Education

09.2007 – 11.2011	PhD in “Registration and quantitative analysis of retinal images and sequences” under the supervision of Emanuele Trucco. Sponsored by OPTOS plc. and NRP at the School of Computing of the University of Dundee (UK). [thesis]
07.2009	Molecular and medical image analysis and bio-informatics summer school. Lipari (Italy).
09.2006 – 07.2007	MSc in computer vision at Computer Vision Centre of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).
02.2005 – 06.2005	Erasmus internship at École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne, (Brest, France).
09.2000 – 09.2006	BSc in computer science and multimedia at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

Working experience

08.2011 – 02.2012	Research assistant at the Centre for Cardiovascular & Lung Biology division of Medical Sciences. Ninewells Hospital. (Dundee, Scotland) on automatic stenosis detection on full body angiographic images.
09.2006 – 09.2007	Research assistant on the IRST (Infra-Red Search & Tracking) project developed at Ciencies de la Computació at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) for Tecnobit (Valdepeñas, Spain).
05.2006 – 09.2007	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).
10.2005 – 05.2006	Technical consultant in J2EE and web development at Atos Origin (Barcelona, Spain).

Publications

A. Perez-Rovira, E. Trucco, J. Weir-Mccall and G. Houston, “GroBa: Growing balloons for calibre measurement on stenotic lumens”. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2012), Rome (Italy), 2012. [pdf]

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. [url]

T. J. MacGillivray, A. Perez-Rovira, E. Trucco, K. S. Chin, A .Giachetti, C. Lupescu, D. Tegolo, P.J. Wilson, A. Doney, A. Laude and B. Dhillon, “VAMPIRE: Vessel Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the Retina”. Chapter 2 on “MULTI-MODALITY STATE-OF-THE-ART: HUMAN EYE IMAGING AND MODELING" E. Y. K. Ng; Jen Hong Tan; U. Rajendra Acharya; Jasjit S. Suri (Eds) CRC Press - 408 Pages. 2012. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439869932

A. Perez-Rovira, R. Cabido, E. Trucco, S. McKenna and J.P. Hubschman, “RERBEE: Robust Elastic Registration via Bifurcations and Elongated Elements applied to retinal fluorescein angiogram sequences”. Vol 31, Issue 1, Pp. 140-150. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2012. [pdf] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=6015556

 

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]
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=6090721

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]
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=6090918

S. Tiew, A. Perez-Rovira, M. Trucco, S. Mahmood, P. Bishop and T. 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 and 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. [pdf]
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=5627094

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. [pdf]
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500340903434526

A.  Perez-Rovira and E. 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]

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. [pdf]
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?arnumber=4649970

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]

A.  Perez-Rovira, B. Martinez and X. 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 (NRP) Graduate School Conference. Dundee (UK). January 2011. 

Best presentation award at the Northern Research Partnership (NRP) 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].

Invited seminar speaker on “Deformable registration of retinal FA sequences”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona (Spain). April 2010. [url]

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.

Reviewer  

Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABE). 

 

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.