General data
Erick Jorge Canales Rodríguez, MSc, PhD.
e-mails: ejcanalesr@gmail.com, erick.canalesrodriguez@epfl.ch
My research interests lie at the intersection between physics, mathematical modelling, computer science, and neuroscience. My research contributions focus on developing novel techniques to study the brain tissues using different Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) modalities and applying these computational methods to brain imaging data to study various brain disorders.
Keywords
Neuroimaging, Diffusion-Weighted MRI, High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI), Q-Space Imaging, Spherical Deconvolution, Tissue Microstructure, Myelin Water Imaging, Multi-component T2 Relaxometry, Bayesian Probability Theory, Inverse Problems, Sparse representation, Machine Learning.
Peer-review activities
Associate Editor for Brain Imaging Methods, Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Neuroimaging
Editor for Brain Sciences, Journal of Radiology and Clinical Imaging, and SCIREA Journal of Clinical Medicine
Review Editor for Neuroimaging and Stimulation, Frontiers in Psychiatry
Journal Reviewer for Neuroimage
Journal Reviewer for Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Journal Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Journal Reviewer for Medical Image Analysis
Journal Reviewer for Schizophrenia Bulletin
Journal Reviewer for PLoS One
Journal Reviewer for Journal of Affective Disorders
Journal Reviewer for Brain Connectivity
Journal Reviewer for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Journal Reviewer for Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
Reviewer for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Grant Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (USA)
Experience
01/08/2020 - to date: Senior Researcher, Group Leader, SNSF "Ambizione" Research Fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
06/02/2019 - 31/07/2020: Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Sara Borrell Programme (National Institute of Health Carlos III), FIDMAG Research Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
01/01/2017 - 31/12/2018: Postdoctoral Researcher (1er Assistant Universitaire), Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
06/02/2016 - 31/12/2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, FIDMAG Research Foundation and CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain.
25/05/2008 - 05/02/2016: Researcher, FIDMAG Research Foundation and CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain.
01/01/2004 - 01/09/2007: Researcher, Neuroimaging Laboratory, Neurophysics Department, Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana, Cuba.
01/09/2003 - 30/12/2003: Junior Researcher & Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana "José Antonio Echeverría" Havana, Cuba.
Research stays (> 1 month)
May-June 2023: Visiting Scientist, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff, Wales, UK.
June & October 2022: Visiting Scientist, Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) & Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
01/09/2018 - 31/12/2018: Visiting Scientist, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Awards
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics Editor’s Pick 2021: Robust Monte-Carlo Simulations in Diffusion-MRI: Effect of the Substrate Complexity and Parameter Choice on the Reproducibility of Results. Jonathan Rafael-Patino, David Romascano, Alonso Ramirez-Manzanares, Erick Jorge Canales-Rodríguez, Gabriel Girard, Jean-Philippe Thiran.
Award of the Swiss National Science Foundation: Ambizione Research Fellow (2020).
First Place (Overall and HCP winner): IronTrack Challenge 2019, organized during the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2019) Conference, 13-17 Oct 2019, Shenzhen, China. Team: Gabriel Girard, Erick J. Canales-Rodríguez, Muhamed Barakovic, Jonathan Rafael-Patino, Thomas Yu, Gaëtan Rensonnet, Simona Schiavi, Alessandro Daducci, Marco Pizzolato, Elda Fischi-Gomez, Jean-Philippe Thiran.
Award of the National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain: Sara Borrell postdoctoral fellowship (2019).
First Place: Macaque Validation Challenge at the 3-D Validation of Tractography with Experimental MRI (3D VoTEM), organized within the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018), April 4-7, 2018, Washington, D.C. (USA). Team: Gabriel Girard, Erick J. Canales-Rodríguez, Muhamed Barakovic, Mario Ocampo, Jonathan Rafael-Patino, David Romascano, Gaëtan Rensonnet, Marco Pizzolato, Alice Bates, Elda Fischi, Simona Schiavi, Alessandro Daducci, Jean-Philippe Thiran.
"Vila Saborit" Prize of the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (Societat Catalana de Psiquiatría i Salut Mental) to the most outstanding article published in 2016: Brain structural changes in schizoaffective disorder compared to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, by Amann BL, Canales-Rodríguez E, Madre M, Radua J, Monte G, Alonso-Lana S, Landin-Romero R, Moreno-Alcázar A, Bonnin CM, Sarró S, Ortiz-Gil J, Gomar JJ, Moro N, Fernandez-Corcuera P, Goikolea JM, Blanch J, Salvador R, Vieta E, McKenna PJ, Pomarol-Clotet E.
Josep Trueta Research Award 2016 of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Health of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands to a group of researchers from the FIDMAG Research Foundation led by Dr Edith Pomarol-Clotet. Authors: Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Peter J. Mckenna, Raymond Salvador, Joaquim Radua, Benedikt L. Amann, Salvador Sarró, Erick J. Canales-Rodríguez, Paloma Fernández-Corcuera, Mercè Madre, Amalia Guerrero Pedraza.
Co-winner of the High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) Reconstruction Challenge 2013, organized within the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2013), San Francisco (USA), 7-11 April 2013. Method: "Richardson-Lucy Spherical Deconvolution under Rician noise with Total Variation Spatial Regularization", Authors: Erick Jorge Canales-Rodríguez.
Co-winner of the High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) Reconstruction Challenge 2012, organized within the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2012), Barcelona (Spain), 2-5 May 2012. Method: "Deconvolution in diffusion spectrum imaging", Authors: Erick Jorge Canales-Rodríguez.
Award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences for the result “Métodos para el estudio de la conectividad anatómica y morfológica del cerebro. Aplicaciones en humanos y animales” (in Spanish), 2011. Authors: Yasser Iturria-Medina, Lester Melie-García and Erick Jorge Canales-Rodríguez Pedro Antonio Valdés-Hernández, Gretel Sanabria-Díaz, Yasser Alemán-Gómez.
NeuroImageN Prize to the most outstanding Spanish neuroimaging study (by Sociedad Española de Neuroimagen) for the work entitled Deconvolution in diffusion spectrum imaging, published in 2010, in the journal Neuroimage by Erick Jorge Canales-Rodríguez, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Yasser Alemán-Gómez, and Lester Melie-García.
Award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences for the result “Determinación de Redes Funcionales en el cerebro mediante la Causalidad de Granger” (in Spanish), 2007. Authors: Pedro A. Valdés Sosa, Jose M. Sánchez Bornot, Agustín Lage Castellanos, Mayrim Vega Hernández, Jorge Bosch Bayard, Lester Melie García and Erick Canales Rodríguez.