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Filipe Soares is a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, who holds a Ph.D. with the highest honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Beira Interior. He started as a researcher in medical imaging at Siemens Healthcare, in the field of computer-aided detection and diagnosis of Breast Cancer, in a project for which he received the Siemens Innovation Award in 2012. He worked as a software engineer in telecommunications and embedded systems at Nokia Siemens Networks in 2013. Filipe is an expert in computer vision, intelligent and decision support systems working for several sectors such as Manufacturing and Healthcare, mostly in Ophthalmology (more than 8 years). He has been working in responsible AI for CADx in Diabetic Retinopathy and Glaucoma and developing a new mobile device for retinal imaging. He also has knowledge of patent protection, clinical research and protocol design for data collection. He has experience in project management and project acquisition within Intelligent Systems, in Applied Research & Development and Software Engineering in AI. He has relevant experience in conceptualizing and implementing award-winning and innovative R&D projects, from business understanding to real-world testing, collaborating and oversight multiple stakeholders as clients, partners and vendors for timely delivery of outcomes with excellent quality.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Filipe Cruz Gomes Soares

Citation names

  • Soares, Filipe

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AA14-CDA5-C5E1
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2881-313X

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Computer-aided detection and diagnosis of breast cancer in 2D and 3D medical imaging through multifractal analysis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2006
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/05 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2013/12/02 - 2023/04 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2007/10/08 - 2013/03/08 Researcher (Research) Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Germany

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/04/02 - 2013/11/30 Consultor de Informática (Categorias e Funções Especificas) Coriant Portugal, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - 2026 Center for Responsible AI
01/C05-i10/2024.PC645008882-00000055
investment project nr. 62
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
2022 - 2026 AISym4Med - Synthetic and Scalable Data Platform for Medical Empowered AI
European Union under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme Grant Agreement Nº: 101095387
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2021 - 2023 VAICeramics - Visual and Acoustics Inspection of Ceramics
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069987
Principal investigator
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2020 - 2023 TAMI: Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-045905
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2018/02 - 2020/12 Demonstration of EyeFundusScope with Non-Expert Ophthalmology users (EyeFundusScopeNEO)
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-038400
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2020/08/31 Mini-fábricas para produção local de fertilizantes a partir de ar apoiadas por tecnologia de ICT baseada em sensores inteligentes para promover a agricultura em África
LEAPAgri/0004/2017
Principal investigator
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09 - 2020/08 Rede Nacional de Transferência de Conhecimento de Dispositivos Médicos (MDevNet)
POCI-01-0246-FEDER-026792
Researcher
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2016/04/22 - 2019/12/20 Deus ex Machina (DeM)
Norte-01-0145-FEDER-000026
Principal investigator
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
2016 - 2018 Mobile Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (MobileDRS)
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-010838
Principal investigator
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Concluded
2015 - 2017 Shopview2Market: Sistema Automatizado de Verificação de Planogramas de Lojas
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-006389
Principal investigator
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2013/12 - 2016 ShopvView
ERDF through COMPETE (POFC) and QREN - project number 30335
Principal investigator
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Melo, D.; Soares, F.; Felgueiras, S.; Gonçalves, J.; Vieira, P.. A New Compact Optical System Proposal and Image Quality Comparison Against Other Affordable Non-mydriatic Fundus Cameras. 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-29196-9_2
  2. Costa, J.; Sousa, I.; Soares, F.. Smartphone-based decision support system for elimination of pathology-free images in diabetic retinopathy screening. 2016.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-51234-1_13
Book chapter
  1. Rêgo, Sílvia; Matilde Monteiro-Soares; Soares, Filipe; Marco Dutra-Medeiros. "Interobserver Variability in the Determination of Diabetic Retinopathy and Quality of Fundus Image". In Photo Acoustic and Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Volume 2 : Fundus Imaging for the Retina, 5-1-5-7. Bristol, United Kingdom: IOP Publishing Lda, 2022.
    Published
  2. Antonio Oliveira-Jr; Carlos Resende; André Pereira; Pedro Madureira; João Gonçalves; Ruben Moutinho; Filipe Soares; Waldir Moreira. "IoT Sensing Box to Support Small-Scale Farming in Africa". 171-184. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-70572-5_11
  3. Soares, Filipe. "The Role of Self-Similarity for Computer Aided Detection Based on Mammogram Analysis". In Biomedical Diagnostics and Clinical Technologies: Applying High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing, edited by IGI Global - Medical Information Science Reference. IGI Global - Medical Information Science Reference, 2011.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-60566-280-0
Conference paper
  1. Madeira, Pedro; Carreiro, André; Gaudio, Alex; Rosado, Luís; Soares, Filipe; Smailagic, Asim. "ZEBRA: Explaining rare cases through outlying interpretable concepts". 2023.
    10.1109/cvprw59228.2023.00392
  2. Melo, D.; Vieira, P.; Soares, F.. "Light hazard measurement on an ophthalmic instrument". 2019.
    Published • 10.5220/0007575800870098
  3. Gonçalves, J.; Conceição, T.; Soares, F.. "Inter-observer reliability in computer-aided diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy". 2019.
    Published • 10.5220/0007580904810491.A10
  4. Melo, D.; Costa, J.; Soares, F.; Vieira, P.. "Optical design of a compact image acquisition device for mobile diabetic retinopathy screening". 2018.
    10.5220/0006592200630070
  5. Felgueiras, S.; Costa, J.; Gonçalves, J.; Soares, F.. "Mobile-based risk assessment of diabetic retinopathy using a smartphone and adapted ophtalmoscope". 2018.
    10.5220/0006599701680175
  6. Rosado, L.; Goncalves, J.; Costa, J.; Ribeiro, D.; Soares, F.. "Supervised learning for Out-of-Stock detection in panoramas of retail shelves". 2016.
    10.1109/IST.2016.7738260
  7. Gonçalves, J.; Ribeiro, D.; Soares, F.. "Perspective correction of panoramic images created by parallel motion stitching". Paper presented in WSCG 2015 Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, 2015.
    Published
  8. Duarte, I.C.; Caldeira, L.; Soares, F.; Janela, F.; Silva, J.S.. "3D medical image reconstruction on Digital Breast Tomosynthesis". 2012.
    10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331397
  9. Miranda, C.R.; Soares, F.; Sousa, I.; Janela, F.; Secca, M.F.. "Multifractal analysis of blood oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging". 2011.
    10.1109/ISSPIT.2011.6151572
  10. Soares, F.; Sousa, I.; Janela, F.; Seabra, J.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.. "Multifractal analysis of arterial spin labeling functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain". 2010.
    10.1109/MEMEA.2010.5480209
  11. Soares, F.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Janela, F.; Seabra, J.. "Towards the detection of microcalcifications on mammograms through multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis". 2009.
    10.1109/PACRIM.2009.5291288
  12. Duarte, I.C.; Caldeira, L.; Soares, F.; Silva, J.S.; Janela, F.. "GATE Mammogram simulation of NCAT breast phantom". 2009.
    10.1007/978-3-642-03882-2-393
  13. Soares, F.; Andruszkiewicz, P.; Freire, M.; Cruz, P.; Pereira, M.. "Self-similarity analysis applied to 2D breast cancer imaging". 2007.
    10.1109/ICSNC.2007.76
Journal article
  1. Rafaela Carvalho; Ana C. Morgado; João Gonçalves; Anil Kumar; Alberto Gil e Sá Rolo; Rui Carreira; Filipe Soares. "Computer-Aided Visual Inspection of Glass-Coated Tableware Ceramics for Multi-Class Defect Detection". Applied Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/app132111708.
    10.3390/app132111708
  2. Telmo Baptista; Carlos Soares; Tiago Oliveira; Filipe Soares. "Federated Learning for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Glaucoma Using Retinal Fundus Images". Applied Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/app132111620.
    10.3390/app132111620
  3. Sílvia Rêgo; Matilde Monteiro-Soares; Marco Dutra-Medeiros; Filipe Soares; Cláudia Camila Dias; Francisco Nunes. "Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Retinal Image Acquisition System for Screening Diabetic Retinopathy: Study Protocol". Diabetology (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/diabetology3010001.
    10.3390/diabetology3010001
  4. Ricardo Leonardo; Joao Goncalves; Andre Carreiro; Beatriz Simoes; Tiago Oliveira; Filipe Soares. "Impact of Generative Modeling for Fundus Image Augmentation With Improved and Degraded Quality in the Classification of Glaucoma". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3215126.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3215126
  5. Pedro Matias; Joao Costa; Andre V. Carreiro; Hugo Gamboa; Ines Sousa; Pedro Gomez; Joana Sousa; et al. "Clinically Relevant Sound-Based Features in COVID-19 Identification: Robustness Assessment With a Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3211295.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3211295
  6. Rêgo, Sílvia; Dutra-Medeiros, Marco; Bacelar-Silva, Gustavo M.; Borges, Tânia; Soares, Filipe; Monteiro-Soares, Matilde. "Reliability of Classification by Ophthalmologists with Telescreening Fundus Images for Diabetic Retinopathy and Image Quality". Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 15 3 (2021): 710-712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19322968211000418.
    10.1177/19322968211000418
  7. Nunes, Francisco; Madureira, Pedro; Rego, Silvia; Braga, Cristiana; Moutinho, Ruben; Oliveira, Tiago; Soares, Filipe. "A Mobile Tele-Ophthalmology System for Planned and Opportunistic Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy in Primary Care". IEEE Access 9 (2021): 83740-83750. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3085404.
    10.1109/access.2021.3085404
  8. Rêgo, Sílvia; Dutra-Medeiros, Marco; Soares, Filipe; Monteiro-Soares, Matilde. "Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy Using an Automated Diagnostic System Based on Deep Learning: Diagnostic Accuracy Assessment". Ophthalmologica 244 3 (2020): 250-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000512638.
    10.1159/000512638
  9. Antonio Oliveira-Jr; Carlos Resende; André Pereira; Pedro Madureira; joao goncalves; Ruben Moutinho; Filipe Soares; Waldir Moreira. "IoT Sensing Platform as a Driver for Digital Farming in Rural Africa". Sensors (2020): https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/12/3511.
    10.3390/s20123511
  10. Martins, J.; Cardoso, J.S.; Soares, F.. "Offline computer-aided diagnosis for Glaucoma detection using fundus images targeted at mobile devices". Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 192 105341 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85081023830&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105341
  11. Soares, F.; Janela, F.; Pereira, M.; Seabra, J.; Freire, M.M.. "Classification of breast masses on contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance images through log detrended fluctuation cumulant-based multifractal analysis". IEEE Systems Journal 8 3 (2014): 929-938. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907599203&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2284101
  12. Soares, F.; Janela, F.; Pereira, M.; Seabra, J.; Freire, M.M.. "3D Lacunarity in multifractal analysis of breast tumor lesions in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 22 11 (2013): 4422-4435. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884536885&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/TIP.2013.2273669
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Soares, Filipe Cruz Gomes. "Computer-aided detection and diagnosis of breast cancer in 2D and 3D medical imaging through multifractal analysis". PhD, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/4244.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Semi-synthetic Data Generation for Understanding Overfitting In Machine Learning
Co-supervisor of Omar Taha Mohammed
 Engenharia Informática (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023 Collaborative Machine Learning Without Centralized Data for Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Glaucoma Using Retinal Fundus Images
Co-supervisor of Telmo Baptista
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Metalearning to Select the Best Federated Learning Strategy
Co-supervisor of Fábio Fernandes
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Generative XAI in Computer-Aided Detection of Glaucoma Risk
Co-supervisor of Pedro Lopes
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/09 Glaucoma in Fundus Image
Co-supervisor of José Martins
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/09 Optical Design of a Mobile Solution for Multimodal Eye Disease Screening
Co-supervisor of Miguel Santos
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Handheld image acquisition with real-time vision for human-computer interaction on mobile applications
Co-supervisor of Ricardo Meneses
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Optical design of a compact image acquisition device for mobile diabetic retinopathy screening
Co-supervisor of David Melo
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Cotton Wool Spots in Eye Fundus Scope
Co-supervisor of Simão Felgueiras
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Mobile-Based risk assessment of diabetic retinopathy by image processing
Co-supervisor of João Costa
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2021 IN3+ Award - Second place with 250.000 EUR prize.
Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA, Portugal
2015 Sonae Innovation Award 2015
2012 Siemens Innovation Award 2012
Siemens SA, Spain
2007 Bolsa de mérito por melhor média de licenciatura de 5 anos em Engenharia Informática (2001-2006)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
1998 Prémio de mérito pela classificação média final no Ensino Secundário
Câmara Municipal da Covilhã, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 School of Startups for Researchers 2023 - 2nd prize award for a business idea
UPTEC Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia da Asprela, Portugal
2023 ARRISCA C 2023 - 2nd prize innovation award for a business idea
2016 Honourable mention in Innovation with the EyeFundusScope - Exame Informática Awards 2016
Revista Exame Informática, Portugal