2025
Authors
Ferreira, R; Silva, J; Romariz, M; Pinto, D; Araújo, RJ; Santinha, J; Gouveia, P; Oliveira, HP;
Publication
2025 IEEE 25th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)
Abstract
2025
Authors
Filipe B. Teixeira; Manuel Ricardo; André Coelho; Hélder P. Oliveira; Paula Viana; Nuno Paulino; Helder Fontes; Paulo Marques; Rui Campos; Luís Pessoa;
Publication
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Abstract
2025
Authors
Amaro, M; Sousa, JV; Gouveia, M; Oliveira, HP; Pereira, T;
Publication
Measurement and Evaluations in Cancer Care
Abstract
2026
Authors
Fernandes, RF; Oliveira, HS; Ribeiro, PP; Oliveira, HP;
Publication
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, IBPRIA 2025, PT II
Abstract
Medical image captioning is an essential tool to produce descriptive text reports of medical images. One of the central problems of medical image captioning is their poor domain description generation because large pre-trained language models are primarily trained in non-medical text domains with different semantics of medical text. To overcome this limitation, we explore improvements in contrastive learning for X-ray images complemented with soft prompt engineering for medical image captioning and conditional text decoding for caption generation. The main objective is to develop a softprompt model to improve the accuracy and clinical relevance of the automatically generated captions while guaranteeing their complete linguistic accuracy without corrupting the models' performance. Experiments on the MIMIC-CXR and ROCO datasets showed that the inclusion of tailored soft-prompts improved accuracy and efficiency, while ensuring a more cohesive medical context for captions, aiding medical diagnosis and encouraging more accurate reporting.
2026
Authors
Sousa, P; Campai, D; Andrade, J; Pereira, P; Goncalves, T; Teixeira, LF; Pereira, T; Oliveira, HP;
Publication
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, IBPRIA 2025, PT II
Abstract
Cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, with breast and lung cancer being the most prevalent globally. Early and accurate diagnosis is crucial for successful treatment, and medical imaging techniques play a pivotal role in achieving this. This paper proposes a novel pipeline that leverages generative artificial intelligence to enhance medical images by combining synthetic image generation and super-resolution techniques. The framework is validated in two medical use cases (breast and lung cancers), demonstrating its potential to improve the quality and quantity of medical imaging data, ultimately contributing to more precise and effective cancer diagnosis and treatment. Overall, although some limitations do exist, this paper achieved satisfactory results for an image size which is conductive to specialist analysis, and further expands upon this field's capabilities.
2026
Authors
Nogueira, AFR; Oliveira, HP; Teixeira, LF;
Publication
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, IBPRIA 2025, PT I
Abstract
The aim of this work is to explore normalising flows to detect anomalous behaviours which is an essential task mainly for surveillance systems-related applications. To accomplish that, a series of ablation studies were performed by varying the parameters of the Spatio-Temporal Graph Normalising Flows (STG-NF) model [3] and combining it with attention mechanisms. Out of all these experiments, it was only possible to improve the state-of-the-art result for the UBnormal dataset by 3.4 percentual points (pp), for the Avenue by 4.7 pp and for the Avenue-HR by 3.2 pp. However, further research remains urgent to find a model that can give the best performance across different scenarios. The inaccuracies of the pose tracking and estimation algorithm seems to be the main factor limiting the models' performance. The code is available at https://github.com/AnaFilipaNogueira/Abnormal-Human-Behaviour-Detection- using-Normalising-Flows-and- Attention-Mechanisms.
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