• A machine learning model for emotion recognition from physiological signals 

      Domínguez-Jiménez, J.A.; Campo Landines, Kiara; Martínez-Santos, J.C.; De la Hoz Domínguez, Enrique José; Contreras Ortiz, Sonia Helena (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
      Emotions are affective states related to physiological responses. This study proposes a model for recognition of three emotions: amusement, sadness, and neutral from physiological signals with the purpose of developing a ...
    • Anatomical Pathology of the Umbilical Cord and Its Maternal and Fetal Clinical Associations in 434 Newborns 

      Olaya-C M.; Gil F.; Salcedo J.D.; Salazar A.J.; Silva J.L.; Bernal J.E. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)
      Introduction: Umbilical cord (UC) abnormalities and their clinical relations in 434 newborns were analyzed. We had previously reported on clinical associations of long and short UCs with any kind of malformation. This study ...
    • Ecotoxicological assessment of perchlorate using in vitro and in vivo assays 

      Acevedo Barrios, Rosa; Sabater-Marco C.; Olivero-Verbel J. (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      Perchlorate is an inorganic ion widespread in the environment, generated as a natural and anthropogenic pollutant, with known endocrine disruption properties in the thyroid gland. Nonetheless, there are few reports of its ...
    • Effectiveness of a visual noise warning system on noise levels in a surgical ICU: A quality improvement programme 

      Guisasola-Rabes M.; Solà-Enriquez B.; Vélez-Pereira A.M.; De Nadal M. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2019)
      BACKGROUNDThe effects of noise are harmful to patients in the ICU environment, and the latter are particularly noisy places. High noise levels seem to be a factor in sleep disturbance, which can, in turn, result in increased ...
    • Features of dengue and chikungunya infections of colombian children under 24 months of age admitted to the emergency department 

      Paternina-Caicedo A.; De la Hoz-Restrepo F.; Díaz-Quijano F.; Caicedo-Torres W.; Badillo-Viloria M.A.; Bula-Anichiarico D.; Alvis-Guzmán N.; Mattar S.; Constenla D.; Pinzón-Redondo H. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
      We aimed to assess clinical and laboratory differences between dengue and chikungunya in children <24 months of age in a comparative study. We collected retrospective clinical and laboratory data confirmed by NS1/IgM for ...
    • Genetic Advances in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 

      Guillén-Burgos H.F.; Gutiérrez-Ruíz, Karol (Elsevier Doyma, 2018)
      Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a condition that affects a subgroup of individuals that have suffered a previous traumatic event capable of generating changes at a psychological and behavioural level. These ...
    • Hand anthropometric study in northern Colombia 

      Oviedo-Trespalacios O.; Martínez Buelvas, Laura; Hernández J.; Escobar J. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2017)
      The main purpose of this study is to gather information about the dimensions of the northern Colombian (Caribbean region) population, focusing on the dimensions of the hand and comparing them with measurements from other ...
    • In silico drug repurposing for the identification of potential candidate molecules against arboviruses infection 

      Montes-Grajales D.; Puerta-Guardo H.; Espinosa D.A.; Harris E.; Caicedo-Torres W.; Olivero-Verbel J.; Martínez-Romero E. (Elsevier B.V., 2020)
      Arboviral diseases caused by dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV) and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses represent a major public health problem worldwide, especially in tropical areas where millions of infections occur every year. The aim ...
    • ISeeU: Visually interpretable deep learning for mortality prediction inside the ICU 

      Caicedo-Torres W.; Gutierrez J. (Academic Press Inc., 2019)
      To improve the performance of Intensive Care Units (ICUs), the field of bio-statistics has developed scores which try to predict the likelihood of negative outcomes. These help evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and ...
    • Male facial anthropometry and attractiveness 

      Soler C.; Kekäläinen J.; Núñez M.; Sancho M.; Núñez J.; Yaber Goenaga, Iván; Gutiérrez R. (2012)
      The symmetry and masculinity of the face are often considered important elements of male facial attractiveness. However, facial preferences are rarely studied on natural faces. We studied the effect of these traits and ...
    • Multi-output model with box-jenkins operators of quadratic indices for prediction of malaria and cancer inhibitors targeting ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) proteins 

      Casañola-Martín G.M.; Le-Thi-Thu H.; Pérez-Giménez F.; Marrero-Ponce Y.; Merino-Sanjuán M.; Abad C.; González-Díaz H. (Bentham Science Publishers B.V., 2016)
      The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) is the primary degradation system of short-lived regulatory proteins. Cellular processes such as the cell cycle, signal transduction, gene expression, DNA repair and apoptosis are ...
    • Overlap and diversity in antimicrobial peptide databases: Compiling a non-redundant set of sequences 

      Marrero-Ponce, Y.; Marrero-Ponce, Y.; Tellez-Ibarra, R.; Llorente-Quesada, M.T.; Salgado, J.; Barigye, S.J.; Liu, J. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Motivation: The large variety of antimicrobial peptide (AMP) databases developed to date are characterized by a substantial overlap of data and similarity of sequences. Our goals are to analyze the levels of redundancy for ...
    • Reply to: Effectiveness of a visual noise warning system on noise levels in a surgical ICU 

      De Nadal M.; Guisasola-Rabes M.; Sola-Enriquez B.; Velez-Pereira A.M. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2020)
    • Restoration of retinal images with space-variant blur 

      Marrugo A.G.; Millán M.S.; Šorel M.; Šroubek F. (2014)
      Retinal images are essential clinical resources for the diagnosis of retinopathy and many other ocular diseases. Because of improper acquisition conditions or inherent optical aberrations in the eye, the images are often ...
    • Robust automated reading of the skin prick test via 3D imaging and parametric surface fitting 

      Pineda J.; Vargas R.; Romero L.A.; Marrugo J.; Meneses J.; Marrugo A.G. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
      The conventional reading of the skin prick test (SPT) for diagnosing allergies is prone to inter- and intra-observer variations. Drawing the contours of the skin wheals from the SPT and scanning them for computer processing ...
    • Role of VEGF in the differential growth between the fetal and placental ends of the umbilical cord 

      Olaya-C M.; Michael F.; Fabian G.; Luis Silva J.; Bernal J.E.; Garzon A.L. (IOS Press, 2019)
      INTRODUCTION: The umbilical cord (UC) is a vital structure; its alterations affect the newborn and neurological impact can be permanent. Paradoxically, factors that determine it remain unknown. We explore the differential ...
    • Towards better BBB passage prediction using an extensive and curated data set 

      Brito-Sánchez Y.; Marrero-Ponce Y.; Barigye S.J.; Yaber Goenaga, Iván; Morell Pérez C.; Le-Thi-Thu H.; Cherkasov A. (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2015)
      In the present report, the challenging task of drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is addressed via a computational approach. The BBB passage was modeled using classification and regression schemes on a novel ...
    • Ultrasound image enhancement: A review 

      Contreras Ortiz, Sonia Helena; Chiu T.; Fox M.D. (2012)
      Medical ultrasound imaging uses pulsed acoustic waves that are transmitted and received by a hand-held transducer. This is a mature technology that it is widely used around the world. Among its advantages are that it is ...
    • Umbilical cord and preeclampsia 

      Olaya-C M.; Salcedo-Betancourt J.; Galvis S.H.; Ortiz A.M.; Gutierrezb S.; Bernal J.E. (IOS Press, 2016)
      Preeclampsia is associated with abnormalities in the umbilical cord in several ways: morphological, biochemical and functional. Alteration in blood vessels of the placenta, decidua and circulatory system of the fetus might ...
    • Volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere of Mexico City 

      Garzón, J.P.; Huertas, J.I.; Magaña, M.; Huertas, M.E.; Cárdenas, B.; Watanabe, T.; Maeda, T.; Wakamatsu, S.; Blanco, S. (Elsevier Ltd, 2015)
      The Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) is one of the most polluted megacities in North America. Therefore, it is an excellent benchmark city to understand atmospheric chemistry and to implement pilot countermeasures. Air ...

      Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar - 2017 Institución de Educación Superior sujeta a inspección y vigilancia por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional. Resolución No 961 del 26 de octubre de 1970 a través de la cual la Gobernación de Bolívar otorga la Personería Jurídica a la Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar.