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A workshop in which TR&D’s INESC units attended, took place on 13 March at Coimbra with the purpose of presenting projects that are still in development or being prepared under the theme “Systems and technologies created to support the institutions on incidents management and land use planning”, as a result of the serious fires of 2017.
27th March 2018
Breast cancer is currently one of the main causes of death by oncological disease worldwide.
18th June 2017
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.
24th May 2017
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.
01st July 2016
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.
03rd February 2016
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.
21st December 2015
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.
16th December 2015
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.
26th March 2015
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.
03rd December 2014
“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.
28th July 2014
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.
23rd May 2014
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.
28th April 2014