Dr. Ivan Macia Oliver, MSc, Ph.D. is a Director of Digital Health and Biomedical Technologies at the Vicomtech. He also leads the eHealth group at Biodonostia Health Research Institute, within the Bioengineering Area. He works closely with the Innovation Unit of Biodonostia in the development of translational research projects in cooperation with Donostia Hospital and other health and research institutions and companies.
His own research activities focus on biomedical imaging applications for computer-assisted advanced diagnostic, preoperative planning, intraoperative navigation, and advanced follow-up based on medical image segmentation, registration, quantification, analysis, and visualization technologies and are the author of about 40 publications in the medical image analysis and health domains.
He is currently involved in several Horizon 2020 projects in the eHealth area, involving decision support systems for clinicians and for patient self-management, Big Data analytics in the health domain, and medical image analysis. He is currently the coordinator of the H2020 Health project DESIREE – Decision Support and Information Management System for Breast Cancer.