Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Antenatal fetal surveillance by abdominal electro-phonography
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Blind separation of the abdominal electrocardiogram
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Blind separation of the abdominal phonogram
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Blind separation of the phonocardiogram
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Non-invasive measurement of the systolic intervals
Profile
Professor Aída Jiménez González has a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's degree in Sciences (in Biomedical Engineering), both from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. She also has a Ph.D. by the University of Southampton (Institute of Sound and Vibration Research), in the United Kingdom.
She has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at UAM Iztapalapa Campus since 1996. There, she has participated in research projects related to fetal monitoring and antenatal surveillance using alternative methods such as abdominal phonography and electrocardiography. To this end, she has focused on the digital processing of cardiac signals using approaches such as independent component analysis, which has made it possible to implement computational tools capable of extracting fetal cardiac information from non-invasive signals that, by definition, are highly contaminated by multiple undesirable sources. Specifically, she has been able to extract the fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) and the fetal phonocardiogram (FPCG), which have been successfully used to measure the fetal heart rate. Currently, her research is focused on the non-invasive measurement of systolic intervals, which requires the identification of valvular events in the FPCG. Her work has been published in national and international forums and journals, and she has also participated as a reviewer in national and international forums and magazines. She currently belongs to the National System of Researchers in México (CONAHCyT).
As a teacher, she has participated in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Biomedical Engineering at UAM, Iztapalapa Campus, where she has addressed topics about Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Introduction to Programming, Analysis of Biomedical Measurement Systems, Biomedical Measurements of Pressure, Volume and Flow, Projects Seminar, Biomedical Instrumentation and Selected Topics of Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering. She has also been involved in the direction of undergraduate terminal projects, social services and master's thesis.
Additionally, she has been the coordinator of the teaching laboratories in Biomedical Engineering and has been a member of the committees for the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Biomedical Engineering at UAM Iztapalapa Campus. She is currently the head of the Biomedical Engineering research area.
At the end of his undergraduate and master's studies, she obtained the academic merit medal from UAM Iztapalapa Campus, and in 2022 she obtained the research award in the category of Basic Sciences and Engineering at UAM with the work entitled “Blind extraction of fetal and maternal components from the abdominal electrocardiogram: An ICA implementation for low-dimensional recordings”.
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