Dr. Jorge Brieva received a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993 from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and completed a master's degree in Electrical Engineering at the same University, which he completed in 1995. He traveled to France as a scholarship from the French government to complete a second master's degree in Image Processing at the University of Rennes 1 and a doctorate in Telecommunications and Signal Processing at the same University for which he received the doctorate degree in 2001. His research areas are focused on the segmentation, characterization and interpretation of medical images in addition to the monitoring of vital signs from video processing. Dr. Brieva has numerous indexed publications in his research areas and has been a member since 2013 of the International Society for Medical Information Processing and Analysis where have held the position of secretary and treasurer. He has been a guest speaker at seminars and conferences at different institutions nationally and internationally and a guest researcher at several higher education institutions in Latin America and Europe. He is currently a tenured research professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Mexico Campus of the Universidad Panamericana.