Radiomics

Radiomics Team

Raquel Perez-Lopez

Team Leader

Raquel Perez-Lopez is the team leader of the Radiomics Group at VHIO, and consultant Radiologist at Vall d’Hebron Hospital, within the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus. Her work aims to develop novel non-invasive imaging biomarkers in oncology to improve cancer patient care.

Francesco Grussu

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Francesco joined VHIO in 2020. His research aims to develop novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques for liver microstructure measurement, potentially useful in oncology. He is also involved in designing MRI acquisition and analysis pipelines in the clinical studies of the Radiomics Group.

Alonso Garcia-Ruiz

Predoctoral Researcher

Alonso is a biomedical engineer and has been member of the Radiomics team since 2018. He is currently pursuing his PhD, working on whole-body diffusion MRI as a biomarker of bone metastases, and on brain perfusion MRI for tumour characterization.

Olivia Prior Palomares

Predoctoral Researcher

Olivia is a biomedical engineer who joined VHIO in 2021. Her research is focused on new imaging biomarkers identification and intratumor/microenvironment heterogeneity exploration.

Carlos Macarro

Predoctoral Researcher

Carlos is a biomedical engineer who joined the Radiomics group in 2022. His main focus is on MRI image processing and analysis to identify new imaging biomarkers of tumoral senescence.

Adrià Marcos

Data Science Engineer

Adrià joined the Radiomics group in 2023 after finishing his studies in Physics Engineering and Data Science Engineering in the UPC CFIS double engineering program. His current field of research is the usage of Federated Learning for inter-institutional collaborative healthcare+AI projects and the

Anna Voronova

Predoctoral Researcher

Anna Voronova is a biomedical engineer that joined the Radiomics group at VHIO in 2022. Anna’s research centers on Artificial Intelligence and computational dMRI methods for application in earlier metastasis detection and tumour microenvironment characterisation for treatment evaluation.

Athanasios Grigoriou

Predoctoral Researcher

Athanasios is a mechanical engineer with a focus in computational methods that joined the Radiomics group in the Fall of 2022 as a PhD candidate. His research is focused on computational MRI methods coupled with artificial intelligence with the aim of earlier cancer detection, treatment

Camilo Monreal

Computer Scientist

Camilo is a Computer Scientist with a Master in Logic and AI who joined the Radiomics group in 2021. One of his main roles in the group is to provide support in the group’s computational cluster while enabling the development and implementation of final end-user applications.

Christina Zatse

Data Curator

Christina has recently joined the Radiomics groups as a Data Curator. She has studied Physics in Athens, specializing in Nuclear and Particle Physics and completed her Master in Computational Biomedical Engineering at UPF in Barcelona. Her addition to the team is mainly to organize and maintain the

Daniel Navarro García

Research technician

Daniel joined the group in November 2023 after finishing an MSc in bioinformatics at Vrije University of Amsterdam and being intern for one year at The Netherlands Cancer Institue. His main project involves the integration of multimodal data for the prediction of immunotherapy response using deep

Humaira Abdul Ghafoor

Predoctoral Researcher

Humaira joined the Radiomics group in March 2023. Her research is focused on biomedical imaging. She has studied software engineering, specialising in Machine learning.

Nikolaos Staikoglou

MSc student

Nikolaos (Nikos) is a Medical Doctor with training in Radiology. His research in VHIO is focused on identifying CT radiomics signatures in patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, treated with immunotherapy agents.

Maria Balaguer

Research Assistant

Maria is a biomedical engineer student who joined the Radiomics group in 2021. She’s focusing her final degree project on developing PET-CT-based radiomics signatures to predict response in patients with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma treated with CART T-cells.


Alumni


Kinga Bernatowicz

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Driven by scientific curiosity, Kinga has gained a broad range of expertise in engineering, medical physics and environmental science. She joined VHIO in November 2019 and has focused on investigating tumor heterogeneity and integrating multi-omics data in predictive models for immunotherapy.

Caterina Tozzi

Postdoctoral Researcher

After receiving a doctorate in applied mathematics, Caterina joined the Radiomics group in 2022. So far, her work based on mathematical and computational modelling in the study of biomedical systems. Now her research aims to integrate advanced imaging analysis with 3D molecular characterization.

Marta Ligero

Predoctoral Researcher

Marta is a biomedical engineer who joined the Radiomics group in 2018. She’s focused on the implementation of artificial intelligence for developing CT-based radiomics biomarkers of response to immunotherapy. She also has research interest in radiomics variability and biological translation.

Ella Fokkinga

MSc student

Ella is a Biomedical Engineering student at the Delft University of Technology. She has joined the Radiomics group in September 2022, to do her master thesis here. In 2019, she obtained a BSc in Clinical Technology, also at TU Delft. The focus of her thesis is on estimating histological properties

Bente Gielen

MSc student

Bente joined the Radiomics Group in September 2022 for her master thesis. She studies biomedical engineering at the technical university of Delft, the Netherlands. Bente obtained a BS. in Biomedical Physics and Technology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (2019).

Andreu Antolin

Radiology Resident

Andreu is a radiology resident at Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona). He joined the Radiomics group in mid-2021 and gives support to the team in specific tasks such as image interpretation, labeling and radiomics-based model development. He is interested in the application of AI in the field

Arnau Farré Melero

Undergraduate Student

Arnau is a physicist and a biomedical engineering student who joined the Radiomics group in 2022. He is focusing his curricular internship on developing a CT-based radiomics signature for the classification of colorectal cancer patients and injuries, framed in the COLOSSUS project.

Iker Zubieta

Master Student

Iker is a mathematician who joined the Radiomics group in 2022. He is focused on studying tumor heterogeneity. Iker obtained a BS. in Mathematics from Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

Júlia Ibañez Massa

Undergraduate student

Júlia is a biomedical engineering student who joined the Radiomics group in 2022. She was granted with a BBVA Summer Internship to develop a CT-based signature to classify colorectal cancer patients into further subtypes in the framework of the EU-funded COLOSSUS project.