José Seabra

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Journal Papers
[1] David Afonso, José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, João Sanches, An Ultrasonographic Risk Score For Detecting Symptomatic Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 1505 - 1513, July, 2015
[2] L. M. Pedro, João Sanches, José Seabra, J. S. Suri, J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Asymptomatic Carotid Disease – A New Tool for Assessing Neurological Risk, Echocardiography, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 353-361, March, 2014
[3] G. Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero, José Seabra, S. Aja-Fernandez, M. Martin-Fernandez, C. Palencia, A. Serrano, O. Rodriguez, João Sanches, Gamma Mixture Classifier for Plaque Detection in Intravascular Ultrasonic Images, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 61(1):44-61, January, 2014
[4] U. R. Acharya, O. Faust, S. V. Sree, A. P. C. Alvin, G. Krishnamurthi, José Seabra, João Sanches, J. S. Suri, Understanding symptomatology of atherosclerotic plaque by image-based tissue characterization, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 110, Issue 1, pp. 66-75, April. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.09.008, 2013
[5] José Seabra, F. Ciompi, O. Pujol, J. Mauri, P. Radeva, João Sanches, Rayleigh Mixture Model for Plaque Characterization in Intravascular Ultrasound, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.58, no.5, pp.1314-1324, 2011
[6] J. Fernandes e Fernandes, A 3-D Ultrasound-Based Framework to Characterize the Echo Morphology of Carotid Plaques, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 5, pp. 1442 - 1453, 2009 - PDF
[7] José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, João Sanches, F. Viola, A. C. Dinis, J. Mendanha, P. Brogueira, M. T. Pena, Investigacao no Ensino de Engenharia Biomedica: dois casos de estudo, Saude & Tecnologia, pp. 7-19, May, 2008
[8] L. M. Pedro, Reconstrucao Tridimensional da Placa de Ateroma da Bifurcacao Carotidea, Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, 2007
Book Chapters
[9] José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, J. Fernandes e Fernandes, J. S. Suri, João Sanches, Ultrasound Profile of Carotid Plaque. A New Approach Towards Stroke Prediction, In Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis, L. Saba, J. Sanches, L. Pedro, J. Suri (eds), pp. 173-185. Springer, New York, NY, 2014
[10] José Seabra, J. S. Suri, João Sanches, Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Plaque Characterization, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[11] L. M. Pedro, I. Gonçalves, R. Fernandes, José Seabra, João Sanches, J. Fernandes, Activity Index: a tool to identify active carotid plaques, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 163-175, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[12] José Seabra, João Sanches, Ultrasound Speckle/Despeckle Image Decomposition for Tissue Analysis, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 73-95, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[13] José Seabra, F. Ciompi, P. Radeva, João Sanches, A Rayleigh Mixture Model for IVUS Imaging, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 25-47, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[14] José Seabra, João Sanches, RF ultrasound estimation from B-mode images, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 3-24, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[15] José Seabra, A 3D Graph-cut based Algorithm for Evaluating Carotid Plaque Echogenicity and Texture, Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, INTECH, ISBN 978-953-7619, pp. 621-638, 2009 - PDF
[16] A. Fred, Towards the development of a thyroid ultrasound biometric scheme based on tissue echo-morphological features, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, vol. 52, 2009 - PDF
Conference Papers
[17] David Afonso, José Seabra, J. S. Suri, João Sanches, A CAD system for Atherosclerotic Plaque Assessment, Proc. of EMBC 2012 - 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 10081011, 2012
[18] U. Acharya, O. Faust, S. Sree, A. Alvin, G. Krishnamurthi, José Seabra, João Sanches, J. Suri, Atheromatic: Symptomatic vs. Asymptomatic Classification Of Carotid Ultrasound Plaque using a combination of HOS, DWT & Texture, Proc. of EMBC 2011 - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, USA, 2011
[19] José Seabra, João Sanches, L. Pedro, J. Fernandes, Ultrasound Plaque Enhanced Activity Index for Predicting Neurological Symptoms, Proc. of IbPRIA 2011 - Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 2011
[20] José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, J. F. Fernandes, João Sanches, Ultrasonographic Characterization and Identification of Symptomatic Carotid Plaques, Proc. of EMBC 2010 - 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010
[21] José Seabra, João Sanches, On Estimating De-Speckled and Speckle Components from B-Mode Ultrasound images, Proc. of ISBI 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010
[22] José Seabra, João Sanches, F. Ciompi, P. Radeva, Ultrasonographic Plaque Characterization Using a Rayleigh Mixture Model, Proc. of ISBI 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010
[23] José Seabra, Usefulness of ultrasonic speckle decomposition procedure for tissue characterization, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009 - PDF
[24] José Seabra, Toward the development of a Web Ultrasonic Plaque Analysis (WUPA) Tool, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009 - PDF
[25] A. Fred, A Biometric Identification System Based on Thyroid Tissue Echo-Morphology, Proc. of BIOSIGNALS 2009 - 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Porto, Portugal, 2009 - PDF
[26] R. Ribeiro, Fatty Liver Automatic Diagnosis from Ultrasound Images, Proc. of RecPad 2008 - 14th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 2008
[27] José Seabra, Labeling of the Echo-Morphology of Atherosclerotic Plaques using Graph-Cuts, Proc. of RecPad 2008 - 14th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 2008
[28] José Seabra, Convex Ultrasound Image Reconstruction with Log-Euclidean Priors, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 - PDF
[29] José Seabra, Three-dimensional labeling of vulnerable regions in carotid plaques using Graph-Cuts, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 - PDF
[30] José Seabra, Modeling Log-Compressed Ultrasound Images for Radio Frequency Signal Recovery, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 - PDF
[31] João Sanches, José Seabra, Joint 3D Reconstruction and Segmentation of Carotid Arteries and plaques from US Image Sequences, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferencia Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padroes, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007
[32] João Sanches, José Seabra, Engineering a 3D Ultrasound Robotic System, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferencia Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padroes, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007
[33] João Sanches, José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, Carotid Plaque 3D Compound Imaging and Echo-Morphology Analysis: a Bayesian Approach, Proc. of EMBS 2007 - 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France , 2007
[34] J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaques, Proc. of IbPRIA2007 - 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain, 2007 - PDF
PhD Theses
[35] José Seabra, Medical Ultrasound B-Mode Modeling, De-speckling and Tissue Characterization. Assessing the Atherosclerotic Disease, Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, May, 2011
MSc Theses
[36] José Seabra, 3D reconstruction and diagnosis of atherosclerotic plaques, Master Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa , 2007
[1] David Afonso, José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, João Sanches, An Ultrasonographic Risk Score For Detecting Symptomatic Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 1505 - 1513, July, 2015
[2] L. M. Pedro, João Sanches, José Seabra, J. S. Suri, J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Asymptomatic Carotid Disease – A New Tool for Assessing Neurological Risk, Echocardiography, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 353-361, March, 2014
[3] G. Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero, José Seabra, S. Aja-Fernandez, M. Martin-Fernandez, C. Palencia, A. Serrano, O. Rodriguez, João Sanches, Gamma Mixture Classifier for Plaque Detection in Intravascular Ultrasonic Images, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 61(1):44-61, January, 2014
[4] U. R. Acharya, O. Faust, S. V. Sree, A. P. C. Alvin, G. Krishnamurthi, José Seabra, João Sanches, J. S. Suri, Understanding symptomatology of atherosclerotic plaque by image-based tissue characterization, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 110, Issue 1, pp. 66-75, April. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.09.008, 2013
[5] José Seabra, F. Ciompi, O. Pujol, J. Mauri, P. Radeva, João Sanches, Rayleigh Mixture Model for Plaque Characterization in Intravascular Ultrasound, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.58, no.5, pp.1314-1324, 2011
[6] J. Fernandes e Fernandes, A 3-D Ultrasound-Based Framework to Characterize the Echo Morphology of Carotid Plaques, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 5, pp. 1442 - 1453, 2009 - PDF
[7] José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, João Sanches, F. Viola, A. C. Dinis, J. Mendanha, P. Brogueira, M. T. Pena, Investigacao no Ensino de Engenharia Biomedica: dois casos de estudo, Saude & Tecnologia, pp. 7-19, May, 2008
[8] L. M. Pedro, Reconstrucao Tridimensional da Placa de Ateroma da Bifurcacao Carotidea, Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, 2007
[1] José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, J. Fernandes e Fernandes, J. S. Suri, João Sanches, Ultrasound Profile of Carotid Plaque. A New Approach Towards Stroke Prediction, In Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis, L. Saba, J. Sanches, L. Pedro, J. Suri (eds), pp. 173-185. Springer, New York, NY, 2014
[2] José Seabra, J. S. Suri, João Sanches, Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Plaque Characterization, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[3] L. M. Pedro, I. Gonçalves, R. Fernandes, José Seabra, João Sanches, J. Fernandes, Activity Index: a tool to identify active carotid plaques, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 163-175, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[4] José Seabra, João Sanches, Ultrasound Speckle/Despeckle Image Decomposition for Tissue Analysis, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 73-95, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[5] José Seabra, F. Ciompi, P. Radeva, João Sanches, A Rayleigh Mixture Model for IVUS Imaging, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 25-47, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[6] José Seabra, João Sanches, RF ultrasound estimation from B-mode images, In Ultrasound Imaging, J. Sanches, A. Laine, J. Suri (eds), pp. 3-24, Springer, Boston, MA, 2012
[7] José Seabra, A 3D Graph-cut based Algorithm for Evaluating Carotid Plaque Echogenicity and Texture, Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, INTECH, ISBN 978-953-7619, pp. 621-638, 2009 - PDF
[8] A. Fred, Towards the development of a thyroid ultrasound biometric scheme based on tissue echo-morphological features, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, vol. 52, 2009 - PDF
[1] David Afonso, José Seabra, J. S. Suri, João Sanches, A CAD system for Atherosclerotic Plaque Assessment, Proc. of EMBC 2012 - 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 10081011, 2012
[2] U. Acharya, O. Faust, S. Sree, A. Alvin, G. Krishnamurthi, José Seabra, João Sanches, J. Suri, Atheromatic: Symptomatic vs. Asymptomatic Classification Of Carotid Ultrasound Plaque using a combination of HOS, DWT & Texture, Proc. of EMBC 2011 - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, USA, 2011
[3] José Seabra, João Sanches, L. Pedro, J. Fernandes, Ultrasound Plaque Enhanced Activity Index for Predicting Neurological Symptoms, Proc. of IbPRIA 2011 - Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 2011
[4] José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, J. F. Fernandes, João Sanches, Ultrasonographic Characterization and Identification of Symptomatic Carotid Plaques, Proc. of EMBC 2010 - 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010
[5] José Seabra, João Sanches, On Estimating De-Speckled and Speckle Components from B-Mode Ultrasound images, Proc. of ISBI 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010
[6] José Seabra, João Sanches, F. Ciompi, P. Radeva, Ultrasonographic Plaque Characterization Using a Rayleigh Mixture Model, Proc. of ISBI 2010 - IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010
[7] José Seabra, Usefulness of ultrasonic speckle decomposition procedure for tissue characterization, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009 - PDF
[8] José Seabra, Toward the development of a Web Ultrasonic Plaque Analysis (WUPA) Tool, Proc. of RecPad 2009 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009 - PDF
[9] A. Fred, A Biometric Identification System Based on Thyroid Tissue Echo-Morphology, Proc. of BIOSIGNALS 2009 - 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Porto, Portugal, 2009 - PDF
[10] R. Ribeiro, Fatty Liver Automatic Diagnosis from Ultrasound Images, Proc. of RecPad 2008 - 14th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 2008
[11] José Seabra, Labeling of the Echo-Morphology of Atherosclerotic Plaques using Graph-Cuts, Proc. of RecPad 2008 - 14th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 2008
[12] José Seabra, Convex Ultrasound Image Reconstruction with Log-Euclidean Priors, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 - PDF
[13] José Seabra, Three-dimensional labeling of vulnerable regions in carotid plaques using Graph-Cuts, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 - PDF
[14] José Seabra, Modeling Log-Compressed Ultrasound Images for Radio Frequency Signal Recovery, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 - PDF
[15] João Sanches, José Seabra, Joint 3D Reconstruction and Segmentation of Carotid Arteries and plaques from US Image Sequences, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferencia Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padroes, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007
[16] João Sanches, José Seabra, Engineering a 3D Ultrasound Robotic System, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferencia Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padroes, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007
[17] João Sanches, José Seabra, L. M. Pedro, Carotid Plaque 3D Compound Imaging and Echo-Morphology Analysis: a Bayesian Approach, Proc. of EMBS 2007 - 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France , 2007
[18] J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaques, Proc. of IbPRIA2007 - 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain, 2007 - PDF
[1] José Seabra, Medical Ultrasound B-Mode Modeling, De-speckling and Tissue Characterization. Assessing the Atherosclerotic Disease, Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, May, 2011
[1] José Seabra, 3D reconstruction and diagnosis of atherosclerotic plaques, Master Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa , 2007