Date of Birth, April, 01, 1970

Citicenship, Venezuelan

Home Address, Urb. Los Teques, Edif. 05, Apto. 03-02, San Cristóbal 5001, Táchira, Venezuela

Université de Rennes 1, Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l’Image, Rennes, France, Post-Doctorate, 2007

Subject: 3D-Rotational Angiography: Coronary Vessels Analysis

Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, Ph.D. in Engineering, 2006

Thesis: Simulation and Characterization of Left Ventricle Motion in Cardiac Imaging

Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, M.Sc. Applied Mathematics to Engineering, 1999

Thesis: Left Ventricle Segmentation Using Deformable Models

Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, Electrical Engineering, 1995

Thesis: Videoangiographics Images Acquisition and Processing Using DT3851 Card

Honors and Awards

Research Promotion Venezuelan Foundation, Fellowship Level I, 2007-2009.

ALFA-IPECA Post-Doctoral Scholarship, Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l’Image, Université de Rennes 1, 2006 - 2007.

Research Promotion Venezuelan Foundation, Fellowship Level Candidate, 2000-2003.

Universities National Advice, Prize of the National Commission for Academic Benefit, Recognition to teaching and reseacher work, 2000.

Professional

Experience

Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira

Period of time, 1998–Present

Department, Investigation Dean’s Office

Last Position, Associate Lecturer

Publications

Bravo, A., Medina, R., "An unsupervised clustering framework for automatic segmentation of left ventricle cavity in human heart angiograms". Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. In press, february 2008.

Bravo, A., Vera M., Medina, R., “Edge Detection in Ventriculograms Using Support Vector Machine Classifiers and Deformable Models”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4756, pp. 793-802, 2007.

Bravo, A., Medina, R., Garreau, M., Bedossa M., Toumoulin C., Le Breton H., "An approach to coronary vessels detection in X-ray rotational angiography", IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, September 2007, Margarita Island, Venezuela.

Bravo, A., Medina, R., Passariello, G., Garreau, M., "Inferring the left ventricle dynamical behavior using a free-form deformations model". Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. In press, january 2007.

Vera, M., Bravo, A., "Left ventricle image landmarks extraction using support vector machines", 2^nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, VISAPP 2007, March 2007, Barcelona, Spain.

Bravo, A., Medina, R., Díaz, J.-A., "A Clustering Based Approach for Automatic Image Segmentation: An Application to Biplane Ventriculograms". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 4225, pp. 316-325, 2006.

Vera, M., Bravo, A., “Detección de marcadores anatómicos del ventrículo izquierdo utilizando máquinas de soporte vectorial”, in Proceedings of VIII International Congress of Numerical Methods in Engineering and Applied Sciences (CIMENICS), Margarita Island, Venezuela, March 2006, pp. BI-51-BI-57 (In Spanish ).