Helena Rico Pereira (EC14-6BF0-9A5E)

Curriculum Vitae

Helena Rico Pereira

Helena Rico Pereira. É Bolseira de Investigação no(a) FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências. Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias com ênfase em Engenharia Médica com ênfase em Engenharia Médica. Nas suas atividades profissionais interagiu com 1 colaborador(es) em coautorias de trabalhos científicos. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Parkinsonian Syndromes Classification; SWEDD; DatScanTM; MRI; Convolutional Neural Networks; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Médica; Parkinson; Artificial Intelligence; Signal Processing; Imaging Processing; Neurodegenerative disorders; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Helena Rico Pereira

Citation names

Pereira, Helena
Pereira, Helena Rico

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: EC14-6BF0-9A5E
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0123-5122

Email addresses

hri.pereira@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helena-Rico-Pereira (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering - Medical Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/10/01 - 2024/01/01 Ongoing	Engenharia Biomédica (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/02 - 2021/08/01 Attended	Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Major in Sistemas Computacionais e Percepcionais Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/10/05 - 2020/12/06 Concluded	Expert 3D Comprehensive Transversal Programme in Medical Image Post Processing: 3D Printing and Artificial Intelligence (Outros) EIT Health, Germany Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu, Spain UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg, Germany	81/100
2013/09 - 2019/01/18 Concluded	Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Major in não aplicável Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Classification of patients with parkinsonian syndromes using medical imaging and artificial intelligence algorithms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/03/19 - Current	Bolseira de Investigação	FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/03 - Current	Redes sinápticas e abordagens compreensivas de medicina personalizada em doenças neurocomportamentais ao longo da vida SAICTPAC/0010/2015 Research Fellow FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2016/01/01 - 2016/03/31	Term and Preterm Uterine Electromyography - Uterine Explorer Tool Uterine Explorer Technical development Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Tecnologias e Sistemas, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	DOCEIS2020. Technological Innovation for Life Improvement. Portugal: Springer. 2020. Accepted • Editor
Book chapter	Pereira, Helena; Fonseca, José Manuel; Ferreira, Hugo Alexandre. "Combination of Medical Imaging and Demographic Data for Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis". In Technological Innovationf or Life Improvement. Portugal, 2020. Accepted • Editor Pereira, Helena R.; Ferreira, Hugo A.. "Classification of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Using Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms". In XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, edited by Jorge Henriques; Nuno Neves; Paulo de Carvalho, 2043-2056. Portugal: Springer International Publishing, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_241
Conference abstract	Pereira, Helena. "MRI morphometric data as predictor of PET amyloid positivity: new insights using brain connectivity metrics and machine-learning". Paper presented in AAIC: 2020 Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amesterdão, 2020. Accepted
Conference poster	Pereira, Helena Rico; Ferreira, Hugo. "Classification of patients with parkinsonian syndromes using medical imaging and artificial intelligence algorithms". Paper presented in Jornadas de Doutoramento DF 2018,, 2018.
Thesis / Dissertation	Pereira, Helena Rico. "Classification of patients with parkinsonian syndromes using medical imaging and artificial intelligence algorithms". Master, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/61556.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/05/07	Diagnóstico da Doença de Parkinson com uma pitada de Inteligência Artificial	Semana da Biomédica Núcleo de Biomédica do IPS (Setúbal, Portugal)
2019/04/16	MRI and SPECT imaging as a combined approach for Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis	PSMR 2019 8th Conference on PET/MR and SPECT/MR (Munique, Germany)
2019/03/16	Inteligência Artificial aplicada ao diagnóstico da Doença de Parkinson	Tec2Med universidade nova de lisboa
2019/02/22	Classification of patients with Parkinsonian Syndromes using medical imaging and artificial intelligence algorithms	6th IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG 2019) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/03/09	Quando for grande quero ser um robot!	4º Ignite Ciência & Tecnologia @FCT UNL Ignite Portugal (Almada, Portugal)
2016/12/07	A fórmula da Genialidade	3º Ignite Ciência & Tecnologia @FCT UNL Ignite Portugal (Almada, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/06/01 - 2020/06/03	DoCEIS 2020 - 11th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (2020/06/01 - 2020/06/03) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2021/03/08 - 2021/03/08	Bioengenharia não é só para meninas Round table	Bioengenharia não é só para meninas Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/03/19 - 2020/03/19	"Acesso à Investigação" - AEFFUL Round table	"Acesso à Investigação" - AEFFUL Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2019/04/14 - 2019/04/14	Training School on PET/MR Image Reconstruction: Técnicas de reconstrução de imagem em python - Synergistic Image Reconstruction Framework (SIRF) Workshop	Training School on PET/MR Image Reconstruction University College London Institute of Nuclear Medicine, United Kingdom Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Germany
2018/07/10 - 2018/07/18	Global Project Based Learning (PBL) Program	Global Project Based Learning (PBL) Program – Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gakko Hojin Shibaura Kogyo Daigaku, Japan King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
2018/06/18 - 2018/06/19	Futureland Siemens Portugal Other	Futureland Siemens Portugal Siemens S.A., Portugal
2018/04/06 - 2018/04/09	CERN MedTech:Hack: CERN Medical Technology Hackathon	CERN MedTech:Hack: CERN Medical Technology Hackathon European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland
2018/03/19 - 2018/03/19	IST Enterprise Challenge	IST Enterprise Challenge Hospital da Luz Lisboa, Portugal IEEE, United States
2017/09 - 2018/01	Programa de mobilidade Almeida Garrett Other	Programa de mobilidade Almeida Garrett Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Workshop BITalino Workshop	JorTec'18 "Biomédica Sem Fronteiras", Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Workshop de LaTeX Workshop	Workshop de LaTeX EBIMed, Portugal
2017/08/07 - 2017/08/18	Summer School: Bridging innovation, didactics, faculty, students and enterprise (BRIDGE) "Innovating solutions for Aging populations" Other	BRIDGE EIT Health Summer School Københavns Universitet, Denmark
2017/03/17 - 2017/06/12	Formação em primeiros socorros Other	Formação em primeiros socorros Centro de Formação de Escolas dos Concelhos do Barreiro e da Moita, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Workshop Healthy Living and Active Ageing Workshop	Workshop Healthy Living and Active Ageing Newcastle University Institute for Ageing and Health, United Kingdom
2017 - 2017	2nd NOVA Biomedical Engineering Workshop Workshop	2nd NOVA Biomedical Engineering Workshop Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Workshop Outsystems Workshop	Workshop Outsystems Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016	1nd Nova Biomedical Engineering Workshop Workshop	1nd Nova Biomedical Engineering Workshop Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Workshop Orthotics Workshop	Workshop Orthotics Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016	A deeper understanding of the universe from 2 km underground Seminar	A deeper understanding of the universe from 2 km underground, Arthur B. McDonald Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Workshop Introduction to Robotics - ArticaCC, Lda Workshop	Workshop Introduction to Robotics Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Workshop "Become an (Bio) Entrepreneur Workshop	Workshop "Become an (Bio) Entrepreneur Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014 - 2014	State-of-the-art on Ultrasound imaging Seminar	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2013 - 2013	The role of Biomedical Engineering in Space Exploration, Astrophysicist Dr. John R. Allen Seminar	The role of Biomedical Engineering in Space Exploration NASA, United States

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2020/06/01 - 2020/06/03	Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS 2020)	FCT NOVA

Distinctions

Award

2020	Best paper award in Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS2020) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2015	1º Lugar Campeonato Nacional Universitário de Cofebol Federação Académica do Desporto Universitário , Portugal
2014	3º Lugar no Campeonato Nacional Universitário de Corfebol Federação Académica do Desporto Universitário , Portugal