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INESC TEC and the São João University Hospital (CHUSJ) developed a system for the diagnosis of pulmonary nodules. The innovation has been already tested in the radiology department of that hospital and allows the detection, characterisation and determination of the malignancy of pulmonary nodules.
30th December 2019
An INESC TEC paper in the area of medical image analysis is among the 10% most cited papers in the scientific journal PLOS One of 2017. With the participation of researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) and the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), the paper describes a method for automatic classification of histology images of breast tissue biopsy into four classes: normal tissue, with benign lesions, with carcinoma in situ or invasive carcinoma.
18th December 2019
A spin-off of INESC TEC, iLoF, was one of the winners of the Wild Card programme, a European acceleration programme for disruptive healthcare projects, ensuring a EUR 2 million investment by an international consortium.
19th November 2019
The research work of Paulo Robalinho, researcher of INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP), will be in the magazine cover of the upcoming October issue of the international scientific journal fibers (MDPI).
13th November 2019
During the month of July, INESC TEC's Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) promoted another edition of the Summer Internship’s initiative, welcoming a group of students from the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) and Faculty of Sciences (FCUP) of the University of Porto and also from the School of Engineering of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP).
02nd August 2019
InSignals Neurotech, an INESC TEC spin-off in the biomedical engineering area, was awarded second place in the first edition of the EIT Health Startup Meets Pharma programme, which aims at bringing startups that operate in this industry sector closer to major European pharmaceutical companies.
01st August 2019
For the first time, the work developed by hundreds of Portuguese researchers in the biomedical engineering area was awarded by the world's largest and oldest biomedical engineering society, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).
31st July 2019
VR2Market came to an end and its closing session was held at INESC TEC’s headquarters on 26 June.
08th July 2019
Within the framework of the TEC4Heath, INESC TEC participated in the fourth edition of the Market of Open Innovation in Health, which took place on 4 April at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), in Braga, aiming at presenting some of its projects developed in the healthcare area.
06th May 2019
Aurélio Campilho, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) and Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), was elected a Fellow of EAMBES - European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science.
23rd April 2019
The paper entitled “Quantitative Assessment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Angiographic Sequences of Retinal Images”, written by Carlos Ferreira, Jorge Silva and Ana Maria Mendonça, collaborators of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research, alongside Susana Penas, Ophthalmology Specialist at São João Hospital Centre and Professor at FMUP, won the Best Paper Award in the category entitled Full Papers Summarizing a Msc Thesis from the Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research (Fraunhofer Portugal).
07th March 2019
On 23 February, the inauguration of the photography and video exhibition entitled “Olha e Vê. Sente e Vive” and “Outros Retratos e Auto-retratos” (in English “Look and See. Sense and Live” and “Other Portraits and Self-Portraits”) took place at Mira Forum. It was promoted under the project SCREEN-DR of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER).
01st March 2019