Alvaro Fernandez Quilez

Førsteamanuensis i kunstig intelligens

Alvaro Fernandez Quilez

Kontakt

E-post: alvaro.f.quilez@uis.no

Sted: KE-E437

Organisasjonsenhet

Det teknisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet

Institutt for data- og elektroteknologi

Kort om meg

I'm currently an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of Stavanger). I am also leading Stavanger AI Laboratory (SAIL), the AI research network at the University of Stavanger. 

Courses

I am the coordinator of:

       ·  DAT105 - AI for everyone (https://www.uis.no/nb/student/course/DAT105_1)

I am/have been a guest lecturer in:

       · (Master level) BIO510 - Bioinformatics (https://www.uis.no/nb/course/BIO510_1) Topic: Foundations of AI in healthcare

       · (Master level, discontinued) DIG503 - Technological foundations  (https://www.uis.no/en/course/DIG503_1) Topic: Foundations of AI.

       · (PhD level) DUH205 - PhD ethics (https://www.uis.no/en/course/DUH205) Topic: AI and ethics

I have also been a lecturer in non-recurring courses/workshops:

       · (PhD level) Generative AI for PhD candidates - "How to navigate generative AI as a PhD candidate"

       · (Bachelor/Master level) Getting started with generative AI (NITO)

Teaching competences

PhD supervisory qualification program (100 hours, 2025)

Dette forsker jeg på

Most of my research occurs within the fields of responsible AI and AI for decision-making, with a particular interest in healthcare and education applications. 

Some examples of on-going or past research projects can be found in my google scholar.

Akademisk bakgrunn

I hold a PhD in AI and oncological medical imaging, obtained at the University of Stavanger (Health faculty, Department of Quality and Health Technology). My educational background is in Telecommunications Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain), Computational Biomedical Engineering (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) and Physics (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) with mentions in the field of AI.

Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Hammonds, Solveig Kristina; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Oppedal, Ketil; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2024)

Unraveling Gender Fairness Analysis in Deep Learning Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease. I: 2024 4th International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAPAI).

IEEE conference proceedings.

ISBN 979-8-3503-4976-4.

DOI: 10.1109/ICAPAI61893.2024.10541140

Gade, Marius; Nguyen, Kevin Mekhaphan; Vedde, Sol Gedde; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2024)

Impact of uncertainty quantification through conformal prediction on volume assessment from deep learning-based MRI prostate segmentation.

Insights into Imaging.

ISSN 1869-4101.

Volum 15.

Hefte 1.

DOI: 10.1186/s13244-024-01863-w

Nguyen, Kevin Mekhaphan; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2024)

Segmentation Uncertainty with Statistical Guarantees in Prostate MRI.

European Signal Processing Conference.

ISSN 2076-1465.

s.1636-1640.

DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63174.2024.10715449

Rolfsnes, Erlend Sortland; Thangngat, Philip; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Nordström, Tobias; Jäderling, Fredrik; Eklund, Martin; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2024)

On Undesired Emergent Behaviors in Compound Prostate Cancer Detection Systems.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

ISSN 0302-9743.

Volum 15199.

s.73-82.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-73376-5_7

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Andersen, Christoffer Gabrielsen; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Oppedal, Ketil

(2023)

3D Masked Modelling Advances Lesion Classification in Axial T2w Prostate MRI.

Proceedings of the Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop.

Volum 4.

DOI: 10.7557/18.6787

Anaya-Isaza, Andres; Mera-Jimenez, Leonel; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2023)

CrossTransUnet: A New Computationally Inexpensive Tumor Segmentation Model for Brain MRI.

IEEE Access.

ISSN 2169-3536.

Volum 11.

s.27066-27085.

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3257767

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Nordström, Jon Tobias; Jäderling, Fredrik; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Eklund, Martin

(2023)

Prostate Age Gap: An MRI Surrogate Marker of Aging for Prostate Cancer Detection.

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

ISSN 1053-1807.

DOI: 10.1002/jmri.29090

Kurbatskaya, Anna; Jaramillo-Jiménez, Alberto; Ochoa-Gomez, John Fredy; Brønnick, Kolbjørn Kallesten; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2023)

Assessing Gender Fairness in EEG-Based Machine Learning Detection of Parkinson's Disease: A Multi-Center Study.

European Signal Processing Conference.

ISSN 2076-1465.

DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289837

Kurbatskaya, Anna; Jaramillo-Jiménez, Alberto; Ochoa-Gomez, John Fredy; Brønnick, Kolbjørn Kallesten; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2023)

Machine Learning-Based Detection of Parkinson’s Disease From Resting-State EEG: A Multi-Center Study.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).

ISSN 2694-0604.

DOI: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340700

Pons, Maria Isabel; Mill, Jordi; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Olivares, Andy L.; Silva, Etelvino; De Potter, Tom; Camara, Oscar

(2022)

Joint Analysis of Morphological Parameters and In Silico Haemodynamics of the Left Atrial Appendage for Thrombogenic Risk Assessment.

Journal of Interventional Cardiology.

ISSN 0896-4327.

Volum 2022.

s.1-10.

DOI: 10.1155/2022/9125224

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Goodwin, Morten; Oppedal, Ketil

(2022)

Contrasting Axial T2W MRI for Prostate Cancer Triage: A Self-Supervised Learning Approach.

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.

ISSN 1945-7928.

DOI: 10.1109/ISBI52829.2022.9761573

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Goodwin, Morten; Oppedal, Ketil

(2022)

Multi-Planar T2W MRI for an Improved Prostate Cancer Lesion Classification.

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.

ISSN 1945-7928.

DOI: 10.1109/ISBI52829.2022.9761514

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Oppedal, Ketil

(2022)

Learning to triage by learning to reconstruct: a generative self-supervised approach for prostate cancer based on axial T2w MRI.

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering.

ISSN 0277-786X.

Volum 12033.

DOI: 10.1117/12.2610623

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Parvez, Omer; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Oppedal, Ketil

(2022)

Improving prostate cancer triage with GAN-based synthetically generated prostate ADC MRI.

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering.

ISSN 0277-786X.

Volum 12033.

DOI: 10.1117/12.2606557

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Ullah, Habib; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Oppedal, Ketil

(2022)

One class to rule them all: detection and classification of prostate tumors presence in bi-parametric MRI based on auto-encoders.

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering.

ISSN 0277-786X.

Volum 12033.

DOI: 10.1117/12.2602884

Minne, Petter; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Aarsland, Dag; Ferreira, Daniel; Westman, Eric; Lemstra, Afina W.; Ten Kate, Mara; Padovani, Alessandro; Rektorova, Irene; Bonnani, Laura; Nobili, Flavio Mariano; Kramberger, Milica G.; Taylor, John-Paul; Hort, Jakub; Snædal, Jon; Blanc, Frederic; Antonini, Angelo; Oppedal, Ketil

(2022)

A study on 3D classical versus GAN-based augmentation for MRI brain image to predict the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease in a European multi-center study.

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering.

ISSN 0277-786X.

Volum 12033.

DOI: 10.1117/12.2611339

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro

(2022)

Deep learning for an improved diagnostic pathway of prostate cancer in a small multi-parametric magnetic resonance data regime.

Universitetet i Stavanger.

ISBN 978-82-8439-090-1.

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Larsen, Steinar Valle; Goodwin, Morten; Gulsrud, Thor Ole; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Oppedal, Ketil

(2021)

Improving prostate whole gland segmentation in T2-weighted MRI with synthetically generated data. I: 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI).

IEEE conference proceedings.

ISBN 9781665412469.

s.1915-1919.

DOI: 10.1109/ISBI48211.2021.9433793

Castellanos-Perilla, Nicolas; Borda, Miguel Germán; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Aarsland, Vera Vårin Birkemo; Sønnesyn, Hogne; Cano-Gutierrez, Carlos Alberto

(2020)

Factors associated with functional loss among community‐dwelling Mexican older adults.

Biomédica.

ISSN 0120-4157.

Volum 40.

Hefte 3.

s.546-556.

DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.5380

Formidling

Wetzer, Elisabeth; Kozyri, Elisavet; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Razavian, Nages

(2024)

Panel Discussion on "Diversity in AI".

Diversity in AI Event at Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference;

2024-01-09.

Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Tjersland, Trond; Podhraski, Andrijana; Gonzalez Velez, Maria Camila; Oppedal, Ketil

(2021)

EARLY DETECTION OF PSYCHOSIS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE BASED ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH.

International Conference on Alzheimer's&Parkinson's diseases;

2021-02-01 - 2021-02-05.