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João Pedrosa. Completed the Mestrado integrado in Bioengenharia in 2013/07/26 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia and Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences in 2018/10/10 by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Is Research Assistant in Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência and Invited Assistant Professor in Universidade do Porto. Published 28 articles in journals. Has 1 section(s) of books. Organized 7 event(s). Participated in 12 event(s). Supervised 2 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 2. Supervised 17 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 5. Has received 6 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Master Student Fellow in 1 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Post-doc Fellow in 3 project(s), Principal investigator in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 4 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Medical Engineering. In their professional activities interacted with 486 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias; Engineering and technology; CT; Pulmonary nodules; Deep Learning; Segmentation; Detection; Classification; Echocardiography; Left Ventricle; BEAS; Ultrasound; lung cancer; low dose computed tomography; pulmonary nodules; follow-up recommendation; deep learning; challenge; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Pedrosa

Citation names

  • Pedrosa, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
EE16-7DE9-60DB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7588-8927

Email addresses

  • joao.m.pedrosa@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Dutch Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/08/01 - 2018/10/10
Concluded
 Biomedical Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
"Real-time Segmentation of the Left Ventricular Myocardium on an Experimental Ultrasound System" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/01 - 2013/07/26
Concluded
 Bioengenharia (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Biomedical Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Heart Sound Analysis for Cardiac Pathology Identification: Detection and Characterization of Heart Murmurs" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/10/01 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2018/12/01 - 2020/09/30 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2014/08/01 - 2018/10/10 Researcher (Research) Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium
2014/02/03 - 2014/07/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2013/03/20 - 2013/09/19 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025 - 2027 PULSE - Reliable Pervasive mULti-Sensor cardiac Examination
COMPETE2030-FEDER-00864900-17172
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2024/01/01 - 2026/12/31 AI4Lungs - AI-Based Personalised Care for Respiratory Disease using Multimodal Data in Patient Stratification
101080756-2
Researcher
European Commission
2023/07 - 2024/12 uxCADCT - Usability and Explainability of Automatic Exclusion of Coronary Artery Disease in Computed Tomography
SEED2023
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/03/01 - 2024/03/31 THOR-19 - Computer Assisted Thoracic Assessment using POCUS
DSAIPA/AI/0083/2020
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Hospital Garcia de Orta EPE, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/04/01 - 2023/03/31 TAMI - Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-045905
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

First Solutions, Portugal

Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal

ARSN - Administração Regional De Saúde Do Norte, Portugal
European Regional Development Fund
2020/05/01 - 2020/09/30 CXR_AI4Covid-19 - Chest Radiography-based AI for Supporting Clinical
071_596637133
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/01/01 - 2020/06/30 Image Analysis and Machine Learning Platform for Innovation in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
CMUP-ERI/TIC/0028/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

ARSN - Administração Regional De Saúde Do Norte, Portugal

BMD Software, Portugal

First Solutions, Portugal

Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/12/01 - 2019/11/30 LNDetector: Automatic Detection, Segmentation and Classification of Pulmonary Nodules in Computed Tomography Images
PTDC/EEI-SII/6599/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2014/08/01 - 2018/10/10 Single Heart beat MApping of myocardial Performance, Activation, and Scar by ultrasound
281748
PhD Student Fellow
Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium
 European Research Council
2014/02/03 - 2014/07/31 Examining abnormalities in auditory emotional processing in schizophrenia: an electrophysiological investigation with high-risk, early-stage and chronic patients
PTDC/MHC-PCN/3606/2012
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/03/20 - 2013/09/19 Exposição crónica a ruído/vibração industrial: lesões orgânicas
s/n
Master Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
Universidade do Porto

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/01 - 2029/12 Screening for Coronary Artery Disease using Articial Intelligence in Non-Contrast Computed Tomography
2022.06138.CEECIND
 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. João Pedrosa; Carlos A Ferreira; Aresta, Guilherme. "Computer-aided lung cancer screening in computed tomography: state-of the-art and future perspectives". {IOP, 2022.
    10.1088/978-0-7503-3355-9ch4
Conference paper
  1. Sofia C. Pereira; João Pedrosa; Joana Rocha; Pedro Sousa; Aurélio Campilho; Ana Maria Mendonça. "DeepClean – Contrastive Learning Towards Quality Assessment in Large-Scale CXR Data Sets". 2024.
    10.1109/bibm62325.2024.10822443
  2. Bruno Magalhães; João Pedrosa; Francesco Renna; Hugo Paredes; Vitor Filipe. "Image Captioning for Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis". 2024.
    10.1109/bibm62325.2024.10822385
  3. Sofia Ferraz; Miguel Coimbra; João Pedrosa. "Deep Left Ventricular Motion Estimation Methods in Echocardiography: A Comparative Study". 2024.
    10.1109/embc53108.2024.10782542
  4. Belo, R.; Rocha, J.; Pedrosa, João. "Leveraging Longitudinal Data for Cardiomegaly and Change Detection in Chest Radiography". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-49018-7_31
  5. Pedrosa, J.; Pereira, S.C.; Silva, J.; Mendonça, A.M.; Campilho, A.. "Anatomically-Guided Inpainting for Local Synthesis of Normal Chest Radiographs". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-72744-3_4
  6. Santos, R.; Baeza, R.; Filipe, V.M.; Renna, F.; Paredes, H.; Pedrosa, J.. "Lightweight 3D CNN for the Segmentation of Coronary Calcifications and Calcium Scoring". 2024.
    10.1109/MELECON56669.2024.10608680
  7. Abay, S.G.; Lima, F.; Geurts, L.; Camara, J.; Pedrosa, J.; Cunha, A.. "Quality assessment of Low-cost retinal Videos for Glaucoma screening". 2024.
    10.1016/j.procs.2024.06.266
  8. Pereira, P.; Rocha, J.; Pedrosa, J.; Mendonça, A.M.. "Evaluating Visual Explainability in Chest X-Ray Pathology Detection". 2024.
    10.1109/MELECON56669.2024.10608569
  9. Castro, R.; Sousa, I.; Nunes, F.; Mancio, J.; Fontes-Carvalho, R.; Ferreira, C.; Pedrosa, J.. "Automated Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat Segmentation in Computed Tomography". 2024.
    10.1109/ISBI56570.2024.10635784
  10. de C. Araújo, A.; Silva, A.C.; Pedrosa, J.M.; Silva, I.F.S.; Diniz, J.O.B.. "A Cascade Approach for Automatic Segmentation of Coronary Arteries Calcification in Computed Tomography Images Using Deep Learning". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-60665-6_7
  11. Matilde Carvalho Costa; Sofia Cardoso Pereira; João Pedrosa; Ana Maria Mendonça; Aurélio Campilho. "Deep Feature-Based Automated Chest Radiography Compliance Assessment". 2023.
    10.1109/enbeng58165.2023.10175341
  12. Ricardo Coimbra Brioso; João Pedrosa; Ana Maria Mendonça; Aurélio Campilho. "Semi-supervised Multi-structure Segmentation in Chest X-Ray Imaging". 2023.
    10.1109/cbms58004.2023.00325
  13. Ferraz, S.; Coimbra, M.; Pedrosa, J.. "Deep Learning for Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Echocardiography". 2023.
    10.1109/ENBENG58165.2023.10175322
  14. Pedrosa, J.; Sousa, P.; Silva, J.; Mendonca, A.M.; Campilho, A.. "Lesion-Aware Chest Radiography Abnormality Classification with Object Detection Framework". 2023.
    10.1109/CBMS58004.2023.00324
  15. Domingues, R.; Nunes, F.; Mancio, J.; Fontes-Carvalho, R.; Coimbra, M.; Pedrosa, J.; Renna, F.. "Automatic Contrast Generation from Contrastless Computed Tomography". 2023.
    10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340695
  16. Williams, H.; Pedrosa, J.; Asad, M.; Cattani, L.; Vercauteren, T.; Deprest, J.; D'Hooge, J.. "DEEPBEAS3D: Deep Learning and B-Spline EXPLICIT Active Surfaces". 2023.
    10.1109/IUS51837.2023.10308101
  17. Baeza, R.; Santos, C.; Nunes, F.; Mancio, J.; Fontes-Carvalho, R.; Coimbra, M.; Renna, F.; Pedrosa, J.. "A Generalization Study of Automatic Pericardial Segmentation in Computed Tomography Images". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-32029-3_15
  18. Rui Santos; João Pedrosa; Ana Maria Mendonça; Aurélio Campilho. "Automatic Eye-Tracking-Assisted Chest Radiography Pathology Screening". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-36616-1_41
  19. Joana Maximino; Miguel Coimbra; Pedrosa, João. "Detection of COVID-19 in Point of Care Lung Ultrasound". 2022.
    10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871235
  20. Rocha, Joana; Pereira, Sofia Cardoso; Pedrosa, Joao; Campilho, Aurelio; Mendonca, Ana Maria. "Attention-driven Spatial Transformer Network for Abnormality Detection in Chest X-Ray Images". 2022.
    10.1109/cbms55023.2022.00051
  21. Pedrosa, João; Aresta, Guilherme; Carlos A Ferreira; Ana Maria Mendonça; CAMPILHO, AURÉLIO. "Automatic Label Detection in Chest Radiography Images". 2022.
    10.5220/0010888100003123
  22. Pedrosa, J.; Sousa, P.; Silva, J.; Mendonça, A.M.; Campilho, A.. "Lesion-Based Chest Radiography Image Retrieval for Explainability in Pathology Detection". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-04881-4_7
  23. Martim Quintas e Sousa; Pedrosa, João; Rocha, Joana; Cardoso Pereira, Sofia; Ana Maria Mendonça; CAMPILHO, AURÉLIO. "Chest Radiography Few-Shot Image Synthesis for Automated Pathology Screening Applications". 2021.
    10.1109/bibm52615.2021.9669859
  24. Williams, Helena; Pedrosa, João; Cattani, Laura; Housmans, Susanne; Vercauteren, Tom; Deprest, Jan; D’hooge, Jan. "Interactive Segmentation via Deep Learning and B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-87193-2_30
  25. Carvalho, Rafaela; Pedrosa, João; Nedelcu, Tudor. "Multimodal Multi-tasking for Skin Lesion Classification Using Deep Neural Networks". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-90439-5_3
  26. Marta Cvijic; Stéphanie Bézy; Aniela Petrescu; Pedro Santos; Marta Orlowska; Bidisha Chakraborty; Jürgen Duchenne; et al. "Differentiation of hypertensive heart disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with myocardial stiffness measurements: a shear wave imaging study using ultra-high frame rate echocardiography". 2020.
    10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.0087
  27. Carvalho, C.; Pedrosa, J.; Maia, C.; Penas, S.; Carneiro, Â.; Mendonça, L.; Mendonça, A.M.; Campilho, A.. "A multi-dataset approach for dme risk detection in eye fundus images". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-50516-5_25
  28. Machado, M.; Ferreira, C.A.; Pedrosa, J.; Negrão, E.; Rebelo, J.; Leitão, P.; Carvalho, A.S.; et al. "Automatic Lung Reference Model". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_122
  29. Pedrosa, J.; Aresta, G.; Rebelo, J.; Negrão, E.; Ramos, I.; Cunha, A.; Campilho, A.. "LNDetector: A Flexible Gaze Characterisation Collaborative Platform for Pulmonary Nodule Screening". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_40
  30. Ferreira, C.A.; Aresta, G.; Pedrosa, J.; Rebelo, J.; Negrao, E.; Cunha, A.; Ramos, I.; Campilho, A.. "Classification of Lung Nodules in CT Volumes Using the Lung-RADS™ Guidelines with Uncertainty Parameterization". 2020.
    10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098586
  31. Debbie Zhao; Edward Ferdian; Gonzalo D Maso Talou; Gina M Quill; Kathleen Gilbert; Thiranja P Babarenda Gamage; Vicky Y Wang; et al. "Automated analysis of 3D-echocardiography using spatially registered patient-specific CMR meshes". Paper presented in European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging,, 2020.
    10.1093/ehjci/jeaa356.425
  32. Petrescu, ANIELA; Cvijic, M; Bezy, S; Santos, P; Duchenne, J; Orlowska, M; Pedrosa, João; et al. "Can shear wave imaging distinguish between diffuse interstitial and replacement myocardial fibrosis?". 2020.
    10.1093/ehjci/jeaa356.009
  33. Santos, P.; Koriakina, N.; Chakraborty, B.; Pedrosa, J.; Petrescu, A.M.; Voigt, J.-U.; D'hooge, J.. "Evaluation of Coherence-Based Beamforming for B-Mode and Speckle Tracking Echocardiography". 2018.
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8579972
  34. Pedrosa, J.; Queiros, S.; Vilaca, J.; Badano, L.; D'Hooge, J.. "Fully Automatic Assessment of Mitral Valve Morphology from 3D Transthoracic Echocardiography". 2018.
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8580112
  35. Pedrosa, J.; Komini, V.; Duchenne, J.; D'Hooge, J.. "Real-time anatomical imaging of the heart on an experimental ultrasound system". 2017.
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2017.8091740
  36. Pedrosa, J.; Heyde, B.; Heeren, L.; Engvall, J.; Zamorano, J.; Papachristidis, A.; Edvardsen, T.; Claus, P.; D'Hooge, J.. "Automatic short axis orientation of the left ventricle in 3D ultrasound recordings". 2016.
    10.1117/12.2214106
  37. Ortega, A.; Pedrosa, J.; Heyde, B.; Tong, L.; D'Hooge, J.. "An automatic method for determining the anatomical relevant space for fast volumetric cardiac imaging". 2015.
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2015.0124
  38. Ortega, A.; Lines, D.; Pedrosa, J.; Chakraborty, B.; Komini, V.; Gassert, H.; D'Hooge, J.. "HD-PULSE: High channel Density Programmable ULtrasound System based on consumer Electronics". 2015.
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2015.0516
  39. Pedrosa, J.; Castro, A.; Vinhoza, T.T.V.. "Automatic heart sound segmentation and murmur detection in pediatric phonocardiograms". 2014.
    10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944078
Journal article
  1. Jianning Li; Zongwei Zhou; Jiancheng Yang; Antonio Pepe; Christina Gsaxner; Gijs Luijten; Chongyu Qu; et al. "MedShapeNet – a large-scale dataset of 3D medical shapes for computer vision". Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bmt-2024-0396.
    10.1515/bmt-2024-0396
  2. Rocha, J.; Pereira, S.C.; Pedrosa, J.; Campilho, A.; Mendonça, A.M.. "STERN: Attention-driven Spatial Transformer Network for abnormality detection in chest X-ray images". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 147 (2024): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85178667360&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102737
  3. Akbari, S.; Tabassian, M.; Pedrosa, J.; Queiros, S.; Papangelopoulou, K.; D'hooge, J.. "BEAS-Net: a Shape-Prior-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Robust Left Ventricular Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography". IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (2024): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85197063044&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TUFFC.2024.3418030
  4. Debbie Zhao; Edward Ferdian; Gonzalo D. Maso Talou; Gina M. Quill; Kathleen Gilbert; Vicky Y. Wang; Thiranja P. Babarenda Gamage; et al. "MITEA: A dataset for machine learning segmentation of the left ventricle in 3D echocardiography using subject-specific labels from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging". Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 9 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.1016703.
    10.3389/fcvm.2022.1016703
  5. Ferraz, S.; Coimbra, M.; Pedrosa, J.. "Assisted probe guidance in cardiac ultrasound: A review". Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 10 (2023): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85149381418&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fcvm.2023.1056055
  6. Zhao, D.; Mauger, C.A.; Gilbert, K.; Wang, V.Y.; Quill, G.M.; Sutton, T.M.; Lowe, B.S.; et al. "Correcting bias in cardiac geometries derived from multimodal images using spatiotemporal mapping". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85159721887&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41598-023-33968-5
  7. Pedrosa, J.; Aresta, G.; Ferreira, C.; Carvalho, C.; Silva, J.; Sousa, P.; Ribeiro, L.; Mendonça, A.M.; Campilho, A.. "Assessing clinical applicability of COVID-19 detection in chest radiography with deep learning". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85128596142&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41598-022-10568-3
  8. Ali, Y.; Beheshti, S.; Janabi-Sharifi, F.; Yousefi Rezaii, T.; Cheema, A.N.; Pedrosa, J.. "A hybrid approach for tracking borders in echocardiograms". Signal, Image and Video Processing (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85130233710&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11760-022-02250-y
  9. Sónia Marques; Filippo Schiavo; Carlos A Ferreira; Pedrosa, João; António Cunha; CAMPILHO, AURÉLIO. "A multi-task CNN approach for lung nodule malignancy classification and characterization". Expert Systems with Applications 184 (2021): 115469-115469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115469.
    10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115469
  10. Debbie Zhao; Gina M Quill; Kat Gilbert; Vicky Y. Wang; Helene C Houle; Malcolm E Legget; Peter Ruygrok; et al. "Systematic Comparison of Left Ventricular Geometry Between 3D-Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 8 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.728205.
    10.3389/fcvm.2021.728205
  11. Kazwiny Y; Pedrosa, João; Zhang Z; Boesmans W; D'hooge J; Vanden Berghe P. "Extracting neuronal activity signals from microscopy recordings of contractile tissue using B-spline Explicit Active Surfaces (BEAS) cell tracking.". Scientific reports (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/34035411.
    10.1038/s41598-021-90448-4
  12. Pedrosa, João; Guilherme Aresta; Carlos Ferreira; Isabel Ramos; António Trigueiros Silva Cunha; Aurélio Campilho. "LNDb Challenge on automatic lung cancer patient management". Medical Image Analysis (2021): 102027-102027. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841521000736.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2021.102027
  13. Petrescu A; Bézy S; Cvijic M; Santos P; Orlowska M; Duchenne J; Pedrosa J; et al. "Shear Wave Elastography Using High-Frame-Rate Imaging in the Follow-Up of Heart Transplantation Recipients.". JACC. Cardiovascular imaging (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33004291.
    10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.06.043
  14. Guilherme Aresta; Carlos Ferreira; Pedrosa, João; Teresa Araújo; João Rebelo; Eduardo Negrão; Margarida Morgado; et al. "Automatic Lung Nodule Detection Combined With Gaze Information Improves Radiologists' Screening Performance". IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2020):
    10.1109/JBHI.2020.2976150
  15. Orlowska, M.; Ramalli, A.; Petrescu, A.; Cvijic, M.; Bezy, S.; Santos, P.; Pedrosa, J.; Voigt, J.-U.; D'Hooge, J.. "A Novel 2-D Speckle Tracking Method for High-Frame-Rate Echocardiography". IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 67 9 (2020): 1764-1775. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090078674&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TUFFC.2020.2985451
  16. Marta Cvijic; Stéphanie Bézy; Aniela Petrescu; Pedro Santos; Marta Orlowska; Bidisha Chakraborty; Jürgen Duchenne; et al. "Interplay of cardiac remodelling and myocardial stiffness in hypertensive heart disease: a shear wave imaging study using high-frame rate echocardiography". European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jez205.
    10.1093/ehjci/jez205
  17. Pedrosa, J.; Duchenne, J.; Queirós, S.; Degtiarova, G.; Gheysens, O.; Claus, P.; Voigt, J.-U.; D'Hooge, J.. "Non-invasive myocardial performance mapping using 3D echocardiographic stress-strain loops". Physics in Medicine and Biology 64 11 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85067335144&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/1361-6560/ab21f8
  18. Santos, P.; Petrescu, A.M.; Pedrosa, J.P.; Orlowska, M.; Komini, V.; Voigt, J.-U.; D'Hooge, J.. "Natural Shear Wave Imaging in the Human Heart: Normal Values, Feasibility, and Reproducibility". IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 66 3 (2019): 442-452. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85056591080&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2881493
  19. Petrescu, A.; Santos, P.; Orlowska, M.; Pedrosa, J.; Bézy, S.; Chakraborty, B.; Cvijic, M.; et al. "Velocities of Naturally Occurring Myocardial Shear Waves Increase With Age and in Cardiac Amyloidosis". JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging 12 12 (2019): 2389-2398. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85075316173&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.11.029
  20. Leclerc, S.; Smistad, E.; Pedrosa, J.; Ostvik, A.; Cervenansky, F.; Espinosa, F.; Espeland, T.; et al. "Deep Learning for Segmentation Using an Open Large-Scale Dataset in 2D Echocardiography". IEEE transactions on medical imaging 38 9 (2019): 2198-2210. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071772520&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TMI.2019.2900516
  21. Rösner, A.; Khalapyan, T.; Pedrosa, J.; Dalen, H.; McElhinney, D.B.; Friedberg, M.K.; Lui, G.K.. "Ventricular mechanics in adolescent and adult patients with a Fontan circulation: Relation to geometry and wall stress". Echocardiography 35 12 (2018): 2035-2046. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055289949&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/echo.14169
  22. Ortega, A.; Pedrosa, J.; Heyde, B.; Tong, L.; D'hooge, J.. "Automatic definition of an anatomic field of view for volumetric cardiac motion estimation at high temporal resolution". Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 7 7 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85026377069&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/app7070752
  23. Barbosa, D.; Pedrosa, J.; Heyde, B.; Dietenbeck, T.; Friboulet, D.; Bernard, O.; D'hooge, J.. "heartBEATS: A hybrid energy approach for real-time B-spline explicit active tracking of surfaces". Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 62 (2017): 26-33. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85026784326&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.compmedimag.2017.07.004
  24. Pinheiro, A.P.; Dias, M.; Pedrosa, J.; Soares, A.P.. "Minho Affective Sentences (MAS): Probing the roles of sex, mood, and empathy in affective ratings of verbal stimuli". Behavior Research Methods 49 2 (2017): 698-716. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84961817081&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3758/s13428-016-0726-0
  25. Pedrosa, J.; Queiros, S.; Bernard, O.; Engvall, J.; Edvardsen, T.; Nagel, E.; D'Hooge, J.. "Fast and Fully Automatic Left Ventricular Segmentation and Tracking in Echocardiography Using Shape-Based B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces". IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 36 11 (2017): 2287-2296. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029000094&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TMI.2017.2734959
  26. Pedrosa, J.; Barbosa, D.; Heyde, B.; Schnell, F.; Rosner, A.; Claus, P.; D'Hooge, J.. "Left Ventricular Myocardial Segmentation in 3-D Ultrasound Recordings: Effect of Different Endocardial and Epicardial Coupling Strategies". IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 64 3 (2017): 525-536. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85015160329&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TUFFC.2016.2638080
  27. Pedrosa, J.; Barbosa, D.; Almeida, N.; Bernard, O.; Bosch, J.; D’hooge, J.. "Cardiac chamber volumetric assessment using 3D ultrasound - A review". Current Pharmaceutical Design 22 1 (2016): 105-121. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84953392228&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2174/1381612822666151109112652
  28. Pinheiro, A.P.; Barros, C.; Pedrosa, J.. "Salience in a social landscape: Electrophysiological effects of task-irrelevant and infrequent vocal change". Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11 1 (2015): 127-139. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84960118993&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/scan/nsv103
Magazine article
  1. Guilherme Aresta; Pedrosa, João; Carlos A Ferreira. "Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19 detection in X-ray Images", INESC TEC Science&Society, 2020, https://science-society.inesctec.pt/index.php/inesctecesociedade/article/view/29.
Preprint
  1. Youcef Kazwiny; Pedrosa, João; Zhiqing Zhang; Werend Boesmans; Jan D'hooge; Pieter Vanden Berghe. "Extracting neuronal activity signals from microscopy recordings of contractile tissue: a cell tracking approach using B-spline Explicit Active Surfaces (BEAS)". 2020. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/12/15/2020.12.15.422837.
    10.1101/2020.12.15.422837
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pedrosa, João. "Left Ventricular Segmentation of the Heart in Real-time in 3D Echocardiography". PhD, Associatie KU Leuven, 2018. https://limo.libis.be/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=LIRIAS2242921&context=L&vid=Lirias&search_scope=Lirias&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&fromSitemap=1.
  2. João Manuel Patrício Pedrosa. "Heart Sound Analysis for Cardiac Pathology Identification: Detection and Characterization of Heart Murmurs". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/68632.

Other

Dataset
  1. João Pedrosa; Guilherme; Carlos; Márcio; Patrícia; André; João; et al. LNDb Dataset: A Lung Nodule Database on Computed Tomography. 2023.
    10.5281/ZENODO.8348419
  2. Ricardo Brioso; João Pedrosa; Ana Maria Mendonça; Aurélio Campilho. Heart and Clavicle Segmentation References in Chest Radiography - Montgomery Dataset. 2023.
    10.25747/TD00-7K67
  3. Debbie Zhao; Edward Ferdian; Gonzalo D Maso Talou; Gina M. Quill; Kathleen Gilbert; Vicky Y. Wang; Thiranja P. Babarenda Gamage; et al. MITEA: MR-Informed Three-dimensional Echocardiography Analysis. 2023.
  4. Gijs Luijten; Jana Fragemann; Jianning Li; Jens Kleesiek; Jan Egger; Pedrosa, João. MedShapeNet - A Large-Scale Dataset of 3D Medical Shapes for Computer Vision. 2023.
  5. Sarah Leclerc; Olivier Bernard; Erik Smistad; Lasse Lovstakken; Pierre-Marc Jodoin; Jan D'hooge; Florian Espinoza; et al. CAMUS: Cardiac Acquisitions for Multi-structure Ultrasound Segmentation. 2023.
  6. João Pedrosa; Guilherme Aresta; Carlos Ferreira; Catarina Carvalho; Joana Silva; Pedro Sousa; Lucas Ribeiro; Ana Maria Mendonça; Aurélio Campilho. Clinical applicability of COVID-19 detection in chest radiography with deep learning - radiologist annotations. 2022.
    10.25747/342B-GF87
Other output
  1. Machine Learning Computed Tomography Radiomics of Abdominal Adipose Tissue to Optimize Cardiovascular Risk Assessment. 2024. Mancio, J.; Lopes, A.; Sousa, I.; Nunes, F.; Xara, S.; Carvalho, M.; Ferreira, W.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85206393138&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-4654020/v1
  2. MedShapeNet - A Large-Scale Dataset of 3D Medical Shapes for Computer Vision. 2023. Li, J.; Pepe, A.; Gsaxner, C.; Luijten, G.; Jin, Y.; Ambigapathy, N.; Nasca, E.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85174036466&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arXiv.2308.16139
  3. DEEPBEAS3D: Deep Learning and B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces. 2023. Williams, H.; Pedrosa, J.; Asad, M.; Cattani, L.; Vercauteren, T.; Deprest, J.; D’hooge, J.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85173006292&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arXiv.2309.02335
  4. Interactive segmentation via deep learning and B-spline explicit active surfaces. 2021. Williams, H.; Pedrosa, J.; Cattani, L.; Housmans, S.; Vercauteren, T.; Deprest, J.; D'hooge, J.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85181624873&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arxiv.2110.12939
  5. LNDb: A Lung Nodule Database on Computed Tomography. 2019. Pedrosa, João; Guilherme Aresta; Carlos Ferreira; Márcio Rodrigues; Patrícia Leitão; André Silva Carvalho; João Rebelo; et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08434.
  6. BEAS non-exclusive commercial license. 2019. Pedrosa, João; Daniel Barbosa; Jan D'hooge.
  7. LNDb: A lung nodule database on computed tomography. 2019. Pedrosa, J.; Aresta, G.; Ferreira, C.; Rodrigues, M.; Leitão, P.; Carvalho, A.S.; Rebelo, J.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85181605507&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arxiv.1911.08434
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/10 Anatomically-Guided Inpainting for Local Synthesis of Normal Chest Radiographs DGM4MICCAI 2024 - Deep Generative Models at the Medical Imaging Computing Conference
2024/06/28 Evaluating Visual Explainability in Chest X-Ray Pathology Detection IEEE Mediterranean Eletrotechnical Conference 2024
2024/05/30 Automated Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat Segmentation in Computed Tomography IEEE ISBI 2024 - 21st International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
2024/05/15 Esperteza Artificial em Imagem Médica Pint of Science Portugal 2024 - Guimarães
Pint of Science Portugal
2024/05/10 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine MIHMEP Reunion: 25th Anniversary of the Master of International Healthcare Management, Economics and Policy
2023/12/12 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Growing Pains and How to Dig Deeper 23th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2023)
(Portugal)
2023/06/22 Lesion-Aware Chest Radiography Abnormality Classification with Object Detection Framework IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
(Italy)
2023/05/30 Artificial Intelligence in Chest Radiography: Growing Pains and Interpretability Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminars
(Portugal)
2023/05/12 Evaluation of Automatic Pericardial Segmentation Methods in Computed Tomography Images ESC EACVI Congress 2023
2023/04/24 Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence in Chest Radiography nowScience Feira da Inovação
(Portugal)
2022/10/01 Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence in Chest Radiography FMUP What Else 2022
2022/05/06 Lesion-Based Chest Radiography Image Retrieval for Explainability in Pathology Detection IbPRIA 2022
2022/02/10 Automatic Label Detection in Chest Radiography Images 9th International Conference on Bioimaging 2022 - BIOSTEC 2022
2020/02/07 How to assess myocardial work most reliably using echo: comparison against PET-FDG Myocardial Velocity and Deformation Imaging Symposium
(Leuven, Belgium)
2019/10/31 LNDetector: a flexible software platform for the development of pulmonary nodule screening strategies RecPad 2019 - Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition
(Porto, Portugal)
2019/09/26 LNDetector: a flexible software platform for the development of pulmonary nodule screening strategies Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/10/25 Fully Automatic Assessment of Mitral Valve Morphology from 3D Transthoracic Echocardiography IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
(Kobe, Japan)
2018/10/25 Non-invasive Myocardial Performance Mapping Using 3D Echocardiographic Stress-Strain Loops IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
(Kobe, Japan)
2018/02/08 Real-Time Anatomical Imaging of the Heart on an Experimental Ultrasound System Myocardial Velocity and Deformation Imaging Symposium
KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
2017/09/09 Fast and Fully Automatic 3D Left Ventricular Segmentation Using Shape-Based B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
(Washington DC, United States)
2017/09/08 Real-Time Anatomical Imaging of the Heart on an Experimental Ultrasound System IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
(Washington DC, United States)
2016/02/28 Automatic Short Axis Orientation of the Left Ventricle in 3D Ultrasound Recordings SPIE Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography
(San Diego, United States)
2015/02/05 Fully Automatic Endo- and Epicardial Segmentation in 3D Ultrasound Recordings Myocardial Velocity and Deformation Imaging Symposium
(Leuven, Belgium)
2013/11/01 Heart Sound Analysis for Cardiac Pathology Identification: Detection of Systolic Murmurs RecPad 2013 - Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition
(Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/02 - Current Artificial Intelligence cardiac CT interpretation for cardiovascular risk stratification
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2025/02 - Current Interstitial Lung Disease Radiological Pattern Segmentation in High Resolution Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2025/02 - Current Automatic Segmentation of the Aorta Using Deep Learning Segmentation Tools
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2025/02 - Current Artificial Intelligence thorax CT interpretation for interstitial disease treatment
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2025/02 - Current Semi-Supervised Learning for Interstitial Lung Disease Finding Segmentation in High-Resolution Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/01/03 - Current Automatic Detection of Cardiovascular Findings in Chest Computed Tomography Using Artificial Intelligence
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2024/11 - Current Image-Based Interstitial Lung Disease Patient Stratification
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/10 - Current Semi-automatic Platform for Calcium Scoring in Cardiac Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/10 - Current Contrastive Learning Towards Quality Assessment in Large-Scale CXR Data Sets
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/09 - Current OSCAR Data collection and Analysis
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/09 - Current Automatic Whole Heart Segmentation in Cardiac Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - Current Deep Registration of Cardiac Computed Tomography Images
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - Current Interactive 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/04 - Current Content based image retrieval as a computer aided diagnosis tool for interstitial lung diseases
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/02 - Current Automatic Retrieval of Coronary Calcifications in Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2022/03/03 - Current Automatic Cardiac Point-of-care Ultrasound Analysis
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/10/10 - 2024/11 Low-Dose Contrast Computed Tomography Using Deep Learning
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2024/06 - 2024/08 Deep Registration in Cardiac Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/05 - 2024/08 Pericardial Segmentation in Cardiac CT
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/08 Patient-specific Endothelial Shear Stress Simulation Through Coronary Angiography Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/07 Unsupervised Patient Reidentification in Chest Radiography Images
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/07 Automatic Tracheal Segmentation in Cardiac Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/07 Semi-automatic Platform for Calcium Scoring in Cardiac Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/07 - 2024/07 Automatic CAC Quantification and Exclusion of Coronary Artery Disease in Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2023/02/16 - 2024/07 Deep Alignment and Super-Resolution of Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography Images
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/16 - 2024/06/30 Case-based image retrieval in point-of-care lung ultrasonography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/05/18 - 2024/02 Automatic CAC Quantification in Computed Tomography
Co-supervisor
Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil
2022/10/28 - 2023/10 Automatic Visceral/Abdominal Fat Segmentation in Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/09/15 - 2023/10 Guided Chest Radiography Content-Based Image Retrieval
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/03/03 - 2023/09 Collaborative and Explainable Chest Radiography Pathology Detection and Reporting
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/03/03 - 2023/09 Segmentation of cardiac tissue in CT for coronary artery disease screening
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/09/20 - 2023/07 Automated Quality Assessment in Chest Radiography Images
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/08/29 - 2023/07 Echocardiography Automatic Image Quality Assessment and Enhancement
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/10/10 - 2023/06 Guided Artificial Chest Radiography Image Generation
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/10/10 - 2023/06 Early Detection of Glaucoma Using a Smartphone
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/09/15 - 2023/06 Longitudinal Explainability in Chest Radiography Pathology Detection
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/05/04 - 2023/04 Real-Time Left Ventricular Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography
Co-supervisor
Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil
2021/11/26 - 2023/02 XAIPrivacy - XAI with Differential Privacy
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/10/20 - 2022/12 Automatic contrast generation from contrastless CTs
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/01/06 - 2022/10 3D Echocardiography Segmentation of the Tricuspid Valve
Co-supervisor
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2022/08/22 - 2022/09/02 Manual Annotation of Abdominal/Visceral Fat in Computed Tomography
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/04/25 - 2022/09 Automated View/Pose Classification in Chest Radiography Images
Supervisor
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2021/11/05 - 2022/07/22 Automatic Eyetracking-Assisted Chest Radiography Pathology Screening
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/07/21 Chest Radiography Anatomical Segmentation
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/12/14 Detection of Pulmonary Lesions for COVID-19 Screening
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/07/19 - 2021/09/26 Chest Radiography Lung Field Segmentation
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/06/14 - 2021/09/10 Cardiac Chambers' Segmentation in 2DE
Supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/07/13 Generative Adversarial Networks in Chest Radiography Screening
Supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/07/13 Multi Modal Tasking for Skin Lesion Classification using DNN
Supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/01/31 DME Risk Detection in Eye Fundus Images
Supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Scientific initiation)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/11/01 - 2020/07/31 Aortic Valve Segmentation and Tracking in 2D Echocardiography
Supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Scientific initiation)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/11/30 Radiologists' Gaze Analysis in Pulmonary Nodule Search in Computed Tomography
Co-supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Scientific initiation)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/11/30 Pulmonary Nodules Characterization and Classification of Malignancy in Computed Tomography
Co-supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Other)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/31 Left Ventricular Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography: Specialization vs. Generalization in a U-Net Architecture
Supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Scientific initiation)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/05/02 - 2019/07/31 Malignancy Classification of Pulmonary Nodules in Computed Tomography
Co-supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Other)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2017/02/21 - 2018/03/30 Automated Cell Tracking in Ca2+ Image Recordings of the Enteric Nervous System Using BEAS
Co-supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Other)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Geneeskunde, Belgium
2017/03/01 - 2017/06/30 Automated Safety Testing System for Ultrasound Transducers for Use in a Clinical Setting
Co-supervisor
 Ultrasound Image Acquisition (Scientific initiation)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Geneeskunde, Belgium
2016/06/16 - 2016/09/09 Semi-automatic Segmentation of Long Axis Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Left Ventricle
Co-supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Scientific initiation)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Geneeskunde, Belgium
2016/06/01 - 2016/08/31 Feature extraction from 3D echocardiographic data sets for tissue classification
Co-supervisor
 Medical Image Analysis (Other)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Geneeskunde, Belgium

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current INESC TEC BioBytes - Founder and President of Organization Committee (2024)
Symposium
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2024 - 2024 BioSIM-UP Biomedical Signal and Imaging Processing Workshop at University of Porto (2024 - 2024)
Workshop
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2021/11/01 - 2022/02/21 INESC TEC C-BER Strategic Meeting 2021 (2022/02/21 - 2022/02/21)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2021/06/01 INESC TEC NIS Workshop 2021 (2021/06/01)
Workshop
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2020/12/11 INESC TEC C-BER Strategic Meeting 2020 (2020/11/11 - 2020/12/11)
Workshop
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/10/22 - 2020/06/26 ICIAR 2020 - 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (2020/06/24 - 2020/06/26)
Conference
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/06/26 LNDb Challenge on Automatic Classification of Patient Follow-up Recommendation from CT Lung Nodule Findings (2019/11/20 - 2020/06/26) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/07/12 - 2022/07/12 Exhibition on "Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence in Chest Radiography" at the ANI TECH@WEEK Industry 4.0 and the Green Transition ANI TECH@WEEK Industry 4.0 and the Green Transition
2021/10/26 - 2022/04/07 The CIFIC - Introduction to Higher Education Teaching (34 hours) aims to promote a better understaing of the importance of continuous training by higher education staff, stimulate their confidence and depthen their capacity to think creatively in their practice.
Other
 CIFIC - Introduction to Higher Education Teaching
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24 Exhibition at the European Researcher's Night 2021 at i3S (Institute for Research and Innovation in Health) on the topic "Is Your Computer Watching You? How Radiologists Are Using Technology To Improve Care"
Exhibition
 European Researcher's Night 2021
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2021/02/22 - 2021/03/15 The CTE.FP Pedagogical Training for Higher Education Teaching course (40,5 hours) focused on the main aspects of teaching in higher education and the development of skills and competences for that purpose. CTE.FP Pedagogical Training for Higher Education Teaching
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/02/26 - 2021/02/26 The Collaborative Work in the Context of Online Classes course (90 minutes) focused on the challenges and opportunities of online teaching and the promotion and organization of collaborative work in this context. Collaborative Work in the Context of Online Classes
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2021/01/13 - 2021/01/13 The "First Class of the Semester - Strategies for Success" training (3h) focused on teaching the crucial aspects for a successful first class. First Class of the Semester - Strategies for Success
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/11/26 - 2020/12/18 The PMI Project Management course (40h) gathered researchers to learn best practices in project management and team management, building and leadership within the scope of a PMP. PMI Project Management course
1stOnly Talent, Portugal
2016/03/12 - 2016/03/17 The USART Winter Workshop brings together researchers in echocardiography from multiple backgrounds for two-way knowledge transfer, networking and team building. It includes presentations, short courses and the development of short projects in multidisciplinary teams.
Workshop
 2016 USART Winter Workshop
GE Vingmed Ultrasound AS, Norway

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2015/09/21 - 2015/09/23 The USART Summer School on Cardiac Imaging brings together researchers in echocardiography from multiple backgrounds for two-way knowledge transfer, networking and team building. It includes presentations, short courses and hands-on workshops.
Workshop
 2015 USART Summer School on Cardiac Imaging: Acquisition and Analysis - Ultrasound
GE Vingmed Ultrasound AS, Norway

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2015/02/28 - 2015/03/06 The USART Winter Workshop brings together researchers in echocardiography from multiple backgrounds for two-way knowledge transfer, networking and team building. It includes presentations, short courses and the development of short projects in multidisciplinary teams.
Workshop
 2015 USART Winter Workshop
GE Vingmed Ultrasound AS, Norway

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2015/02/11 - 2015/02/13 The LabVIEW FPGA course prepares you to design, debug, and implement efficient, optimized applications using the LabVIEW FPGA Module and reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware.
Workshop
 LabVIEW FPGA Course
National Instruments Corp, United States
2014/12/18 - 2014/12/19 The LabVIEW Core 2 course is an extension of the LabVIEW Core 1 course and teaches you to use common design patterns to successfully implement and distribute LabVIEW applications for research, engineering, and testing environments.
Workshop
 LabVIEW Core 2 Course
National Instruments Corp, United States

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/12 Discriminating mental disorders using the LEMON dataset Pedro Carvalho (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/05 Geração de tomografia cardíaca com contraste sintético a partir de imagens de tomografia cardíacas sem contraste utilizando modelos de difusão
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Victor Rogerio Sousa Ferreira (Master)
Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil
2023/11/11 Deep Learning in Medical Imaging: Segmentation, Features Extraction, Synthetic Images Generation
(Thesis) Arguer
 Leonardo Crespi (PhD)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2023/11/07 Multimodal Deep Learning for Heart Sound and Electrocardiogram Classification
(Thesis) Arguer
 Hélder Vieira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/10/10 Development of a drug-delivery system based on chlorhexidine-loaded porous composite hydrogel for bone tissue engineering
President of the jury
 Ana Luísa Fernandes (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/07/14 Multimodal Deep Implicit Representations for Autonomous Driving
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ricardo Fontão (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/03/23 Segmentação Automática de Estruturas Cardíacas em Imagens de Cine-Ressonância Magnética de Eixo Curto Usando Redes Neuronais Convolucionais Ítalo Francyles (PhD)
Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil
2022/12/21 Deep Aesthetic Assessment of Breast Cancer Surgery Outcomes Wilson Silva (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/12/15 Automatic Interpretation of Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound Bárbara Pereira (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/10/01 Deep Learning Techniques for Automated Analysis and Processing of High Resolution Medical Imaging
(Thesis) Arguer
 Álvaro Hervella (PhD)
Universidade da Coruña, Spain
2020/10/20 Pediatric Cardiac Sound Analysis for the Identification of Murmurs
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Marisa Oliveira (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Biomédicas Youth School Scientific Committee Biomédicas Youth School, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024 - Current IEEE MELECON 2024 - 22nd Mediterranean Eletrotechnical Conference University of Porto
2024 - Current MICCAI 2024 - 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Universitat de Barcelona
2024 - Current HCist 2024 - 13th International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies Polytechnic University of Leiria
2024 - Current BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2024 Joint International Scientific Conferences on AI and Machine Learning Utrecht University
2024 - Current IEEE ISBI 2025 - 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging MD Anderson Cancer Center
2023 - Current IEEE ISBI 2024 - 21st International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging National Technical University of Athens
2023 - 2023 EAI Mobihealth - 12th EAI Int. Conf. on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare University of Trás os Montes and Alto Douro
2022 - 2022 EAI Mobihealth - 11th EAI Int. Conf. on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare University of Trás os Montes and Alto Douro
2021/06/28 - 2021/06/29 4th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE) University of Porto
2020/06/24 - 2020/06/26 ICIAR 2020 - 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition University of Porto
2019/08/27 - 2019/08/29 ICIAR 2019 - 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition University of Waterloo

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020 Ultrafast ultrasound acquisition sequence programming in LabView in an experimental ultrasound system. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg, Belgium
2015/06/09 - 2015/07/08 Programming of experimental protocols for "Examining abnormalities in auditory emotional processing in schizophrenia: an electrophysiological investigation with high-risk, early-stage and chronic patients" Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02 - 2025/06 Capstone Project in Biomedical Engineering (Bacharelato) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/06 Biomedical Imaging Analysis (Bacharelato) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/02 Introduction to Scientific Programming Bioengineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/06 Capstone Project in Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/02 Introduction to Scientific Programming Bioengineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/06 - 2023/06/30 Biomedical Imaging Analysis (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/19 - 2023/02/17 Introduction to Scientific Programming (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/09/13 - 2022/03/12 Introduction to Scientific Programming Introduction to Scientific Programming (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/12/17 - 2021/12/17 Seminars in Biomedical Engineering (invited lecture) Seminars in Biomedical Engineering (invited lecture) (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/09/14 - 2021/02/19 Introduction to Scientific Programming Introduction to Scientific Programming (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/12/10 - 2019/12/10 Computer-Aided Diagnostics (invited lecture) Master in Bioengineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/12/02 - 2019/12/02 Applied Deep Learning (invited lecture) Master in Informatics Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Medical Imaging and Analysis - Ultrasound Imaging Medical Imaging and Analysis (Master) Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024 - 2034 INESC TEC Science Bits What Happens When AI and Chest X-ray Meet?
2022/06/28 - 2022/06/28 90 Segundos de Ciência - Antena 1 Artificial Intelligence in Chest Radiography Screening and How To Explain It
2021/02/04 - 2021/02/04 Mentes Que Brilham - Porto Canal CXR_AI4COVID-19 project
2020/01/22 - 2020/01/22 Mentes que Brilham - Porto Canal LNDetector project

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/11 - Current PhD Thesis Plan Jury "Continual Learning is the Way: Enhancing Short Sighted Models" Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - Current PhD Thesis Plan Jury "Non-Invasive Detection of Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia - A Deep Learning Approach Using Narrow Band Imaging Endoscopy" Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2025/01/31 - 2025/01/31 MSc Thesis Plan Jury Member "Synthetic Generation of Retinal Fundus Images with Controllable Diffusion Models" Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Project Evaluator for SIID – I&D Empresarial 2023-MPr-09
2024/12/16 - 2024/12/16 PhD Thesis Plan Jury "Development of an artificial intelligence-based assisted navigation and diagnosis solution for pulmonary point-of-care ultrasound" Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 Best Demo Award
2019 RecPad Organization Committee, Portugal

Other distinction

2024 Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching
Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2020 Horizon2020 MSCA-IF-2019 Seal of Excellence
European Research Council, Belgium
2017 Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Training Grant
Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2017 Student Travel Support Grant
IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society, United States
2016 Broaden Your Horizons Grant
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Groep Biomedische Wetenschappen, Belgium