Dr. Muñoz-Barrutia has more than 80 contributions in international peer reviewed journals and top conferences in the field of the Biomedical Image Processing. Her main research motivation relates to the development of novel imaging technologies to improve early disease detection, disease characterization and therapy delivery.

She is member of the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (vice-chair (2015), chair (2016-2017) and past-chair (2018)) and was also a member of the IEEE Life Sciences Initiative Steering Committee (2015-2017). She serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (from 2015) and BMC Bioinformatics (from 2014). She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (from 2012 to 2015).