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Javier Escudero Rodriguez

 

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Dr Javier Escudero Rodriguez - (Javier Escudero)

  • Job title: Post Doctoral Research Associate - Biomedical Outcome Measures, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Postal address: SMB208, Smeaton, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586295
  • Email: javier.escudero@plymouth.ac.uk


Professional membership
Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society since 2007. 


Teaching interests
Collaboration in the teaching of the following modules in the academic years 2010/11 and 2011/12, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth:

  • Information and Communication Signal Processing (ELEC327; BEng).
  • Advanced Signal Processing (ELEC503; MSc)
Teaching in the following modules in the academic year 2008/09, School of Telecommunications, University of Valladolid (Spain):
  • Telecommunications Systems (BEng in Telematics; 30 theoretical teaching hours).
  • Radiocommunications Technologies IV (MSc in Telecommunications Engineering; communications instrumentation, theoretical part of the module: 15 teaching hours, lab part of the module: 15 teaching hours).
 


Research interests

  • Biomedical signal processing.
  • Blind Source Separation (BSS).
  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetoencephalogram (MEG) recordings.
  • Data mining and machine learning.
  • Alzheimer's disease (AD).
  • Parkinson's disease (PD).
Sum of the Times Cited: 162
Average Citations per Article: 5.40
h-index: 9





Javier Escudero's profile in Google Scholar  


Conferences organised

  • Member of the Local arrangement team of the 15th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SPS2009), held in Cardiff, Wales, UK, between August 31st and September 3rd, 2009.
  • Member of the Organising Committee of the XXVI Annual Conference of the Spanish Bioengineering Society (CASEIB2008), held in Valladolid, Spain, between October 15th and 17th, 2008.
 

Chapters
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abásolo, D., Poza, J. & Fernández, A.  (2008)  'Applying Independent Component Analysis to the Artifact Detection Problem in Magnetoencephalogram Background Recordings' in Wickramasinghe N,Geisler E (ed.)  Encyclopedia of healthcare information systems  USA:  Medical Info Science Reference  pp 84 - 92
Abásolo, D., Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Espino, P. & Gómez, C.  (2008)  'Fractal dimension of the EEG in Alzheimer's disease' in Wickramasinghe N,Geisler E (ed.)  Encyclopedia of healthcare information systems  USA:  Medical Info Science Reference  pp 603 - 609
Gómez, C., Hornero, R., Abásolo, D., Fernández, A. & Escudero, J.  (2008)  'Regularity Analysis of the Magnetoencephalogram Background Activity in Alzheimer's Disease Patients Using Auto Mutual Information' in Wickramasinghe N,Geisler E (ed.)  Encyclopedia of healthcare information systems  USA:  Medical Info Science Reference  pp 1146 - 1152
Conference Papers
Escudero, J., Zajicek, JP. & Ifeachor, E.  (2011)  'Early detection and characterization of Alzheimer's disease in clinical scenarios using Bioprofile concepts and K-means.' United States  pp 6470 - 6473 , DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091597
Escudero, J., Zajicek, JP., Ifeachor, E. & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, .  (2011)  'Machine Learning classification of MRI features of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment subjects to reduce the sample size in clinical trials.' United States  pp 7957 - 7960 , DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091962
Al-Timemy, AH., Bugmann, G., Outram, N. & Escudero, J.  (2011)  'Single channel-based myoelectric control of hand movements with Empirical Mode Decomposition.' United States  pp 6059 - 6062 , DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091497
Abasolo, D., Hornero, R., Gomez, C., Escudero, J. & Espino, P.  (2009)  'Electroencephalogram Background Activity Characterization with Detrended Moving Average in Alzheimer's Disease Patients' 6th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing.  Budapest, HUNGARY  26/08/2009 - 28/08/2009  IEEE  pp 211 - 215
Poza, J., Hornero, R., Escudero, J., Fernandez, A. & Gomez, C.  (2008)  'Analysis of Spontaneous MEG Activity in Alzheimer's Disease Using Time-Frequency Parameters' 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  Vancouver, CANADA  20/08/2008 - 24/08/2008  IEEE  pp 5712 - 5715
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D. & Lopez, M.  (2008)  'On the Application of the Auto Mutual Information Rate of Decrease to Biomedical Signals' 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  Vancouver, CANADA  20/08/2008 - 24/08/2008  IEEE  pp 2137 - 2140
Gomez, C., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Fernandez, A. & Escudero, J.  (2007)  'Analysis of MEG recordings from Alzheimer's disease patients with sample and multiscale entropies' 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  Lyon, FRANCE  22/08/2007 - 26/08/2007  IEEE  pp 6184 - 6187
Poza, J., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Fernandez, A. & Escudero, J.  (2007)  'Analysis of spontaneous MEG activity in patients with Alzheimer's disease using spectral entropies' 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  Lyon, FRANCE  22/08/2007 - 26/08/2007  IEEE  pp 6180 - 6183
Abasolo, D., Hornero, R., Espino, P., Escudero, J. & Gomez, C.  (2007)  'Electroencephalogram background activity characterization with approximate entropy and auto mutual information in Alzheimer's disease patients' 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  Lyon, FRANCE  22/08/2007 - 26/08/2007  IEEE  pp 6192 - 6195
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Fernaandez, A. & Poza, J.  (2007)  'Magnetoencephalogram blind source separation and component selection procedure to improve the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease patients' 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  Lyon, FRANCE  22/08/2007 - 26/08/2007  IEEE  pp 5437 - 5440
Gomez, C., Hornero, R., Fernandez, A., Abasolo, D., Escudero, J. & Lopez, M.  (2006)  'Magnetoencephalogram background activity analysis in Alzheimer's disease patients using auto mutual information' 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  New York, NY  30/08/2006 - 03/09/2006  IEEE  pp 312 - 315
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Poza, J., Fernandez, A. & Lopez, M.  (2006)  'Rejection of artifact sources in magneto encephalogram background activity using independent component analysis' 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society.  New York, NY  30/08/2006 - 03/09/2006  IEEE  pp 273 - 276
Internet Publications
Gómez, C., Poza, J., Escudero, J., Abásolo, D., Fernández, A. & Hornero, R.  (2010)  'Aplicación de métodos no lineales a las señales de magnetoencefalograma para valorar el daño cerebral en enfermos de deterioro cognitivo leve'
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abásolo, D. & Fernández, A.  (2010)  'Comparison of Blind Source Separation Preprocessings Applied to Magnetoencephalogram Recordings to Improve the Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients'
Journals
Articles
Mendez, MA., Zuluaga, P., Hornero, R., Gómez, C., Escudero, J., Rodríguez-Palancas, A., Ortiz, T. & Fernández, A.  (2011)  'Complexity analysis of spontaneous brain activity: effects of depression and antidepressant treatment.' J Psychopharmacol  ,  , DOI: 10.1177/0269881111408966
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abásolo, D. & Fernández, A.  (2011)  'Quantitative evaluation of artifact removal in real magnetoencephalogram signals with blind source separation.' Ann Biomed Eng  39  (8),  pp 2274 - 2286 , DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0312-7
Escudero, J., Sanei, S., Jarchi, D., Abásolo, D. & Hornero, R.  (2011)  'Regional coherence evaluation in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease based on adaptively extracted magnetoencephalogram rhythms.' Physiol Meas  32  (8),  pp 1163 - 1180 , DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/32/8/011
Escudero, J., Zajicek, JP. & Ifeachor, E.  (2011)  'Selection of subjects for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment with machine learning analysis of MRI and CSF biomarkers.' Trials  12 Suppl 1,  p A18 , DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-S1-A18
Escudero, J., Hornero, R. & Abasolo, D.  (2010)  'Consistency of the blind source separation computed with five common algorithms for magnetoencephalogram background activity' MED ENG PHYS  32  (10),  pp 1137 - 1144 , DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.08.005
Gomez, C., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Fernandez, A. & Escudero, J.  (2009)  'Analysis of MEG Background Activity in Alzheimer's Disease Using Nonlinear Methods and ANFIS' ANN BIOMED ENG  37  (3),  pp 586 - 594 , DOI: 10.1007/s10439-008-9633-6
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D. & Fernandez, A.  (2009)  'Blind source separation to enhance spectral and non-linear features of magnetoencephalogram recordings. Application to Alzheimer's disease' MED ENG PHYS  31  (7),  pp 872 - 879 , DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.04.003
Fernandez, A., Quintero, J., Hornero, R., Zuluaga, P., Navas, M., Gomez, C., Escudero, J., Garcia-Campos, N., Biederman, J. & Ortiz, T.  (2009)  'Complexity Analysis of Spontaneous Brain Activity in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnostic Implications' BIOL PSYCHIAT  65  (7),  pp 571 - 577 , DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.046
Escudero, J., Hornero, R. & Abasolo, D.  (2009)  'Interpretation of the auto-mutual information rate of decrease in the context of biomedical signal analysis. Application to electroencephalogram recordings' PHYSIOL MEAS  30  (2),  pp 187 - 199 , DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/30/2/006
Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Escudero, J. & Gomez, C.  (2009)  'Nonlinear analysis of electroencephalogram and magnetoencephalogram recordings in patients with Alzheimer's disease' PHILOS T R SOC A  367  (1887),  pp 317 - 336 , DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0197
Abasolo, D., Hornero, R., Escudero, J. & Espino, P.  (2008)  'A study on the possible usefulness of detrended fluctuation analysis of the electroencephalogram background activity in Alzheimer's disease' IEEE T BIO-MED ENG  55  (9),  pp 2171 - 2179 , DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.923145
Abasolo, D., Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Gomez, C. & Espino, P.  (2008)  'Approximate entropy and auto mutual information analysis of the electroencephalogram in Alzheimer's disease patients' MED BIOL ENG COMPUT  46  (10),  pp 1019 - 1028 , DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0392-1
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Poza, J., Abasolo, D. & Fernandez, A.  (2008)  'Assessment of classification improvement in patients with Alzheimer's disease based on magnetoencephalogram blind source separation' ARTIF INTELL MED  43  (1),  pp 75 - 85 , DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.01.001
Ortiz, T., Martinez, AM., Fernandez, A., Maestu, F., Campo, P., Hornero, R., Escudero, J. & Poch, J.  (2008)  'Impact of auditory stimulation at a frequency of 5 Hz in verbal memory' ACTAS ESP PSIQUIATRI  36  (6),  pp 307 - 313
Poza, J., Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Fernandez, A. & Sanchez, CI.  (2008)  'Regional analysis of spontaneous MEG rhythms in patients with Alzheimer's disease using spectral entropies' ANN BIOMED ENG  36  (1),  pp 141 - 152 , DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9402-y
Hornero, R., Escudero, J., Fernandez, A., Poza, J. & Gomez, C.  (2008)  'Spectral and nonlinear analyses of MEG background activity in patients with Alzheimer's disease' IEEE T BIO-MED ENG  55  (6),  pp 1658 - 1665 , DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.919872
Gomez, C., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Fernandez, A. & Escudero, J.  (2007)  'Analysis of the magnetoencephalograrn background activity in Alzheimer's disease patients with auto-mutual information' COMPUT METH PROG BIO  87  (3),  pp 239 - 247 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.07.001
Escudero, J., Hornero, R., Abasolo, D., Fernandez, A. & Lopez-Coronado, M.  (2007)  'Artifact removal in magnetoencephalogram background activity with independent component analysis' IEEE T BIO-MED ENG  54  (11),  pp 1965 - 1973 , DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.994968
Escudero, J., Abasolo, D., Hornero, R., Espino, P. & Lopez, M.  (2006)  'Analysis of electroencephalograms in Alzheimer's disease patients with multiscale entropy' PHYSIOL MEAS  27  (11),  pp 1091 - 1106 , DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/27/11/004
Letters
Escudero, J., Abasolo, D., Hornero, R., Espino, P. & Lopez, M.  (2007)  'Reply to Comment on 'Analysis of electroencephalograms in Alzheimer's disease patients with multiscale entropy'' PHYSIOL MEAS  28  (12),  pp L3 - L7 , DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/12/L02

Other academic activities
Reviewer for several journals indexed in the Journal Citations Report, including:

  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
  • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
  • Medical Engineering & Physics.
  • Physiological Measurement.
  • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing.
Reviewer for scientific conferences including:
  • 33rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC11).
  • 32nd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC10).
  • 31st International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC09).
  • 30th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC08).
 


Links
Researcher ID: B-4185-2008


Third Place and Geographic Finalist (European Region) for the EMBS Student Paper Competition held at the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Lyon, France, August 23-26, 2007). Work title: Magnetoencephalogram Blind Source Separation and Component Selection Procedure to Improve the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Patients.