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Ulises Cortés is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research spans the fields of computer science and medicine, focusing on topics that intersect artificial intelligence, medical imaging, and cognitive health. The main areas of study include artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, neurology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and clinical psychology.

The scientist has addressed several specific research topics, including:

  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Retinal Imaging and Analysis
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Among recent publications, the following papers stand out:

  • "The Fourth-Revolution in the Water Sector Encounters the Digital Revolution" (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Artificial Intelligence to Identify Retinal Fundus Images, Quality Validation, Laterality Evaluation, Macular Degeneration, and Suspected Glaucoma" (2020), Clinical Ophthalmology
  • "Neuropsychological impairment in post-COVID condition individuals with and without cognitive complaints" (2022), Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • "COVID-19 severity is related to poor executive function in people with post-COVID conditions" (2023), Journal of Neurology
  • "Fast Single Image Defogging With Robust Sky Detection" (2020), IEEE Access

Collaborative work features frequent co-authors such as Cristian Barruè, Javier Alonso, E. Ulises Moya-Sánchez, Mar Ariza, and Bàrbara Segura. Their research has been published in venues including arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Access, Environmental Science & Technology, Clinical Ophthalmology, and Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.

In addition to articles, Ulises Cortés has contributed to academic literature through book publications. One notable work is "Creativitat digital," published in 2023 by Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. Oficina de Publicacions Acadèmiques Digitals de la UPC eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Designing and building real environmental decision support systems

    Manel Poch;Joaquim Comas;Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda;Miquel Sànchez-Marrè

  • Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Decision Support Systems

    U. Cortés;M. Sànchez-Marrè;L. Ceccaroni;I. R-Roda

  • Transforming data into knowledge for improved wastewater treatment operation : A critical review of techniques

    Lluís Corominas;Manel Garrido-Baserba;Kris Villez;Gustaf Olsson

  • Fluid communities: a competitive, scalable and diverse community detection algorithm

    Ferran Parés;Dario Garcia Gasulla;Armand Vilalta;Jonatan Moreno

  • OntoWEDSS: augmenting environmental decision-support systems with ontologies

    Luigi Ceccaroni;Luigi Ceccaroni;Ulises Cortés;Miquel Sànchez-Marrè

  • Connectivity for Healthcare and Well-Being Management: Examples from Six European Projects

    Maged N Kamel Boulos;Ricardo Castellot Lou;Athanasios Anastasiou;Chris D Nugent

  • A comparative study on the use of similarity measures in case-based reasoning to improve the classification of environmental system situations

    Héctor Núñez;Miquel Sànchez-Marrè;Ulises Cortés;Joaquim Comas

  • A hybrid supervisory system to support WWTP operation: implementation and validation

    I.R. Rodriguez-Roda;M. Sànchez-Marrè;J. Comas;J. Baeza

  • The Fourth-Revolution in the Water Sector Encounters the Digital Revolution.

    Manel Garrido-Baserba;Lluís Corominas;Ulises Cortés;Diego Rosso

  • DAI-DEPUR: an integrated and distributed architecture for wastewater treatment plants supervision

    Miquel Sànchez;Ulises Cortés;Javier Lafuente;Ignasi R. Roda

  • On the Behavior of Convolutional Nets for Feature Extraction

    Dario Garcia-Gasulla;Ferran Parés;Armand Vilalta;Jonathan Moreno

  • A knowledge-based approach to the deflocculation problem: integrating on-line, off-line, and heuristic information.

    J Comas;I Rodrı́guez-Roda;M Sànchez-Marrè;U Cortés

  • Increasing Human-Organ Transplant Availability: Argumentation-Based Agent Deliberation

    P. Tolchinsky;U. Cortes;S. Modgil;F. Caballero

  • Artificial Intelligence to Identify Retinal Fundus Images, Quality Validation, Laterality Evaluation, Macular Degeneration, and Suspected Glaucoma.

    Miguel Angel Zapata;Dídac Royo-Fibla;Octavi Font;José Ignacio Vela

  • A new multi-criteria optimization strategy for shared control in wheelchair assisted navigation

    C. Urdiales;J. M. Peula;M. Fdez-Carmona;C. Barrué

  • Preferred extensions as stable models

    Juan carlos Nieves;Ulises CortÉs;Mauricio Osorio

  • Assistive technologies for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens: the e-Tools architecture

    Ulises Cortés;Roberta Annicchiarico;Javier Vázquez-Salceda;Cristina Urdiales

  • Concept Formation in WWTP by Means of Classification Techniques: ACompared Study

    Miquel Sànchez;Ulises Cortés;Javier Béjar;Joan De Grácia

  • CBR and Argument Schemes for Collaborative Decision Making

    Pancho Tolchinsky;Sanjay Modgil;Ulises Cortés;Miquel Sànchez-Marrè

  • Learning causal networks from datac a survey and a new algorithm for recovering possibilistic causal networks

    Ramon Sangüesa;Ulises Cortés

  • Preferred extensions as stable models

    Juan Carlos Nieves;Mauricio Osorio;Ulises Cortés

  • Fluid Communities: A Competitive, Scalable and Diverse Community Detection Algorithm

    Ferran Parés;Dario Garcia-Gasulla;Armand Vilalta;Jonatan Moreno

Frequent Co-Authors

Manel Poch
Manel Poch University of Girona
Eduard Ayguadé
Eduard Ayguadé Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Jesús Labarta
Jesús Labarta Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Joaquim Comas
Joaquim Comas University of Girona
Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda
Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda University of Girona
Javier Lafuente
Javier Lafuente Autonomous University of Barcelona
Dimitrios Tzovaras
Dimitrios Tzovaras Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Frank Dignum
Frank Dignum Umeå University
Peter McBurney
Peter McBurney King's College London

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