Roberto Zagal Flores

Dr. Roberto Zagal Flores

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, ESCOM, Mexico City GAM 07738, Mexico
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Academic Career Length

11Years (2016-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 September 2018 in Virtual Reality
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Miguel Torres-RuizMiguel Torres-Ruiz
Miguel Torres-Ruiz
Miguel Felix MataMiguel Felix Mata
Miguel Felix Mata
Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
GGGiovanni Guzmán-Lugo
Giovanni Guzmán-Lugo
Rolando QuinteroRolando Quintero
Rolando Quintero
MMMarco Antonio Moreno-Ibarra
Marco Antonio Moreno-Ibarra

1 July 2018 in Telematics and Informatics
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FMFelix Mata
Felix Mata
MTMiguel Torres-Ruiz
Miguel Torres-Ruiz
Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
GGGiovanni Guzmán-Lugo
Giovanni Guzmán-Lugo
MMMarco Moreno-Ibarra
Marco Moreno-Ibarra
Rolando QuinteroRolando Quintero
Rolando Quintero

1 January 2016 in Mobile Information Systems
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FMFélix Mata
Félix Mata
Miguel Torres-RuizMiguel Torres-Ruiz
Miguel Torres-Ruiz
GGGiovanni Guzmán-Lugo
Giovanni Guzmán-Lugo
Rolando QuinteroRolando Quintero
Rolando Quintero
Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
ELEduardo Loza
Eduardo Loza
Mobile information systems agendas are increasingly becoming an essential part of human life and they play an important role in several daily activities. These have been developed for different contexts such as public facilities in smart cities, health care, traffic congestions, e-commerce, financial security, user-generated content, and crowdsourcing. In GIScience, problems related to routing systems have been deeply explored by using several techniques, but they are not focused on security or crime rates. In this paper, an approach to provide estimations defined by crime rates for generating safe routes in mobile devices is proposed. It consists of integrating crowd-sensed and official crime data with a mobile application. Thus, data are semantically processed by an ontology and classified by the Bayes algorithm. A geospatial repository was used to store tweets related to crime events of Mexico City and official reports that were geocoded for obtaining safe routes. A forecast related to crime events that can occur in a certain place with the collected information was performed. The novelty is a hybrid approach based on semantic processing to retrieve relevant data from unstructured data sources and a classifier algorithm to collect relevant crime data from official government reports with a mobile application.

29 August 2022 in Mobile Information Systems
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Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
Christophe ClaramuntChristophe Claramunt
Christophe Claramunt
Miguel Felix MataMiguel Felix Mata
Miguel Felix Mata
LGLaura Ivoone Garay
Laura Ivoone Garay
Hugo Jimenez HernandezHugo Jimenez Hernandez
Hugo Jimenez Hernandez
Amadeo ArgüellesAmadeo Argüelles
Amadeo Argüelles
The impact of the air pollution phenomenon has been long studied, but most often with a fragmented approach, without closely looking at the relationship between different components that characterize it, such as sensor-based data, health data from institutional databases, and data on how it is perceived by human beings in social media. The research developed in this study introduces an integrated methodological framework that analyses sensor data on air pollution distributed in space and time, combined with health data and social data narratives that reflect how different communities perceive this phenomenon in space and time; exploring how these different heterogeneous sources can be combined to better understand the impact of air pollution phenomena at the large-city level in the Valley of Mexico. We introduce a Spatio-temporal data integration and mining framework that aims to discover trends and insights regarding the distribution of the impact of an air pollution phenomenon in terms of human health and perception. The main peculiarity of our methodological framework is the integration of different large data sources by combining a series of methods: NLP (topic modeling), data mining (data cubes, unsupervised learning, and clustering), and GIS capabilities (spatial interpolation, choropleth maps) that together provide a better understanding of the quantitative and qualitative patterns emerging at a different spatial scale and temporal granularity. Overall, this shows how social data, when combined with quantitative data, can provide a better understanding of the impact of a given phenomenon, such as air pollution.
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16 June 2026 in Cancers
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AAAbdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah
MSMuhammad Shahid
Muhammad Shahid
MAMuhammad Ateeb Ather
Muhammad Ateeb Ather
ZFZulaikha Fatima
Zulaikha Fatima
Carlos Guzman-Sanchez-MejoradaCarlos Guzman-Sanchez-Mejorada
Carlos Guzman-Sanchez-Mejorada
Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
Background: Heterogeneous data integration remains a major challenge in intelligent information systems, particularly under missing-modality and cross-domain conditions. Existing multimodal fusion approaches often rely on complete datasets and weak alignment mechanisms, limiting their robustness and practical applicability. Objectives: This study aims to develop and evaluate a genomics-guided multimodal representation learning framework that enables robust heterogeneous data fusion, reliable cross-modal correspondence, and accurate prediction under incomplete-data conditions. Methods: We propose a multimodal learning architecture that models genomics as the primary biological anchor and learns conditional projections to imaging modalities, including multiparametric MRI and whole-slide histopathology (WSI). The framework formulates multimodal fusion as a genomics-guided contrastive learning problem, incorporates domain-specific optimization constraints, and learns a latent shared-state representation to support inference without requiring fully paired datasets. Evaluation was conducted using public datasets, including TCGA-PRAD and TCIA, across low-risk versus higher-risk/clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) discrimination, Gleason-based risk stratification, and clinically significant outcome prediction tasks under realistic multimodal and missing-modality scenarios. Results: In the adequately powered Genomics+WSI cohort (n = 486), the framework achieved an AUROC of 0.985 ± 0.005 for low-risk versus higher-risk/csPCa discrimination (p < 0.001). Exploratory analysis in a small, matched Genomics+MRI cohort (n = 28) yielded an AUROC of 0.980 ± 0.006 for the same endpoint; these findings are reported descriptively with bootstrap confidence intervals due to limited sample size. Because the negative reference group consisted of low-risk prostate cancer cases rather than cancer-free controls, results are interpreted as within-cancer risk discrimination rather than de novo cancer detection. The framework achieved weighted accuracy up to 92.1%, Cohen’s κ up to 0.86, and reduced critical decision errors by 58%. Calibration remained strong (ECE 0.021–0.024), and decision-curve analysis indicated improved utility with reduced unnecessary invasive workups in retrospective modeling. Robustness analysis demonstrated AUROC degradation below 0.04 under domain shifts. Single-modality inference using genomics alone maintained AUROC > 0.90. Interpretability analysis revealed feature attributions aligned with domain-relevant genomic markers. Conclusions: The proposed framework provides a scalable and generalizable solution for heterogeneous multimodal data fusion, supporting reliable prediction, robustness to missing modalities, and applicability to complex information systems beyond the studied domain.

1 November 2021
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JHJonathan Hernández
Jonathan Hernández
DJDennise Jiménez
Dennise Jiménez
Roberto Zagal FloresRoberto Zagal Flores
Roberto Zagal Flores
Miguel Felix MataMiguel Felix Mata
Miguel Felix Mata
JLJosé-Antonio Leon-Borges
José-Antonio Leon-Borges