Personal identification

Full name

Margarida Silveira

Citation names

• Margarida Silveira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

7D14-6146-B773

ORCID iD

0000-0001-7777-3675

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

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

	Degree	Classification
2004 Concluded	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Segmentação de múltiplos objectos em movimento" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	aprovado
1994 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura) Major in Computadores Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Placa de Digitalização e Visualização de Vídeo em Computador Pessoal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16
1991 Concluded	Proficiency in english (Postgraduate Certificate) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom	excellent

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2005 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
1998 - 2004	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2005 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
1998 - 2004	Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2012/09/01 - 2015	AULIS - Automated landslides inventory based on very high spatial resolution images info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/116611/PT Researcher Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2011/01/01 - 2014	ADIAR - Alzheimer Disease: Image Analysis and Recognition info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/114606/PT Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2010/01/26 - 2013	ADDI - Automatic computer-based Diagnosis system for Dermoscopy Images info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/103471/PT Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2013	RIVERSAR - Exploiting SAR imagery to improve floodplain inundation models in the Tagus River info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/99085/PT Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Publications

Book chapter	Narotamo, Hemaxi; Sanches, J. Miguel; Silveira, Margarida. "Segmentation of Cell Nuclei in Fluorescence Microscopy Images Using Deep Learning". In Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 53-64. Springer International Publishing, 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-31332-6_5 Marques, Jorge S.; Nascimento, Jacinto C.; Abrantes, Arnaldo J.; Silveira, Margarida. "Robust Shape Estimation with Deformable Models". In Advances in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, 57-76. Springer Netherlands, 2008. 10.1007/978-1-4020-9086-8_3
Conference paper	Carlos Antunes; Margarida Silveira. "Generating Attention Maps from Eye-gaze for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease". Paper presented in NeuRIPS 2022 Gaze Meets ML Workshop, New Orleans, USA, 2023. Rosa, Alice; Narotamo, Hemaxi; Silveira, Margarida. "Self-Supervised Segmentation of 3D Fluorescence Microscopy Images Using CycleGAN". 2023. 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340248 Pereira, Pedro; Silveira, Margarida. "Cross-Modal Transfer Learning Methods for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis". 2022. 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871163 Narotamo, Hemaxi; Ouarne, Marie; Franco, Claudio Areias; Silveira, Margarida. "Synthetic Generation of 3D Microscopy Images using Generative Adversarial Networks". 2022. 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871631 Palma, Susana I. C. J.; Frazao, Jose; Alves, Rita; Costa, Henrique M. A.; Alves, Claudia; Gamboa, Hugo; Silveira, Margarida; Roque, Ana C. A.. "Learning to see VOCs with Liquid Crystal Droplets". 2022. 10.1109/isoen54820.2022.9789647 Narotamo, Hemaxi; Ouarne, Marie; Franco, Claudio Areias; Silveira, Margarida. "Joint Segmentation and Pairing of Nuclei and Golgi in 3D Microscopy Images". 2021. 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630362 Ramos, Guilherme; Gjini, Erida; Coelho, Luis; Silveira, Margarida. "Unsupervised learning approach for predicting sepsis onset in ICU patients". 2021. 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9629559 Ferreira, Nuno; Silveira, Margarida. "Ship Detection in SAR Images Using Convolutional Variational Autoencoders". 2020. Published • 10.1109/igarss39084.2020.9324389 Narotamo, Hemaxi; Sanches, J. Miguel; Silveira, Margarida. "Combining Deep Learning with Handcrafted Features for Cell Nuclei Segmentation *". Paper presented in IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2020. 10.1109/embc44109.2020.9175258 Narotamo, Hemaxi; Fernandes, M. Sofia; Miguel Sanches, J.; Silveira, Margarida. "Interphase Cell Cycle Staging using Deep Learning *". 2020. 10.1109/embc44109.2020.9175583 Pereira, Joao; Silveira, Margarida. "Learning Representations from Healthcare Time Series Data for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection". 2019. Published • 10.1109/bigcomp.2019.8679157 Pereira, Joao; Silveira, Margarida. "Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Energy Time Series Data Using Variational Recurrent Autoencoders with Attention". 2018. 10.1109/icmla.2018.00207 Cruz, Ricardo; Silveira, Margarida; Cardoso, Jaime S.. "A Class Imbalance Ordinal Method for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification". 2018. 10.1109/prni.2018.8423960 Barros, Helena; Silveira, Margarida. "Atlas based sparse logistic regression for Alzheimer's Disease classification". 2017. 10.1109/embc.2017.8036871 Heleno, Sandra; Silveira, Margarida; Matias, Magda; Pina, Pedro. "Assessment of supervised methods for mapping rainfall induced landslides in VHR images". 2015. 10.1109/igarss.2015.7325898 Rodrigues, Filipa; Silveira, Margarida. "Longitudinal FDG-PET features for the classification of Alzheimer's disease". 2014. 10.1109/embc.2014.6943992 Seixas, Francisco; Silveira, Margarida; Heleno, Sandra. "Segmentation of SAR images using textons". 2014. 10.1109/igarss.2014.6945952 Morgado, P.; Silveira, M.; Costa, D.C.; Pedro Morgado; Margarida Silveira; Durval Campos Costa. "Texton-based diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease". 2013. 10.1109/MLSP.2013.6661913 Morgado, Pedro M.; Silveira, Margarida; Marques, Jorge S.. "Extending local binary patterns to 3D for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease". 2013. 10.1109/isbi.2013.6556426 Morgado, P.M.; Silveira, M.; Marques, J.S.; Morgado, Pedro M.; Silveira, Margarida; Marques, Jorge S.. "Efficient selection of non-redundant features for the diagnosis of Alzheimer'S disease". 2013. 10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556556 Afonso, A.; Silveira, M.. "Hair detection in dermoscopic images using Percolation". 2012. 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346936 Bicacro, Eduardo; Silveira, Margarida; Marques, Jorge S.; Costa, Durval C.. "3D brain image-based diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Bringing medical vision into feature selection". 2012. 10.1109/isbi.2012.6235502 Bicacro, E.; Silveira, M.; Marques, J.S.. "Alternative feature extraction methods in 3D brain image-based diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease". 2012. 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467090 Cabral, Carlos; Silveira, Margarida. "Classification of Alzheimer's disease from FDG-PET images using favourite class ensembles". 2011. 10.1109/embc.2013.6610042 Cabral, C.; Silveira, M.; Figueiredo, P.. "Decoding visual stimuli using classifier ensembles with optimized feature selection". 2011. 10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872410 Cabral, C.; Silveira, M.; Figueiredo, P.. "Automatic classification of cognitive states". 2011. 10.1109/ENBENG.2011.6026089 Silveira, M.; Figueiredo, P.. "Joint fMRI brain activation detection and segmentation using level sets". 2010. 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627878 Silveira, M.; Marques, J.. "Boosting Alzheimer disease diagnosis using PET images". 2010. 10.1109/ICPR.2010.626 Silveira, M.; Heleno, S.. "Classification of water regions in SAR images using level sets and non-parametric density estimation". 2009. 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413391 Silveira, M.; Aguiar, P.M.Q.. "Simultaneous registration and intensity normalization of SPECT perfusion images". 2008. Silveira, M.; Marques, J.S.. "Level set segmentation of dermoscopy images". 2008. 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540960 Silveira, M.; Nascimento, J.C.; Marques, J.S.. "Level set segmentation with outlier rejection". 2008. 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711947 Silveira, M.; Heleno, S.. "Water/land segmentation in sar images using level sets". 2008. 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4712150 Silveira, M.; Marques, J.S.. "Estimation of multiple objects at unknown locations with active contours". 2007. Silveira, M.; Nascimento, J.; Marques, J.; Silveira, Margarida; Marques, Jorge. "Automatic segmentation of the lungs using robust level sets". 2007. 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353317 Silveira, M.; Marques, J.S.. "Multiple active contour models based on the em algorithm". 2005. 10.1109/ICIP.2005.1529743 Silveira, M.. "An algorithm for the detection of multiple concentric circles". 2005. Silveira, M.. "Antibacterial activity detection and evaluation based on the detection of multiple concentric circles with the Hough Transform". 2004. 10.1109/CCCRV.2004.1301463 Silveira, M.; Piedade, M.. "MRF-motion segmentation based on dominant motion estimation and the detection of uncovered regions". 2001. 10.1109/icip.2001.959031 Silveira, M.; Piedade, M.; Silveira, Margarida; Piedade, Moises. "Joint segmentation and motion estimation". 1998. 10.1109/icip.1998.723611 Silveira, Margarida; Piedade, Moises. "Variable block sized motion segmentation for video coding". 1997.
Journal article	Hemaxi Narotamo; Mariana Dias; Ricardo Santos; André V. Carreiro; Hugo Gamboa; Margarida Silveira. "Deep learning for ECG classification: A comparative study of 1D and 2D representations and multimodal fusion approaches". Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2024.106141. 10.1016/j.bspc.2024.106141 Carolina Cunha; Francesco Bianconi; Hemaxi Narotamo; Antónia Monteiro; Margarida Silveira. "Detection and measurement of butterfly eyespot and spot patterns using convolutional neural networks". PLOS ONE (2023): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280998. 10.1371/journal.pone.0280998 Narotamo, Hemaxi; Fernandes, Maria Sofia; Moreira, Ana Margarida; Melo, Soraia; Seruca, Raquel; Silveira, Margarida; Sanches, João Miguel. "A machine learning approach for single cell interphase cell cycle staging". Scientific Reports 11 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98489-5. 10.1038/s41598-021-98489-5 José Frazão; Susana I. C. J. Palma; Henrique M. A. Costa; Cláudia Alves; Ana C. A. Roque; Margarida Silveira. "Optical Gas Sensing with Liquid Crystal Droplets and Convolutional Neural Networks". Sensors 21 8 (2021): 2854-2854. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082854. 10.3390/s21082854 Pereira, Joao; Silveira, Margarida. "Unsupervised representation learning and anomaly detection in ECG sequences". International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 22 4 (2019): 389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijdmb.2019.101395. 10.1504/ijdmb.2019.101395 Silveira, Margarida; Heleno, Sandra; Pina, Pedro. "Texton-Based Ensemble Classification of Landslide Source and Transport Areas in VHR Imagery". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 13 12 (2016): 1787-1791. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2016.2610003. 10.1109/lgrs.2016.2610003 Morgado, Pedro M.; Silveira, Margarida. "Minimal neighborhood redundancy maximal relevance: Application to the diagnosis of Alzheimer¿s disease". Neurocomputing 155 (2015): 295-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2014.12.070. 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.12.070 Cabral, Carlos; Morgado, Pedro M.; Campos Costa, Durval; Silveira, Margarida. "Predicting conversion from MCI to AD with FDG-PET brain images at different prodromal stages". Computers in Biology and Medicine 58 (2015): 101-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.01.003. 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.01.003 Morgado, Pedro; Silveira, Margarida; Marques, Jorge S.. "Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using 3D local binary patterns". Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization 1 1 (2013): 2-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2013.764609. 10.1080/21681163.2013.764609 Cabral, C.; Silveira, M.; Figueiredo, P.. "Decoding visual brain states from fMRI using an ensemble of classifiers". Pattern Recognition 45 6 (2012): 2064-2074. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857050388&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.04.015 Silveira, M.; Heleno, S.. "Separation between water and land in SAR images using region-based level sets". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 6 3 (2009): 471-475. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67651158828&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2017283 Silveira, M.; Nascimento, J.C.; Marques, J.S.; Marçal, A.R.S.; Mendonça, T.; Yamauchi, S.; Maeda, J.; Rozeira, J.; Vieira, A.. "Comparison of segmentation methods for melanoma diagnosis in dermoscopy images". IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing 3 1 (2009): 35-45. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-62349120258&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011119 Silveira, M.; Monteiro, A.. "Automatic recognition and measurement of butterfly eyespot patterns". BioSystems 95 2 (2009): 130-136. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-58149250398&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.09.004 Martins, R.; Pina, P.; Marques, J.S.; Silveira, M.. "Crater detection by a boosting approach". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 6 1 (2009): 127-131. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-58149488744&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2006004

Other distinction

1998	Bolsa de Doutoramento Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal