Juan Morales

Research

I am interested in: Visual Analytics, Human Computer Interaction, Data Analysis, Image Analysis.

All my research has been driven by user's needs practicing User Centered Design, so the outcomes have been software tools that fulfills the requirements of the users (usually the neuroscience community).

I have predilection for interdisciplinary groups. The communication is harder for sure, but the joy of resolving complex problems in different ways is unbeatable.

Phd Thesis

Juan Morales del Olmo. New interactive techniques for data analysis in Neuroscience. PhD thesis, Facultad de Informatica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2013. [ http ]

Publications

J. Morales, R. BEnavides-Piccione, M. Dar, I. Fernaud-Espinosa, A. Rodriguez, L. Anton-Sanchez, C. Bielza, C. Larrañaga, J. DeFelipe, and R. Yuste. random positioning of dendritic spines in the human cerebral cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(30):7, 2014. [ http ]

Pablo Toharia, Juan Morales, Octavio de Juan, Isabel Fernaud, Angel Rodríguez, and Javier DeFelipe. Musical Representation of Dendritic Spine Distribution: A New Exploratory Tool. Neuroinformatics, 12(2):341-353, 2014. [ http ]

Megan Monroe, Rongjian Lan, Juan Morales del Olmo, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, and Jeff Millstein. The challenges of specifying intervals and absences in temporal queries: a graphical language approach. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '13, pages 2349-2358, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM. [ DOI | http ]

Juan Morales, Angel Rodriguez, José-Rodrigo Rodriguez, Javier DeFelipe, and Angel Merchan-Perez. Characterization and extraction of the synaptic apposition surface for synaptic geometry analysis. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 7(20), 2013. [ DOI | http ]

Juan Morales, Ruth Benavides-Piccione, Angel Rodríguez, Luis Pastor, Rafael Yuste, and Javier DeFelipe. Three-dimensional analysis of spiny dendrites using straightening and unrolling transforms. Neuroinformatics, 10(4):391-407, 2012. [ DOI | http ]

Juan Morales, Angel Rodríguez, Angel Merchán-Pérez, José-Rodrigo Rodríguez, and Javier DeFelipe. Characterizing and extracting the synaptic apposition surface for the analysis of synaptic geometry. In 5^th Workshop on Data Mining in Functional Genomics and Proteomics: current trends and future directions, pages 63-72, Athens, Sep 2011.

Juan Morales, Jorge G. Peña, Jaime Fernández, and Angel Rodríguez. Towards a scalable espina for neuroscience data analysis. ASME Conference Proceedings, 2011(44328):357-366, 2011. [ DOI | http ]

Juan Morales, Lidia Alonso-Nanclares, José-Rodrigo Rodríguez, Angel Merchán-Pérez, Angel Rodríguez, and Javier DeFelipe. Fast interactive quantification of synapses in the cerebral cortex. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, 20(12):239-252, Apr 2011. [ DOI ]

Juan Morales, Lidia Alonso-Nanclares, José-Rodrigo Rodríguez, Javier DeFelipe, Angel Rodríguez, and Angel Merchán-Pérez. Espina: a tool for the automated segmentation and counting of synapses in large stacks of electron microscopy images. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 5(18):1-8, Mar 2011. [ DOI ]

Juan Morales, Lidia Alonso-Nanclares, José-Rodrigo Rodríguez, Angel Merchán-Pérez, Angel Rodríguez, and Javier DeFelipe. Computer assisted identification, segmentation and quantification of synapses in the cerebral cortex, volume 6098, published from proc. of iea/aie conference Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems, pages 112-118. Springer, Córdoba, Spain, 2010. Selected to be extended and publish in a special issue of JCR Journal (ref. [7]).