Abstract

Abstract
Fast cardiac imaging requires a reduction of the number of transmit events. This is typically achieved through multiline-transmission and/or multiline-acquisition techniques but restricting the field-of-view to the anatomically relevant domain, e.g. the myocardium, can increase frame rate further. In the present work, an anatomical scan sequence was implemented and tested experimentally by performing real-time segmentation of the myocardium on conventional B-mode and feeding this information back to the scanner in order to define a fast myocardial scan sequence. Ultrasound imaging was performed using HD-PULSE, an experimental fully programmable 256 channel ultrasound system equipped with a 3.5MHz phased array. A univentricular polyvinyl alcohol phantom was connected to a pump to simulate the cardiac cycle to perform in vitro validation of this approach. Three volunteers were also imaged from an apical 4-chamber view to analyse the feasibility of this method in vivo. It is shown that this method is feasible to be applied in real-time and in vivo giving a minimum frame rate gain of 1.5. Although the anatomical image preferably excludes the apical cap of the ventricle, this region is often unanalyzable due to near field clutter anyway. The advantage of this method is that spatial resolution is maintained when compared to conventional ultrasound in contrast to other fast imaging approaches. © 2017 IEEE.

Abstract
In this work it is presented a system to help the users to maintain an active lifestyle. Our main objective is to evaluate the current mobile technologies for the development of systems to monitor the users' health and to promote a healthy lifestyle. It was developed a full system, including: an application for smartwatch; an application for smartphone; a back-end with a webservice in PHP. The application provides the functionalities to acquire the user's: heart rate; location, based on the GPS position; the number of steps; the position's elevation; etc. The back-end is used to register the data acquired and processed by the applications. The design was user centric and the development methodology was based on the agile paradigm, for which are described three development iterations.

Abstract
Portuguese Higher Education Institutions have more and more data that needs to be processed in order to get information and, therefore, Knowledge. In order to respond to this need, over time there have been several types of IS supported by ICT, which enables them to achieve these features and, at the same time, help with their daily activities. However, the continuous evolution of this technological component has led to a current high degree of complexity, from which the Information Systems Architectures emerged as means of increasing the effectiveness of its management and maintenance. Using the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro as a case study, the research team proposed a generic ISA that enabled it to have a transversal vision of its IS, allowing the validation of existence/need IS focused on Information Management and decision-making under a multidimensional perspective, i.e., geared towards the various organizational levels, since the Operational level to the Strategic level, taking into account the information needs associated with each player.

Abstract
For docking manoeuvres, the detection of the objects to dock needs to be precise as the minimum deviation from the objective may lead to the failure of this task. The objective of this article is to test possible ways to detect a landmark using a laser rangefinder for docking manoeuvres. We will test a beacon-based localisation algorithm and an algorithm based on natural landmarks already implemented, however, we will apply modifications to such methods. To verify the possibility of docking using these methods, we will conduct experiments with a real robot.

Abstract