The project "Low-pixel Automatic Target Detection and Recognition" led by Dr. Pablo Casaseca at University of the West of Scotland with multinational electrical systems group, Thales UK and CENSIS received a Special Commendation Award at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2018 . This collaboration saw the development of unique technology, enabling automatic detection of humans and vehicles from up to 1500m using thermal imaging.

The LPI has received the Magna Cum Laude Award in Biotechnology by the Spanish Society of Radiologist in Medicine (SERAM) for the electornic communication "Obtención de la señal de sincronismo cardiaco a partir de los datos del k-espacio en IRM cine cardiaca". This communication was presented in the 34th Conference of the SERAM, which took place between May 24th and May 27th 2018 in Pamplona (Spain).

The LPI was at the conference of the Spanish Society for Medical Radiology (SERAM), held in Pamplona between May 24th and May 27th, 2018. Several contributions and invited talks were presented.

The LPI has taken part in the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), held in Washington, D.C. between the 4th and 7th of April 2018. One poster about bias correction technique in MRI was presented.