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Omar Zenteno, PhD, is a scientist specializing in multimodal medical image processing. His work focuses on developing techniques for image registration, segmentation, and quantitative analysis for both preclinical and clinical applications.

Dr. Zenteno earned his doctorate from the Université d’Orléans (France) through the ANR-EMMIE project, where he implemented registration and mosaicking techniques over white light and hyperspectral images, enabling the analysis of gastric mucosa abnormalities by identifying spectral patterns that reveal tissue composition and health. After completing his doctorate, Dr. Zenteno joined the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC), where he led the translational phase of the PETRUS project, which integrated PET/CT and ultrasound for simultaneous metabolic and cardiovascular analysis, specifically applied to the study of carotid plaques. His work on this prototype resulted in a patent application and approval for the first human clinical trials.

Currently, Dr. Zenteno is at the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging at EPFL, supported by an SNSF Innosuisse grant with Volumina Medical. His work focuses on the design and instrumentation of multimodal MRI/PET sequences in animal imaging to monitor soft tissue reconstruction processes, with the goal of characterizing biomaterials for applications in regenerative medicine.

Keywords: multimodal imaging, image registration, biomaterials characterization, preclinical applications