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Innovation in breast cancer diagnosis published by INESC TEC

Breast cancer is currently one of the main causes of death by oncological disease worldwide.

INESC TEC researchers output highlighted in Japan

Pedro Costa, CMU-Portugal, and Aurélio Campilho, coordinator of the INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), presented a scientific paper at the International Conference on Image Analysis Applications (IAPR MVA 2017), and it was highlighted with some special references.

INESC TEC researcher participates in UN Conference at Google

João Paulo Cunha, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research, was the only Portuguese at the conference organised by the United Nations, which took place on 21 and 22 March at Google’s headquarters in Montain View (USA).

Paper by INESC TEC is esteemed paper in international journal

The paper entitled "Optic disc segmentation using the sliding band filter”, written by Aurélio Campilho and Ana Maria Mendonça, researchers at INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), and Behdad Dashtbozorg, former student of the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), is an esteemed paper of the international journal Computers in Biology and Medicine Journal.

INESC TEC creates 1st 3D video system in the world to help patients with epilepsy

A team of researchers from INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), led by João Paulo Cunha, have created the first system in the world to use 3D video technology to extract body movements during epileptic seizures. This new system can help health professionals to diagnose patients and define therapies, not only for epilepsy patients, but also for patients with other neurological illnesses, such as Parkinson’s.

INESC TEC supports international conference on image analysis and recognition

INESC TEC is supporting the 13th edition of ICIAR 2016 - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, which takes place between 13 and 15 July 2016 in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.

INESC TEC poster awarded in Germany

A poster co-authored by João Paulo Cunha, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), won 2nd place for best poster as part of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM), which took place in Mainz, Germany, on 4 December.

INESC TEC tries to understand the cause for motor disorders

INESC TEC’s Centre for Research in Biomedical Engineering (C-BER) is involved in a project where the goal is to study the regions of the brain where motor dysfunctions start. As part of this project, which involves INESC TEC and the University of Munich, Germany, in March INESC TEC hosted Verena Rozanski, a doctor and researcher at that university.

INESC TEC supports and participates in bioengineering symposium

Biomedical engineering is one of the most recent areas of expertise at INESC TEC, particularly after the creation of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) in the beginning of this year. However, INESC TEC was already working on several bio-related projects.

INESC TEC monitors health of first responders

“VR2Market: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Monitoring Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions” is the name of the Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) led by João Paulo Cunha, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), together with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE)* are also involved in the project, as well as other institutions and companies.

INESC TEC demonstrates medical technology in the United States

On 18 February, the manager of the recently created Centre for Research in Biomedical Engineering (C-BER) at INESC TEC, Aurélio Campilho, presented the RetinaCAD in a workshop that took place in California, in the United States. The RetinaCAD is a computer assisted medical diagnosis tool based on the analysis of images of the retina.

Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research is the new unit at INESC TEC

In the beginning of the year, INESC TEC brought in yet another research unit: the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER). C-BER aims at promoting interdisciplinary knowledge through applied research, advanced training and innovation in Biomedical Engineering. The R&D unit is coordinated by Aurélio Campilho and João Paulo Cunha, two researchers with a consolidated career in the field.

INESC TEC researcher co-edits scientific book

Aurélio Campilho, manager of the Centre for Research in Biomedical Engineering (C-BER), is co-editor of the book Image Analysis and Modeling in Ophthalmology, published by CRC Press in February 2014.