Monica Abella Garcia

Monica Abella Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Bioengineering Department at University Carlos III of Madrid. She leads the Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Group, focusing on advanced imaging techniques and software development for preclinical and clinical applications.

• Subjects: Biology and Biomedicine, Computer Science, Medical Imaging, Materials Science, Physics

Research Interests

• Her work spans CT and X-ray imaging, deep learning applications, beam hardening and scatter correction, GPU-accelerated algorithms, and biomaterials for bone regeneration.
• She develops tools like XAP-Lab, FUX-Sim, and BoneAnalytics for quantitative imaging and protocol design.

Projects & Grants

• Principal investigator on grants from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, and Banco Santander, focusing on AI in radiology, low-dose CT systems, and Covid-19 diagnostics.
• Co-investigator in EU-funded initiatives like ASPIDE and INFIERI, and MIT collaborations under the M+PET Project.

Patents & Software

• Holds patents for tomography generation methods and developed software tools: 3DSTITCH (volume stitching), RadBoost (image enhancement), REXCT (fast reconstruction).