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It’s called Crops and Care – Addressing Occupational Health Challenges in Agriculture. This INESC TEC-coordinated project focuses on improving the safety and well-being of agricultural workers, a sector that has traditionally been disregarded – with limited scientific data on occupational health.
10th October 2025
Let’s imagine we are in a doctor’s office. A patient complains of a persistent cough. The healthcare professional explains that further tests are needed to confirm the diagnosis. The recommended test is a computed tomography (CT) scan. The results will confirm whether a tumour is present. Now imagine this: what if, beyond the primary diagnosis, it were possible to automatically identify signs of cardiovascular risk that might otherwise go unnoticed? This is where INESC TEC steps in with the new CardioComplete project. The Institute is developing an automatic, interactive, and explainable tool designed to complement medical reports - and help save lives.
07th October 2025
It is an innovative prototype that combines a belt with sensors and a digital application to detect, quantify and locate a baby’s movements in real time. Designed for home use, it is called WeFetal and has just been recognised by BIP PROOF, a programme run by the University of Porto to support the development of proof-of-concept projects.
06th October 2025
A solution developed by INESC TEC will make access to cardiac diagnoses easier in regions where reaching specialised care is more difficult. The project, which began this year, relies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions.
05th September 2025
Tamás Karácsony, a researcher at INESC TEC, received the award for Innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the IEEE AI Research Hub competition - organised by IEEE Entrepreneurship and the IEEE Region 8 Entrepreneurship Committee -; the event took place in Dubai, within the scope of GITEX Global 2024. Considered the largest technology and start-up fair in the world, GITEX Global 2024 featured a presentation by Tamás Karácsony about his research to classify epileptic seizures filmed with AI-powered 3D video technology. This pioneering work carried out at INESC TEC reinforces the role that the Institute has played in the connection between AI and health.
24th October 2024
In 2014, INESC TEC decided to invest in a new area of research: biomedical engineering. In that sense, a new research Centre was established in the Institute - which, over the past decade, has been advancing national and international research in this domain.
18th July 2024
At the PROTEGER24 conference – promoted by the Portuguese Security Association (APSEI) and considered the largest at the national level in the Security sector -, INESC TEC presented the work developed in Quantified Occupational Health, in particular, the technological solutions it has been developing for the psychophysiological monitoring of professionals like firefighters, police officers, air traffic controllers, military or even agricultural workers.
22nd April 2024
Researchers from Portugal, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America joined efforts to develop and test a new heart sounds analysis method for the fast and non-invasive identification of pulmonary hypertension. The results of this research work, recently published in the IEEE Access journal, show that the path to a smarter diagnosis of this disease is open.
22nd March 2024
The scientific work "Studying the Influence of Multisensory Stimuli on a Firefighting Training Virtual Environment" won the 13th edition of the Professor José Luís Encarnação award. It is the sixth time that a group of INESC TEC researchers won this annual award.
17th January 2024
In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University Africa (CMU Africa), INESC TEC is collecting heart-related data in Rwanda, towards developing algorithms that allow - using multimodal auscultation - the screening of cardiovascular diseases related to rheumatic fever.
28th September 2023
It is a wearable system that takes between 10-15 seconds to be placed on a person, allowing to monitor their vital signs and health severity. The new solution, developed by INESC TEC in collaboration with Xenia Reply and the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED), will allow Emergency Medical Service (EMS) professionals to carry out real-time triage assessments in disaster scenarios – or other situations -, and to monitor victims from the onset until reaching the hospital.
07th September 2023
INESC TEC participated in the first exercise for the testing of technological solutions with potential military application in Portugal. The first edition of ARmy Technological EXperimentation (ARTEX 23) was promoted by the Army’s Experimentation & Technological Modernization Centre (CEMTEx) and took place from May 22 to June 2, at the Santa Margarida Military Camp (Constância).
11th July 2023