Summary

The goal of this project is to develop technologies and tools in the field of healthcare, which can significantly improve medical procedures in a variety of specialties.

The project consists of four separate initiatives:

• Stroke Online to provide real time audio and video of patients in the first line of medical assistance, allowing for earlier diagnosis of strokes. This initiative will be developed with the Stroke Unit of Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra.
• RDFixer – Endoscope’s Radial Distortion Correction to increase the usefulness of computer-assisted vision technologies in medical procedures related with endoscope surgery. This initiative will be developed with Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra.
• Retmarker – Monitoring the progression of micro-aneurysms using non-angiographic images to allow a more accurate and effective diagnosis of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. This initiative will be developed with AIBILI.
• Glautech to provide early detection of glaucoma by means of functional tests with a new and innovative device. This initiative will be developed with Neuroeye.

Papers and Other Publications

• Bernardes, R.; Nunes, S.; Pereira, I.; Torrent, T.; Rosa, A.; Coelho, D.; Cunha-Vaz J.: Computer-assisted microaneurysm turnover in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy. Ophtalmologica, 2009; 223(5):284-291.
  
  
• Nunes, S.; Pires, I.; Rosa, A.; Duarte, L.; Bernardes, R.; Cunha-Vaz, J.: Microaneurysm Turnover Is a Biomarker for Diabetic Retinopathy Progression to Clinically Significant Macular Edema: Findings for Type 2 Diabetics with Nonproliferative Retinopathy. Opthalmologica 2009; 223(5):292-297.
  
  
• Cunha-Vaz J.: Predicting Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy with the Retmarker. Retina Today, September 2009.
  
  
• J. P. Barreto, J. M. Santos, P. Menezes and F. Fonseca, "Ray-based Calibration of Rigid Medical Endoscopes", Int. Work. on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-Classical Cameras. Marseille.
  
  
• J. P. Barreto, J. Roquette, P. Sturm, F. Fonseca, "Automatic Camera Calibration Applied to Medical Endoscopy", British Machine Vision Conference, September 2009.
  
  
• Rui Melo: "Interfaces and Visualization in Clinical Endoscopy", Dissertação do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores Universidade de Coimbra - 2008/2009 (orientadores Joao P. Barreto and Paulo Menezes).
  
  
• Hugo Brites: "Estimação e Correcção de Vignetting em Imagens Endoscópicas", Dissertação do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores Universidade de Coimbra - 2008/2009 (orientadores Nuno Gonçalves e Joao P. Barreto).
  
  
• Simao S, Nunes S, Vilhena N, Cachulo M, Abreu JR, Cunha-Vaz J, Silva R. Validation of Retmarker AMD for Quantification of Early Age.Related Maculopathy Features. Poster session to be presented at: 2011 ARVO Annual Meeting; 2011 Maio 01-05; Fort Lauderdale, USA.
  
  
• Nunes S, Santos T, Pires I, Lobo C, Bernardes R, Cunha-Vaz J. Cluster Analysis Identification of Early Diabetic Retinopathy Phenotypes. Poster session to be presented at: 2011 ARVO Annual Meeting; 2011 Maio 01-05; Fort Lauderdale, USA.
  
  
• "Computer Aided Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Progression" - capítulo que fará parte integrante do 2nd book on Tele-retinal imaging (Tele-ophthalmology) a publicar ainda em 2011.
  
  
• R. Melo, J. P. Barreto, and G. Falcao. "Camera Calibration and Image Distortion Correction for Superior Visualization in Medical Endoscopy". IEEE Trans. in Biomedical Engineering (2011) (UNDER REVIEW).

Results

RDFixer

GlauTech