Education
  • September 2007 – November 2011
    PhD     in Vascular retinal image analysis and registration under the supervision of Emanuele Trucco. Sponsored by OPTOS plc. and NRP at the School of Computing of the University of Dundee (Dundee, Scotland). [pdf thesis]
  • September 2006 – July 2007
    MSc     in Computer Vision at Computer Vision Center of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).
  • September 2000 – September 2006
    BSc     in Computer Science and Multimedia at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).
Research positions
  • August 2011 - January 2012
    Research assistant     at the Centre for Cardiovascular and Lung Biology division of Medical Sciences. Ninewells Hospital. (Dundee, Scotland) on automatic stenosis detection on full body angiographic images.
  • September 2006 – September 2007
    Research assistant on the IRST (Infra-Red Search and Tracking) project developed at Ciencies de la Computació at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) for Tecnobit (Valdepeñas, Spain).
  • May 2006 – September 2007
    Research assistant     on the     LIDAR project developed at Ciencies de la Computació at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) for CIDA (Centro de investigación y desarrollo de la Armada) (Madrid, Spain).
    Research Interests
    • Medical Imaging | Vascular analysis | Image Registration | Retinal Image | MRI | Fluorescein Angiograms.
    Publications
    • [In Preparation] T. J. MacGillivray, A. Perez-Rovira, E. Trucco, K. S. Chin, A .Giachetti, C. Lupescu, D. Tegolo, P.J. Wilson, A. Doney, A. Laude, B. Dhillon, “VAMPIRE: Vessel Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the REtina”. Chapter 8 on “MULTI-MODALITY STATE-OF-THE-ART: HUMAN EYE IMAGING AND MODELING" EYK Ng, Raj, Tan and Jas (Eds) CRC.
    • [Submitted] V. Franco-Cardenas, C. J. Gee, D. Appap, K. Nishida, A. Ramirez, A. Perez-Rovira, K. Zutis, S. D. Schwartz, E. Trucco and J.P. Hubschman, “Assessment of retinal non-perfusion in vascular retinal diseases using single versus summarized ultra wide-field fluorescein angiography images”. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). 2012.
    • [In press] A. Perez-Rovira, R. Cabido, E. Trucco, S. McKenna, J.P. Hubschman, “RERBEE: Robust Elastic Registration via Bifurcations and Elongated Elements applied to retinal fluorescein angiogram sequences”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. [pdf] [url]
    • A. Perez-Rovira, K. Zutis, J.P. Hubschman and E. Trucco, "Improving vessel segmentation in ultra-wide field-of-view retinal fluorescein angiograms". Pp 2614-2617. 33rd International IEEE EMBS Conference (EMBC), Boston (USA). 2011. [pdf] [url] [bib]
    • A. Perez-Rovira, T. MacGillivray, E. Trucco, K.S. Chin, K. Zutis, C. Lupascu, D. Tegolo, A. Giachetti, P.J. Wilson, A. Doney, and B. Dhillon "VAMPIRE: Vessel Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the REtina". Pp 3391-3394. 33rd International IEEE EMBS Conference (EMBC), Boston (USA). 2011. [pdf] [url] [bib]
    • Stephenie Tiew, Adria Perez-Rovira, Manuel Trucco, Sajjad Mahmood, Paul Bishop, Tariq Aslam, “Experience in using the VAMPIRE retinal analysis tool to assess tortuosity in patients undergoing Bevacizumab (Avastin®) treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD)”. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). 2011. [url]
    • A. Perez-Rovira, E. Trucco, P. Wilson, J. Li, “Deformable Registration of Retinal Fluorescein Angiogram Sequences Using Vasculature Structures”. Pp. (1) 4383-4386. 32nd International IEEE EMBS Conference (EMBC). Buenos Aires (Argentina). 2010. [url] [pdf]
    • A. Perez-Rovira and E. Trucco “Contextual optic disc location in retinal fundus images”. Volume 57 Issue 2, Pp. 136-144. Journal of Modern Optics. 2010. [url] [pdf] [bib]
    • A. Perez-Rovira and E. Trucco "Robust optic disc location via combination of weak detectors”. Pp. 3542-3545. 30th International IEEE EMBS Conference (EMBC). Vancouver (Canada). 2008. [url] [pdf] [bib]
    • Adria Perez-Rovira and Emanuele Trucco. “Robust Optic Disc Location via Combination of Weak Detectors”. Pp 230-234. Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA). , Dundee (UK). 2008. [pdf]
    • B. Martínez, A. Pérez, L. Ferraz and X. Binefa. “Structure Restriction for Tracking Through Multiple Views and Occlusions”. Pp 121-128. 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA). Girona (Spain). 2007. [url]
    • Adria Perez-Rovira, Brais Martinez and Xavier Binefa. “Ground Plane Estimation Based on Virtual Camera Rotation”. Pp. 181-188. 10th Congrés Internacional de l’Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial (CCIA). Sant Julià de Lòria (Andorra). 2007. [url]
    Awards
    • Best presentation award at the Northern Research Partnership Graduate School Conference. Dundee (UK). January 2011.
    • Best presentation award at the Northern Research Partnership Graduate School Conference. Aberdeen (UK). March 2008.
    Invited Seminars and Conference Presentations
    • Public talk in Cafe Science Extra, "Computer Vision, Seeing the world through machine eyes". Dundee (Scotland). October 2011. [Press coverage] [url]
    • TJ MacGillivray, A Perez-Rovira, M Kirin, A Giachetti, J Liu, PJ Wilson, J Ellis, A Laude, B Dhillon, E Trucco "Vascular Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the REtina (VAMPIRE)" poster at Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Edinburgh (UK). June 2010. [pdf]
    • Invited seminar speaker on “Retinal Image Registration”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona (Spain). April 2010.
    • Poster presentation on “Retinal Fluorescein Angiogram Registration” Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance conference (SICSA). Edinburgh (UK). November 2009.
    • Oral presentation on “Robust detection of retinal landmarks”, Brit Mach Vision Association. Inst of Physics. “Imaging in the Eye” conference, London (UK). May 2008.
    Specialised Schools
    • Attended "Molecular and Medical Image Analysis and BioInformatics" Summer School. Lipari (Italy). July, 2009.
      Reviewer
      • Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
      Teaching
      • Lab tutor for Computer Vision MSc "Research Methods", University of Dundee. 2011.
      • Lab tutor for Applied computer "Java on-line", University of Dundee. 2010.
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