Dr Mari-Cruz Villa-Uriol

PhD

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer

School Head of ED&I

Member of the Complex Systems Modelling research group

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m.villa-uriol@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)

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Dr Mari-Cruz Villa-Uriol
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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Dr Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and member of the Complex Systems Modelling research group at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is also member of the .

She holds a degree in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering (Barcelona, Spain), and a PhD in Computer Engineering (University of California, Irvine, USA).

Previously, she held a postdoctoral position (February 2006 - August 2012) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and a Research Fellow position at the University of Sheffield (Department of Mechanical Engineering, September 2012 - January 2015).

Research interests

Her main research interests are the personalisation of models using computational imaging and modelling techniques, the composition of scientific workflows, and the use and development of data-driven decision-making strategies to support clinical decisions using heterogeneous data sources such as personalised VPH (Virtual Physiological Human) models, clinical databases, and mobile sensors capturing a wide variety of variables describing an individual and his/her environment.

Her primary area of interest is in the cardiovascular domain with an emphasis in clinical translation.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Benemerito I, Ewbank F, Narracott A, Villa-Uriol M-C, Narata AP, Patel U, Bulters D & Marzo A (2025) . International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 20(1), 31-41.
  • Magallanes J, Stone T, Paul D M, Suzanne M, Wood S & Villa-Uriol M-C (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(1), 901-911.
  • Alfaidi MA, Chamberlain J, Rothman A, Crossman D, Villa-Uriol M-C, Hadoke P, Wu J, Schenkel T, Evans PC & Francis SE (2018) . Journal of the American Heart Association, 7(13).
  • Pozo Soler JM, Geeers AJ, Villa-Uriol MC & Frangi AF (2017) . Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 825, 704-742.
  • Luong L, Duckles H, Schenkel T, Mahmoud M, Lopez-Tremoleda JL, Wylezinska-Arridge M, Ali M, Bowden NP, Villa-Uriol M, van der Heiden K , Xing R et al (2016) . Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 116(1), 181-190.
  • Sarrami-Foroushani A, Villa-Uriol M-C, Esfahany MN, Coley SC, Di Marco LY, Frangi AF & Marzo A (2015) . ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 43(1), 207-221.
  • Perez F, Huguet J, Aguilar R, Lara L, Larrabide I, Villa-Uriol MC, López J, Macho JM, Rigo A, Rosselló J , Vera S et al (2013) . Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 110(3), 399-410.
  • Larrabide I, Villa-Uriol M-C, Cárdenes R, Barbarito V, Carotenuto L, Geers AJ, Morales HG, Pozo JM, Mazzeo MD, Bogunović H , Omedas P et al (2012) . Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 108(2), 806-819.
  • Bogunović H, Pozo JM, Cárdenes R, Villa-Uriol MC, Blanc R, Piotin M & Frangi AF (2012) . Med Image Anal, 16(4), 889-903.
  • Costalat V, Sanchez M, Ambard D, Thines L, Lonjon N, Nicoud F, Brunel H, Lejeune JP, Dufour H, Bouillot P , Lhaldky JP et al (2011) . J Biomech, 44(15), 2685-2691.
  • Morales HG, Kim M, Vivas EE, Villa-Uriol M-C, Larrabide I, Sola T, Guimaraens L & Frangi AF (2011) . AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 32(10), 1935-1941.
  • Larrabide I, Villa-Uriol MC, Cardenes R, Pozo JM, Macho J, San Roman L, Blasco J, Vivas E, Marzo A, Hose DR & Frangi AF (2011) . MED PHYS, 38(5), 2439-2449.
  • Zhang C, Villa-Uriol M-C, De Craene M, Pozo JM, Macho JM & Frangi AF (2011) . Med Phys, 38(3), 1294-1306.
  • Villa-Uriol MC, Berti G, Hose DR, Marzo A, Chiarini A, Penrose J, Pozo J, Schmidt JG, Singh P, Lycett R , Larrabide I et al (2011) . Interface Focus, 1(3), 308-319.
  • Bogunović H, Pozo JM, Villa-Uriol MC, Majoie CBLM, van den Berg R, Gratama van Andel HAF, Macho JM, Blasco J, Román LS & Frangi AF (2011) . Med Phys, 38(1), 210-222.
  • Pozo JM, Villa-Uriol M-C & Frangi AF (2011) . IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell, 33(3), 471-484.
  • Villa-Uriol MC, Larrabide I, Pozo JM, Kim M, Camara O, De Craene M, Zhang C, Geers AJ, Morales H, Bogunović H , Cardenes R et al (2010) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 368(1921), 2961-2982.
  • Larrabide I, Kim M, Augsburger L, Villa-Uriol MC, Rüfenacht D & Frangi AF (2010) Fast virtual deployment of self-expandable stents: Method and in vitro evaluation for intracranial aneurysmal stenting. Medical Image Analysis.
  • Singh PK, Marzo A, Coley SC, Berti G, Bijlenga P, Lawford PV, Villa-Uriol M-C, Rufenacht DA, McCormack KM, Frangi A , Patel UJ et al (2009) . Comput Intell Neurosci, 2009, 760364.
  • Zhang C, Villa-Uriol M-C, De Craene M, Pozo JM & Frangi AF (2009) . IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 28(7), 1105-1116.
  • Montana L, Magallanes J, Juarez M, Mason S, Narracott A, van Gemeren L, Wood S & Villa-Uriol M-C () EventBox: A novel visual encoding for interactive analysis of temporal and multivariate attributes in event sequences. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
  • Villa-Uriol M-C () Towards Multi-Faceted Visual Process Analytics. Information Systems.

Book chapters

  • Radaelli AG, Bogunović H, Villa Uriol MC, Cebral JR & Frangi AF (2015) , Handbook of Biomedical Imaging (pp. 199-217). Springer US

Conference proceedings

  • Montana L & Villa-Uriol MC (2025) Sequen-C Explorer for Process Mining. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4032 (pp 312-319)
  • Turner O, Morgan J, Sun Z, Juarez M, Villa-Uriol M-C, Tchkonia T, Kirkland JL, Griffin J, Bellantuono I & Wyld L (2024) Correlating frailty & senescence: a biomarker study. FUTURE ONCOLOGY, Vol. 20 (pp 17-18)
  • Turner O, Villa-Uriol M-C, Tchkonia T, Kirkland JL, Griffin J, Bellantuono I & Wyld L (2024) Degree of frailty impacts treatment & outcomes of breast cancer. FUTURE ONCOLOGY, Vol. 20 (pp 11-12)
  • Clegg B, Villa-Uriol M-C, McMinn P & Fraser G (2021) . 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET) (pp 60-65). Virtual conference, 25 May 2021 - 25 May 2021.
  • Magallanes-Castaneda J, van Gemeren L, Wood S & Villa-Uriol M-C (2019) . Proceedings of 2019 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 20 October 2019 - 20 October 2019.
  • Morales HG, Larrabide I, Kim M, Villa-Uriol M-C, Macho JM, Blasco J, San Roman L & Frangi AF (2011) . Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv, Vol. 14(Pt 1) (pp 355-362). Germany
  • Bisbal J, Engelbrecht G, Villa-Uriol MC & Frangi AF (2011) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6861 LNCS(PART 2) (pp 59-73)
  • Villa-Uriol MC, Larrabide I, Pozo JM, Kim M, De Craene M, Camara O, Zhang C, Geers AJ, Bogunović H, Morales H & Frangi AF (2011) (pp 327-349)
  • Valencia C, Villa-Uriol MC, Pozo JM & Frangi AF (2010) . Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, Vol. 2010 (pp 6046-6049). United States
  • Villa-Uriol MC, Larrabide I, Geers AJ, Pozo J, Bogunovic H, Mazzeo M, Omedas P, Barbarito V, Carotenuto L, Riccobene C , Planes X et al (2010) . Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, Vol. 2010 (pp 6801-6804). United States
  • Watton P, Villa-Uriol M, Selimovic A, Penrose J, Bogunovic H, Holzapfel GA & Ventikos Y (2010) A computational framework to explore the role of pulsatile haemodynamics on cerebral aneurysm development for patient-specific arterial geometries. Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB 2010). (pp 759-762)
  • Zhang C, Villa-Uriol MC & Frangi AF (2010) . Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7623(PART 1)
  • Zhang C, De Craene M, Villa-Uriol M-C, Pozo JM, Bijnens BH & Frangi AF (2009) . Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv, Vol. 12(Pt 1) (pp 140-147). Germany
  • Kim M, Larrabide I, Villa-Uriol MC & Frangi AF (2009) . Proceedings 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging from Nano to Macro Isbi 2009 (pp 1215-1218)
  • Villa-Uriol MC, Kuester F, Bagherzadeh N, Perez A & McCarthy JM (2004) (pp 171-180)

Digital content

  • Villa-Uriol M-C Home Page.

Preprints

  • Clegg B, Villa-Uriol M-C, McMinn P & Fraser G (2021) , arXiv.
Grants
  • OptiMUS-HF: Optimal target medication up-titration strategy in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, MRC, 01/2020 - 03/2021, £54,679, as Co-PI
  • SANO: , EC H2020, 08/2019 - 07/2026, £2,497,386, as Co-PI
  • Clever-dREAMS: Using artificial intelligence to enhance the diagnosis of rare skeletal dysplasias in children, MRC, 12/2019 - 03/2021, £74,668, as Co-PI
  • PathAnalyse, Health Foundation,09/2019 - 03/2021, £143,903, as PI
  • Early detection of Papilloedema and Diabetic Retinopathy, Innovate UK, 11/2018 - 02/2020, £58,611, as Co-PI
  • React to Red, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, 01/2019 - 03/2019, £7,500, as PI
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of IEEE professional society since 2000.
  • Organiser of AngioLab – Image assisted planning platform for the embolisation of cerebral aneurysms and AngioLab – A knowledge-based platform for patient-specific aneurysm management, treatment assessment and planning within the ESMINT (European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy) 2nd and 3rd Teaching Courses respectively held on 13th-18th December 2009, and 5th-10th December 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Both events had an attendance of 23 and 28 neuroradiologists.
  • Reviewer of journals such as IEEE Transactions of Medical Imaging, JAMIA, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, and Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and of conferences such as MICCAI.
  • Member of the EIBIR IMAGINE committee for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2013 organised by the European Society of Radiology (ESR).
  • Invited talk in the Interdisciplinary Cerebrovascular Symposium (ICS) 2014.
  • Balsells-Generalitat de Catalunya fellowship 2000.
  • Member of the  research group

Links

Complex Systems Modelling research group