Other dissemination activities

Diffusion activities

  • National Design and Innovation Award Ceremony. Round table to speak about Design and Innovation with the presence of the Royal Family of Spain. Avilés, 17 Febrero 2023. Check the video here (min 42)
  • Congreso Iberoamericano de Ingeniería y Tecnología CIBITEC 2023. Mesa Redonda sobre Salud y Bienestar. 25 de Abril 2023, Madrid. Check the video here.
  • Invited talk from the Hospital Universitario de la Paz. “Impresión 3D médica para reemplazar partes del cuerpo humano”, 15 de Marzo 2023, Madrid.
  • Engineering with heart, Universidad Europea de Madrid. “Mejorando la vida de los pacientes mediante la ingeniería y los implantes personalizados” 8 Marzo 2023, Madrid.
  • Round table about Women in Technology and Science, organized by Asociación de Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos de España APTE, 8 Noviembre 2022, Leganés, Madrid.
  • 7ª edition of the 3D printing in Orthopaedics course, Sociedad Española de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología. “Cambio de Paradigma en Implantes Personalizados”. 18 de Febrero 2022, Madrid.
  • Jornadas de Innovación Docente 2022 UC3M: Presentation of the teaching innovation project (Service oriented learning): “Resolviendo problems clínicos reales en tratamientos guiados por imagen” Video (go to 3:56:00) and poster.
  • Round table at UC3M-FENIN meeting (April 27th 2022): “Plantar cara al cáncer, la importancia de los datos”. Encuentro UC3M-FENIN
  • Scientific outreach to secondary school students in Madrid with the talk: “Biomedical Engineering: Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence” (February and March 2022).
  • Presentation of the first personalized virtual planning and navigation system for craniosynostosis surgery. December 2021. Press conference and demo at Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Press release at UC3M. Video here.
  • The workshop “The surgery of the future: surgical navigation and augmented reality” was presented during Science and Innovation Week 2021 at UC3M (November 2021).

Awards

  • Alba González Álvarez, Conex Postdoc, has been awarded the TCT WI3DP Innovator Award. Check the news here.
  • Alba González Álvarez, Conex Postdoc, has been awarded the National Award of Design and Innovation 2022 from the Government of Spain for her career in healthcare. Check de video here. 
  • Alba González Álvarez, Conex Postdoc, has been shortlisted as one of 5 finalist for the “Mujeres a Seguir” awards in the category of Technology. Check news in here.
  • Editor’s Choice in Sensors Journal for the article “Combining Augmented Reality and 3D Printing to Improve Surgical Workflows in Orthopedic Oncology” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/editors_choice
  • Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra: May 2022. Erasmus + International Credit Mobility program (Action KA107) scholarship for a short stay at the University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa) to give some lectures on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality.
  • Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra, Felix vonHaxthausen, Rafael Moreta Martínez, Mónica García Sevilla and David García Mato: March 14 2022. First prize. “Best project award in the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School MARSS”. Title: “Augmented reality guided osteotomies using HoloLens 2“.
  • Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra: November 27 2022. First prize. “Proyecto en Innovación Tecnológica” cathegory Trabajos Fin de Máster (Master Thesis) “Premios en Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica“, Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Title: “Combinando realidad aumentada e Impresión 3D para mejorar el contexto clínico: Aplicación de smartphone y evaluación clínica“.
  • David García Mato: December 2 2022. Second prize. “Premio Margarita Salas de Investigación” 2021, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, in category Ph.D. thesis. Title: Optimization of craniosynostosis surgery: virtual planning, 3D photography and surgical navigation.
  • Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra: July 20 2022. First prize. “Thesis Talk UC3M” 2021, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Title: El futuro ha llegado a los quirófanos.

Books

Book chapters

  • D. García-Mato, J. Pascau, and S. Ochandiano. New Technologies to Improve Surgical Outcome during Open-Cranial Vault Remodeling. In: Craniosynostosis – New Perspectives of Prevention and Treatment. IntechOpen, 2020. [doi]
  • J. Pascau and L. Fernández de Manuel. Aplicaciones prácticas del registro y fusión de imágenes. In: Nuevas técnicas de procesado de imágenes médicas: ingenieria biomédica. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). ISBN: 978-84-8427-791-0, 81–110, 2011. [UC3M Research Portal]
  • L. Fernández de Manuel, M. J. Ledesma-Carbayo, D. Jimenez-Carretero, J. Pascau, J. L. Rubio-Guivernau, J. M. Tellado, E. Ramon, M. Desco, A. Santos. Liver Segmentation and Volume Estimation from Preoperative CT Images in Hepatic Surgical Planning: Application of a Semiautomatic Method Based on 3D Level Sets. In: Theory and Applications of CT Imaging and Analysis. Intech, ISBN: 978-953-307-234-0, 79–94, 2011. [doi] [UC3M Research Portal]

Patents

  • C. Sánchez Ramos, C. Bonnin Arias, J. Pascau, and R. Moreta-Martínez, R. (2018). Método y aparato para el reconocimiento biométrico corneal. ES-2662912 B2. 
  • M. Desco Menéndez, J. Pascau González-Garzón, J.J. Vaquero López, F. A. Valvo, C. Illana, M.F. Valdivieso. Planning systems for intraoperative radiation therapy and method for carrying out said planning. PCT/ES2008/0002

PhD Thesis