Research Projects

• Multi-Cam Capsule Endoscopy Imagery : 3D Capsule Location and Detection of Abnormalities (2018 - 2021).

  Research project of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal) - Reference PTDC/EMD-EMD/28960/2017 (2017 Call for SR&TD Project Grants).

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• Smartphone Applications: Emergency Signal Detection and Fall Detection (2015-2018).

  Research project in partnership with the company oncaring .
  
  

• Image processing in ophthalmology for diabetic patients: a new technology (2013-2016).

  Research project in partnership with the company Retmarker.

  Agreement between the University of Coimbra and Retmarker (EN, PT)
  
  

• Advances in Image Processing and Inverse Problems: Applications in Medical and Earth Observation Imagery, and Biomathematics, PTDC/MAT-NAN/0593/2012, July 2013 - June 2015.

  Research project of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal).
  
  

• Aberrant Crypt Foci and Human Colorectal Polyps: mathematical modelling and endoscopic image processing, UTAustin/MAT/0009/2008, July 2009 - June 2013. Abstract (see also Aberrant Crypt Foci: mathematical analysis and endoscopic image processing).

  Research project of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal), and funded by the UT Austin|Portugal program in the 2008 call on Mathematics.
  
  

• Mathematical Analysis of Piezoelectric Problems, POCI/MAT/59502/2004, March 2005 - March 2008.

  Research project of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal).
  
  

• New materials, adaptive systems, and their nonlinearities: modelling, control and numerical simulation, November 2002 - October 2006.

  This project was supported by the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/ (identifier number HPRN-CT-2002-00284).
  
  

• Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Interfaces Problems, POCTI/34471/MAT/2000, September 2000 - August 2003.

  Research project of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal).
  
  

• Variational Models and Optimization , PRAXIS/PCEX/C/MAT/38/96, July 1997 - June 1999.

  Research project of FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal).
  
  

• Shells: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Scientific Computing , January 1995 - December 1997.

  This project was supported by the European Community ``Human Capital and Mobility'' Program (contract ERBCHRXCT 940536).
  
  

• Junctions in Elastic Multi-Structures , January 1990 - December 1992.

  This project was supported by the European Community ``S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' Program (EEC Project PL 890518, contract SC1 0473-C (EDB)).