The Instituto de Aplicaciones de las TIC Avanzadas (ITACA) has the mission to be a centre of excellence in the research and development of Information and Communication Technologies, with the purpose of innovating and transferring its products and services to the society.

Role in HealthAgents

ITACA is heavily involved in the construction of Pattern Recognition components through Ibime Group.

Background

It belongs to the Universidad Politécnica de València, a 25 years old institution which academic community is formed by 29,000 students with a wide repertoire of degrees and post graduate degrees in Telecommunications Engineering, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Architecture and Computing Engineering. ITACA is formed by research and development (R&D) groups of different departments that work on different issues in the field of telecommunications participating in European, National and Regional R&D programs. The main R&D areas are: “Digital Design Systems”, “Applied Electromagnetism”, “Optical Fiber Radio Systems”, “Fault tolerant systems”, “Broad Bandwidth Network Interconnection”, “Parallel computation” and “Bioengineering, Electronics and Tele-Medicine (BET)”.

People

Montserrat Robles. Professor of applied physics and head of the Ibime group in ITACA. Her research interest include pattern recognition, bioinformatics, medical imaging, and medical information systems.

Other projects

eTUMOUR: Web accessible MR decision support system for brain tumour diagnosis and prognosis, incorporating in vivo and ex vivo genomic and metabolomic data. Funding: European Commission–FP6 Programme (1/2/2004–1/2/2009). Coordinator: Universitat de València  with 21 partners; INBIOMED: Platform of storage, integration and analysis of clinical, genetic and epidemiologists data, and images oriented to the investigation on pathologies. Biomedical Computer science. Funding: Ministry of Health and Consumption. General subdivision of sanitary Investigation. Thematic networks of cooperative investigation (01-01-03–31-12-2005). Main researcher: Fernando Martín. N of researchers: 11 groups; Decision support system in medical diagnosis by means of Form Recognition techniques. Funding: Universidad Politécnica de València  (27/09/2001–27/09/2003). Main researcher: Montserrat Robles. N of researchers: 10; Framework based upon semantic web technologies for the management of standardised federated electronic health records. Funding: Ministry of Science and Technology (2004–2007). Main researcher: Montserrat Robles.