Nicolás Vila-Blanco

Office 206, CiTIUS

Jenaro de la Fuente

15705 Santiago de Compostela

Hi, I’m Nico, and I work as an Associate Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela. I’m also affiliated with CiTIUS, the Research Center for Intelligent Technologies. My research focuses on the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Medical Imaging.

Selected publications

IJLM

A systematic overview of dental methods for age assessment in living individuals: from traditional to artificial intelligence-based approaches

Nicolas Vila-Blanco, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Inmaculada Tomas, and Maria J Carreira

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023

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@article{2023_systematic_review,
  title = {A systematic overview of dental methods for age assessment in living individuals: from traditional to artificial intelligence-based approaches},
  author = {Vila-Blanco, Nicolas and Varas-Quintana, Paulina and Tomas, Inmaculada and Carreira, Maria J},
  journal = {International Journal of Legal Medicine},
  volume = {137},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1117--1146},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/s00414-023-02960-z},
}

CMPB

XAS: Automatic yet eXplainable Age and Sex determination by combining imprecise per-tooth predictions

Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Ángela Aneiros-Ardao, Inmaculada Tomás, and María J Carreira

Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022

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@article{2022_XAS,
  title = {XAS: Automatic yet eXplainable Age and Sex determination by combining imprecise per-tooth predictions},
  author = {Vila-Blanco, Nicolás and Varas-Quintana, Paulina and Aneiros-Ardao, Ángela and Tomás, Inmaculada and Carreira, María J},
  journal = {Computers in Biology and Medicine},
  volume = {149},
  pages = {106072},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106072},
}

TMI

Deep neural networks for chronological age estimation from OPG images

Nicolas Vila-Blanco, Maria J Carreira, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Carlos Balsa-Castro, and Inmaculada Tomas

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2020

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@article{2020_ieee_tmi,
  title = {Deep neural networks for chronological age estimation from OPG images},
  author = {Vila-Blanco, Nicolas and Carreira, Maria J and Varas-Quintana, Paulina and Balsa-Castro, Carlos and Tomas, Inmaculada},
  journal = {{IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging}},
  volume = {39},
  number = {7},
  pages = {2374--2384},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TMI.2020.2968765},
}