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  • Name

    Jorge Silva
  • Role

    Senior Researcher
  • Since

    01st January 2014
  • Nationality

    Portugal
  • Contacts

    +351222094106
    jorge.silva@inesctec.pt
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Publications

2022

Retinal and choroidal vasoreactivity in central serous chorioretinopathy

Authors
Penas, S; Araujo, T; Mendonca, AM; Faria, S; Silva, J; Campilho, A; Martins, ML; Sousa, V; Rocha Sousa, A; Carneiro, A; Falcao Reis, F;

Publication
GRAEFES ARCHIVE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY

Abstract
Purpose This study aims to investigate retinal and choroidal vascular reactivity to carbogen in central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) patients. Methods An experimental pilot study including 68 eyes from 20 CSC patients and 14 age and sex-matched controls was performed. The participants inhaled carbogen (5% CO2 + 95% O-2) for 2 min through a high-concentration disposable mask. A 30 degrees disc-centered fundus imaging using infra-red (IR) and macular spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) using the enhanced depth imaging (EDI) technique was performed, both at baseline and after a 2-min gas exposure. A parametric model fitting-based approach for automatic retinal blood vessel caliber estimation was used to assess the mean variation in both arterial and venous vasculature. Choroidal thickness was measured in two different ways: the subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) was calculated using a manual caliper and the mean central choroidal thickness (MCCT) was assessed using an automatic software. Results No significant differences were detected in baseline hemodynamic parameters between both groups. A significant positive correlation was found between the participants' age and arterial diameter variation (p < 0.001, r= 0.447), meaning that younger participants presented a more vasoconstrictive response (negative variation) than older ones. No significant differences were detected in the vasoreactive response between CSC and controls for both arterial and venous vessels (p = 0.63 and p = 0.85, respectively). Although the vascular reactivity was not related to the activity of CSC, it was related to the time of disease, for both the arterial (p = 0.02, r = 0.381) and venous (p = 0.001, r= 0.530) beds. SFCT and MCCT were highly correlated (r= 0.830, p < 0.001). Both SFCT and MCCT significantly increased in CSC patients (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001) but not in controls (p = 0.059 and 0.247). A significant negative correlation between CSC patients' age and MCCT variation (r = - 0.340, p = 0.049) was detected. In CSC patients, the choroidal thickness variation was not related to the activity state, time of disease, or previous photodynamic treatment. Conclusion Vasoreactivity to carbogen was similar in the retinal vessels but significantly higher in the choroidal vessels of CSC patients when compared to controls, strengthening the hypothesis of a choroidal regulation dysfunction in this pathology.

2021

Virtual Reality Web Application for Automotive Data Visualization

Authors
Oliveira, T; da Silva, JML; da Silva, JA;

Publication
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIONS (ICARSC)

Abstract
Road safety is crucial in the design of autonomous vehicles, so safety and performance tests must be carried out regularly. Visualization applications of data acquired in these tests are critical to helping the continuous progress of autonomous driving. Currently, there is an application that helps in visualizing these data through a web platform, called Kratos Visualization. This application was developed using the WebGL library, to help companies that carry out experiments with autonomous vehicles to visualize and validate the data that they collect. These data represent different sequences of autonomous driving experiences and can contain a lot of information about the vehicle and objects in the environment around it. The work that led to this paper aims to explore the visualization of these data with the help of virtual reality. To strengthen the visualization of autonomous driving data, an application was created named Kratos VR. Designed with the A-Frame framework to work in any browser, this application contains the same functionalities of Kratos Visualization and new virtual reality features. Performance tests were carried out to evaluate the application. These tests allowed us to conclude that virtual reality can be successfully used to effectively visualize Advanced Driving Assist Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) data and that the developed application provides a solid basis for future virtual reality applications in this field.

2021

Ovarian Structures Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks

Authors
Wanderley, DS; Ferreira, CA; Campilho, A; Silva, JA;

Publication
CENTERIS 2021 - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN 2021 - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist 2021 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies 2021, Braga, Portugal

Abstract
The detection of ovarian structures from ultrasound images is an important task in gynecological and reproductive medicine. An automatic detection system of ovarian structures can work as a second opinion for less experienced physicians or complex ultrasound interpretations. This work presents a study of three popular CNN-based object detectors applied to the detection of healthy ovarian structures, namely ovary and follicles, in B-mode ultrasound images. The Faster R-CNN presented the best results, with a precision of 95.5% and a recall of 94.7% for both classes, being able to detect all the ovaries correctly. The RetinaNet showed competitive results, exceeding 90% of precision and recall. Despite being very fast and suitable for real-time applications, YOLOv3 was ineffective in detecting ovaries and had the worst results detecting follicles. We also compare CNN results with classical computer vision methods presented in the ovarian follicle detection literature.

2019

Quantitative Assessment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Angiographic Sequences of Retinal Images

Authors
Ferreira, CA; Penas, S; Silva, J; Mendonca, AM;

Publication
2019 6TH IEEE PORTUGUESE MEETING IN BIOENGINEERING (ENBENG)

Abstract
Central serous chorioretinopathy is a retinal disease in which there is a leak of fluid into the subretinal space resulting in mild to moderate loss of visual acuity. Sequences of images from a fluorescein angiography exam are most of the times used for analyzing these leaks. This work presents a diagnostic aid method to detect and characterize the progression of fluid area along the exam, in order to provide a second opinion and increase the focus and the speed of analysis of the ophthalmologists. The method is based on a comparative approach by image subtraction between the late and early frames. The obtained segmentation results are quite promising with an average Dice coefficient of 0.801 +/- 0.106 for the training set and 0.774 +/- 0.106 for the test set.

2019

Deep Learning Approaches for Gynaecological Ultrasound Image Segmentation: A Radio-Frequency vs B-mode Comparison

Authors
Carvalho, C; Marques, S; Peixoto, C; Pignatelli, D; Beires, J; Silva, J; Campilho, A;

Publication
IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICIAR 2019), PT II

Abstract
Ovarian cancer is one of the pathologies with the worst prognostic in adult women and it has a very difficult early diagnosis. Clinical evaluation of gynaecological ultrasound images is performed visually, and it is dependent on the experience of the medical doctor. Besides the dependency on the specialists, the malignancy of specific types of ovarian tumors cannot be asserted until their surgical removal. This work explores the use of ultrasound data for the segmentation of the ovary and the ovarian follicles, using two different convolutional neural networks, a fully connected residual network and a U-Net, with a binary and multi-class approach. Five different types of ultrasound data (from beam-formed radio-frequency to brightness mode) were used as input. The best performance was obtained using B-mode, for both ovary and follicles segmentation. No significant differences were found between the two convolutional neural networks. The use of the multi-class approach was beneficial as it provided the model information on the spatial relation between follicles and the ovary. This study demonstrates the suitability of combining convolutional neural networks with beam-formed radio-frequency data and with brightness mode data for segmentation of ovarian structures. Future steps involve the processing of pathological data and investigation of biomarkers of pathological ovaries.

Supervised
thesis

2021

Virtual reality web application for automotive data visualization

Author
Tomás Sousa Oliveira

Institution
UP-FEUP

2019

Carotid Lumen Segmentation using a Neural Network Approach

Author
Alexandre Saraiva Moreira

Institution
UP-FEUP

2019

Pacient Validation Through Facial Recognition

Author
Gustavo Fernando Marques Duarte de Faria

Institution
UP-FEUP

2019

Segmentation and Quantification of Gynecological Structures from Ultrasound Images

Author
Diego Santos Wanderley

Institution
UP-FEUP

2017

Quantitative assessment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Angiographic sequences of retinal images

Author
Carlos Alexandre Nunes Ferreira

Institution
UP-FEUP