco durante oclusión coronaria”, Revista Iberoamericana de automática e informática industrial, vol. 3, n.2, pp. 116-112.

Hoyer D., Frank B., Gözte C. ,Schmidt H., Baranowski R., Zebrowski J., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Bayés A. (2006) “Complex autonomic dysfunction in cardiovascular, intensive care, and schizophrenic patients assessed by autonomic information flow”, Biomedizinische technik, vol. 51, n. 4, pp. 182-185.

Gomis, P., Caminal, P., Vallverdú, M., Warren S.G., Wagner G.S. (2006) “Non-linear dynamic analysis of the cardiac rhythm during transient myocardial ischemia”, Biomedizinische technik, vol. 51, n. 4, pp. 178-181.

Cygankiewicz I., Zareba W., Vazquez R., Vallverdu M., Cino J., Cinca J., Almendral J., Gonzalez Juanatey J.R., Macaya C., Valdes M., Caminal P., Bayes de Luna A. (2006). “Relation of heart rate turbulence to severity of heart failure”, American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 98, Issue 12, pp. 1635-1640.

Hoyer D., Frank B., Götze C., Stein P.K., Zebrowski J.J., Baranowski R., Palacios M., Vallverdú M., and Caminal P., Bayés de Luna A., Schmidt G., Schmidt H., (2007).“Interactions between short-term and long-term cardiovascular control mechanisms” – art. Chaos. vol. 17, pp.15110-1:8.

Jospin M., Caminal P., Jensen E.W., Litván H., Vallverdú M., Struys M., Vereecke H., Kaplan D. (2007) “Detrended fluctuation analysis of EEG as a measure of depth of anesthesia”. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. vol. 54, n. 5, pp. 840-846.

Palacios M., Holger F., Götze C., Vallverdú M., Bayes de Luna A., Caminal P. and Hoyer D., (2007). “Changes of autonomic information flow due toidiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy”, Physiological Measurement, vol. 28,pp. 677–688.

Buil A., Perera A., Brunel H., Souto J. C.; Fontcuberta J.; Vallverdu M.; Soria J. M.; Caminal P. (2007) “Gene-phenotype association using mutual information-based cluster analysis”. Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 31, n. 6, pp. 618-

Perera A., Vallverdú M., Clarià F., Soria J. M. and Caminal P. (2008). ”DNA binding site characterization by means of Rényi entropy measures on nucleotide tansitions”. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 7, n. 2, pp. 133-141.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Chojnowska L., Caminal P. (2008). “Heart rate variability analysis  based on time-frequency representation and entropies in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients”, Physiological Measurement, vol. 29, n. 3, pp. 401-416.

Cygankiewicz I., Zareba W., Vazquez R., Vallverdu M., Gonzalez-Juanatey J.R., Valdes M., Almendral.J., Cinca J., Caminal P., Bayés de Luna A. (2008). “Heart rate turbulence predicts all-cause mortality and sudden death in congestive heart failure patients”. Heart Rhythm, vol. 5, n. 8, pp. 1095-1102.

Benitez R., Alvarez-Lacalle E., Echevarria B., Gomis P., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2009). “Characterization of the nonlinear content of the heart rate dynamics during myocardial ischemia”, Medical Engineering & Physics. vol. 31 n.6, pp. 660-667.

Delgado-Trejos E., Perera-Lluna A., Vallverdú-Ferrer M., Caminal-Magrans P., Castellanos-Domínguez G. (2009). “Dimensionality reduction oriented towards the feature visualization for ischemia detection”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine,vol. 13, Issue 4, pp. 590 – 598.

Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Schroeder R., Voss A., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2009). “Complexity of the Short-Term Heart-Rate Variability Using Entropy Rates to Improve Risk Stratification to Predict Cardiac Mortality”. IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, vol. 28, pp. 72-78.

Valencia J.F., Porta A., Vallverdú M., Clarià F., Baranowski R., Orłowska-Baranowska E. and Caminal P., (2009) “Refined Multiscale Entropy: Application to 24h Holter Recordings of Heart Period Variability in Healthy and Aortic Stenosis Subjects”. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, pp. 2202-2213.

Delgado-Trejos E., Castellanos-Domínguez G., Vallverdú-Ferrer M. (2009). “Análisis de relevancia en espacios de representación orientado al soporte de diagnótico- Aplicaciones de Dinámica cardíaca, Notas de Automática Avanzada”, pp. 1-119.

Brunel, H., Gallardo, J., Buil, A., Vallverdú, M., Soria, J., Caminal, P., Perera, A. (2010). “MISS: a non-linear methodology based on mutual information for genetic association studies in both population and sib-pairs analysis”, Bioinformatics, vol. 26, n. 15, pp. 1811-1818.

Maynou J., Gallardo-Chacon J.J., Vallverdu M., Caminal P., Perera A. (2010) “Computational Detection of Transcription Factor Binding Sites Through Differential Renyi Entropy”. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, n. 2, pp. 734-741.

Caminal P., B. F. Giraldo, M. Vallverdú, S. Benito, R. Schroeder and A. Voss. (2010). “Symbolic Dynamic Analysis of Relations Between Cardiac and Breathing Cycles in Patients on Weaning Trials”. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 38, n. 8, pp. 2542-2552.

Voss A., Schroeder R., Caminal P., Vallverdu M., Brunel H., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., and Bayes de Luna A. (2010) “Segmented Symbolic Dynamics for Risk Stratification in Patients with Ischemic Heart Failure”. Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology (CVET), vol. 1, n. 4, pp. 290–298.

Bustamante-Osorno J., Vallverdú-Ferrer M., Borrás-Pérez X. (2011). “Computational haemodynamic model for study of calculated mitral valve area”. Int. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), vol. 5, n. 2/3, pp. 157-174.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Riba J., Romero S., Barbanoj M. J and Caminal P. (2011) “Characterization of the cerebral activity by time-frequency representation of evoked EEG potentials”. Physiological Measurement, pp. 1327-1346, vol. 32, n. 8.

Gomis P, Caminal P, Vallverdú M, Warren SG, Stein PK and Wagner GS (2012). “Assessment of autonomic control of the heart during transient myocardial ischemia”. Journal of Electrocardiology. vol. 45, pp. 82-89.

Melia U.S.P., Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Gallardo J.J., Perera A., Caminal P. (2013). “Choi-Williams Distribution to Describe Coding and Non-coding Regions in Primary Transcript Pre-mRNA“, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, vol. 33, n. 5, pp. 504-512.

Valencia J. F., Vallverdú M., Porta A., Voss A., Schroeder R., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A. and Caminal P. (2013). “Ischemic risk stratification by means of multivariate analysis of the heart rate variability”, Physiological Measurement, vol. 34, pp. 325-338.

Brunel H., Gallardo-Chacón J.J., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Perera A. (2013). “Effect of genetic regions on the correlation between single point  mutation variability and morbidity”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 43, n. 5, pp. 594-599.

Voss A., Schroeder R., Vallverdú M., Schulz S., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A. and Caminal P. (2013) “Short-term vs.long-term heart rate variability in ischemic cardiomyopathy risk stratification”, Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 4, n. 364, pp. 1-15.

Melia U., Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2014) “Filtering and Thresholding the Analytic Signal Envelope in order to improve Peak and Spike Noise Reduction in EEG Signals”, Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 36, pp. 547–553.

Melia Umberto, Claria Francesc, Vallverdu Montserrat and Caminal Pere. (2014) “Measuring Instantaneous and Spectral Information Entropies by Shannon Entropy of Choi-Williams Distribution in the Context of Electroencephalography”, Entropy,  vol. 16, pp.  2530-2548.

Bari V., Valencia J. F., Vallverdú M., Girardengo G., Marchi A., Bassani T., Caminal P., Cerutti S., George A.L., Brink P.A., Crotti L., Schwartz P.J., Porta A. (2014). “Multiscale complexity analysis of the cardiac control identifies asymptomatic and symptomatic patients in long QT syndrome type 1”, PloS one, vol. 9, n. 4, e93808.

Melia U., Vallverdu M., Clariá F., Valls-Sole J., Caminal P. (2014) “Auditory and Nociceptive Stimuli Responses in the Electro – encephalogram: A Non-linear Measures and Time- frequency Representation Based Analysis”, Methods of Information in Medecine, vol. 53, n. 4.

Burgos F., Melia U., Vallverdú M. Velickovski F., Lluch-Ariet M., Caminal P., Roca J. (2014) “Clinical Decision Support System to Enhance Quality Control of Forced Spirometry using Information and Communication Technologies”, Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Melia U., Guaita M., Vallverdú M., Montserrat J.M, Vilaseca I., Salamero M., Gaig C., Caminal P., and Santamaria J. (2014) “Correntropy measures to detect daytime sleepiness from EEG signals” Physiol. Meas., vol. 35, n. 10, pp.. 2067-2083.

Valencia J., Vallverdú M., Rivero I., Voss A., Bayes de Luna A., Porta, A., Caminal P.; (2014). “Symbolic dynamics to discriminate healthy and ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy populations: an application to the variability of heart period and QT interval”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

Melia U, Burgos F, Vallverdú M, Velickovski F, Lluch-Ariet M, Roca J, Caminal P. (2014)Algorithm for Automatic Forced Spirometry Quality Assessment: Technological Developments”, PLoS One,. Vol. 9, n.12, pp. e116238.

Melia U., Vallverdu M. (2014) “Methods in brain connectivity. Inference through multivariate time series analysis, Koichi Sameshima, Luiz Antonio Baccalá. Frontiers in neuroengineering”. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Clinical Neurophysiology. ELSEVIER.

Melia U., Guaita M., Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Montserrat J.M., Vilaseca I., Salamero M., Gaig C., Caminal P., Santamaria J. (2015). Characterization of Daytime Sleepiness by Time-Frequency Measures of EEG Signals”, JMBE Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, vol 35, pp. 406-417,

Bas R., Vallverdú M., Valencia J.F., Voss A., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2015) “Evaluation of Acceleration and Deceleration Cardiac Processes using Phase-Rectified Signal Averaging in Healthy and Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy”. Medical Engineering and Physics, vol. 37, pp. 195-202.

Melia U., Guaita M., Vallverdú M., Embid C., Vilaseca I., Salamero M., Santamaria J. (2015) “Mutual Information Measures Applied to EEG Signals for Sleepiness Characterization.” Med Eng Phys., vol.  37, n. 3, pp. 297-308.

Guaita M., Melia U., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Vilaseca I., Montserrat J.M., Gaig C., Salamero M., Santamaría J. (2015) “Regularity of cardiac rhythm as a marker of sleepiness in sleep disordered breathing” PLoS One., vol. 10, n. 4, pp. :e0122645.

Melia U., Vallverdú M., Borrat X., Valencia J.F., Jospin M., Jensen E.W., Gambus P.L., Caminal P.  (2015) “Prediction of Nociceptive Responses during Sedation by Linear and Non-linear Measures of EEG Signals in High Frequencies”, PLoS One., vol. 10, n. 4, pp.:e0123464.

Valencia J.F., Melia U.S.P., Vallverdu M., Jospin M., Jensen E.W., Porta A., Gambus P.L. and Caminal P., (2016) “Assessment of Responsiveness Levels during Sedation-Analgesia by Entropy Analysis of EEG”, Entropy, vol. 18, n. 3.

Melia U., Vallverdu M. (2016)Advanced Signal Processing on Brain Event-Related Potentials. Fengyu Cong, Tapani Ristaniemi, Heikki Lyytinen. Word Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.”, Clinical Neurophysiology vol. 127.

Burgos F., Vargas C., Cano I., Blanco I., Caminal P., Escarrabill J., Gallego C., Llauger M.A., Miralles F., Solans Ó., Vallverdú M., Velickovski F., and Roca J. (2016) “Protocol for Regional Implementation of Collaborative Lung Function Testing”, Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Archive available. Nature.com.


 

 

Publications in conference proceedings

Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Augé J.M., Crexells C., Jané R. (1987). “Computer studies of the coronary flow during the Valsalva maneuver”. Proc. III International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, pp. 621-624.

Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Jané R., Augé J.M. and Crexells C. (1988).“Simulation studies on the myocardial oxygen supply-demand relation during the Valsalva maneuver”. Proc. World Congress on Medical and Biological Engineering, n. 266.

Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Augé J.M. and Crexells C. (1989) “Computer aided analysis of the coronary flow controller”. Proc. V Mediterranean Conf. on Medical and Biological Engineering, pp. 224-225.

Vallverdú M., Augé J.M., and Caminal P. (1991).“Parametric modeling of central nervous system control using ARMAX and NARMAX models”. Proc. IV International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, pp. 405-406.

Vallverdú M., Korenberg J.M. and Caminal P. (1991). “A NARMAX model of the neural control of the cardiovascular system”. Proc. 13Th. Annual International Conference IEEE – Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 2319-2320.

Vallverdú M., Korenberg J.M., Caminal P. (1991). “Model Identification of the Neural Control of the Cardiovascular System Using NARMAX Models”. Proc. 18th Annual International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, pp. 585-588.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Baranoswki R., Chojnowska L., Rydlewska-Sadowska W., Jané R., Caminal P. (1996). “Non-linear analysis of heart rate variability in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy”. Proc. 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, n. 278.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Reyna M.A., Jané R., Caminal P. (1996). “Time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability as an aid to diagnose pathologies”. Proc. 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, n. 277.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Caminal P. (1997). “Time-frequency analysis of the RT and RR variability of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients”. Proc. 4th European Conference on Engineering and Medicine, pp. 45-46.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Zebrowski J.J., Caminal P. (1997). “Correlation dimension of HRV to stratify HCM-patients”. Proc. 3er Conference in Electrocardiography and non-invasive Methods, n.28.

Vallverdú M., Lang E., Horváth G., Caminal P. (1997). “Time and frequency domain analysis of heart period variability to improve risk stratification in post-myocardial infarction patients”. Proc. of the Word Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 18th International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, 11th International Conference on Medical Physics, n. 529.

Nebot A., Valdés J.J., Guiot M., Alquezar R., Vallverdú M. (1998). “Fuzzy inductive reasoning approaches to the identification of models of the central nervous system control”. Proc. of the International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, pp. 190-196.

Nebot A., Guiot M., Vallverdú M. (1998). “Identification of generic fuzzy models of the human central nervous system control”. ESM’98: 12th European Simulation Multiconference. Simulation Past, Present and Future, pp.316-323.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Zebrowski J.J., Baranowski R., Caminal P. (1998). “Dimensión de correlación de la variabilidad del ritmo cardiaco en sujetos sanos y pacientes con diversas patologías cardiacas”. Proc. 1er Congreso Lationamericano de Ingenieria Biomedica, pp.261-264.

Baranowski R., Zebrowski J.J., Poplawska W., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Rydlewska-Sadowska W., Chojnowska L., Bayés de Luna A. (1998). “Analysis of the RR/RT relation by a method of symbolic dynamics – The influence of data length on the histogram characteirstics”. XXth Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, vol. 19, n. 2331.

Baranowski R., Vallverdú M., Jané R., Caminal P., Poplawska W., Malecka L., Chojnowska L., Rydlewska-Sadowska W., Viñolas X., Bayés de Luna A. (1998). “24H Qtc analysis in sudden death risk stratification in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy”. 70th Scientific Supplement to Circulation, vol. 96, n. 8, n-4260.

Caminal P., Blasi A., Vallverdú M., Viñolas X., Jané R., Laguna P., Pitzalis M.V., Rizzon P., Zareba W., Bayes de Luna A. (1998). “New algorithm for QT dispersion analysis in XZY-lead Holter ECG.Performance and applications”. Proc. 25th Annual International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, pp.709-712.

Vallverdú M., Alvarez C., Baranowski R., Chojnowska L., Caminal P. (1998). “Nonlinear dynamics analysis of heart rate variability signal based on entropies in hypertrophic cardiomiopathy patients”. Proc. 25th Annual International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, pp. 373-376.

Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Viñolas X., Alonso J.L., Jané R., Laguna P., Pitzalis M.V., Rizzon P., Zareba W., Bayes de Luna A. (1999). “New algorithm for QT dispersion analysis in XYZ-lead Holter ECG: Description and validation”. XXIst Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, vol. 20, n.22, n-338.

Baranowski R., Vallverdú M., Chojnowska L., Poplawska W., Michalak E., Malecka L., Rydlewska-Sadowska W., Viñolas X., Caminal P., Bayés de Luna A. (1999). “Prognostic value of repolarization analysis in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy comparison of QTc and QTd measurement”. XXIst Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, vol. 20, n. 22, n. 571, pp.587-591.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Viñolas X., Zareba W., and Bayes de Luna A. (1999). “Nonlinear analysis of the RR and RT series from Holter ECG signals”. Fifth Conference of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine, pp. 567-568.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (1999). “Time-frequency analysis of the heart rate variability in Holter ECG to stratify dilated cardiomyopathy patients”. Fifth Conference of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine, pp. 517-518.

Domingo L., Fiz J.A., Carvajal R., Jané R., Vallverdú M., Morera J., Caminal P. (1999). “Correlation dimension analysis of the snoring sound signals”. Fifth Conference of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine, pp. 527-528.

Vallverdú M., Martínez P., Viñolas X., Alonso J.L., Pitzalis M.V., Rizzon P., Zareba W., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (1999). “Linear regression analysis between ventricular repolarization parameters and heart rate. Fifth Conference of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine”, pp. 393-394.

Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Carvajal R., Martínez P., Alonso J.L., Zareba W., Viñolas X., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (1999). “Heart rate variability characterization: Time-frequency representation and nonlinear analysis”. Proc. 26th Annual International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, pp.257-260.

Escobet T., Nebot A., Vallverdú M. (1999). “A qualitative fault monitoring system to support medical decisions: An application to the Central Nervous System”. Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications.International Symposia on Soft Computing in Biomedicine. pp. 536-542.

Alonso J.L., Martínez P., Viñolas X., Vallverdú M., Pitzalis M.V., Zareba W., Rizzon P., Caminal P., Jané R., Laguna P., Bayés de Luna A. (2000). “Dynamic behaviour of QT dispersion.A 24-hour analysis of repolarization parameters”.The new frontiers of arrhytmias 2000. 14th International congress. Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia, vol. 29, Supp. 5, RT-136.

Guillen P., Vallverdú M., Jugo D., Carrasco H., Caminal P. (2000). “Análisis de la irregularidad compleja de la serie temporal RR de pacientes chagasicos usando dinamica no lineal”. V Congreso Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas. CIMENICS’2000.

Guillen P., Vallverdú M., Jugo D., Carrasco H., Caminal P. (2000). “Non-linear dynamics in heart rate variability of normal subjects and chagasic patients”. World Congress on Physics and Biomedical Engineering- Proc. 22th Anual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Chonowska L., Martínez P., Caminal P. (2000). “Time-frequency representation of the HRV: a tool to characterize sudden cardiac death in hypertorphy cariomyopathy patients”. World Congress on Physics and Biomedical Engineering- Proc. 22th Anual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Weber J. E., Guillen P., Litvan H., Vallverdú M., Jugo D., Caminal P. (2000). “Symbolic dynamics applied to EEG signal for monitoring anesthetic depth during propofol infusion”. World Congress on Physics and Biomedical Engineering- Proc. 22th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Vallverdú M., Giraldo B., Benito S., Montserrat M., Fernández C., Subirana M., Voss A., Caminal P. (2000). “Respiratory pattern variability analysis based on nonlinear dynamics methods”. World Congress on Physics and Biomedical Engineering- Proc. 22th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, CD-ROM-A325-05.

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Martinez P., Alonso J.L., Viñolas X., Zareba W., Bayes de Luna A., Caminal P. (2000). “Autonomic Function Evaluated by Entropy Measures of the Heart Rate Variability”. Proc. 27th Annual International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, pp. 461-464.

Guillén P., Vallverdú M., Claria F., Jugo D., Carrasco H., Caminal P. (2000). “Complexity Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Applied to Chagasic Patients and Normal Subjects”. Proc. 27th Annual International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, pp. 469-474.

Guillén P., Vallverdú M., Rojas R., Jugo D., Carrasco H., Caminal P. (2001). “Dinámica no lineal para caracterizar la variabilidad del ritmo cardíaco en pacientes chagásicos”. II Congreso Latinoamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica, n. 310, CD-ROM, pp. 1-4.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Caminal P. (2001). “Detección de determinismo no lineal en la variabilidad de la frecuencia cardiaca”. II Congreso Latinoamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica, n. 301, CD-ROM, pp. 1-4.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Zebrowski J.J., Baranowski R., Chojnowska L., Caminal P. (2001). “Dynamic analysis of the correlation integral of heart rate variability in hipertrophic cardiomyopathy patients”. Proc. 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 1-4.

Domingo L., Caminal P., Giraldo B.F., Benito S., Vallverdú M., Kaplan D. (2001). “Respiratory pattern variability analysis based on nonlinear prediction methods”. Proc. 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. CD_ROM-n4

Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Martínez A., Viñoles x., Zareba W., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2001). “Sympatho-vagal activity described by the complex and deterministic behavior of Herat rate variability”.Proc. 28th Annual Meeting of Computers in Cardiology. vol. 28, pp. 473-476.

Vallverdú M., Tibaduisa O., Martínez A., Cinca J., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2002). “Finite-time growth rate to characterize heart rate variability of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy patients”. 24thAnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. CD_ROM1.1.2.

Carvajal R., Vallverdú M., Baranowski R., Baranowska E., Zebrowski J.J., Caminal P. (2002). “Dynamical non-linear analysis of heart rate variability in patients with aortic stenosis” Proc. 29th Annual Meeting of Computers in Cardiology. pp. 449-452.

Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Martínez A., Zareba W.,Bayés de Luna A. (2002). “Entropy measures of the Herat rate variability in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy patients”. 2nd. Meeting of the European study group of cardiovascular oscillations.

Caminal P., Mateu J., Vallverdú M., Giraldo B., Benito S., Voss A. (2002). “Estimating the respiratory pattern variability by symbolic dynamics”. The 4th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation. pp. 51-54.

Carvajal R., Salazar D., Baranowski R., Lavin L.H., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2003). “Analysis of complexity changes of Heart rate variability using symbolic dynamics”. International congress on computational bioengineering, pp. 665-668.

Vallverdú M., Palacios M., Caminal P. (2003).”Modeling the dynamics of the heart rate variability by hidden Markov models”. Proc. 30th Annual Conference of Computers in Cardiology. (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society). vol. 30, pp.461-464.

Vallverdú, M., (2003) “Analysis of the RR signal by time-frequency representation: Effects of the coronary occlusion location”, 5th Staff III Studies Symposium.

Gomis P., Cardellach E., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2003) “Non-linear dynamic of heart rate during artery occlusion”, 5th Staff III Studies Symposium.

Claria F. ,Vallverdú M. ,Caminal P. (2003). “Effects of the coronary occlusion location”. 5th Staff III Studies Symposium.

Vallverdú M., Palacios M., Hoyer D., Clarià F., Baranowski R., Caminal P. (2004). “Evaluation of Different Rhythms by Hidden Markov Models in Heart Rate Variability of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy patients”. Proc. of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROM, pp. 600-603.

Vallverdú M, Tibaduisa O., Hoyer D., Giraldo B., Benito S., Caminal P.(2004) “Analysis of the Nonlinear Autodependencies of Respiratory Pattern Variability in Patients on Weaning Trials”. Proc.26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS),CD-ROM.542-545.

Gomis P., Caminal P., Vallverdú M. (2005) “Fractal analysis of cardiac control system during myocardial ischemia”.6th STAFF Studies Symposium.

Palacios M., Vallverdú M., Hoyer D., Friedrich H., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2005) “Hidden Markov Models and Mutual Information Analysis to Characterize Nonlinear Dynamics in Heart Rate Variability”, Proc. 27 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROMn4.

Caminal P., Giraldo B., Zabaleta H., Vallverdú M., Benito S., Ballesteros D., López-Rodriguez L., Esteban A., Baumert M., Voss A. (2005) “Joint Symbolic Dynamic Analysis of Cardiorespiratory Interactions in Patients on Weaning Trials”, Proc. 27thAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROMn4.

Caminal P., Gomis P., Vallverdu M., Warren S.G., Wagner G.S. (2006) “Nonlinear dynamic analysis of the cardiac rhythm during transient myocardia ischemia”, Proc. Europea Study Group on Cardiovascular oscillations (ESGCO), CD-ROMn46-49.

Hoyer D., Frank B., Götze C., Baranowski R., Żebrowski J.J., Vallverdú M., Palacios M., Caminal P., Bayés de Luna A., Stein P.K., Schmidt G., and SchmidtH. (2006) “Association between short term and long term communication in pathological autonomic control”, Proc. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROM.

Vallverdu M., Tibaduisa O., Claria F., Hoyer D., Giraldo B., Benito S., Caminal P. (2006) “Information flow to assess cardiorespiratory interactions in patients on weaning trials”, Proc. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROM, pp. 1462-1465.

Perera A., Vallverdú M., Clarià F., Soria J.M. and Caminal P. (2006). “DNA Binding Sites Characterization by Means of Rényi Entropy Measures on Nucleotide Transitions”, Proc. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROM, pp. 5783-5786.

Vallverdú M., Palacios M., Gomis P., Wagner G., Caminal P.(2006) “Hidden Markov Modelling to analyze Cardiac Rhythm during Transient Myocardial Ischemia”, 7th STAFF Studies Symposium.

Gomis P., Palacios M., Vallverdú M., Wagner G.S.(2006) “HRV during coronary angioplasty: site of coronary occlusion and beta-blockers effects”, 7th STAFF Studies Symposium.

Gomis P., Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Wagner G.S., Caminal P. (2007) “Multiscale information and multifractal analysis of the autonomous nervous system during myocardial ischemia”. 8th Staff Studies Symposium.

Gomis P., Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Warren S.G., Wagner G.S. (2008) “Assessment of the autonomic control of the heart during ischemia in the Staff III database”. 9th STAFF Studies Symposium.

Perera A., Buil A., Di Bernardo M.C., Sabater-Lleal M., Pattini L., Souto J.C., Fontcuberta J., Vallverdu M., Soria J.M., Caminal P. (2007) “Clustering of individuals given SNPs similarity based on normalized mutual information: F7 SNPs in the GAIT sample”. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 123-126.

Jospin M., Caminal P., Jensen E.W., Vallverdú M., Struys M.M.R.F., Hugo E.M., and Kaplan D.T. (2007) “Depth of anaesthesia index using cumulative power spectrum”, Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp.-15-18.

Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Cygankiewicz I., Voss A., Vázquez R., Cinca J., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2007) “Multiscale regularity analysis of the heart rate variability: stratification of cardiac death risk”, Proc. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), CD-ROM, pp. 5946-5949.

Poza J., Caminal P., Vallverdú M., Hornero R., Romero S. and Barbanoj M.J. (2007) “Study of the EEG Changes during the Combined Ingestion of Alcohol and H1antihistamines by using the Wavelet Transform”. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 23-26.

Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Gomis P., Wagner G., CaminalP. (2007). “Multiscale information analysis of the autonomous nervous system during myocardial ischemia”.34 Annual Conference of Computers in Cardiology, vol. 34, pp 589- 592.

Buil A., Perera A., Souto R., Peralta J.M., Almasy L., Vallverdu M., Caminal P., Soria J.M. (2007). “Searching for master regulators of transcription in a human gene expression data set”, Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci BMC Proceedings, vol. 1, Suppl 1, pp. 1-4.

Martinez P., Bakardjian H., Vallverdu M. and Cichocki A. (2008) “Fast multi-command SSVEP brain machine interface without training”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Artificial Neural Networks, 18th International Conference, SpringerLink, vol 5163, pp 300-307.

Valencia J.F.,  Vallverdu M., Schroeder R., Voss A., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P.(2008) “Entropy rates  based on symbolic dynamics of HRV in ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy”, Proc. European Study Group on Cardiovascular oscillations, pp. O6: 5-8.

Valencia J.F.,Vallverdu M., Schroeder R., Voss A., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2008) “Characterization of HRV by detrended fluctuation analysis  in ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy”, Proc. European Study Group on Cardiovascular oscillations, pp. P1C:12-15.

Quiceno A.F., Delgado E., Vallverdu M., Matijasevic A.M., Castellanos G.(2008) “Effective phonocardiogram segmentation using nonlinear dynamic analysis and high-frequency decomposition”,35th annual international conference of Computers in Cardiology, vol. 35, pp. 161- 164.

Voss A., Schroeder R., Vallverdú M., Chygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2008) “Linear and nonlinear heart rate variability risk stratification in heart failure patients”, 35th Annual International Conference of Computers in Cardiology, vol. 35, pp. 557- 560.

Brunel H., Perera A., Buil A., Sabater-Lleal M., Souto J.C., Fontcuberta J., Vallverdú M., Soria J.M., Caminal P.(2008) “SNP sets selection under mutual information criterion, application to F7/FVII dataset”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 3783-3786.

Orini M., Giraldo B.F., Bailón R., Vallverdú M., Mainardi L., Benito S., Díaz I. and Caminal P. (2008) “Time-frequency analysis of cardiac and respiratory parameters for the prediction of ventilator weaning”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 2793-2796.

Valencia J.F., Porta A., Vallverdu M., Claria F., Baranowski R., Orowska-Baranowska E., Caminal P.(2008), “Multiscale sample entropy in heart rate variability of aortic stenosis patients”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 2000-2003.

Jensen E.W., Jospin M., Gambús P.L., Vallverdú M. and Caminal P.(2008) “Validation of the index of consciousness (IoC) during sedation/analgesia for ultrasonographic endoscopy”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 5552-5555.

Maynou J., Vallverdú, M., Clariá F., Perera A., Caminal,P. (2008). “Detection of transcription factor binding sites using Rényi entropy”. 8th. IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, DVD1-5.

Roca-González J., Vallverdú-Ferrer M., Caminal-Magrans P., Martínez-Gonzçalez F., Roca-Dorda J., Álvarez-González J.A. (2008) “Effects of propofol anesthesia on nonlinear properties of EEG: Time-lag and embedding dimension”. 4th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, Spring-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York. pp. 1268-1271.

Roca-González J., Vallverdú-Ferrer M., Caminal-Magrans P., Martínez-Gonzçalez F., Roca-Dorda J., Álvarez-González J.A.(2008) “Effects of propofol anesthesia on nonlinear properties of EEG: Lyapunov exponents and short-term predictability”. 4th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, Spring-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York. pp. 1272-1275.

Maynou J., Vallverdú M., Clarià F., Gallardo-Chacón J.J., Caminal P. and Perera A. (2009) “Transcription Factor Binding Site Detection through Position Cross-Mutual Information variability analysis”, Proc. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 7087-7090.

Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Schroeder R., Voss A., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2009) “Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Heart Rate by Means of Symbolic Series”, 36th annual international conference of Computers in Cardiology, vol. 36, pp. 405- 408.

Melia U.S.P., Clarià F., Gallardo J.J., Caminal P., Perera A., and Vallverdú M. (2010) “Exons and Introns Characterization in Nucleic Acid Sequences byTime-Frequency Analysis”, Proc. 32th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 1783-1786.

Tupaika N., Vallverdu M., Jospin M., Jensen E.W., Struys M.M.R.F., Vereecke H.E.M., Voss A., CaminalP.(2010) “Assessment of the Depth of Anesthesia based on Symbolic Dynamics of the EEG”, Proc. 32th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 5971-5974.

Martinez P., Vallverdu M., Cichocki A. (2010) “Multi-Command SSVEP BCI System based on Constrained ICA with References”, Conference of  the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology.

Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Schroeder R., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez R., Bayés de Luna A., Porta A., Voss A., Caminal P. (2010). “Heart Rate Variability Characterized by Refined Multiscale Entropy Applied to Cardiac Death in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients”, Computing in Cardiology 2010, pp. 65-68.

Burgos F., Melia U., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Roca J. (2011) “Improving quality control of forced spirometry: A new algorithm for automatic evaluation”, ATS International Conference: American Thoracic Society, p.A3127.

Julitta B., Vallverdu M., Melia U., Tupaika N., Jospin M., Jensen E.W., Struys M.M.R.F., Vereecke H.E.M., Caminal P. (2011) “Auto-mutual information function of the EEG as a measure of depth of anesthesia”, 33th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), USB-2574.

Melia U., Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Casanova J., Valls-Solé J., CaminalP. (2011) “Time-frequency characterization of mismatch negativity in nociceptive responses”, 33th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), USB-7719.

Pairó E., Maynou J., Vallverdú M., Caminal P., Marco S., and Perera A. (2011) “MEET: Motif elements estimation toolkit”, 33th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), USB-6483.

Schroeder R., Caminal P, Vallverdu M., Helena B., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez García R., Bayés de Luna A., Voss A. (2011) “Indices of segmented symbolic dynamics as risk markers in ischemic heart failure patients”, BMT – Biomedizinische Technik 2011, P162.

Burgos F., Vallverdu M., Galdiz B., Gallego C., Castillo D., Ayza J., Caminal P., Escarrabill J., Roca J., (2012) “High quality spirometry across the healthcare system”. AmericanThorathicSpirometry Conference. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 185, pp. 2012:A5160.

Schroeder R., Caminal P., Vallverdu M., Brunel H., Cygankiewicz I., Vázquez García R., Bayés de Luna A., Voss A., (2012) Long-term versus short-term heart rate variability analyses for risk stratification in ischemic heart failure patients. 46th annual conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering.

Melia U., Vallverdu M., Clariá F., Valls-Sole J., Caminal P. (2012) “Non-linear measures and time-frequency representation of electroencephalogram containing auditory and nociceptive stimuli responses”, 7th International workshop on biosignal interpretation. pp. 153-156.

Melia U., Clariá F., Vallverdú M., Caminal P. (2012) “Removal of peak and spike noise in EEG signals based on the analytic signal magnitude”, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp.3523-3526.

Jospin M., Aguilar J.P., Gambús P.L., Jensen E.W., Vallverdú M. and Caminal P. (2012) “Validation of the qCO Cardiac Output Monitor during Valsalva Maneuver“, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp.240-243.

Cuppone A.V., Vallverdú M., Gomis P., Porta A., Voss A., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2012). Symbolic Dynamics of QT Interval Series in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy”, Computing in Cardiology, AGH University of Science and Krakow, vol. 39, pp: 617-620.

Paternoster L., Vallverdú M., Melia U., Clariá F., Voss A., and Caminal P. (2013) “Analysis of Epileptic EEG Signals in Children by Symbolic Dynamics”, 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 4362- 4365.

Melia U., Vallverdú M., Jospin M., Jensen E. W., Valencia J. F., Clariá F., Gambus P. L., Caminal P. (2013) “Prediction of Nociceptive Responses during Sedation by Time-Frequency Representation”, 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 2547- 2550.

Bari V., Valencia J.F., Vallverdú M., Girardengo G., Bassani T., Marchi A., Calvillo L., Caminal P., Cerutti S., Brink P.A., Crotti L., Schwartz P.J. and Porta A. (2013). “Refined Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Heart Period and QT Interval Variabilities in Long QT Syndrome Type-1 Patients” 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), pp. 5554-5557.

Melia U., Vallverdú M., Jospin M., Jensen E. W., Valencia J. F., Clariá F., Gambus P. L., Caminal P., (2013), “Auto-Mutual Information Function for Predicting Pain Responses in EEG Signals during Sedation” XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013, MEDICON 2013, IFMBE Proceedings 41, p. 623—626.

Melia U., Guaita M., Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Caminal P., Embid C., Vilaseca I., Salamero M., Santamaria J., (2013) Non-linear dynamic analysis of RR signals in patients with and without Excessive Daytime Sleepiness”, Computing in Cardiology, vol. 40, pp. 449-452.

Valencia J. F., Melia, U. S., Vallverdu, M., Jospin, M., Jensen, E. W., Porta, A., P. Gambus, Caminal, P. (2014). Prediction of response to noxious stimulation during sedation-analgesia by refined multiscale entropy analysis of EEG. 8th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations, pp. 61-62.

Melia U.S.P., Vallverdu M., Jospin M., Valencia J., Jensen E.W., Gambus P.L, Perera A., Caminal P. “Interaction between EEG and Drug Concentration to Predict Response to Noxious Stimulation During Sedation-Analgesia: Effect of the A118G Genetic Polymorphism”, 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), 2014.

Melia U., Vallverdú M., Roca E., Brotons D., Irurtia A., Cadefau J.A., Caminal P., Perera A.,  (2014) “Heart Rate Variability in Ultra-Trail Runners”. Computing in Cardiology, pp. 997-1000.

Valderas M.T., Bolea J., Laguna P.,  Vallverdú M. and Bailón R. (2015) “Human Emotion Recognition Using Heart Rate Variability Analysis with Spectral Bands Based on Respiration” 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS),- pp. 6134 – 6137.

Vallverdú M., Clariá F., Melia U., Bayés de Luna A., Caminal P. (2015) “Measuring Heart Rate Variability by means of Information Entropies based on Choi-Williams Distribution” 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS),- pp. 1797 – 1800.

Gambús P.L., Leal M., Nguyen A., Melia U., Vallverdú M., (2015) “Is the Alpha frequency band of the EEG a marker of unconsciousness during sedation with propofol and remifentanil? The influence of Aging”. SASM, Society of Anesthesia amd Sleep Medicine, 5th Annual Meeting of the Society of Anesthesoa and Sleep Medicine  n. 13, pp. 35-36.


 

Doctoral Thesis supervisor

John Bustamante Osorno, (1995). “Análisis del flujo transmitral mediante el modelado y la simulación por computador”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – co-supervised with Dr. Xavier Borrás from Universidad Autónoma.de Barcelona.

Raúl Carvajal Valdés, (1999). “Análisis de complejidad de la variabilidad de intervalos característicos del electrocardiograma”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Pablo Guillén Rondón, (2002). “Análisis de la dinámica no lineal y cambios de complejidad en la variabilidad del ritmo cardiaco y en señales electroencefalográficas”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Manuel Eduardo Palacios Muñoz, (2007). “Caracterización de la variabilidad del ritmo cardíaco mediante modelos ocultos de Markov”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Pablo Martínez Váquez, (2010). “Robust multi-command BCI systems based on steady state visual evoked potentials”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – co-supervised with Dr. Andrzej Cichocki from RIKEN Brain Science Institute.

Jose Fernando Valencia Murillo, (2010). “Estimación de la complexitat de la variabilidad del ritmo cardiaco mediante técnicas de la dinámica no lineal en patologías cardiacas”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Umberto Melia, (2014). “Representation and information theory for the analysis of eeg signals to assess different states of consciousness”, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.