Luis Pinto
Ph.D. Researcher
News
- "Workshop on Numerical Analysis": a workshop celebrating the 60th birthday of José Augusto Ferreira, January 4, 2024.
Biography
I was born in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, and I hold a Ph.D. from Coimbra University with a thesis on numerical methods for PDEs.
Academic and professional background:
- B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (4 years), University of Coimbra
- Advanced Mathematics (1 year), University of Porto
- Invited Assistant Professor, ISEC Mathematics and Physics Department
- M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (2 years), University of Coimbra
- Research fellow, CIBB – Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology
- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, UC|UP Joint Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
- Research fellow, CMUC, University of Coimbra
- Research fellow, FCT fellow at CMUC, University of Coimbra
- Invited Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra
- Researcher (ongoing), CMUC, University of Coimbra
Research
My research focuses on mathematical modeling and simulation of real-world problems in engineering, finance, and medicine. I use different techniques, including:
- Numerical methods for PDEs
- Image processing
- Machine learning
- Matlab programming
Ongoing FCT-funded projects (team member):
- Develop models and methods for financial risk management. RiskBigData: Complex Risk Management in the Big Data Regime. (2022 - )
Teaching:
- Courses taught: Programming Methods II, Statistics, Analysis II, Analysis I, and Numerical Methods.
Past FCT-funded projects:
- Multi-Cam Capsule Endoscopy Imagery: 3D Capsule Location and Detection of Abnormalities (2018 - 2022)
- UAS4Litter: Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for marine litter coastal mapping (2018 - 2022)
- New mathematical models for drug delivery enhanced by electric fields (2015 - 2016)
- Advances in Image Processing and Inverse Problems: Applications in Medical and Earth Observation Imagery, and Biomathematics (2014 - 2015)
- Optical modeling of the Human Retina in Health and Disease (2012 - 2014)
- Reaction-diffusion in Porous Media (2008 - 2012)
Past collaborations with industry:
- Research project in partnership with onCaring: "Smartphone Applications: Emergency Signal Detection and Fall Detection" (2015 - 2017)
- Research project in partnership with Retmarker: "Image processing in ophthalmology for diabetic patients: a new technology" (2013 - 2016)
Publications
2023
- J.A. Ferreira, H.P. Gómez, and L. Pinto, "A numerical scheme for a partial differential system motivated by light-triggered drug delivery", Applied Numerical Mathematics.
- J.A. Ferreira, H.P. Gómez, and L. Pinto, "A mathematical model for NIR light protocol optimization in controlled transdermal drug delivery", Applied Mathematical Modelling.
- J.A. Ferreira, H.P. Gómez, and L. Pinto, "Numerical solution of a non-linear model for drug delivery", Computational and Mathematical Models in Biology.
2022
- J.A. Ferreira, D. Jordão, and L. Pinto, "Drug delivery enhanced by ultrasound: Mathematical modeling and simulation", Computers & Mathematics with Applications.
- J.A. Ferreira, L. Pinto, and R.F. Santos, "Numerical analysis of a porous-elastic model for convection enhanced drug delivery", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
- J.A. Ferreira, H.P. Gómez, and L. Pinto, "A numerical scheme for a model of drug delivery enhanced by light", ICMA2SC'22, International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Science and Engineering, Porto.
2021
- M. Oliveira, H. Araújo, I.N. Figueiredo, L. Pinto, E. Curto, and L. Perdigoto, "Registration of Consecutive Frames From Wireless Capsule Endoscopy for 3D Motion Estimation", IEEE Access.
- P. Júdice, L. Pinto, and J.L. Santos, "Bank strategic asset allocation under a unified risk measure", Expert Systems with Applications.
- L. Pinto, U. Andriolo, and G. Gonçalves, "Detecting stranded macro-litter categories on drone orthophoto by a multi-class Neural Network", Marine Pollution Bulletin.
- U. Andriolo, et al., "Drones for litter mapping: An inter-operator concordance test in marking beached items on aerial images", Marine Pollution Bulletin.
2020
- G. Gonçalves, U. Andriolo, L. Pinto, and F. Bessa, "Mapping marine litter using UAS on a beach-dune system: a multidisciplinary approach", Science of The Total Environment.
- G. Gonçalves, U. Andriolo, L. Pinto, and D. Duarte, "Mapping marine litter with Unmanned Aerial Systems: A showcase comparison among manual image screening and machine learning techniques", Marine Pollution Bulletin.
- I.N. Figueiredo, M. Dodangeh, L. Pinto, P.N. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Fast colonic polyp detection using a Hamilton–Jacobi approach to non-dominated sorting", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
- J.A. Ferreira, P. de Oliveira, and L. Pinto, "Aging effect on iontophoretic transdermal drug delivery", SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.
- L. Pinto and E. Sousa, "Positivity preserving schemes for the fractional Klein-Kramers equation with boundaries", Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.
2019
- I.N. Figueiredo, M. Dodangeh, L. Pinto, P.N. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Colonic Polyp Identification Using Pareto Depth Anomaly Detection Algorithm", VipIMAGE - VII ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal, 2019.
- I.N. Figueiredo, L. Pinto, L. Perdigoto, M. Oliveira, H. Araújo, and P.N. Figueiredo, "Wireless Capsule Endoscope Location and a Robotic Validation Experiment", MEDICON - XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Coimbra, Portugal, 2019.
- I. Figueiredo, L. Pinto, P. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Unsupervised Segmentation of Colonic Polyps in Narrow-Band Imaging Data based on Manifold Representation of Images and Wasserstein Distance", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
- P.N. Figueiredo, I.N. Figueiredo, L. Pinto, S. Kumar, R. Tsai, and A. Mamonov, "Polyp detection with computer-aided diagnosis in white light colonoscopy: comparison of three different methods", Endoscopy International Open.
- J.S.A. do Carmo, J.A. Ferreira, and L. Pinto, "On the accurate simulation of nearshore and dam break problems involving dispersive breaking waves", Wave Motion.
2018
- J.A. Ferreira, D. Jordão, and L. Pinto, "Approximating coupled hyperbolic-parabolic systems arising in enhanced drug delivery", Computers & Mathematics with Applications
- J.S.A. do Carmo, J.A. Ferreira, L. Pinto, and G. Romanazzi, "An improved Serre model: efficient simulation and comparative evaluation", Applied Mathematical Modelling.
- S. Barbeiro, S. Bardeji, J.A. Ferreira, L. Pinto, "Non-Fickian coupled diffusion models in porous media", Numerische Mathematik.
- I. Figueiredo, C. Leal, L. Pinto, P. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Hybrid multiscale affine and elastic image registration approach towards wireless capsule endoscope localization", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
2017
- J.A. Ferreira, D. Jordão, and L. Pinto, "Second order approximations for kinetic and potential energies in Maxwell’s wave equations", Applied Numerical Mathematics.
- L. Pinto and E. Sousa, "Numerical solution of a time-space fractional Fokker Planck equation with variable force field and diffusion", Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.
- I.N. Figueiredo, L. Pinto, G. Gonçalves, and B. Engquist, "A variational model for image artifact correction based on Wasserstein distance", VipIMAGE - VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal, 2017.
- I.N. Figueiredo, C. Leal, L. Pinto, P.N. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Dissimilarity measure of consecutive frames in wireless capsule endoscopy videos: a way of searching for abnormalities", 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017.
2016
- I. Figueiredo, S. Moura, J. Neves, L. Pinto, S. Kumar, C. Oliveira, and J. Ramos, "Automated retina identification based on multiscale elastic registration", Computers in Biology and Medicine.
- I. Figueiredo, C. Leal, L. Pinto, J. Bolito, and A. Lemos, "Smartphone application for emergency signal detection", Medical Engineering and Physics.
- I. Figueiredo, C. Leal, L. Pinto, J. Bolito, and A. Lemos, "Exploring smartphone sensors for fall detection", mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience.
- I. Figueiredo, L. Pinto, and G. Gonçalves, "A modified Lyzenga’s model for multispectral bathymetry using Tikhonov regularization", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.
- J.A. Ferreira and L. Pinto, "An Integro-Differential Model for Non-Fickian tracer transport in porous media: validation and numerical simulation", Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences.
- I. Figueiredo, C. Leal, L. Pinto, P. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Image Processing Technique for Wireless Capsule Endoscope Detection", UT Austin|Portugal Annual Conference.
2015
- M. Santos, A. Araújo, S. Barbeiro, F. Caramelo, A. Correia, M. Marques, L. Pinto, P. Serranho, R. Bernardes, and M. Morgado, "Maxwell’s equations based 3D model of light scattering in the retina", IEEE 4th Portuguese BioEngineering Meeting (ENBENG), Porto.
- I. Figueiredo, C. Leal, L. Pinto, P. Figueiredo, and R. Tsai, "Wireless Capsule Endoscope Tracking Based on Multiscale Elastic Image Registration", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg.
- M. Santos, A. Araújo, S. Barbeiro, F. Caramelo, A. Correia, M. Marques, L. Pinto, P. Serranho, R. Bernardes, and M. Morgado, "Simulation of cellular changes on Optical Coherence Tomography of human retina", 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan.
2014
- G. Gonçalves, N. Duro, E. Sousa, L. Pinto, and I. Figueiredo, "Detecting changes on coastal primary sand dunes using multi-temporal Landsat imagery", Proc. SPIE 9244, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XX, 924420.
- A. Correia, L. Pinto, A. Araújo, S. Barbeiro, F. Caramelo, P. Menezes, M. Morgado, P. Serranho, and R. Bernardes, "Monte Carlo simulation of diabetic macular edema changes on optical coherence tomography", Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
- I. Figueiredo, S. Kumar, C. Leal, and L. Pinto, "Fall detection modeling based on inverse problems", Engineering Optimization IV, Lisbon.
- J.A. Ferreira, and L. Pinto,"Non-Fickian tracer transport in porous media", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE), Cadiz.
- A. Correia, L. Pinto, A. Araújo, S. Barbeiro, F. Caramelo, P. Menezes, M. Morgado, P. Serranho, and R. Bernardes, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Diabetic Macular Edema Changes on Optical Coherence Tomography Data", IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Valencia.
2013
- J.A. Ferreira and L. Pinto, "Supraconvergence and supercloseness in quasilinear coupled problems", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
- A. Correia, L. Pinto, A. Araújo, S. Barbeiro, F. Caramelo, P. Menezes, M. Morgado, P. Serranho, and R. Bernardes, "Simulation of DME changes on OCT through Monte Carlo", Proceedings of the V Annual Meeting of IBILI, Coimbra.
- A. Araújo, S. Barbeiro, L. Pinto, F. Caramelo, A. Correia, M. Morgado, P. Serranho, A. Silva, and R. Bernardes,"Numerical solution of time-dependent Maxwell’s equations for modeling scattered electromagnetic wave’s propagation", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE), Almeria.
2012
- J.A. Ferreira, L. Pinto, and G. Romanazzi, "Supraconvergence and supercloseness in Volterra equations", Applied Numerical Mathematics.
- J.A. Ferreira and L. Pinto, "An unexpected convergence behavior in diffusion phenomena in porous media", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE), Murcia.
2011
- S. Barbeiro, J.A. Ferreira, and L. Pinto, "H1-second order convergent estimates for non-Fickian models", Applied Numerical Mathematics.
- J.A. Ferreira and L. Pinto, "Non-Fickian single phase flow model", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE), Benidorm.