Irving A. Cruz-Albarran

Autonomous University of Queretaro · Facultad de Ingeniería

Knee injury is a common health problem that affects both people who practice sports and those who do not do it. The high prevalence of knee injuries produces a considerable impact on the health-related life quality of patients. For this reason, it is essential to develop procedures for an early diagnosis, allowing patients to receive timely treatme...

There has been a wide use of thermal images of the human body in recent years, specifically images with thermal information of regions of interest (ROI) in the face; this information can be used for epidemiological, clinical, and/or psychological purposes. Due to this, it is important to have plenty of information on temperature in these ROIs in th...

Breast cancer is one the main death causes for women worldwide, as 16% of the diagnosed malignant lesions worldwide are its consequence. In this sense, it is of paramount importance to diagnose these lesions in the earliest stage possible, in order to have the highest chances of survival. While there are several works that present selected topics i...

The aim of this pilot study is to know the thermal impact that manual therapy has on the body temperature of the lower back and abdominal region in subjects with low back pain. It was conducted on ten patients, five of them diagnosed with low back pain and five without it. The intervention protocol was based on Richelli’s instrumentalized manual th...

Kinematic chains are essential elements configurable in different topologies according to the requirements of industry. Their main components are the rotating machines and mechanical parts in which diverse faults can appear. Nowadays, infrared imaging analysis has gained attention for monitoring kinematic chains, however, the approaches for detecti...

Comprehensive pain management ought to be considered a priority for the health sector, but also for society because it is a human right. Therefore, for comprehensive pain management to be provided, doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, nutritionists, educators, music the- rapists, teachers and technologists must be entailed. Children’s ri...

La temperatura periférica proporciona una medida útil para evaluar tanto el estrés como la relajación. Cuando enfrentamos situaciones que amenazan nuestra integridad física, psicológica o social, nuestro organismo responde con un decremento en la temperatura periférica; en contraste, en situaciones física o socialmente. seguras, la temperatura peri...

Human stress is a physical or emotional feeling. It can come from any situation or thought that makes one feel frustrated or nervous. Different biological manifestations take place in the presence of stress, such as tension, headache, and insomnia. Recent studies have reported that human stress can be related to facial expressions and fingertips du...

Children from out-of-home care are a vulnerable population that faces high stress and anxiety levels due to stressful experiences, such as being abused, being raped, and violence. This problem could have negative effects on their bio-psycho-social well-being if they are not provided with comprehensive psychological treatment. Numerous methods have...

Nowadays, stress is part of everyday life, whose long-term effects can trigger health risks. Among the main alterations that occur in the human body we can find the variation of inflammatory activity, blood pressure, and facial peripheral temperature. The objective of this work is to show the facial thermal behavior for men and women, as well as th...

This paper shows the thermal behavior in the nose, the fingertips and lower limbs (right and left) before and after an American football training in fourteen children who are members of a private football academy. During the one-hour training, four different activities were carried out: warm-up, speed test at 40 yards, long jump tests and three-con...

El objetivo del presente capítulo es mostrar los principios y procedimientos de evaluación e intervención psicofisiológica breve que capacite al psicólogo tratante de pacientes cuyo nivel de estrés comprometa la salud física y emocional. Primero se abordarán aspectos teóricos y técnicos y, posteriormente, la metodología en psicofisiología aplicada...

Infrared thermal cameras with low cost and resolution have not usually been used in clinical studies of human behavior. We present the proposal of the use of the infrared thermal image (iTF) as a psychophysiological evaluation tool to collect and analyze data on autonomic affective functioning in patients with chronic noncommunicable diseases. Duri...

Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is an experimental psychological test that induces changes in autonomic, endocrinological and immunological activity. Two measures used to evaluate the inflammatory activity induced by this test are the interleukin 6 (IL-6), a cytokine sensitive to changes in sympathetic nervous activity, and the mean arterial pressu...

This work presents a methodology for automatic colour allocation in thermographic images which is based on two thermograms, one with an Iron colour palette for segmentation and the other in grayscale for thermal analysis through the thermal matrix. With the fusion of both procedures, a palette of colours image is obtained. The colour palette allows...

La temperatura corporal no es uniforme en todo el organismo: en la zona central (tronco y cabeza) oscila alrededor de los 37°C; mientras que las regiones periféricas alrededor de 20°C. La regulación térmica puede ser inducida por procesos psicofisiológicos como estados afectivos, cognitivos y conductuales (Panasiti et al., 2016; Rodríguez-Medina &...

This work presents a non-invasive semiautomatic methodology through infrared thermography for the study of human stress in hands of young people (fingertips and palms) once the Trier Social Stress Test is completed. The regions of interest were the fingertips (these are influenced by the sympathetic nervous system) and the palms. The analysis of th...

Las mujeres sobrevivientes de cáncer de mama atraviesan por cambios físicos y emocionales. El modelo biopsicosocial del dolor (Gatchel et al., 2007) propone una evaluación de aspectos biológicos, psicosociales y su interacción para el tratamiento integral del dolor. La presente investigación cuasi-experimental se conforma de dos estudios clínicos:...

Background : Recent research has evaluated psychological and biological characteristics associated with pain in survivors of breast cancer (BC). Few studies consider their relationship with inflammatory activity. Voluntary facial expressions modify the autonomic activity and this may be useful in the hospital environment for clinical biopsychosocia...

La temperatura corporal no es uniforme en todo el organismo: en la zona central (tronco y cabeza) oscila alrededor de los 37°C; mientras que las regiones periféricas alrededor de 20°C. La regulación térmica puede ser inducida por procesos psicofisiológicos como estados afectivos, cognitivos y conductuales (Panasiti et al., 2016; Rodríguez-Medina &...

Figure 4. Changes in temperature in the nose. V1 = Video of Joy, V2 = Video of Anger, V3= Video of Fear, V4= Video of Surprise, V5= Video of Disgust, V6= Video of Pain. Gray bars indicate the induction of emotional facial expression.

The presence of alexithymia (difficulty in recognizing and expressing emotions and feelings) is one of the psychological factors that has been studied in patients with chronic pain. Different psychological strategies have been used for its management; however, none of them regulates the autonomic activity. We present the case of a 74-year-old femal...

El objetivo de este estudio piloto fue explorar la relación entre la presión arterial media (PAM) y el estrés psicológico en un grupo de participantes clínicamente sanos (alimentación, conductas preventivas y valoración negativa ante eventos estresantes dentro de rangos normales). Para valorar su nivel de estrés, incluyendo los criterios de inclusi...

Esta investigación documental y clinica presenta el uso de la imagen térmica de infrarrojo para su aplicación en Psicología de la Salud, su definición, utilidades, retos y dirección clínica. Para ello se expone un estudio de caso de dos de infantes gemelas de 10 anos de edad con sintomatología ansiosa a un protocolo de evaluación psicofisiológica....

Esta investigación documental y clínica presenta el uso de la imagen térmica de infrarrojo para su aplicación en Psicología de la Salud, su definición, utilidades, retos y dirección clínica. Para ello se expone un estudio de caso de dos de infantes gemelas de 10 años de edad con sintomatología ansiosa a un protocolo de evaluación psicofisiólogica....

Resumen — Se presenta la evaluación biopsicosocial de un paciente masculino de 61 años de edad, con diag-nóstico de osteartrosis durante 8 años. Se recolectó una muestra salival de la respuesta inflamatoria de interleu-cina 6 (IL-6), su variabilidad de la frecuencia cardíaca y medidas psicológicas asociadas al dolor. Se utilizó un diseño A-B-A para...

This work presents a noninvasive methodology to obtain biomedical thermal imaging which provide relevant information that may assist in the diagnosis of emotions. Biomedical thermal images of the facial expressions of 44 subjects were captured experiencing joy, disgust, anger, fear and sadness. The analysis of these thermograms was carried out thro...

Estudios recientes han documentado la utilidad del uso de biomarcadores para el diagnóstico y pronóstico del funcionamiento clínico en población clínica. En esta conferencia se discuten los hallazgos de la investigación básica y el puente con el funcionamiento emocional de pacientes sobrevivientes de cáncer, así también un protocolo de evaluación e...

Emotional facial expression modulates autonomic activity. In particular, an expression of anger is accompanied by an increase in sympathetic activity, inducing a nasal thermal decrease, compared to a neutral expression; while the expression of voluntary joy does not make inhalation difficult, whose nasal thermal pattern resembles the neutral expres...