Lifestyles, Innovation and Health group is an Associated Group of IMIBIC (GA-16) founded in November of 2020. It is formed by clinicians and engineers passionate about how technology and science can improve our lives. This interdisciplinary group is integrated by 13 researchers from different profiles, where both health professionals (physicians, nurses, nutritionists), engineering (computer and agricultural engineers), and education (educational psychologist) stand out.
Our group is mainly focused on offering solutions to prevalent health problems through health promotion and disease prevention interventions, and the development of innovative and technological solutions for diagnosis and treatment, following sustainability and cost-effectiveness criteria and with a distinctly interdisciplinary methodology.
For this reason, the orientation towards the development and validation of tech-based tools (predictive models, hardware and software, and innovative methodologies) for healthcare professionals and the population is the main reason and motive for their creation. Our group is continuously looking for a real impact on society regarding better health outcomes and adopting healthy lifestyles. This approach can be found in every project we designed and executed.
Lines of Research
Development of solutions to health problems based on information and communication technologies, with a particular interest in those related to mobile devices.
Development of non-invasive or minimally invasive predictive models based on epidemiological data or collected through sensor systems (IoT) for monitoring health status and early diagnosis of chronic non-communicable diseases, highlighting those linked to cardiovascular health at different stages of life, as well as to people in situations of dependency.
Development of research projects in low-and middle-income countries focused on improving vulnerable populations' health status, especially concerning their nutritional status.
Design and validation of innovative tools, processes, and interventions that improve health outcomes for critically ill patients.
Optimization of algorithms and hardware for computing large volumes of data mainly applied to image processing during surgery.
Processing and analysis of thermographic images fused with conventional cameras, application in Covid-19 detection.
Combination and analysis of data obtained from sensors, vision, advanced processors, and artificial intelligence for the realization of movement and behavior models linked to health/disease patterns.
Networks
- HUM-298
- AGR-13
- TEP-226
- TIC-252
Research groups pertaining to the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (PAIDI):
ENSO Network - International Network of Occupational Health Nursing
Key Words
- mHealth
- eHealth
- cardiovascular health
- nutrition
- health promotion
- critical care
- algorithm and hardware optimization
- international cooperation
- prevention
- occupational health
- predictive models
- non-invasive techniques
- internet of things
- artificial intelligence
Información Adicional
Research projects and contracts
Technology, Innovation and Healthcare:
SANCYD-VEGENAT - Uso de las TICs para Control del Peso en Pacientes con Sobrepeso u Obesidad. 2017-2018.
Monitorización inalámbrica de Pacientes en Instalaciones Hospitalarias (P11-TIC-7462). Proyecto de Investigación de Excelencia. Junta de Andalucía. 2013-2016.
GPU Processing for Planning of Liver Resection Surgery (NILS 004-2BBRR). EEA Grants. 2015-2015.
Lifestyles and Healthcare:
Validación en castellano del cuestionario Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) para la valoración del estado nutricional de pacientes mayores de 65 años. Fundación Pública Andaluza Progreso y Salud (PI-0064-2016-AP).2016-2018.
Desarrollo de alimentos funcionales con elevado potencialantioxidante y efectos antitumorales y cardiosaludables, a partir de brotes de crucíferas seleccionadas y mejoradas. Universidad de Córdoba (XXI PP. Modalidad 4.1). 2017-2018.
Análisis de los Equipos de Protección Individual según una perspectiva de género. Instituto Andaluz de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales. 2015-2016.
BARÇA ANTIBULLYING: Diseñar e Implementar un programa para la Fundació Futbol Club Barcelona de Prevención de Acoso Escolar. Fundació Futbol Club Barcelona. 2018-2019.
Patents and software property registration
Intellectual Property Registration. NUMO -Aplicación para la cesación tabáquica- (RTA-00178-2019). 2019.
Registro de la propiedad intelectual. NUMO REC. APLICACIÓN PARA REGISTRO DEL CONSUMO TABÁQUICO (RTA25617). 2018.
Intellectual Property Registration. NIMWEB Y APLICACIÓN PARA EL DIAGNÓSTICO DE SÍNDROME METABÓLICO (RTA-256-17). 2016.
Patent. Tira reactiva aplicable para la determinación y cuantificación de isoniacida en orina (009902121). 1999.
Industry contracts
Teleasistencia Móvil. Ineprodes SL. 2013-2014.
International cooperation
Estudio de factibilidad para la implementación de huertos escolares en Chile. UNAEB, Ministerio de Educación. Gobierno de Chile. 2017.
Valoración e intervención nutricional, familiar y comunitaria en el distrito de Belén (Iquitos, Perú)". Área de Cooperación de la Universidad de Córdoba. 2017.
Inseguridad alimentaria y estado nutricional de población refugiada colombiana en Ecuador. Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador. 2016.
Medios de vida sostenibles e integración social en Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador/ACNUR. 2015.
Highlighted publications
Technology, Innovation and Healthcare:
A Hernández-Reyes, F Cámara-Martos, R Molina-Luque, M Romero-Saldaña, G Molina-Recio, R Moreno-Rojas. Changes in body composition with a hypocaloric diet combined with sedentary, moderate and high-intense physical activity: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Womens Health. 2019 Dec 27;19(1):167. doi: 10.1186/s12905-019-0864-5.
Francisco J Rodriguez-Lozano, Fernando León-García, M Ruiz de Adana, Jose M Palomares, J Olivares. Non-Invasive Forehead Segmentation in Thermographic Imaging. Sensors (Basel). 2019 Sep 22;19(19):4096. doi: 10.3390/s19194096.
F. Leon-Garcia, F. J. Rodriguez-Lozano, J. Olivares, and J. M. Palomares. Data Communication Optimization for the Evaluation of Multivariate Conditions in Distributed Scenarios. IEEE Access 2019 (Volume: 7) Pages: 123473 - 123489. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2936918.
F. Espinosa Zapata, J. L. Lázaro Galilea, and J. Olivares Bueno. Proyecto ALCOR: Contribuciones a la Optimización del Guiado Remoto de Robots en Espacios Inteligentes. Rev. Iberoam. Automática e Informática Ind., vol. 15, no. 4, p. 416, Sep. 2018.
F. Leon-Garcia, J. Palomares, and J. Olivares. D2R-TED: Data—Domain Reduction Model for Threshold-Based Event Detection in Sensor Networks. Sensors, vol. 18, no. 11, p. 3806, Nov. 2018.
José María Castillo-Secilla, José Manuel Palomares, Fernando León, Joaquín Olivares. Homomorphic Filtering for Improving Time Synchronization in Wireless Networks. Sensors (Basel). 2017 Apr 20;17(4):909. doi: 10.3390/s17040909.
Lifestyles and Healthcare:
Hernández Martín MM, Romero-Saldaña M, Pacheco Del Cerro JL, Alonso-Safont T, Molina-Recio G, Meneses Monroy A. Occupational and work-related disease underestimated and linked to temporary disability through Primary Health Care Services. J Nurs Manag. 2019 Sep;27(6):1140-1147. doi: 10.1111/jonm.12785.
Molina-Luque R, Romero-Saldaña M, Álvarez-Fernández C, Bennasar-Veny M, Álvarez-López Á, Molina-Recio G. Equation Córdoba: A Simplified Method for Estimation of Body Fat (ECORE-BF). Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Nov 15;16(22):4529. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16224529.
Romero-Saldaña M, Tauler P, Vaquero-Abellán M, López-González AA, Fuentes-Jiménez FJ, Aguiló A, Álvarez-Fernández C, Molina-Recio G, Bennasar-Veny M. Validation of a non-invasive method for the early detection of metabolic syndrome: a diagnostic accuracy test in a working population. BMJ Open. 2018 Oct 21;8(10):e020476. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020476.
Muñoz Díaz B, Molina-Recio G, Romero-Saldaña M, Redondo Sánchez J, Aguado Taberné C, Arias Blanco C, Molina-Luque R, Martínez De La Iglesia J. Validation (in Spanish) of the Mini Nutritional Assessment survey to assess the nutritional status of patients over 65 years of age. Fam Pract. 2019 Mar 20;36(2):172-178. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmy051. Erratum in: Fam Pract. 2019 Jul 31;36(4):528.
Romero-Saldaña M, Fuentes-Jiménez FJ, Vaquero-Abellán M, Álvarez-Fernández C, Aguilera-López MD, Molina-Recio G. Predictive Capacity and Cutoff Value of Waist-to-Height Ratio in the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome. Clin Nurs Res. 2019 Jul;28(6):676-691. doi: 10.1177/1054773817740533.
Romero-Saldaña M, Fuentes-Jiménez FJ, Vaquero-Abellán M, Álvarez-Fernández C, Molina-Recio G, López-Miranda J. New non-invasive method for early detection of metabolic syndrome in the working population. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2016 Dec;15(7):549-558. doi: 10.1177/1474515115626622.
International Cooperation:
Villena-Esponera MP, Moreno-Rojas R, Molina-Recio G. Validation of a Scale to Assess Household Food Insecurity in One Rural and One Periurban Area of Ecuador, with a High Percentage of Migrants. Ecol Food Nutr. 2019 Mar-Apr;58(2):104-119. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2019.1570177.
García Rodríguez M, Romero Saldaña M, Alcaide Leyva JM, Moreno Rojas R, Molina Recio G. Design and validation of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for the nutritional evaluation of food intake in the Peruvian Amazon. J Health Popul Nutr. 2019 Dec 19;38(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s41043-019-0199-8.
Rodríguez MG, Saldaña MR, Leyva JMA, Rojas RM, Molina-Recio G. The FINDRISC questionnaire capacity to predict diabetes mellitus II, arterial hypertension and comorbidity in women from low-and-middle-income countries. Health Care Women Int. 2020 Feb;41(2):205-226. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2019.1680678.
Villena-Esponera MP, Moreno Rojas R, Mateos-Marcos S, Salazar-Donoso MV, Molina Recio G. Validation of a photographic atlas of food portions designed as a tool to visually estimate food amounts in Ecuador. Nutr Hosp. 2019 Apr 10;36(2):363-371. English. doi: 10.20960/nh.2147.
Villena-Esponera MP, Moreno-Rojas R, Molina-Recio G. Food Insecurity and the Double Burden of Malnutrition of Indigenous Refugee Épera Siapidara. J Immigr Minor Health. 2019 Oct;21(5):1035-1042. doi: 10.1007/s10903-018-0807-5.
