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Currently a Ph.D. Student in ProDEI, Researcher and Invited Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), and External Collaborator at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC). Developing my Ph.D. thesis on tweaking generalist and well-known state-of-the-art models for image classification, resulting in specialized and efficient architectures for medical imaging classification. Special interest in the areas of Data Science, Machine Learning, and Web Development.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mafalda Falcão Torres Veiga de Ferreira

Citation names

  • Ferreira, M. F.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2C1F-94EB-E939
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5371-0389
Google Scholar ID
FtvExWMAAAAJ

Email addresses

  • mafalda.falcao@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English
Education
Degree Classification
2018 - 2021
Ongoing
 Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Statistical Comparison of Different Machine-Learning Approaches for Malaria Parasites Detection in Microscopic Images" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/05 - 2019/12 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2017/02 - 2018/04 Researcher (Research) Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2017 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020 - Current Colaborador Externo Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
2019/06/01 - 2019/07/01 Teaching Assistant - UT BME 2019 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01 - Current Safe Cities - Inovação para Construir Cidades Seguras
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-041435
Master Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 European Development Fund
Ongoing
2018/08 - 2019/12 ADIRA_I4.0
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017922
Master Student Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2017/10 - 2018/04 Deus ex Machina: Humans and Technology Symbiosis for Societal Efficiency Gains
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000026
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000026
Master Student Fellow
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Ferreira, Mafalda Falcão. "Extracting architectural patterns of deep neural networks for disease detection". Paper presented in SAC2020 - The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Brno, 2020.
    10.1145/3341105.3374224
  2. Ferreira, M. F.; Camacho, R.; Teixeira, L.F.. "Autoencoders as Weight Initialization of Deep Classification Networks for Cancer versus Cancer Studies". Paper presented in CIBB2019 - 16th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Bergamo, 2019.
    Published
  3. Ferreira, M. F.; Camacho, R.; Teixeira, L. F.. "Autoencoders as Weight Initialization of Deep Classification Networks Applied to Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma". 2018.
    10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621356
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira, M. F.; Teixeira, L. F.. "Improving Malaria Parasites Detection in Thick Blood Smear Images: A Statistical Approach". Paper presented in INForum 2017: Nono Simpósio de Informática, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, M. F.. "Using Deep Neural Networks for Area Detection in Floor Plans: A Systematic Literature Review". International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2021):
    Under revision
  2. Ferreira, M. F.; Camacho, R.; Teixeira, L. F.. "Using Autoencoders as a Weight Initialization Method on Deep Neural Networks for Disease Detection". BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 20 141 (2020): https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-020-01150-w.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12911-020-01150-w
  3. Ferreira, Mafalda Falcão; Savoy, Julia N.; Markey, Mia K.. "Teaching cross-cultural design thinking for healthcare". The Breast (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2019.12.015.
    Published • 10.1016/j.breast.2019.12.015
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Mafalda Falcão Torres Veiga de Ferreira. "Statistical Comparison of Different Machine-Learning Approaches for Malaria Parasites Detection in Microscopic Images". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/106477.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Program Committee - International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB) (2021/11/15 - 2021/11/17)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2019 - Current Membro da organização da VISUM Summer School (2020/07/02 - 2020/07/10) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/03 14th Edition of the Doctoral Symposium in Informatics Engineering (DSIE19) (2019/03/06 - 2019/03/06)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021 - 2021 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD)
2020/06/24 - 2020/06/26 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Póvoa de Varzim

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018 - Current Linguagens e Tecnologias Web (LTW) Engenharia Informática e Computação (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Laboratório de Programação Orientada a Objetos (LPOO) Engenharia Informática e Computação (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2017 Projeto FEUP Engenharia Informática e Computação (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2017/09/12 Notícia relativamente ao trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito da dissertação de mestrado Diário de Notícias

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020 - 2020 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1573-756X) Springer-Verlag
2019 - 2019 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (1558-254X) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers