ANA MARGARIDA PIRES DE ALMEIDA MOTA FERNANDES (8E19-7453-3890)

Curriculum Vitae

ANA MARGARIDA PIRES DE ALMEIDA MOTA FERNANDES

ANA MARGARIDA PIRES DE ALMEIDA MOTA FERNANDES. Completed the Mestrado integrado in Biomedical Engineering in 2010/12 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia and Doutoramento in Biomedical and Biophysical Engineering in 2022 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Is Invited Assistant Professor in Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Published 10 articles in journals. Has 1 section(s) of books. Organized 4 event(s). Participated in 14 event(s). Supervised 4 MSc dissertation(s). Has received 5 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 3 project(s), Principal investigator in 1 project(s), Research Fellow in 2 project(s) and Researcher in 3 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Medical Engineering with emphasis on Medical Engineering.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: ANA MARGARIDA PIRES DE ALMEIDA MOTA FERNANDES

Citation names

Mota, Ana M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 8E19-7453-3890
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1931-294X

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering - Medical Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016 - 2022 Concluded	Biomedical and Biophysical Engineering (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis diagnosis using 3D visualization and automatic classification of lesions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with Distinction
2005 - 2010/12 Concluded	Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Noise minimization in Positron Emission Mammography images by optimization of acquisition time and voxel size" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

2016 - 2018	Trainee Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2015/03 - 2015/12	Improvement of image quality and dose reduction in digital breast tomosynthesis using statistical image reconstruction algorithms PTDC/BBBIMG/3310/2012 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2014/10 - 2015/02	Establishment of an open database for evaluation of partial volume correction techniques in brain PET/MR studies COST Action TD1007 Visiting Scientist European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium University College London Hospitals, United Kingdom	European Cooperation in Science and Technology University College London Hospitals Concluded
2014/03 - 2014/08	Improvement of image quality and dose reduction in digital breast tomosynthesis using statistical image reconstruction algorithms PEst-OE/SAU/UI0645/2014 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2024/09 - Current	COST Action CA22118: “Radionuclide theragnostics for personalised medicine (RATIONALE)” CA22118 Researcher	Ongoing
2024/05 - Current	FOCUS Research (Factors Of Concentration Under Socials) FOCUS Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal	Ongoing
2024/01 - Current	European project No. 101057699: “RadioVal \| International Clinical Validation of Radiomics Artificial Intelligence for Breast Cancer Treatment Planning” 101057699 Researcher Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Spain	Ongoing
2020 - Current	Project FCT-IBEB Strategic Project UIDB/00645/2020 UIDB/00645/2020 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal	Ongoing
2012/01 - 2013/05	Quality in Image Guided Radiotherapy CAML Other Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal	Concluded
2010 - 2010	Clear-PEM Consortium Clear-PEM Master Student Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Mota, A.M.; Almeida, P.; Mátela, N.. "Digital breast tomosynthesis: A review of population-based screening/clinical trials". 25-74. 2016.
Conference abstract	Marta Arsénio; Ricardo Vigário; Mota, Ana M.. "Total variation filter in dose reduction by improving image quality in Pediatric Scintigraphy". Paper presented in 37th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, 2024. Published Mota, Ana M.; Schott, Jonathan; Cuplov, Vesna; Hutton, Brian; Thielemans, Kris; Drobnjak, Ivana; Dickson, John; et al. "Establishment of an open database of realistic simulated data for evaluation of partial volume correction techniques in brain PET/MR". Paper presented in 4th PSMR Conference on PET/MR and SPECT/MR, Ilha de Elba, 2015. Published • 10.1186/2197-7364-2-s1-a44
Conference paper	M. Simões; N. Matela; A.M. Mota; P. Almeida. "PS01.20 AUTOMATIC BREAST DENSITY CLASSIFICATION ON TOMOSYNTHESIS IMAGES". 2024. 10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.104022 A.M. Mota; N. Matela; P. Almeida. "PP25.06 ENHANCING IMAGE QUALITY IN PEDIATRIC RENAL SCINTIGRAPHY: A PATH TOWARDS DOSE REDUCTION". 2024. 10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.103858 Mota, Ana; Clarkson, Matthew; Almeida, Pedro; Matela, Nuno. "Detection of Microcalcifications in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis using Faster R-CNN and 3D Volume Rendering". Paper presented in 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOIMAGING, 2022. 10.5220/0010938800003123 Mota, Ana M.; Clarkson, Matthew J.; Orvalho, Lurdes; Almeida, Pedro; Matela, Nuno. "Calculation of transfer functions for volume rendering of breast tomosynthesis imaging". 2020. 10.1117/12.2559932 Paulo, Soraia F.; Martins, João; Mota, Ana M.; Abreu, Elisa Melo; Niza, João; Matela, Nuno; Jorge, Joaquim A.; Lopes, Daniel S.. "The Underrated Dimension: How 3D Interactive Mammography Can Improve Breast Visualization". 2017. 10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_36 Polat, Adem; Matela, Nuno; Mota, Ana M.; Yildirim, Isa. "Implementation of majorization-minimization (MM) algorithm for 3D total variation minimization in DBT image reconstruction". 2016. Published • 10.1109/nssmic.2016.8069493 Mota, Ana M.; Oliveira, Nuno; Matela, Nuno. "3D Total Variation Minimization Filter for Breast Tomosynthesis Imaging". Paper presented in IWDM 2016, Malmo, 2016. Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-41546-8_63 Mota, A.M.; Matela, N.; Oliveira, N.; Almeida, P.. "An iterative algorithm for total variation minimization in DBT imaging". 2016. 10.1201/b19241-21 Mota, Ana M.; Matela, Nuno; Oliveira, Nuno; Almeida, Pedro. "An iterative algorithm for Total Variation minimization in DBT imaging". Paper presented in VipIMAGE 2015, Tenerife, 2015. Published
Journal article	Marta Arsénio; Ricardo Vigário; Mota, Ana M.. "Recovering Image Quality in Low-Dose Pediatric Renal Scintigraphy Using Deep Learning". Journal of Imaging (2025): Accepted Manon A. G. Bakker; Maria de Lurdes Ovalho; Nuno Matela; Ana M. Mota. "Decoding Breast Cancer: Using Radiomics to Non-Invasively Unveil Molecular Subtypes Directly from Mammographic Images". Journal of Imaging (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10090218. 10.3390/jimaging10090218 Ana M. Mota; João Mendes; Nuno Matela. "Breast Cancer Molecular Subtype Prediction: A Mammography-Based AI Approach". Biomedicines (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12061371. 10.3390/biomedicines12061371 Mota, Ana M.; João Mendes; Matela N. Corresponding author: Mota, Ana M.. "Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Towards Dose Reduction through Image Quality Improvement". Journal of Imaging 9 6 (2023): 119-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9060119. 10.3390/jimaging9060119 Mota, Ana M.; Matthew J. Clarkson; Pedro Almeida; Nuno Matela. "Automatic Classification of Simulated Breast Tomosynthesis Whole Images for the Presence of Microcalcification Clusters Using Deep CNNs". Journal of Imaging (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8090231. 10.3390/jimaging8090231 Mota, Ana M.; Clarkson, Matthew J.; Almeida, Pedro; Matela, Nuno. Corresponding author: Mota, Ana M.. "An Enhanced Visualization of DBT Imaging Using Blind Deconvolution and Total Variation Minimization Regularization". IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 39 12 (2020): 4094-4101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tmi.2020.3013107. 10.1109/tmi.2020.3013107 Mota, Ana M.; Clarkson, M.J.; Almeida, P.; Peralta, L.; Matela, N.. "Impact of total variation minimization in volume rendering visualization of breast tomosynthesis data". Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 195 (2020): 105534. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105534. 10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105534 Mota, Ana M.; Clarkson, Matthew J.; Almeida, Pedro; Matela, Nuno. "Optimization of Breast Tomosynthesis Visualization through 3D Volume Rendering". Journal of Imaging 6 7 (2020): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jimaging6070064. 10.3390/jimaging6070064 Oliveira, N.; Mota, Ana M.; Matela, N.; Janeiro, L.; Almeida, P.. "Dynamic relaxation in algebraic reconstruction technique (ART) for breast tomosynthesis imaging". Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 132 (2016): 189-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.05.001. 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.05.001 Mota, Ana M.; Matela, Nuno; Oliveira, Nuno; Almeida, Pedro. "Total variation minimization filter for DBT imaging". Medical Physics 42 6Part1 (2015): 2827-2836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4919680. 10.1118/1.4919680

Intellectual property

Provisional application for patent

2025. "GastroNet".
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Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023	Advanced medical imaging tools to improve cancer detection and reduce radiation dose to the patients	Physics Department seminars Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências (Portugal)
2021	Breast Imaging Processing with Tomosynthesis	New Technologies in Diagnosis and Radiation Therapy (Seminar) Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências (Portugal)
2019	Advances in medical imaging (breast tomosynthesis and PET-MRI)	Seminar on the Master's Degree in Radiation Applied to Health Technologies Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (Portugal)
2018	Breast imaging with Tomosynthesis	New Technologies in Diagnosis and Radiation Therapy (Seminar) Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências (Portugal)
2015	An iterative algorithm for Total Variation minimization in DBT imaging	5th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (Tenerife, Spain)
2012	TRS 457 Dosimetry in Diagnostic Radiology: An International Code of Practice	Seminar of Medical Physics Unit of the Radiotherapy Service Hospital de Santa Maria (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	AI-assisted data analysis and reports for the Linac commission Supervisor	MSc in Engineering Physics (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024 - Current	Breast cancer subtype prediction based on AI and tomosynthesis images Supervisor	MSc in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/02/01 - 2024/12/04	Reducing administered activity by improving image quality in pediatric scintigraphy Supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024/03/01 - 2024/07/10	Extracting relevant radiomic features from mammogram images associated with molecular subtypes of breast cancer Supervisor	Master (Master) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Faculty of Science and Engineering, Netherlands

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	IBEB's Open Day (2024) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2018/02/22 - 2018/02/22	PhD Conference of Physics Department (2018/02 - 2018/02)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/05 - 2017/05	MR-PET School at PSMR2017 (Conference on PET-MRI and SPECT-MRI) (Member of the organizing committee) (2017/05/27) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017 - 2017	6th Conference on PET-MRI and SPECT-MRI: PSMR 2017 (2017 - 2017) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024	Objective Evaluation of Oral Presentations (teacher training course)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Welcoming New Teachers and Researchers (workshop) Workshop	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/09/16 - 2019/09/20	5th International School on Imaging with Medical Applications - SSIMA 2019	Universitatea Politehnica din Bucure¿ti, Romania
2015/04/27 - 2015/04/30	2nd International Training School on PET-MRI Engineering	European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action TD1007, United Kingdom
2015/03/04 - 2015/03/08	27th European Congress of Radiology	European Society of Radiology, Austria
2013/11/07 - 2013/11/09	1st National Meeting of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering	Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal
2013/04/30 - 2013/04/30	Radiobiology (curricular unit)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2012/11/23 - 2012/11/24	Ethics and Scientific Integrity (advanced course)	Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/11/16 - 2012/11/16	Metrology of Ionizing Radiation and Clinical Applications (workshop)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Tecnico Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear, Portugal
2012/11/10 - 2012/11/10	Detectors for Hadrontherapy and Related Medical Aspects (short course)	Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte EPE, Portugal
2012/09/26 - 2012/10/27	Applied Biostatistics (advanced course)	Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/05/30 - 2012/06/01	Launching your research career: complementary skills training (advanced course)	Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal
2010/07/05 - 2010/07/16	Leadership Course	Academia Militar, Portugal
2009/10/26 - 2009/10/29	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Course Workshop	CEFITEC FCT/UNL, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025/02/28	Developing a novel dashboard to detect and monitor lung cancer cachexia (Thesis) Main arguer	Sara Isabel Silva Manso (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/03/11	Mechanical Design of a Poly-articulated Prosthetic Hand President of the jury	Beatriz Mocinho Rodrigues (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/02/14	Machine Learning Algorithm for the prediction of the direction of growth of Macular Neovascularization President of the jury	João Pedro Candeias da Silva Santos (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024	Machine Learning for Knee Contact Force Prediction President of the jury	Daniel da Costa Simão (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024	Assessing the Aftereffects of Closed-Loop Amplitude Modulated Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Parieto-Occipital Alpha Oscillations President of the jury	Teresa Meireles Carneiro (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024	Work-related Upper Body Postures Classification and Segmentation President of the jury	Diogo Sózinho (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Comparison of different image reconstruction algorithms for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and assessment of their potential to reduce radiation dose (Thesis) Main arguer	Raquel Silva Diogo (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Reconstruction of Microwave Imaging using Machine Learning President of the jury	Catarina Moura (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Medical Microwave Imaging of MRI-based Axillary region models via 3D Finite Difference Time Domain modelling President of the jury	Pedro Cidadão (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Development of an upper limb exoskeleton digital twin in immersive virtual reality President of the jury	Tiago Manuel Cortes Lomba (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Investigating suitable strategies to detect the lack of balance due to different external perburbations based on wearable sensors President of the jury	Ana Maria Vieira De Almeida (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Targeted tDCS in Sensorimotor Networks: A Functional Connectivity Study President of the jury	Vasco Fontes Marques Da Silva (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Assessing Brain Functional Connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease using Explainable Artificial Intelligence Methods Thesis Member	Leonor Maria Oliveira Pires (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Automatic detection and segmentation of malignant lesions from [18F]FDG PET/CT images using machine learning techniques: application in lymphomas President of the jury	Miriam Norinha Gomes Sobral (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023	Validation of manual brain lesion tracing methods in clinical neuroscience President of the jury	Catarina Maria Inácio Fonseca (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2025/02 - Current	European Journal of Medical Research	Springer Nature
2025/02 - Current	BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth	Springer Nature
2025/02 - Current	Journal of Medical Imaging	SPIE
2024 - Current	Computers in Biology and Medicine	Elsevier
2024 - Current	Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine
2025/02 - 2025/02	Scientific Reports	Springer Nature
2025/02 - 2025/02	Diagnostics	MDPI
2018 - 2018	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2017 - 2017	Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology	IOS Press

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024 - Current	International Cancer Imaging Society	Member
2011 - Current	Medical Physics Division of the Portuguese Physics Society	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2025/03 - Current	Member of the Oncology working group at RedeSAÚDE, University of Lisbon Member	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/09 - Current	Member of the Pedagogical Committee for the BSc degree in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Member	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2020	Pedagogical Commission of PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics (Representative of the PhD students)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/11 - 2025/01	BIOIMAGING 2025, the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies.
2024 - 2024	Reviewer for the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024
2023 - 2023	Reviewer for the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2024 - 2024	Member of the Jury for the selection of candidates for a Research Fellowship (project "DC4MND - Multidimensional mechanistic investigations of trans spinal direct current stimulation in motorneuron disease") Member	FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/03 - Current	Academic Radiology	Elsevier
2021 - Current	Frontiers in Oncology\| Radiation Oncology (Member of Editorial Board as Review Editor)	FRONTIERS MEDIA
2025/03 - 2025/12	Cancers \| Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Advances in Breast Cancer Imaging: From Detection to Personalized Diagnosis"	MDPI

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2016 - Current	Implementation of majorization-minimization (MM) algorithm for 3D total variation minimization in DBT image reconstruction	Adem Polat
2023 - 2034	LOTUS band	Joana Carvoerio, Ana Costa, Sara Fontoura, Hugo Vieira
2023 - 2023	ASSENCIS: Catheter & Protection System	Cassandra Gouveia; Marta Monteiro; Mariana Peixoto; Margarida Pedrosa; Bianca Alves
2022 - 2022	Automatic classification of masses and MC's by deep CNN's using whole DBT images	Noa Hoogeweg

Distinctions

Award

2024	2nd place in the H-INNOVA Digital Health Summit Call for Projects competition in the student category with their projec H-INNOVA - Health Innovation HUB, Portugal
2024	Biomedicines Travel Award Biomedicines MDPI, Switzerland
2023	Finalist of the 4th edition of H-INNOVA HUB 2023 Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2015	Best Student Paper Award
2014	Best poster presentation