Personal identification

Full name

Isabel Pereira Coutinho

Citation names

• Coutinho, Isabel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

2F1C-5890-7C3A

Email addresses

• isabel.coutinho@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

• (+351) 964692977 (Personal)

Websites

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-coutinho (Social media)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

	Degree	Classification
2021/09/10 - 2025/09/10 Ongoing	Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/09/14 - 2021/01/26 Concluded	Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Deep Neural Models for ICD Coding from Clinical Text" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/04 - Current	Research Trainee (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/03 - 2020/12	Curricular Internship	CUF, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/10 - Current	Efficient and Interpretable Models for Clinical Text Analysis 2022.09649.BD PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/04 - 2022/09	DETECT DETECT - DSAIPA/DS/0133/2020 - Fellowship 2021/141 Research Fellow Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Conference paper	Gomes, Gonçalo; Coutinho, Isabel; Martins, Bruno. "Accurate and Well-Calibrated ICD Code Assignment Through Attention Over Diverse Label Embeddings". Paper presented in Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, St. Julian, 2024. Published Coutinho, Isabel; Martins, Bruno. "Exploring label correlations for quantification of ICD codes". Paper presented in International Conference on Discovery Science}, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-45275-8_41
Conference poster	Barreiros, Leonor; Coutinho, Isabel; Correia, Gonçalo; Martins, Bruno. "Explainable ICD Coding via Entity Linking". 2025. 10.18653/v1/2025.cl4health-1.18
Journal article	Coutinho, Isabel; Martins, Bruno. "Transformer-based models for ICD-10 coding of death certificates with Portuguese text". Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2022): 104232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104232. 10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104232