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João P. Monteiro holds an MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Porto. He is currently doing his PhD and working at the Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence Group within INESC TEC in Porto. His PhD topic is personal health systems for assessment of upper extremity impairments. His main research interests are computer vision, machine learning and medical decision support systems.

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2021

CAD systems for colorectal cancer from WSI are still not ready for clinical acceptance

Authors
Oliveira, SP; Neto, PC; Fraga, J; Montezuma, D; Monteiro, A; Monteiro, J; Ribeiro, L; Goncalves, S; Pinto, IM; Cardoso, JS;

Publication
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Abstract
AbstractMost oncological cases can be detected by imaging techniques, but diagnosis is based on pathological assessment of tissue samples. In recent years, the pathology field has evolved to a digital era where tissue samples are digitised and evaluated on screen. As a result, digital pathology opened up many research opportunities, allowing the development of more advanced image processing techniques, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies. Nevertheless, despite colorectal cancer (CRC) being the second deadliest cancer type worldwide, with increasing incidence rates, the application of AI for CRC diagnosis, particularly on whole-slide images (WSI), is still a young field. In this review, we analyse some relevant works published on this particular task and highlight the limitations that hinder the application of these works in clinical practice. We also empirically investigate the feasibility of using weakly annotated datasets to support the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems for CRC from WSI. Our study underscores the need for large datasets in this field and the use of an appropriate learning methodology to gain the most benefit from partially annotated datasets. The CRC WSI dataset used in this study, containing 1,133 colorectal biopsy and polypectomy samples, is available upon reasonable request.

2019

Geometry-based skin colour estimation for bare torso surface reconstruction

Authors
Monteiro, JP; Zolfagharnasab, H; Oliveira, HP;

Publication
IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING - ICIAP 2019, PT II

Abstract
Three-dimensional imaging techniques have been endeavouring at reaching affordable ubiquity. Nevertheless, its use in clinical practice can be hampered by less than naturally looking surfaces that greatly impact its visual inspection. This work considers the task of surface reconstruction from point clouds of non-rigid scenes acquired through structured-light-based methods, wherein the reconstructed surface contains some level of imperfection to be inpainted before visualized by experts in a clinically oriented context. Appertain to the topic, the recovery of colour information for missing or damaged partial regions is considered. A local geometry-based interpolation method is proposed for the reconstruction of the bare human torso and compared against a reference differential equations based inpainting method. Widely used perceptual distance-based metrics, such as PSNR, SSIM and MS-SSIM, and the evaluation from a panel of experienced breast cancer surgeons is presented for the discussion on inpainting quality assessment. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.

2018

Three-dimensional planning tool for breast conserving surgery: A technological review

Authors
Oliveira, SP; Morgado, P; Gouveia, PF; Teixeira, JF; Bessa, S; Monteiro, JP; Zolfagharnasab, H; Reis, M; Silva, NL; Veiga, D; Cardoso, MJ; Oliveira, HP; Ferreira, MJ;

Publication
Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Abstract
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignanciesaffecting women worldwide. However, despite its incidence trends have increased, the mortality rate has significantly decreased. The primary concern in any cancer treatment is the oncological outcome but, in the case of breast cancer, the surgery aesthetic result has become an important quality indicator for breast cancer patients. In this sense, an adequate surgical planning and prediction tool would empower the patient regarding the treatment decision process, enabling a better communication between the surgeon and the patient and a better understanding of the impact of each surgical option. To develop such tool, it is necessary to create complete 3D model of the breast, integrating both inner and outer breast data. In this review, we thoroughly explore and review the major existing works that address, directly or not, the technical challenges involved in the development of a 3D software planning tool in the field of breast conserving surgery. © 2018 by Begell House, Inc.

2017

Multi-modal Complete Breast Segmentation

Authors
Zolfagharnasab, H; Monteiro, JP; Teixeira, JF; Borlinhas, F; Oliveira, HP;

Publication
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 8th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2017, Faro, Portugal, June 20-23, 2017, Proceedings

Abstract
Automatic segmentation of breast is an important step in the context of providing a planning tool for breast cancer conservative treatment, being important to segment completely the breast region in an objective way; however, current methodologies need user interaction or detect breast contour partially. In this paper, we propose a methodology to detect the complete breast contour, including the pectoral muscle, using multi-modality data. Exterior contour is obtained from 3D reconstructed data acquired from low-cost RGB-D sensors, and the interior contour (pectoral muscle) is obtained from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Quantitative evaluation indicates that the proposed methodology performs an acceptable detection of breast contour, which is also confirmed by visual evaluation. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

2016

Cognition inspired format for the expression of computer vision metadata

Authors
Castro, H; Monteiro, J; Pereira, A; Silva, D; Coelho, G; Carvalho, P;

Publication
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS

Abstract
Over the last decade noticeable progress has occurred in automated computer interpretation of visual information. Computers running artificial intelligence algorithms are growingly capable of extracting perceptual and semantic information from images, and registering it as metadata. There is also a growing body of manually produced image annotation data. All of this data is of great importance for scientific purposes as well as for commercial applications. Optimizing the usefulness of this, manually or automatically produced, information implies its precise and adequate expression at its different logical levels, making it easily accessible, manipulable and shareable. It also implies the development of associated manipulating tools. However, the expression and manipulation of computer vision results has received less attention than the actual extraction of such results. Hence, it has experienced a smaller advance. Existing metadata tools are poorly structured, in logical terms, as they intermix the declaration of visual detections with that of the observed entities, events and comprising context. This poor structuring renders such tools rigid, limited and cumbersome to use. Moreover, they are unprepared to deal with more advanced situations, such as the coherent expression of the information extracted from, or annotated onto, multi-view video resources. The work here presented comprises the specification of an advanced XML based syntax for the expression and processing of Computer Vision relevant metadata. This proposal takes inspiration from the natural cognition process for the adequate expression of the information, with a particular focus on scenarios of varying numbers of sensory devices, notably, multi-view video.