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Research Assistant in AI at Universidad Nacional

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About Me

Diego Bravo is a PhD student of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia-UNAL, where he works at Computer Imaging and Medical Applications Laboratory (CIM@LAB). He earned a Mechatronics Engineer degree from the Universidad Militar in 2014 and a MSc in Biomedical Engineer degree from the UNAL in 2020. His research work revolves around machine learning, information retrieval, and computer vision, with a particular focus on the representation, indexing, and automatic analysis of multimodal data (data encompassing different types of information: textual, visual, signals, etc.).

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Self-Supervised Learning for Multi-Category Endoscopy classification and Data Quality evaluation Using Masked Autoencoders

Accepted Conference Paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2025
Diego Bravo, Josué Ruano, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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GastroHUN an Endoscopy Dataset of Complete Systematic Screening Protocol for the Stomach

Accepted Journal Paper under editorial review.
Diego Bravo, Juan Frias, Felipe Vera, Juan Trejos, Carlos Martínez, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Automatic Endoscopy Classification by fusing Depth estimations and image Information

Oral Presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024.
Diego Bravo*, Josué Ruano*, María Jaramillo, Sebastian Medina, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Estimating polyp size from a single colonoscopy image using a shape-from-shading model

Poster presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024.
Josué Ruano, Diego Bravo, Diana Giraldo, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Predicting metaplasia in upper gastrointestinal images from white light endoscopy

Poster presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024.
Maria Jaramillo, Diego Bravo, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Automated Anatomical Classification and Quality Assessment of Endoscopy by Temporal-Spatial Analysis

Oral presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) 2023.
Diego Bravo, Sebastian Medina, Josu ́e Ruano, María Jaramillo, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Automatic classification of esophagogastroduodenoscopy sub-anatomical regions

Oral presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2023.
Diego Bravo, Josué Ruano, María Jaramillo, Daniel Gallego, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Generating synthetic endoscopy videos following a systematic screening protocol

Oral presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) 2023
Josué Ruano, Diego Bravo, María Jaramillo, Javier Pascau, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

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Automatic Localization of Pancreatic Tumoral Regions in Whole Sequences of Echoendoscopy Procedures

Oral presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) 2023
María Jaramillo, Josué Ruano, Diego Bravo, Sebastian Medina, Martín Gómez, Fabio A. González, and Eduardo Romero

Awards

ISBI 2024 Travel Grant.
Best paper National Congress of Gastroenterology (2023).
Meritorious Thesis Master's in Biomedical Engineering - Universidad Nacional (2020).
Best paper Poster Category Colombian Association of Digestive System ACADI (2020).
Best Academic Average 2017 and 2018.

Education

PhD. Student in Electrical Engineering - Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Jan 2023 –

Main focus in computer vision. Thesis: Gastric cancer.

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering - Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Jan 2017 – Dec 2020

Main focus in computer vision. Thesis: Automatic Detection of Colorectal Polyps.

Eng. in Mechatronic Engineering - Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

Aug 2014 – Dec 2019