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Biomedical Engineering Research

At C-BER our main goals are the creation of interdisciplinary knowledge enabling innovation and technology transfer with economic impact; and also the development of products, tools and methods for the prevention and early detection of different types of diseases, aging-related impairments, or for human rehabilitation, physical therapy or functional assessment.

We also seek to contribute to the development of advanced neuro-technologies at the frontier of engineering and neurology, and to promote strategic partnerships with clinical partners, research institutes, and fostering international cooperation.

Our R&D activity is developed in three different areas: BioInstrumentation, Biomedical Imaging and NeuroEngineering.

Latest News

INESC TEC part of project to monitor working conditions in the agroforestry sector

The AgWearCare project focuses on researching and developing a monitoring system aimed at the agroforestry sector. The main objective is the analysis of metrics that support the management of human resources, thus supporting decision-making processes - in terms of well-being and productivity.

01st February 2023

Networked Intelligent Systems

Researchers test Artificial Intelligence solution for near real-time classification of epileptic seizures

A team of researchers from INESC TEC and the University of Munich tested a solution to classify seizures, the main symptom of epilepsy, using infrared radar and 3D videos. The study presents an innovative approach, which is the first to consider near-real time classification from two second samples, showing the feasibility of a system to support diagnosis and monitoring process (based on action recognition) that uses deep learning; it allows distinguishing between frontal and temporal lobes seizures (the two most common classes of epilepsy), or non-epileptic events. The results of this research were recently published by Nature Scientific Reports.

04th January 2023

Networked Intelligent Systems

Project involving INESC TEC received the Santa Casa Neurosciences Award

  The project, focusing on improving the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy with patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, using personalised electrophysiological biomarkers and stimulation based on objective quantitative assessments, features a team from INESC TEC; the attribution of the Mantero Belard Award took place at the 10th edition of the Santa Casa Neurosciences Awards.

30th November 2022

Networked Intelligent Systems

INESC TEC developed a technology to monitor Parkinson’s patients outside clinical settings and received an international award

Patients with Parkinson’s disease will be able to monitor the symptoms associated with the disease and send data, in real time, to the healthcare professionals who follow them – from home, and via their mobile phones. This innovation in the health area is only possible thanks to the iHandUapp system, a mobile technology developed by NESC TEC; it also features a web platform that aggregates the data and provides healthcare professionals with a record of the clinical evolution of patients.

30th June 2022

Networked Intelligent Systems

Prototypes developed at INESC TEC allow spin-off InSignals Neurotech to advance clinical studies in Europe

InSignals Neurotech, a spin-off of INESC TEC, will start a set of clinical studies in European hospitals, in order to expand the application and use of technology for the quantification of motor symptoms related to neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Parkinson’s disease. In this sense, INESC TEC developed prototypes that can be used during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgeries to assess the muscular stiffness of the wrist, one of the main symptoms of the disease. 

30th May 2022

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Featured Projects

PD_MultiCentre

Multi-centre clinical study support

2023-2023

Vine & Wine PT

Vine and Wine Portugal - Driving Sustainable Growth Through Smart Innovation

2022-2025

TEXPACT

Pacto de Inovação para a Transição Digital do Setor Têxtil e do Vestuário

2022-2025

HfPT

Health from Portugal

2021-2025

iHandUApp

iHandU App development

2021-2022

Bio_Support

Serviços de consultoria especializada no desenvolvimento estratégico de sistemas biomédicos e licenciamento de software

2021-2022

AgWearCare

Wearables para Monitorização das Condições de Trabalho no Agroflorestal

2021-2023

iHandU_v2

New iHandU prototype development & small-serie (20) hardware production

2021-2022

CAGED

Computer Assisted Gastric Cancer Diagnosis

2021-2024

THOR

Computer Assisted Thoracic Assessment using POCUS

2021-2024

C4MiR_BIP_Proof

Programa de atribuição de apoios para prova de conceito da Universidade do Porto

2020-2021

iiLab

Ampliação da Infraestrutura Tecnológica do INESC TEC para a Transformação Digital da Indústria

2020-2023

VitalPROVID

Sistema de Monitorização de Doentes - Durante e após o COVID-19

2020-2021

CAIRUS

COVID-19 Artificial Intelligence-based Risk Unified Stratification tool for clinical management

2020-2020

CXR_AI4COVID19

Chest Radiography-based AI for Supporting ClinicalDecision on Covid-19

2020-2020

TAMI

Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence

2020-2023

BioNanoTech

Serviços de apoio técnico - iLoF spin-off

2020-2020

MRI_Simulator

Aluguer do Simulador de Ressonância Magnética à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto

2019-2019

WalkingPAD

Patient education on a quantified supervised home-based exercise therapy to improve walking ability in patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication

2019-2022

Serv_Neuro

Consultoria Insignals Neurotech no âmbito do programa EIT Health Startups Meets Pharma 2019

2019-2019

LUCAS

Lung cancer screening - A non-invasive methodology for early diagnosis

2018-2022

PERFECT

Perceptual equivalence in virtual reality for authentic training

2018-2021

TexBoost

Less Commodities more Specialities

2017-2020

LNDetector

Automatic Detection, Segmentation and Classification of Pulmonary Nodules System in Computed Tomography Images

2016-2019

SCREEN-DR

Image Analysis and Machine Learning Platform for Innovation in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

2016-2020

Bio-Early

Projeto Vital Sticker no âmbito do Contrato Programa

2015-2018

NanoStima-RL5

NanoSTIMA - Advanced Methodologies for Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis

2015-2019

NanoStima-RL1

NanoSTIMA - Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing Technologies

2015-2019

SMILES

SMILES - Smart, Mobile, Intelligent and Large scale Sensing and analytics

2015-2019

VR2Market

VR2Market: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions

2014-2019

STePMotion

Spatio-temporal components of the processing of sensorial and motor information

2014-2015

EcoDrive

Inteligent Eco Driving and Fleet Management

2014-2015

Re-Learning

Human motor re-learning by sensor information fusion

2014-2015

VitalResponder2

Intelligent management of critical events of stress, fatigue and smoke intoxication in forest firefighting

2013-2015

ASD-MD

Movement Disorders in Autistic Spectrum Disorders

2013-2015

HERMES

Interactive system for digital content consumers

2013-2015

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Laboratories

Biomedical Imaging Laboratory

Neuroengineering and Advanced Human Sensing Laboratory

BioInstrumentation Lab

Facts & Figures

16Papers in indexed journals

2020

25Researchers

2016

7Senior Researchers

2016

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