Carlos S. Mendoza

Carlos S. Mendoza earned his doctoral degree in May 2011, after conducting research in segmentation of computed-tomography images for surgical planning, in shape analysis for retrieval of bone allografts with application to allotransplantation surgery, and in texture characterization of dermoscopic images for computer-assisted diagnosis of malignant melanoma. During his doctoral studies, Carlos spent nine months at the Surgical Planning Lab and the Applied Chest Imaging Lab – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). His research at Brigham's included the development of a novel methodology for fully automatic assessment of pulmonary emphysema in COPD patients, resulting in the discovery of new genetic factors and epidemiologic traits in COPD. His PhD thesis title was “Image Processing in Medicine – Advances for Phenotype Characterization, Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Surgical Planning”. Between January 2012 and February 2013, Carlos held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation – Children’s National Medical Center (Washington DC, USA). His research at Children's included automatic assessment of cranial dysmorphology in young infants using statistical shape models, and computer-assisted diagnosis of renal pathologies from the automatic segmentation of renal structures in echographic images. In July 2013, Carlos joined the Madrid-MIT M+Vision Fellowship in Translational Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The M+Vision Fellowship allows young researcher to have their first experience as Principal Investigators for their own proposed projects, allowing them freedom to choose research areas, collaborators, project planning, use of funds... under the supervision of a panel of more than a hundred Faculty members from the scientific, engineering, clinical and entrepreneurial domains.