Personal identification

Full name

Jorge Rafael Mendes Rodrigues

Citation names

• Rodrigues, Rafael
• Rafael Rodrigues

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

D112-43CA-98E0

ORCID iD

0000-0002-9481-9601

Email addresses

• rafael.rodrigues@ubi.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
• Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
• Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Communication Engineering and Systems

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

	Degree	Classification
2017 - 2020 Ongoing	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Texture analysis of magnetic resonance images for diagnosis and monitoring of neuromuscular diseases" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Segmentação de Massas em Ultrasons Peitorais usando Técnicas de Multiresolução" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17,0
2010 Concluded	Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14,0

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
2012 - 2014	Researcher (Research)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
	Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/08/25 - 2022/08/31	Cloud Based Image/Video Coding: Improving Efficiency and QoE CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000019 PhD Student Fellow C4 - Centro de Competências em Cloud Computing, Portugal
2013 - 2014	DERMCLASS – Feature extraction and artifact removal in dermoscopic images CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002024 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2014 - 2016	QoEVIS - Quality of Experience in Video Streaming PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Concluded

Publications

Conference paper	Rafael Rodrigues; Joao Prazeres; Manuela Pereira; Antonio M.G. Pinheiro. "Quality Evaluation of Machine Learning-based Point Cloud Coding Solutions". 2022. 10.1145/3552457.3555730 Rafael Rodrigues; Joao Prazeres; Manuela Pereira; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro. "On the stability of point cloud machine learning based coding". 2022. 10.1109/euvip53989.2022.9922676 Rafael Rodrigues. "Texture Analysis of T1-weighted Turbo Spin-Echo MRI for the Diagnosis and Follow-up of Collagen VI-related Myopathy". 2021. 10.1109/ISBI48211.2021.9433942 Rafael Rodrigues; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro. "A Quality of Recognition Case Study: Texture-based Segmentation and MRI Quality Assessment". 2019. 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8902776 Rafael Rodrigues; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro; Lucie Lévêque; Hantao Liu; Sabina Barakovic; Jasmina Barakovic Husic; Maria Martini; et al. "On the Subjective Assessment of the Perceived Quality of Medical Images and Videos". 2018. 10.1109/QoMEX.2018.8463297 Rafael Rodrigues; Peter Pocta; Hugh Melvin; Marco V. Bernardo; Manuela Pereira; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro. "MPEG DASH-Some QoE-based insights into the tradeoff between audio and video for live music concert streaming under congested network conditions". 2016. 10.1109/QoMEX.2016.7498958 Rafael Rodrigues; Rui Braz; Manuela Pereira; José Moutinho; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro; Rodrigues, R.; Pinheiro, A.; et al. "Towards breast ultrasound image segmentation using multi-resolution pixel descriptors". Paper presented in ICPR 2012: 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba, 2012. Published Rafael Rodrigues; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro. "A Two-stage Mass Segmentation Method for Breast Ultrasound Images". Paper presented in 18th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad2012), Coimbra, 2012. Published Rodrigues, Rafael; Pinheiro, Antonio; Braz, Rui; Pereira, Manuela; Moutinho, J.. "Towards Breast Ultrasound Image Segmentation using Multi-resolution Pixel Descriptors". 2012.
Journal article	Rafael Rodrigues; Peter Pocta; Hugh Melvin; Marco V. Bernardo; Manuela Pereira; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro. "Audiovisual Quality of Live Music Streaming over Mobile Networks using MPEG-DASH". Multimedia Tools and Applications (2020): Accepted • 10.1007/s11042-020-09047-6 Rafael Rodrigues; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro; Rui Braz; Manuela Pereira; Jose Moutinho; Rafael Rodrigues. "A Two-Step Segmentation Method for Breast Ultrasound Masses Based on Multi-resolution Analysis". Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 41 6 (2015): 1737-1748. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/19067. Published • 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.01.012
Preprint	Rafael Rodrigues; Lucie Lévêque; Jesús Gutiérrez; Houda Jebbari; Meriem Outtas; Lu Zhang; Aladine Chetouani; et al. "Objective quality assessment of medical images and videos: Review and challenges". 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07396. 10.48550/ARXIV.2212.07396
Thesis / Dissertation	Rodrigues, Jorge. "Segmentação de Massas em Ultrasons Peitorais usando Técnicas de Multiresolução". Master, Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Engenharia, 2012.
Working paper	Rafael Rodrigues; Susana Quijano-Roy; Robert-Yves Carlier; Pinheiro, Antonio. Corresponding author: Rafael Rodrigues. 2022. "Severity classification in cases of Collagen VI-related myopathy with Convolutional Neural Networks and handcrafted texture features". https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13853. 10.48550/arXiv.2202.13853

Other

Other output

QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx). 2020. Rafael Rodrigues. Segmentation of Skeletal Muscle in Thigh Dixon MRI Based on Texture Analysis. 2019. Rafael Rodrigues; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro.