Joao Sanches

João Sanches

Professor
Biomedical Systems and Biosignals
Bioengineering Department (DBE)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Institute for Systems and Robotics
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Journals

  1. D. F. Vieira, A. Raposo, A. Azeitona, M. Afonso, L. M. Pedro and J. Sanches, "Ultrasound Despeckling with GANs and Cross Modality Transfer Learning," in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3381630

  2. D. Ramalho, P. Constantino, H. P. D. Silva, M. Constante and J. Sanches, "An Augmented Teleconsultation Platform for Depressive Disorders," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 130563-130571, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3228324.

  3. Hemaxi Narotamo, Sofia Fernandes, Ana Margarida Moreira Soraia Melo, Raquel Seruca, Margarida Silveira and J. Miguel Sanches, A machine learning approach for single cell interphase cell cycle staging. Sci Rep 11, 19278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98489-5

  4. Raposo, A.; Marques, L.; Correia, R.; Melo, F.; Valente, J.; Pereira, T.; Rosário, L.B.; Froes, F.; Sanches, J.; Silva, H.P.d. e-CoVig: A Novel mHealth System for Remote Monitoring of Symptoms in COVID-19. Sensors 2021, 21, 3397. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21103397

  5. Parreira, MT, Lavrenyuk, K, Sanches, JM, Dahl, KN. A single stiffened nucleus alters cell dynamics and coherence in a monolayer. Cytoskeleton. 2021; 1– 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21660

  6. L. Saba, Skandha S. Sanagala, Suneet K. Gupta, Vijaya K. Koppula, John R. Laird, Vijay Viswanathan, Miguel J. Sanches, George D. Kitas, Amer M. Johri, Neeraj Sharma, Andrew Nicolaides, Jasjit S. Suri, A Multicenter Study on Carotid Ultrasound Plaque Tissue Characterization and Classification Using Six Deep Artificial Intelligence Models: A Stroke Application, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, pp. 1-12, 2021, Art no. 2505312, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2021.3052577.

  7. Vanessa R Blair et al., Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: updated clinical practice guidelines, The Lancet Oncology, Volume 21, Issue 8, 2020, Pages e386-e397, ISSN 1470-2045, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30219-9.
  8. Corso, G.; Montagna, G.; Figueiredo, J.; La Vecchia, C.; Fumagalli Romario, U.; Fernandes, M.S.; Seixas, S.; Roviello, F.; Trovato, C.; Guerini-Rocco, E.; Fusco, N.; Pravettoni, G.; Petrocchi, S.; Rotili, A.; Massari, G.; Magnoni, F.; De Lorenzi, F.; Bottoni, M.; Galimberti, V.; Sanches, J.M.; Calvello, M.; Seruca, R.; Bonanni, B. Hereditary Gastric and Breast Cancer Syndromes Related to CDH1 Germline Mutation: A Multidisciplinary Clinical Review. Cancers 2020, 12, 1598.

  9. Luca Saba, Anurag Tiwari, Mainak Biswas, Suneet K. Gupta, Elisa Godia-Cuadrado, Amrita Chaturvedi, Monika Turk, Harman S. Suri, Sandro Orru, J. Miguel Sanches, Carlo Carcassi, Rui Tato Marinho, Christopher Kwaku Asare, Narendra N. Khanna, Madhusudhan BK, Jasjit S. Suri, Wilson’s disease: A new perspective review on its genetics, diagnosis and treatment, Frontiers In Bioscience, Elite, 11, 166-185, June 1, 2019.

  10. Carlos J. C. Rodrigues, João M. Sanches and Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho, Determining transaminase activity in bacterial libraries by time- lapse imaging, Chemical Communications, Issue 90, 2019. doi: 10.1039/C9CC07507K

  11. Biswas M, Kuppili V, Saba L, Edla DR, Suri HS, Cuadrado-Godia E, Laird JR, Marinhoe RT, Sanches JM, Nicolaides A, Suri JS., State-of-the-art review on deep learning in medical imaging. Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition). 2019 Jan;24 392-426. doi:10.2741/4725. PMID: 30468663.

  12. Fernandes M.S., Sanches J.M., Seruca R. (2018) Targeting the PI3K Signalling as a Therapeutic Strategy in Colorectal Cancer. In: Jordan P. (eds) Targeted Therapy of Colorectal Cancer Subtypes. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1110. Springer, Cham. 2018

  13. Ribeiro AS, Nobre AR, Mendes N, Almeida J, Vieira AF, Sousa B, Carvalho FA, Monteiro J, Polónia A, Fonseca M, Sanches JM, Santos NC, Seruca R, Paredes J., SRC inhibition prevents P-cadherin mediated signaling and function in basal-like breast cancer cells, Cell Communication and Signaling, 2018 Nov 7;16(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s12964-018-0286-2.

  14. Figueiredo J, Melo S, Gamet K, Godwin T, Seixas S, Sanches JM, Guilford P, Seruca, E-cadherin signal sequence disruption: a novel mechanism underlying hereditary cancer, Molecular cancer, 2018 Aug 1;17(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s12943-018-0859-0.

  15. Laura Pena-Couso, José Perea, Soraia Melo, Fátima Mercadillo, Joana Figueiredo, João Miguel Sanches, Antonio Sánchez-Ruiz, Luis Robles, Raquel Seruca and Miguel Urioste, Clinical and functional characterization of the CDH1 germline variant c. 1679C > G in three unrelated families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer, European Journal of Human Genetics, volume 26, pages1348–1353 (2018).

  16. Figueiredo J, Rodrigues I, Ribeiro J, Fernandes MS, Melo S, Sousa B, Paredes J, Seruca R, Sanches JM, Geometric compensation applied to image analysis of cell populations with morphological variability: a new role for a classical concept, Scientific Reports,  2018 Jul 6;8(1):10266. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28570-z.

  17. Mainak Biswas, Venkatanareshbabu Kuppili, Damodar Reddy Edla, Harman S Suri, Luca Saba, Rui Tato Marinho, J Miguel Sanches and Jasjit S Suri, Symtosis: A liver ultrasound tissue characterization and risk stratification in optimized deep learning paradigm, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 155, 165-177, 2018, link.

  18. Soraia Melo, Joana Figueiredo, Maria Sofia Fernandes, Margarida Gonçalves, Eurico Morais-de-Sá, João Miguel Sanches and Raquel Seruca, Predicting the Functional Impact of CDH1 Missense Mutations in Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2017, 18, 2687; doi:10.3390/ijms18122687.

  19. Venkatanareshbabu Kuppili, Mainak Biswas, Aswini Sreekumar, Harman S Suri, Luca Saba, Damodar Reddy Edla, Rui Tato Marinho, J Miguel Sanches and Jasjit S Suri, Extreme Learning Machine Framework for Risk Stratification of Fatty Liver Disease Using Ultrasound Tissue Characterization, Journal of medical systems, 41 (10), 152, 2017, link.

  20. Anabela Ferro, Tânia Mestre, Patrícia Carneiro, Ivan Sahumbaiev, Raquel Seruca and João M. Sanches, Blue intensity matters for cell cycle profiling in fluorescence DAPI-stained images, Laboratory Investigation, 6 March 2017.
    doi:10.1038/labinvest.2017.13

  21. Luca Saba, Nilanjan Dey, Amira S. Ashour, Sourav Samanta, Siddhartha Sankar Nath, Sayan Chakraborty, João Sanches, Dinesh Kumar, RuiTato Marinho, Jasjit S. Suri, Automated Stratification of Liver Disease in Ultrasound: An Online Accurate Feature Classification Paradigm, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2016, ISSN 0169-2607.

  22. Mestre T, Figueiredo J, Ribeiro AS, Paredes J, Seruca R and Sanches JM, Quantification of topological features in cell meshes to explore E-cadherin dysfunction, Scientific Reports. 2016 May 6;6:25101 , doi: 10.1038/srep25101.

  23. S Carvalho, T A Catarino, A M Dias, M Kato, A Almeida, B Hessling, J Figueiredo, F Gärtner, J M Sanches, T Ruppert, E Miyoshi, M Pierce, F Carneiro, D Kolarich, R Seruca, Y Yamaguchi, N Taniguchi, C A Reis and S S Pinho, Preventing E-cadherin aberrant N-glycosylation at Asn-554 improves its critical function in gastric cancer, Oncogene (2016), 1–13.

  24. A. S. Ribeiro, F. A. Carvalho,  J. Figueiredo, R. Carvalho, T. Mestre, J. Monteiro, A. F. Guedes, M. Fonseca, J. Sanches, R. Seruca, N. C. Santos and J. Paredes, Atomic force microscopy and graph analysis to study the P-cadherin/SFK mechanotransduction signalling in breast cancer cells, Nanoscale, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6NR04465D.

  25. Sílvia A Sousa, Jorge H Leitão, Raul C Martins, João M Sanches, Jasjit S Suri, Alejandro Giorgetti, Bioinformatics Applications in Life Sciences and Technologies, BioMed research international, 2016.

  26. Rachel S van der Post et.al., Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: Updated Clinical Guidelines With an Emphasis on Germline CDH1 Mutation Carriers,  J Med Genet 2015;52:361–374. doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103094

  27. Manya V. Afonso and João M.R. Sanches, A total variation recursive space-variant filter for image denoising, Digital Signal Processing, Volume 40, May 2015, Pages 101-116, ISSN 1051-2004, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2015.02.002.

  28. Afonso, M.V.; Miguel Sanches, J., "Blind Inpainting using L0 and Total Variation Regularization," Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on , Vol. 24, No. 7,  July 2015, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2015.2417505
    URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7069278&isnumber=4358840.

  29. M. Afonso, J. Miguel Sanches, Image reconstruction under multiplicative speckle noise using total variation, Neurocomputing, Volume 150, Part A, 20 February 2015, Pages 200-213, ISSN 0925-2312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2014.08.073.

  30. David Afonso, José Seabra, Luís Pedro, J. Fernandes e Fernandes and J. Miguel Sanches, "An Ultrasonographic Risk Score For Detecting Symptomatic Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques", Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of , vol.19, no.4, pp.1505,1513, July 2015, doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2359236.

  31. João Miguel Sanches, Joana Figueiredo, Martina Fonseca, Cecília Durães, Soraia Melo, Sofia Esménio and Raquel Seruca, Quantification of mutant E-cadherin using bioimaging analysis of in situ fluorescence microscopy. A new approach to CDH1 missense variants, European Journal of Human Genetics, 2014, 1–8.

  32. Domingues, A; Paiva, T.; Sanches, J.M., Hypnogram and Sleep Parameter Computation From Activity and Cardiovascular Data, Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on , vol.61, no.6, pp.1711,1719, June 2014
    doi: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2301462.

  33. Domingues, A.; Paiva, T.; Sanches, J.M., "Sleep and Wakefulness State Detection in Nocturnal Actigraphy Based on Movement Information," Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on , vol.61, no.2, pp.426,434, Feb. 2014, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2280538.

  34. Ribeiro, R.; Marinho, R.; Sanches, J., An ultrasound based computer-aided diagnosis tool for steatosis detection, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 18, No. 4, July 2014.  doi:10.1109/JBHI.2013.2284785.

  35. G. Vegas-Sánchez-Ferrero, José Seabra, S. Aja-Fernández, M. Martín-Fernández, 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.

  36. J. Miguel Sanches and Isabel Rodrigues, Photobleaching/Photoblinking Differential Equation Model for Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 19, 1–12, 2013, doi:10.1017/S143192761300189X.

  37. Luís M. Pedro (MD, PhD), João M. Sanches (PhD), José Seabra (PhD), Jasjit S. Suri (PhD, MBA, Fellow AIMBE),  José Fernandes e Fernandes (MD, PhD), Asymptomatic Carotid Disease—A New Tool for Assessing Neurological Risk, Echocardiography,  2013, Wiley Periodicals, Inc., DOI: 10.1111/echo.12348.

  38. Rajendra Acharya, U.; Muthu Rama Krishnan, M.; Vinitha Sree, S.; Sanches, J.; Shafique, S.; Nicolaides, A.; Pedro, L.M.; Suri, J.S., "Plaque Tissue Characterization and Classification in Ultrasound Carotid Scans: A Paradigm for Vascular Feature Amalgamation," Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on , vol.62, no.2, pp.392,400, Feb. 2013.

  39. Acharya UR, Mookiah MR, Vinitha Sree S, Afonso D, Sanches J, Shafique S, Nicolaides A, Pedro LM, Fernandes e Fernandes J, Suri JS., Atherosclerotic plaque tissue characterization in 2D ultrasound longitudinal carotid scans for automated classification: a paradigm for stroke risk assessment, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, May 2013, Volume 51, Issue 5, pp 513-523.

  40. Ribeiro, R.T.; Marinho, R.T.; Sanches, J.M., Classification and Staging of Chronic Liver Disease From Multimodal Data, Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , vol.60, no.5, pp.1336,1344, May 2013.
    doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2235438.

  41. Alexandre Domingues, Teresa Paiva and J. M. Sanches, Statistical Characterization of Actigraphy Data for Sleep/Wake Assessment, International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 13 - 19, 2013.

  42. U. Rajendra Acharya, Oliver Faust, Vinitha Sree S., A.P.C. Alvin, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, José C.R. Seabra, João Sanches, Jasjit S. Suri, Understanding symptomatology of atherosclerotic plaque by image-based tissue characterization, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - April 2013 (Vol. 110, Issue 1, Pages 66-75,
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.09.008).

  43. U. Rajendra Acharya, S. Vinitha Sree, Ricardo Ribeiro, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, Rui Tato Marinho, João Sanches, and Jasjit S. Suri, Data mining framework for fatty liver disease classification in ultrasound: A hybrid feature extraction paradigm, Med Phys. 2012 Jul;39(7):4255-4264.

  44. Santos, N.; Sanches, J. M.; Sousa, I.; Figueiredo, P. , Optimal Sampling and Estimation in PASL Perfusion Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.58, no.11, pp.3165-3174, Nov. 2011.

  45. I. SOUSA, N. SANTOS, J. SANCHES, P. VILELA, P. FIGUEIREDO, Challenges for Non-Invasive Brain Perfusion Quantification Using Arterial Spin Labeling, NRJ Digital - The Neuroradiology Journal 1: 44-50, 2011.

  46. Seabra, J.C.; Ciompi, F.; Pujol, O.; Mauri, J.; Radeva, P.; Sanches, J. , Rayleigh Mixture Model for Plaque Characterization in Intravascular Ultrasound, Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on , vol.58, no.5, pp.1314-1324, May 2011.

  47. Isabel Rodrigues and João Sanches, Convex Total Variation Denoising of Poisson Fluorescence Confocal Images with anisotropic filtering, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, VOL. 20, NO. 1, JANUARY 2011. bibtex

  48. Khan, S.; Sanches, J.; Ventura, R., Robust Band Profile Extraction Using Constrained Nonparametric Machine Learning Technique, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Volume: 57 , Issue: 10, pp:2587 - 2591, Oct. 2010.bibtex

  49. Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura and João Sanches , A Novel Metric for Bone Marrow Cells Chromosome Pairing, Biomedical Engineering, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL. 57, NO. 6, JUNE 2010. bibtex

  50. Isabela Silva, Ana G. Almeida and João Sanches, Automatic Cropping for LV Segmentation in Cardiac MRI, International Journal of Tomography & Statistics, Winter 2010, Vol.13, No.W10, Int.J. Tomogr. Stat.,ISSN 0972-9976(Print);ISSN 0973-7294 (Online). bibtex

  51. Seabra, José C.R.; Pedro, L. Mendes.; Fernandes e Fernandes, J.; Sanches, João M, A 3-D Ultrasound-Based Framework to Characterize the Echo Morphology of Carotid Plaques, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Volume 56, Issue 5, May 2009 Page(s):1442 - 1453. bibtex

  52. Sanches, J. M.   Nascimento, J. C.Marques, J.S.,Medical Image Noise Reduction Using the Sylvester–Lyapunov Equation, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 17,  Issue: 9, pp.1522-1539, September. 2008. bibtex

  53. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., Compensation of Log-Compressed Images for 3D Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol.29, No.2, pp.239-253, 2003. bibtex

  54. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., Joint Image Registration and Volume Reconstruction for 3D Ultrasound, Special Issue on 3D Ultrasound, Pattern Recognition Letters 24(2003) 791-800. bibtex

  55. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., A Multi-Scale Algorithm for three dimensional Free Hand Ultrasound, Ultrasound in Med. and Biol., Vol. 28, No. 8, pp.1029-1040, 2002. bibtex

  56. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., A Rayleigh reconstruction/interpolation algorithm for 3D ultrasound, Pattern Recognition Letters, 21, pp. 917-926, 2000. bibtex

    Book Edition


    FluorescenceBook.png 978-1-4614-7424-1.jpg Ultrasound
    Fluorescence Imaging and Biological Quantification,
    Ed. Raquel Seruca, Jasjit S. Suri, J. Miguel Sanches, by CRC Press, 2017,
    ISBN 9781498737043,    		 Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis, Ed. Luca Saba, MD, João Sanches, Luís Mendes Pedro, and Jasjit S. Suri, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4614-7424-1, 2014. Ultrasound Imaging: Advances and Applications, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches,, Andrew F. Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer, 2011, ISBN:1461411793, 9781461411796

    2014_NeurocomputingEdition.jpg IbPRIA 2011 IbPRIA2013_ProcSpringer_cover.jpg Pattern Recognition
    Neurocomputing
    Volume 150, Part A, Pages 1-346 (20 February 2015)
    Bioinspired and knowledge based techniques and applicationsThe Vitality of Pattern Recognition and Image AnalysisData Stream Classification and Big Data Analytics

    Selected papers from the 6th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2013)
    		 Jordi Vitrià, João Miguel Raposo Sanches, Mario Hernández (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer 2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5 Best Papers of Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA'2011), Pattern Recognition,
    Edited by Mario Hernandez, Jordi Vitria and Joao Miguel Sanches, Volume 45, Issue 9, Pages 3047-3582 (September 2012)


    Book Chapters

  1. Manya V Afonso and J Miguel Sanches, Blind inpainting and outlier detection using logarithmic transformation and total variation, Vascular and Intravascular Imaging Trends, Analysis, and Challenges, Volume 1, Editors Radeva, Petia and Suri, Jasjit S, IOP Publishing, 2019, Pages: 7-1 to 7-19.
    ISBN: 978-0-7503-1997-3.
  2. Figueiredo, J.,  Ribeiro, A.S.,  Mestre, T.,  Esménio, S.,  Fonseca, M.,  Paredes, J.,  Seruca, R.,  Sanches, J.M., Capturing quantitative features of protein expression from in situ fluorescence microscopic images of cancer cell populations, Fluorescence Imaging and Biological Quantification, 1 January 2017, Pages 279-297.
  3. Fernandes M.S., Sanches J.M., Seruca R. (2018) Targeting the PI3K Signalling as a Therapeutic Strategy in Colorectal Cancer. In: Jordan P. (eds) Targeted Therapy of Colorectal Cancer Subtypes. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1110. Springer, pag. 35-53.
  4. Maria Sofia Fernandes, Anabela Ferro, Patrícia Carneiro, Raquel Seruca, João M Sanches, Quantum dots: Concepts, imaging, and therapeutic applications in cancer, Fluorescence Imaging and Biological Quantification (CRC Press), 2017.
  5. G. Vegas Sánchez-Ferrero, M. Martín Fernández and J. Miguel Sanches, A Gamma Mixture Model for IVUS Imaging, Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis, Editors: Luca Saba, João Sanches, Luís Mendes Pedro, Jasjit S. Suri,  Springer, 2014.
  6. José Seabra, L.M. Pedro,  J. Fernandes e Fernandes and J. Miguel Sanches, Ultrasound Profile of Carotid Plaque: A New 2 Approach Towards Stroke Prediction,  Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis, Editors: Luca Saba, João Sanches, Luís Mendes Pedro, Jasjit S. Suri,  Springer, 2014.
  7. José Seabra and J. Miguel Sanches, RF ultrasound estimation from B-mode images, RECENT ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer 2011.
  8. José Seabra, Francesco Ciompi, Petia Radeva and J. Miguel Sanches, A Rayleigh Mixture Model for IVUS Imaging, RECENT ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer 2011.
  9. José Seabra and J. Miguel Sanches, Ultrasound Speckle / Despeckle Image Decomposition for Tissue Analysis, RECENT ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer 2011.
  10. Luís Mendes Pedro, Isabel Gonçalves, Ruy Fernandes e Fernandes, José Seabra, J. Miguel Sanches and J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Activity Index: a tool to identify active carotid plaques, RECENT ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer 2011.
  11. José Seabra, Jasjit S. Suri and J. Miguel Sanches, Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Plaque Characterization, RECENT ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer 2011.
  12. Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui T. Marinho, Jasjit S. Suri, and J. Miguel Sanches, Classification and Staging of Chronic Liver Disease based on Ultrasound, Laboratorial and Clinical Data, RECENT ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Editors: J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew Laine, Jasjit S. Suri, Springer 2011.
  13. José Seabra and João Sanches, A 3D Graph-Cut based Algorithm for Evaluating Carotid Plaque Echogenicity and Texture, Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, IN-TECH, ISBN 978-953-7619, 2009. bibtex
  14. Isabel Rodrigues and João Sanches,  Denoising of Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy Images with Photobleaching compensation in a Bayesian framework, Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, IN-TECH, ISBN 978-953-7619, 2009. bibtex

    15. Proceedings in Book

  1. S. Sarbazvatan,  R. Ventura, F. F. Esteves, S. Q. Lima and J. M. Sanches, A novel graph-based approach for seriation of mouse brain cross-section from images, 9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2019), Madrid, Spain. July 1-4, 2019.
  2. Hemaxi Narotamo, J. Miguel Sanches, and Margarida Silveira, Segmentation of cell nuclei in fluorescence microscopy images using deep learning,9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2019), Madrid, Spain. July 1-4, 2019.
  3. Manya Afonso and Joao Sanches, Noise Decomposition Using Polynomial Approximation, 7th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2015), Santiago de Compostela, Spain,  June 17-19.
  4. Diego Martin-Martinez, Alexandre Domingues, Pablo Casaseca-De-La-Higuera, Carlos Alberola-Lopez and João Sanches, PPG Beat Reconstruction Based on Shape Models and Probabilistic Templates for Signals Acquired with Conventional Smartphones, 7th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2015), Santiago de Compostela, Spain,  June 17-19.
  5. Manya Afonso and Joao Sanches, A Total Variation based Reconstruction Algorithm for 3D Ultrasound, João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  6. Sofia Esménio, Joana Figueiredo, Raquel Seruca and J. Miguel Sanches, E-cadherin radial distribution characterization for mutation detection purposes,João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  7. Vânia Relvas, J. Miguel Sanches and Patrícia Figueiredo, Scalp EEG continuous spatial ERD/ERS quantification, sixth edition of the Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  8. Ricardo Ribeiro, João Sanches and Rui Marinho, Cirrhosis prognostic quantification with ultrasound: an approximation to the Model for End-stage Liver Disease, João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  9. Filomena Ribeiro, Antonio Castanheira-Dinis, Joao Sanches and Joao Dias, Assessment of retinal image quality using a pseudophakic eye model for refractive evaluation, João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  10. Miguel Rodrigues, Patrícia Figueiredo and João Sanches, A Bayesian approach to perfusion imaging using ASL MRI, João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  11. David Afonso and João Sanches, Detection of Carotid Plaque Symptoms using Ultrasound Imaging, João M. Sanches, Luisa Micó, Jaime S. Cardoso (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 6th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer 2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-38627-5.
  12. Oliveira, TF; Ferreira, L; Sanches, J; Paiva, T [et al.]. An exploratory study of dissociated states during sleep in patients with fibromyalgia. JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. Volume: 21   Special Issue: SI Supplement: 1   Pages: 165. Published: SEP 2012 (FM) - (Abstract).
  13. Ricardo Ribeiro and J. Miguel Sanches, Diffuse liver disease classification from ultrasound surface characterization, clinical and laboratorial data,     Jordi Vitrià, João Miguel Raposo Sanches, Mario Hernández (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer 2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7.
  14. Ana Coito, David Belo, Teresa Paiva and J. Miguel Sanches, Topographic EEG brain mapping before, during and after Obstructive Sleep Apnea episodes,     Jordi Vitrià, João Miguel Raposo Sanches, Mario Hernández (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer 2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7. (FM)
  15. David Afonso, Patrícia Figueiredo and J. Miguel Sanches, Automatic HyperParameter estimation in fMRI,     Jordi Vitrià, João Miguel Raposo Sanches, Mario Hernández (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer 2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7.
  16. José Seabra, João Sanches, Luís Mendes Pedro, and José Fernandes e Fernandes, Ultrasound Plaque Enhanced Activity Index for Predicting Neurological Symptoms,     Jordi Vitrià, João Miguel Raposo Sanches, Mario Hernández (Eds.): Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 5th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings. Springer 2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7.
  17. Ribeiro, Ricardo and Sanches, João, Fatty liver characterization and classification by ultrasound, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Editors: Araujo, Helder and Mendonça, Ana and Pinho, Armando and Torres, María, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp:354-361, volume 5524, 2010. (4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - IbPRIA 2009, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 10-12, 2009.(ppt). bibtex)
  18. Pires, Pedro and Paiva, Teresa and Sanches (MD), João, Sleep/Wakefulness state from actigraphy, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Editors: Araujo, Helder and Mendonça, Ana and Pinho, Armando and Torres, María, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, volume 5524, pp: 362-369, 2009. (4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 10-12, 2009.(ppt). bibtex)
  19. Sousa I, Sanches J and Figueiredo P, Sampling strategies for perfusion quantification using PASL, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, MAGMA 22 (Suppl 1), 514, 2009 (Abstract).
  20. Seabra, José and Sanches, João and Pedro, Luís and Fernandes e Fernandes, J., Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaques, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Editors: Martí, Joan and Benedí, José and Mendonça, Ana and Serrat, Joan, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, volume 4478, pp: 523-53, 2007.(IbPRIA 2007, June 6-8, Girona, Spain, 2007. bibtex)
  21. Nascimento, Jacinto and Sanches, João and Marques, Jorge, Tracking the Left Ventricle in Ultrasound Images Based on Total Variation Denoising, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, editors: Martí, Joan and Benedí, José and Mendonça, Ana and Serrat, Joan, volume: 4478, pp: 628-636, 2007.(IbPRIA 2007, June 6-8, Girona, Spain, 2007). bibtex
  22. Marques, Manuel and Neves, Alexandre and Marques, Jorge and Sanches, João, The Papoulis-Gerchberg Algorithm with Unknown Signal Bandwidth, Image Analysis and Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Editors: Campilho, Aurélio and Kamel, Mohamed, publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp: 436-445, volume: 4141, 2006. (ICIAR 2006, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition , Póvoa de Varzim, , Portugal, September 2006. bibtex)
  23. Sanches, João and Marques, Jorge, Image denoising using the Lyapunov equation from non-uniform samples, Image Analysis and Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, editors: Campilho, Aurélio and Kamel, Mohamed, volume 4141, pp: 351-358, 2006. (ICIAR 2006, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition , Póvoa de Varzim, , Portugal, September 2006. bibtex)
  24. Sanches, João M. and Marques, Jorge S., MAP Signal Reconstruction with Non Regular Grids, Image Analysis and Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg,  editors: Campilho, Aurélio and Kamel, Mohamed, volume 3211,pp:204-211, 2004. (ICIAR 2004, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition , Porto, Portugal, September 2004. bibtex)
  25. Sanches, João and Marques, Jorge and Pinto, Fausto and Ferreira, Paulo, A 3D Ultrasound System for Medical Diagnosis, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Science, volume 2652, pp: 893-901, 2003. (IbPRIA 2003, Mallorca, Spain, June, 2003. bibtex)
  26. Sanches, João and Marques, Jorge, A Fast MAP Algorithm for 3D Ultrasound, Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, editors: Figueiredo, Mário and Zerubia, Josiane and Jain, Anil, volume: 2134, pp:63-74, 2001. ( Proceedings Third International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Sophia Antipolis, France, pp. 63-74, September 2001. bibtex)

    27. Conferences

    2021

  1. Afonso Raposo, Hugo Silva and João Sanches, Camera-based Photoplethysmography (cbPPG) using smartphone rear and frontal cameras: an experimental study, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 31 – November 4, 2021, Virtual.
  2. J. Rafael Correia J. Miguel Sanches and Luca Mainardi, Error perception classification in Brain-Computer Interfaces using CNN, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 31 – November 4, 2021, Virtual

    2020
  3. Hemaxi Narotamo, J Miguel Sanches, Margarida Silveira, Combining Deep Learning with Handcrafted Features for Cell Nuclei Segmentation, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine \& Biology Society (EMBC), June 2020, pp. 1428-1431.
  4. Hemaxi Narotamo, M Sofia Fernandes, J Miguel Sanches, Margarida Silveira, Interphase Cell Cycle Staging using Deep Learning, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine \& Biology Society (EMBC), June 2020, pp. 1432-1435.

    2017
  5. Manya Afonso and João Miguel Sanches, Adaptive Order Non-Convex Lp-norm Regularization in Image Restoration,  NCMIP, Paris, 2017.

    2016

  6. J. M. Scinches, M. P. Branco and F. L. da Silva, "Neuroactivation imaging using a monogenic framework," 2016 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Prague, 2016, pp. 759-762.
    doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493377.
  7. Anabela Ferro, Tânia Mestre, Ivan Sahumbaiev, Patrícia Carneiro, Raquel Seruca,  João M. Sanches, A novel DAPI-based cell cycle profiler for in situ images of heterogeneous cell populations,BIOIMAGING 2016 - 5th Symposium in Applied Bioimaging, Atmosfera M, 26-28 October 2016 (Abstract/Oral).
  8. Melo S., Figueiredo J., Sanches J.M., Seruca R. “Screening of cancer-causative E-cadherin missense mutations through the exploitation of morphological changes”,  BIOIMAGING 2016 - 5th Symposium in Applied Bioimaging, Atmosfera M, 26-28 October 2016 (Abstract/Poster).
  9. S. Fernandes, A. Ferro, P. Carneiro, R. Seruca and J. M. Sanches, "Quantum dot-based bioimaging to trace gastric cancer: a new approach to develop novel biomarker quantification tools", BIOIMAGING 2016 - 5th Symposium in Applied Bioimaging, Atmosfera M, 26-28 October 2016 (Abstract/Poster).

    2015

  10. Cátia Reis, Pedro Franco, João M. Sanches and Teresa Paiva, Biological and psychological evaluation of performance markers, World Sleep Federation Sleep and Health 2015, At Istanbul. (Abstract)
  11. Tânia Mestre, Joana Figueiredo, Ana Sofia Ribeiro, Joana Paredes, Raquel Seruca, João Sanches, Shapes and colour to determine epithelial organization and cell polarity, 4th Symposium in Applied Bioimaging , November 5-6, Porto, 2015. (Abstract)
  12. Anabela Ferro, Ivan Sahumbaiev, Tânia Mestre, Raquel Seruca and  João M. Sanches, Cell cycle profiling of heterogeneous cell
    populations based on fluorescence imaging, 4th Symposium in Applied Bioimaging , November 5-6, Porto, 2015. (Abstract / Oral presentation)

    2014

  13. Anabela Ferro, J. Miguel Sanches and Raquel Seruca,  Blue intensity matters for cell cycle profiling, 3rd Symposium in Applied Bioimaging, 16-17 Porto, 2014. (Abstract)

    2013

  14. Alexandre Domingues, Teresa Paiva and J. Miguel Sanches, Sleep Parameter estimation from portable data, 5th World Congress on Sleep Medicine organized by the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) and Spanish Sleep Society (SES),  Valencia, Spain, September 28 - October 2, 2013. (Abstract)
  15. L. Ferreira, S. Rebocho, T. Oliveira , J. Sanches, T. Paiva, Dissociated sleep states in Fibromyalgia: prevalence and correlations, 5th World Congress on Sleep Medicine organized by the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) and Spanish Sleep Society (SES),  Valencia, Spain, September 28 - October 2, 2013. (Abstract)
  16. Raquel Seruca, Joana Figueiredo, Cecília Durães, Sofia Esménio, João Sanches, Quantitation of E-cadherin protein expression as a means to predict its function, International Symposium in Applied Bioimagingfrom Molecule  to Man,  October 3-4, Porto, Portugal, 2013. (Abstract)
  17. Martina Fonseca, Joana Figueiredo, Raquel Seruca and J. Miguel Sanches, Expression profiles of wild-type and mutant E-cadherin during cell cycle, International Symposium in Applied Bioimagingfrom Molecule  to Man,  October 3-4, Porto, Portugal, 2013. (Abstract)
  18. Sofia Esmenio, Joana Figueiredo, Raquel Seruca and J. Miguel Sanches, Protein expression profiling in immunofluorescence microscopy, International Symposium in Applied Bioimagingfrom Molecule  to Man,  October 3-4, Porto, Portugal, 2013. (Abstract)
  19. Teodoro P. Trindade*, João M. Sanches** and Edgar C. Fernandes, DIGITAL COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO GAS COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS, 8th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics June 16-20, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.

    2012

  20. Oliveira, T.F., Ferreira, L., Sanches, J.M., Paiva, Dissociative states during sleep in fibromyalgia and healthy controls,  T. Neuroscience 2012 – Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting – (New Orleans, LA., EUA), October, 2012 (FM). (Abstract)
  21. Tânia Oliveira, Lígia Ferreira, João Sanches and Teresa Paiva, An exploratory study of dissociated states during sleep in patients with fibromyalgia, Journal of Sleep Research, vol. 21, pag.165, September 2012.
  22. J. Miguel Sanches, Joana Figueiredo, Isabel Rodrigues, Raquel Seruca,  Characterization of E-Cadherin Distribution from Fluorescence Images,  International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging bridging development and application, Porto, September 20-21, 2012 (Presentation).
  23. Isabel Rodrigues, J. Miguel Sanches, Differential equation model for fading in fluorescence microscopy images,  International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging bridging development and application, Porto, September 20-21, 2012 (Poster).
  24. R. Ribeiro, J. M. Sanches, R. T. Marinho, A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CORRELATION OF QUANTIFIABLE PHYSICAL ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS WITH MELD, 20th United European Gastroenterology Week, October 20-24, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  25. Alexandre Domingues, Teresa Paiva and J. M. Sanches, Statistical Characterization of Actigraphy Data for Sleep/Wake Assessment, seventh International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation (BSI 2012), Como, Italy on July 2-4th 2012.
  26. Tânia Oliveira, Lígia Ferreira, João Sanches and Teresa Paiva, An exploratory study of dissociated states during sleep in patients with fibromyalgia, 21st Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Paris, France, 4 – 8 September 2012 (FM).
  27. A. Domingues, Teresa Paiva and J. M. Sanches, An actigraphy heterogeneous mixture model for sleep assessment, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, August/September 2012 (FM).
  28. Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Tato Marinho and J. Miguel Sanches, Global and Local Detection of Liver Steatosis from Ultrasound, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, August/September 2012.
  29. Carlos Carreiras, Luís Borges de Almeida and J. Miguel Sanches, Phase-Locking Factor in a Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, August/September 2012 (FM).
  30. David Afonso, José Seabra, Jasjit S. Suri and J. Miguel Sanches, A CAD system for Atherosclerotic Plaque Assessment, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, August/September 2012.
  31. Shadab Khan, Alisha DSouza, João Sanches and Rodrigo Ventura, Geometric Correction of Deformed Chromosomes for Automatic Karyotyping, 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, August/September 2012.
  32. Oliveira, T.F., Sitges, C., Alves, H., Sanches, J., Paiva, T. & Montoya, P., Sensorial and affective pain images: is there dissociation in Fibromyalgia brain processing?,  III International Symposium for the Study of Chronic pain and Fibromyalgia – (Palma de Mallorca - Spain), 12-13 July, 2012.
  33. Pedro Torres, João Sanches, Paulo Gonçalves, Jorge Martins, FEMUR RECONSTRUCTION USING A ROBOTIZED ULTRASOUND, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics June 24-27, 2012 Roma, Italy.

    2011

  34. R. Ribeiro, J.M. Sanches, J. Velosa, F. Ramalho, R.T. Marinho, MELD correlation with physical features extracted from ultrasound liver images in liver cirrhosis, 13th World Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB 2011), Vienna, Austria, August 26.
  35. Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Tato Marinho, José Velosa, Fernando Ramalho, J. Miguel Sanches and Jasjit S. Suri, The Usefulness of Ultrasound in the Classification of Chronic Liver Disease, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2011), August, 30 - September, 3, Boston, USA, 2011.
  36. U Rajendra Acharya, Oliver Faust, Vinitha Sree S., Ang Peng Chuan Alvin, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, José C. R. Seabra, João Sanches, Jasjit S Suri, Atheromatic™: Symptomatic vs. Asymptomatic Classification Of Carotid Ultrasound Plaque using a combination of HOS, DWT & Texture, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2011), August, 30 - September, 3, Boston, USA, 2011.
  37. Rita Gafaniz and J. Miguel Sanches, NEURONAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY, ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND MITOCHONDRIAL ATP RESTORATION DYNAMICS: A PHYSIOLOGICAL BASED MODEL FOR FMRI, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), Chicago Illinois, USA, March 30 – April 2, 2011.(FM)
  38. Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Marinho, José Velosa, Fernando Ramalho, J. Miguel Sanches, CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE STAGING CLASSIFICATION BASED ON ULTRASOUND, CLINICAL AND LABORATORIAL DATA, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), Chicago Illinois, USA, March 30 – April 2, 2011.
  39. Nuno Santos, João Sanches, Patrícia Figueiredo, Spatial priors for perfusion and transit time estimation in PASL-MRI, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), Chicago Illinois, USA, March 30 – April 2, 2011.
  40. Ana Luísa Coito, David Belo, Teresa Paiva, J. Miguel Sanches, TOPOGRAPHIC EEG BRAIN MAPPING BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA EPISODES, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011), Chicago Illinois, USA, March 30 – April 2, 2011.(FM)
  41. Santos N, Sanches J, Sousa I, Vilela P, Figueiredo PM, A Total Variation spatial prior for the estimation of perfusion and transit time maps in PASL-MRI, Proc. of ISMRM 2011 - 19th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Montreal, Canada, 2011.

    2010

  42. Oliveira, T.F., Ferreira, L., Sanches, J.M., Paiva, Dissociated states in fibromyalgia patients during sleep: An exploratory study using EEG mapping,  T. Neuroscience 2010 – Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting – (San Diego, CA., EUA), November, 2010.
  43. Rita Gafaniz and J. Miguel Sanches, ATP Consumption and Neural Electrical Activity: A Physiological Model for Brain Imaging,  32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, ppt.
  44. Isabel Rodrigues and J. Miguel Sanches, Denoising of LSFCM images with compensation for the Photoblinking/Photobleaching effects,  32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, ppt.
  45.  Nuno Santos, J. Miguel Sanches and Patrícia Figueiredo, Bayesian optimization of perfusion and transit time estimation in PASL-MRI,  32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex
  46. Rodrigo Ventura, Artem Khmelinskii and J. Miguel Sanches, Classifier-assisted metric for chromosome pairing,  32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, ppt.
  47. José Seabra, Luís Mendes Pedro (MD), Fernandes e Fernandes (MD) and J. Miguel Sanches, Ultrasonographic Characterization and Identification of Symptomatic Carotid Plaques,  32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, ppt.
  48. Alexandre Domingues, Ondrej Adamec, Teresa Paiva (MD) and J. Miguel Sanches, Automatic Annotation of Actigraphy Data for Sleep Disorders Diagnosis Purposes,  32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, ppt.
  49. Ondrej Adamec, Alexandre Domingues , Teresa Paiva (MD) and J. Miguel Sanches, Statistical characterization of actigraphy data during Sleep and Wakefulness States,   32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, poster.
  50. J. Miguel Sanches, Bruno Pereira and Teresa Paiva (MD), HEADSET BLUETOOTH AND CELL PHONE BASED CONTINUOUS CENTRAL BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM,   32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 31 - September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010. bibtex, poster.
  51. Alexandre Domingues, Ondrej Adamec, João Sanches, Silvia Santos and Teresa Paiva, Actigraphy Data Classification during Sleep and Wakefulness States,  20th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, 14 – 18 September, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. bibtext
  52. Ondrej Adamec, Alexandre Domingues, Sílvia Santos, João Sanches and Teresa Paiva, A Mixture Distribution Model to describe Actigraphy Data during Sleep and Wakefulness States,  20th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, 14 – 18 September, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. bibtex
  53. João Sanches, Bruno Pereira and Teresa Paiva, Cell Phone based Continuous Tympanic Temperature Measurement System,  20th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, 14 – 18 September, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. bibtex
  54. João Sanches, Pedro Pires and Teresa Paiva, Cell Phone based Sleep electronic Diary (SeD), 20th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, 14 – 18 September, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. bibtex
  55. David Afonso, Patrícia Figueiredo and João Sanches, Parameter free Bayesian activity detection on fMRI, The Organization for Human Brain Mapping’s 16th Annual Meeting, June 6-10, Barcelona, Spain , 2010. bibtex
  56. José C. Seabra and João Sanches, ON ESTIMATING DE-SPECKLED AND SPECKLE COMPONENTS FROM B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 14-17 April, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010. bibtex
  57. José Seabra, João Sanches, Francesco Ciompi and Petia Radeva, ULTRASONOGRAPHIC PLAQUE CHARACTERIZATION USING A RAYLEIGH MIXTURE MODEL, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 14-17 April, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010. bibtex
  58. Isabel Rodrigues, João Sanches, PHOTOBLINKING/PHOTOBLEACHING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODEL FOR INTENSITY DECAY OF FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGES, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 14-17 April, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010. bibtex
  59. João Sanches, Inês Sousa, Patrícia Figueiredo, Bayesian Fisher Information Criterion for Sampling Optimization in ASL-MRI, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 14-17 April, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010. bibtex

    2009

  60. Isabel Rodrigues and João Sanches, FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING DENOISING WITH LOG-EUCLIDEAN PRIORS AND PHOTOBLEACHING COMPENSATION, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, November 7-11, 2009. bibtex
  61. Sousa I, Sanches J and Figueiredo P, Sampling strategies for perfusion quantification using PASL, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, MAGMA 22 (Suppl 1), 514, 2009.
  62. Sousa I, Sanches J, Figueiredo P. (2009) Sampling strategy for perfusion quantification using PASL. 26th Annual Scientific Meeting of the ESMRMB, Antalya, Turkey. bibtex
  63. Joana Coelho, Martin Lauterbach, Patrícia Figueiredo and João Sanches, A Binary Detection Approach for fMRI, 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, HBM 2009, June 18-23, 2009, San Francisco, California, 2009. (ppt) bibtex

    2008

  64. Isabel Rodrigues and João Sanches, Temporal 2D Reconstruction of Cell Nucleus from Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy Images with Anisotropic Filtering, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  65. Joana Coelho, João Sanches and Martin H. Lauterbach, fMRI Binary Detection of Brain Activated Regions with Graph-Cuts, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  66. Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura and João Sanches, Automatic Chromosome Pairing Using Mutual Information, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  67. José Seabra, João Xavier and João Sanches, Convex Ultrasound Image Reconstruction with Log-Euclidean Priors, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,  2008. bibtex
  68. Isabel Rodrigues, João Xavier and João Sanches, Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy Imaging Denoising with Photobleaching, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  69. Jacinto Nascimento and João Sanches, Total Variation with Automatic Hyper-Parameter Estimation, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  70. José Seabra and João Sanches, Three-dimensional labeling of vulnerable regions in carotid plaques using Graph-Cuts, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  71. José Seabra and João Sanches, Modeling Log-Compressed Ultrasound Images for Radio Frequency Signal Recovery, IEEE EMBC'08 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008. bibtex
  72. Jacinto Nascimento and João Sanches, ULTRASOUND IMAGING LV TRACKING WITH ADAPTIVE WINDOW SIZE AND AUTOMATIC HYPER-PARAMETER ESTIMATION, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, California, U.S.A, October 12–15, 2008. bibtex
  73. Isabel Rodrigues, João Sanches and José Bioucas-Dias, DENOISING OF MEDICAL IMAGES CORRUPTED BY POISSON NOISE, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, California, U.S.A, October 12–15, 2008. bibtex
  74. Liliana L. Caldeira, Isabela Silva and João M. Sanches, AUTOMATIC LIVER TUMOR DIAGNOSIS WITH DYNAMIC-CONTRAST ENHANCED MRI, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, California, U.S.A, October 12–15, 2008. bibtex
  75. David M. Afonso, João M. Sanches and Martin H. Lauterbach, ROBUST BRAIN ACTIVATION DETECTION IN FUNCTIONAL MRI, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, California, U.S.A, October 12–15, 2008. bibtex
  76. Liliana L. Caldeira and João M. Sanches, Pharmacokinetic Perfusion Curves Estimation for Liver Tumor Diagnosis from DCE-MRI, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2008), June 25-27, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, 2008. bibtex
  77. David M. Afonso, João M. Sanches and Martin H. Lauterbach, FMRI BRAIN ACTIVITY AND UNDERLYING HEMODYNAMICS ESTIMATION IN A NEW BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, May 14-17, Paris, France, 2008. bibtex
  78. Liliana Caldeira and João Sanches, LIVER TUMOR ASSESSMENT WITH DCE-MRI,  2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, May 14-17, Paris, France, 2008. bibtex
  79. Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura and João Sanches, CHROMOSOME PAIRING FOR KARYOTYPING PURPOSES USING MUTUAL INFORMATION, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, May 14-17, Paris, France, 2008. bibtex
  80. João Sanches, David Afonso, Kestutis Bartnykas and Martin H. Lauterbach, COMPARISON OF TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR BRAIN ACTIVITY DETECTION IN FMRI: SPM-BAYESIAN AND SPM-GLM, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, May 14-17, Paris, France, 2008. bibtex
  81. Patrícia Figueiredo and João Sanches, SAMPLING STRATEGY FOR PERFUSION QUANTIFICATION USING PASL-MRI,  2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, May 14-17, Paris, France, 2008. bibtex
  82. David Afonso, João Sanches and  Martin H. Lauterbach (MD), JOINT BAYESIAN DETECTION OF BRAIN ACTIVATED REGIONS AND LOCAL HRF ESTIMATION IN FUNCTIONAL MRI, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 30 - April 4, 2008 • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2008. bibtex

    2007

  83. João M. Sanches, Jacinto C. Nascimento and  Jorge S. Marques, An Unified Framework for Bayesian Denoising for Several Medical and Biological Imaging Modalities, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2007, Lyon, France, August 23-26, 2007. bibtex
  84. José C. Seabra, João M. Sanches and Luís M. Pedro (MD), Carotid Plaque 3D Compound Imaging and Echo-Morphology Analysis: a Bayesian Approach, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2007, Lyon, France, August 23-26, 2007. bibtex
  85. David M. Afonso, João M. Sanches and Martin H. Lauterbach (MD), Neural physiological modeling towards a hemodynamic response function for fMRI, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2007, Lyon, France, August 23-26, 2007. bibtex

    2006

  86. Sanches J., and  Marques J.S., An Alignment-by-Reconstruction algorithm, 7th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Berder, France, 17-25 June, 2006.
  87. Sanches J., and  Marques J.S., Reconstruction from Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy Images, 7th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Berder, France, 17-25 June, 2006.
  88. Nascimento J.,  Sanches J.M., Marques J.S., A Method for the Dynamic Analysis of the Heart Using a Lyapounov Based Denoising Algorithm, IEEE EMBC 2006,  IEEE International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), August 30-September 3, New York City, USA, 2006. bibtex
  89. Sanches J., and  Marques J.S., Image Reconstruction using the Benford Law, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2006, Atlanta GA, USA , October 2006. bibtex

    2005

  90. Sanches J., Bioucas Dias J.M. and  Marques J.S., Minimum Total Variation In 3d Ultrasound Reconstruction, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2005, Genova, Italy, September 2005. bibtex
  91. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., A Fast MAP Algorithm Using High Order GIBBS Priors,  2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005. bibtex

    <=2004

  92. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., MAP Signal Reconstruction with Non Regular Grids, ICIAR 2004, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition , Porto, Portugal, September 2004.
  93. J. Nascimento, Jorge S. Marques and J. Miguel Sanches, Estimation Of Cardiac Phases In Echographic Images Using Multiple Models, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing -ICIP'2003, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003. bibtex
  94. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., A MAP estimation algorithm using IIR recursive filters, Proceedings International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2003. bibtex
  95. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., A MAP IIR Filter for 3D Ultrasound, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester-NY, USA, pp.II-957-960, September 2002. bibtex
  96. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., A 3D Ultrasound Algorithm with Alignment and Nonlinearity Compensation, 2nd Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information, Systems, 156-172, Alicante, April 2002. bibtex
  97. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., 3D Reconstruction from Log-Compressed Rayleigh Images, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 345-348, October 2001. bibtex
  98. Sanches J., and Marques J.S., Alignment-by-Reconstruction for 3D Ultrasound Imaging, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 3, pp. 41-44 Barcelona, 2000. bibtex
  99. Sanches J. and Marques J.S., An Algorithm for 3D Ultrasound Imaging, V Ibero- American Symposium on Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, September 2000.
  100. Sanches J. and Moisés Piedade, An Automatic Visual Inspection  System of the quality of painting of metal film mini resistors,  ICSPAT/97 San Diego, California, September 1997.

    Patents

  1. SISTEMA DE MONITORIZAÇÃO DE TEMPERATURA CENTRAL PARA DIAGNÓSTICOS DE DISTÚRBIOS DE SONO João Sanches, Teresa Paiva, Bruno Pereira e Rui Neves
    PATENTE DE INVENÇÃO NACIONAL Nº 104115
  2. METODOLOGIA DE REGISTO DE EVENTOS EM DIÁRIO ELECTRÓNICO, IMPLEMENTADO EM TELEMÓVEL, PARA AUXILIO NO DIAGNÓSTICO DE DISTÚRBIOS DO SONO.
    Pedro Pires, João Sanches e Teresa Paiva
    PATENTE DE INVENÇÃO NACIONAL Nº 104157