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Carlos Ferreira completed his Master of Science in Bioengineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, in 2017. Following his graduation, he embarked on a career in research, focusing primarily on lung medical imaging. His work, particularly in characterizing pulmonary nodules, has been carried out at INESC TEC, demonstrating a strong commitment to advancing the field. This dedication to research inspired him to pursue a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, where he is currently furthering his studies. In addition to his academic and research pursuits, Carlos has gained significant professional experience. In 2017, he took on the role of technology analyst at U. Porto Inovação. By 2019, he was appointed as the Business Development Manager at TEC4Health within INESC TEC. In this capacity, he has been instrumental in promoting health technologies and spearheading new research initiatives. Carlos's involvement with the IEEE extends back to 2015, showcasing his long-standing commitment to the engineering community. He was the founder and chair of the EMBS student branch at the University of Porto from 2015 to 2017. His leadership roles expanded to include treasurer of EMBS Portugal from 2018 to 2021, assistant treasurer of the Portuguese section, and the European representative on the EMB Chapter Development Committee in 2021-2022. Currently, he serves as the treasurer of the Portuguese section since 2022. His leadership was notably recognized in 2019 when the IEEE EMBS Portugal chapter was awarded the Outstanding European Chapter and the IEEE-PT Outstanding Chapter under his guidance. Carlos brings to his field over seven years of experience as a researcher and project manager, with an impressive portfolio of 20 impactful publications, including 6 in prestigious Q1 journals, 1 patent application and a notable invited book chapter. His expertise spans a range of areas including machine learning, deep learning, data science, medical imaging, and computer-aided diagnosis. He has demonstrated exceptional project management skills, leading and contributing to more than eight successful projects and managing funding totaling 5.5 million euros from national, European, and corporate-sponsored initiatives.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Carlos Ferreira

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Carlos A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
101F-DFB3-54DB
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9546-4227
AuthenticusID
R-00H-BEQ
Google Scholar ID
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Email addresses

  • carlos.a.ferreira@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 220413350 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Porto: Porto, Porto, Portugal. R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/02/01 - 2025/02/28
Ongoing
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Decision Support Methods for Lung Cancer Follow-Up in Computed Tomography" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
2017
Concluded
 Bioengenharia (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Engenharia Biomédica
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Quantitative assessment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Angiographic sequences of retinal images" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/01 - Current Science and Technology Management Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2017/09/06 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2022/05/08 - 2022/07/09 Research Trainee (Research) Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2017/07/01 - 2017/10/31 Science and Technology Management Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2015/04/01 - 2017/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2016/06/30 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/11/01 - Current AI4Lungs
101080756
Researcher
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 HfPT - Health from Portugal
C630926586-00465198
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 PHASE IV AI
101095384
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union
2020/05/01 - 2020/09/30 CXR_AI4Covid-19 - Chest Radiography-based AI for Supporting Clinical
071_596637133
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Administração Regional de Saúde do Norte IP, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09/06 - 2019/11/30 LNDetector - Sistema Automático de Deteção, Segmentação e Classificação de Nódulos Pulmonares em Imagens Tomografia Computadorizada
PTDC/EEI-SII/6599/2014
Master Student Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal

Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pedrosa, J; Aresta, G; Ferreira, C. "Computer-aided lung cancer screening in computed tomography: state-of the-art and future perspectives". 2022.
    10.1088/978-0-7503-3355-9ch4
Conference paper
  1. Carlos A. Ferreira; Isabel Ramos; Miguel Coimbra; Aurélio Campilho. "A Comparative Study of Feature-Based and End-to-End Approaches for Lung Nodule Classification in CT Volumes to Lung-RADS Follow-up Recommendation". 2024.
    10.1109/melecon56669.2024.10608773
  2. Rui Castro; Inês Sousa; Fábio Nunes; Jennifer Mancio; Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho; Carlos Ferreira; João Pedrosa. "Automated Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat Segmentation in Computed Tomography". 2024.
    10.1109/isbi56570.2024.10635784
  3. Pedrosa, J; Aresta, G; Ferreira, C; Mendonca, A; Campilho, A. "Automatic Label Detection in Chest Radiography Images". 2021.
    10.5220/0010888100003123
  4. Wanderley, DS; Ferreira, CA; Campilho, A; Silva, JA. "Ovarian Structures Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks". 2021.
    10.1016/j.procs.2021.12.047
  5. Machado, M; Ferreira, CA; Pedrosa, J; Negrão, E; Rebelo, J; Leitão, P; Carvalho, AS; et al. "Automatic Lung Reference Model". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_122
  6. Ferreira, CA; Aresta, G; Pedrosa, J; Rebelo, J; Negrão, E; Cunha, A; Ramos, I; Campilho, A. "Classification of Lung Nodules in CT Volumes Using the Lung-RADS™ Guidelines with Uncertainty Parameterization". 2020.
    10.1109/isbi45749.2020.9098586
  7. Carlos A. Ferreira; Guilherme Aresta; Antonio Cunha; Ana Maria Mendonca; Aurelio Campilho. "Wide Residual Network for Lung-Rads™ Screening Referral". Paper presented in 2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/enbeng.2019.8692560
  8. Carlos A. Ferreira; António Cunha; Ana Maria Mendonça; Aurélio Campilho. "Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Texture Classification of Pulmonary Nodules". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-13469-3_91
  9. Carlos A. Ferreira; Susana Penas; Jorge Silva; Ana Maria Mendonca. "Quantitative Assessment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Angiographic Sequences of Retinal Images". 2019.
    10.1109/enbeng.2019.8692445
  10. Carlos A. Ferreira; Tânia Melo; Patrick Sousa; Maria Inês Meyer; Elham Shakibapour; Pedro Costa; Aurélio Campilho. "Classification of Breast Cancer Histology Images Through Transfer Learning Using a Pre-trained Inception Resnet V2". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-93000-8_86
Journal article
  1. Jianning Li; Zongwei Zhou; Jiancheng Yang; Antonio Pepe; Christina Gsaxner; Gijs Luijten; Chongyu Qu; et al. "MedShapeNet – a large-scale dataset of 3D medical shapes for computer vision". Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bmt-2024-0396.
    10.1515/bmt-2024-0396
  2. Carlos A. Ferreira; Kiran Vaidhya Venkadesh; Colin Jacobs; Miguel Coimbra; Aurélio Campilho. "Towards automatic forecasting of lung nodule diameter with tabular data and CT imaging". Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2024.106625.
    10.1016/j.bspc.2024.106625
  3. Carlos A. Ferreira; Célia Sousa; Inês Dias Marques; Pedro Sousa; Isabel Ramos; Miguel Coimbra; Aurélio Campilho. "LNDb v4: pulmonary nodule annotation from medical reports". Scientific Data (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03345-6.
    10.1038/s41597-024-03345-6
  4. Pedrosa J.; Aresta G.; Ferreira C.; Carvalho C.; Silva J.; Sousa P.; Ribeiro L.; Mendonça A.M.; Campilho A.. "Assessing clinical applicability of COVID-19 detection in chest radiography with deep learning". Scientific Reports (2022):
    10.1038/s41598-022-10568-3
  5. Sónia Marques; Filippo Schiavo; Carlos A. Ferreira; João Pedrosa; António Cunha; Aurélio Campilho. "A multi-task CNN approach for lung nodule malignancy classification and characterization". Expert Systems with Applications 184 (2021): 115469-115469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115469.
    10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115469
  6. Pedrosa, J; Aresta, G; Ferreira, C; Atwal, G; Phoulady, HA; Chen, XY; Chen, RZ; et al. "LNDb challenge on automatic lung cancer patient management". MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS (2021):
    10.1016/j.media.2021.102027
  7. Aresta, G; Ramos, I; Campilho, A; Ferreira, C; Pedrosa, J; Araujo, T; Rebelo, J; et al. "Automatic lung nodule detection combined with gaze information improves radiologists' screening performance". IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2020):
    10.1109/jbhi.2020.2976150
Magazine article
  1. Aresta, Guilherme; Pedrosa, João; Ferreira, Carlos A.. "Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19 detection in X-ray Images", INESC TEC Science&Society, 2020, https://science-society.inesctec.pt/index.php/inesctecesociedade/article/view/29.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ferreira, Carlos A.. "Quantitative Assessment of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Angiographic Sequences of Retinal Images". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2017. https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/en/pub_geral.pub_view?pi_pub_base_id=203743.

Other

Dataset
  1. Pedrosa, João; Aresta, Guilherme; Ferreira, Carlos A.; Catarina Carvalho; Joana Silva; Pedro Sousa; Lucas Ribeiro; Mendonça, Ana Maria; CAMPILHO, AURÉLIO. Clinical applicability of COVID-19 detection in chest radiography with deep learning - radiologist annotations. 10.25747/342B-GF87. 2022.
  2. Pedrosa, João; Aresta, Guilherme; Ferreira, Carlos A.; Márcio Rodrigues; Patrícia Leitão; André Silva Carvalho; João Rebelo; et al. LNDb Dataset. 10.5281/ZENODO.8348419. 2019.
Other output
  1. LNDb: A Lung Nodule Database on Computed Tomography. 2019. Pedrosa, João; Aresta, Guilherme; Ferreira, Carlos A.; Márcio Rodrigues; Patrícia Leitão; André Silva Carvalho; João Rebelo; et al. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08434.
Activities

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/01/01 - Current Treasurer @ IEEE Portugal
2021/08/01 - 2022/12/31 European Representative of the Development Committee @ EMBS
2021/06/01 - 2021/12/31 Assistant Treasurer @ IEEE Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Treasurer @ EMBS Portugal
2016/05/01 - 2017/07/31 Vice-Chair @ NEB-FEUP/ICBAS
2015/10/01 - 2017/06/30 Founder and Chair @ EMSB UP

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/05/25 - 2023/03/31 CHUSJ_Genetica - CHUSJ
2023/01/27 - 2023/02/26 BenchWearables - Unilabs
2021/09/01 - 2022/05/31 AI4DM - Promptly
Distinctions

Award

2023 Novos Talentos Huawei 2023
Huawei Enterprise Technologies SL, Spain
2019 Best paper award Summarizing a MSc Thesis
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2019 Outstanding European Chapter
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, United States
2019 IEEE-PT Outstanding Chapter
IEEE, United States