Beatriz Sousa Santos
(Maria
Beatriz Alves de Sousa Santos)
Associate professor with
“Agregação”
Departamento
de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro
IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e
Telemática de Aveiro
bss@ua.pt
Responsible
for the Doctoral Programme in Computer Engineering
Teaching:
- MSc in
Computer Engineering:
Human-Computer
Interaction, Visual
Computing, 3D
Modelling and Visualization
- MSc in
Information Systems:
- MSc in
Physics Engineering:
- MAPI – Doctoral programme in Computer Science (Minho, Aveiro e Porto):
Research Interest Areas:
Interactive Data and Information
Visualization, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, Evaluation in Visualization
Recent
publications in ISI journals:
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, Joaquim Madeira, “Left-Ventricle Global
and Regional Functional Analysis from MDCT Images”, accepted for
publication in Computer Graphics Forum
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo
Dias, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira,
“Integrating User Studies into
Computer Graphics-Related Courses”, IEEE Computer
Graphics and Applications, Vol. 31, N. 5, pp. 14-17, doi:10.1109/MCG.2011.78
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- Leonor Teixeira,
Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Vasco Saavedra,
“Web-enabled registry of inherited bleeding disorders in
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- Leonor Teixeira,
Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “User-Centered
Requirements Engineering in Health Information Systems: a study in the hemophilia field” aceite para publicação na revista Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 
doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.10.007
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, Joaquim Madeira, "Using Color in Visualization: A Survey", Computer & Graphics, April 2011, Vol. 33, N. 2, pp. 320-333, doi:10.1016/j.cag.2010.11.015
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- José S. Silva, Augusto Silva,
Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Image Denoising Methods
for Tumour Discrimination in High Resolution Computed Tomography”, Journal of Digital Imaging,
Vol. 24, 3, 2011, pp. 464-469, doi: 10.1007/s10278-010-9305-6
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- Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “PolyMeCo – An Integrated Environment for Polygonal
Mesh Analysis and Comparison”, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 33,
N. 2, April 2009, pp. 181-191, doi:10.1016/j.cag.2008.09.014
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo
Dias, A. Pimentel, J. Baggerman, C. Ferreira, S. Silva, J. Madeira, “Head
Mounted Display versus desktop for 3D Navigation in Virtual Reality: A
User Study”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 41, January 2009, pp. 161-181 doi: 10.1007/s11042-008-0223-2 (PDF)
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- Paulo Dias, Joaquim
Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Teaching 3D Modelling and Visualization
using VTK”, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 32, Nº 3, June 2008, pp.
363-370 doi:10.1016/j.cag.2008.01.005 (PDF)
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- Rui
Borges Lopes, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Sérgio
Barreto, “A decision-support tool for a
capacitated location-routing problem”, Decision Support Systems,
December 2008, Vol. 46, Nº1, pp. 366-375, doi:10.1016/j.dss.2008.07.007
Recent publications in international conferences:
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– Leonor Teixeira,
Vasco Saavedra, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa
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- Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Carlos Ferreira,
“Inter-observer Variability Assessment of a Left Ventricle Segmentation
Tool Applied to 4D MDCT Images of the Heart”, 33th Conference IEEE EMBC, September, 2011, Boston, USA
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– Samuel Silva, Nuno Bettencourt, Daniel Leite, João Rocha, Mónica Carvalho, Joaquim Madeira,
Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Myocaldial Perfusion
Analysis from Adenosine-Induced Stress MDCT”, , Proceedings of 5th
Iberian Conference Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA
2011, Las Palmas, Spain, June 2011, Springer- Verlag,
LNC6669, pp. 717-725
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– Vítor
Gonçalves, Paulo Dias, Fernando Almeida, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “3D
Visualization of sparse geophysical data representing uncertainty”, V Ibero-American
Symposium in Computer Graphics – SIACG 2011, Faro, June 2011, pp.
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, Joaquim Madeira, “Left Ventricle Global
and Regional Analysis from MDCT Images”, V Ibero-American Symposium in Computer
Graphics – SIACG 2011, Faro, June 2011, pp. 217-223
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, “A
Preparatory study to choose similarity metrics for Left Ventricle segmentation
comparison”, Medical Imaging 2011: Computer Aided Diagnosis, SPIE Vol.
7963, Florida, USA, February 2011, pp. 796326-1-8
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- Leonor Teixeira,
Vasco Saavedra, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, “Improving the Management of Chronic Diseases using Web-based
Technologies: an application in hemophilia
care”, 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp.
2184-7
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Bruno
Prada, Hugo Ribeiro, Paulo Dias, Samuel Silva, Carlos
Ferreira, “Wiimote as an input device in Google
Earth visualization and navigation: a user study comparing two
alternatives”, Information
Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conf., London, July 2010, pp. 473 – 478 (PDF)
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- Vítor Gonçalves, Paulo Dias, Fernando Almeida, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, “Exploring new ways of integration, visualization and interaction
with Geotechnical and Geophysical Data”, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference,
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- Rui
Borges Lopes, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Information
visualization in facility location and vehicle routing decisions”, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th
International Conference, London, July 2010, pp. 110-115
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- Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira, Augusto Silva, Beatriz Sousa
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, Joaquim Madeira, Augusto Silva, “A 3D
Tool for Left Ventricle Segmentation Editing”, A.Campilho
and M.Kamel (Eds.): ICIAR2010, PartII, LNCS 6112, 2010,
pp.79–88
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- Leonor Teixeira, Vasco Saavedra, Carlos
Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos,
“The User’s Role in the Development Process of a Clinical
Information System: An Example in Hemophilia Care”,
M. Kurosu (Ed.): Human
Centered Design, HCII 2009, LNCS 5619, pp.
922–931
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- Vasco Saavedra,
Leonor Teixeira, Beatriz Sousa
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Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, Carlos
Ferreira, “A Perceptual Repository
for Polygonal Meshes”,
Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Geometric Modeling and Imaging (GMAI09),
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos,
Joaquim Madeira, Augusto Silva, "Processing,
Visualization and Analysis of Medical Images of the Heart: An Example of Fast
Prototyping using MeVisLab”, Proc. 6th International Conference on BioMedical Visualization (MedViz09),
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo
Dias, Paulo Santos, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, "Usability evaluation
in Virtual Environments through empirical studies involving users", ACM-CHI 2009 Workshop Challenges in
Evaluating Usability and User Experience in Reality Based Interaction,
Boston, USA, April, 2009 (PDF)
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– Beatriz Sousa Santos,
Paulo Dias, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim
Madeira, “Introducing Students to empirical methods in CG and HCI courses
through user studies”, Eurographics 2009
Education Papers, Munich, Germany, April 2009, pp. 45-49 (PDF)
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo
Dias, Samuel Silva, Luís Capucho,
Norberto Salgado, Filipe Lino, Vitor Carvalho, Carlos
Ferreira, “Usability Evaluation in Virtual Reality: A User Study
Comparing Three Different Setups”, Proceedings of Eurographics
Symposium on Virtual Environments EGVE08 (Posters), B. Mohler, R. Van Liere (ed.),
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- Leonor Teixeira,
Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Web-enabled System Design for
Managing Clinical Information”, in Nilmini Wickramasinghe and Elie Geisler (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Healthcare Information
Systems, New York, Medical Information Science Reference: Idea Group, Inc,
2008, pp.1398-1406
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Paulo Dias, Guilherme Campos, Vitor Santos, Ricardo Casaleiro,
Ricardo Seco, Beatriz Sousa Santos, "3D Reconstruction
and Auralization of the “Painted
Dolmen” of Antelas". Proceedings of the
Electronic Imaging 2008
Conference, Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications 2008, SPIE Vol.
6805, 6805OY, San Jose, California, USA. 28-29 January
2008.
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- Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa
Santos, Joaquim Madeira, Carlos Ferreira
“Perceived Quality Assessment of Polygonal Meshes using Observer Studies:
A New Extended Protocol”,
Electronic Imaging 2008: Human Vision and Electronic
Imaging XIII,
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- José Silvestre Silva, Augusto
Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Serial Volumetric Registration of CT
Studies”, Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, SPIE Vol. 6916, San
Diego, USA, February 2008, pp. 691611-1-9
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- Sérgio Barreto, Carlos Ferreira,
José Paixão, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Using
clustering analysis in a capacitated location-routing problem”, European
Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 179, Nº3, June 2007, pp.968-977
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Samuel
Silva, Leonor Teixeira, Carlos Ferreira, Paulo Dias, Joaquim Madeira, “Preliminary Evaluation of PolyMeCo: A Visualization Based Tool for Mesh Analysis and
Comparison”, Proceedings of Geometric Modeling
and Imaging- New Advances, (Banissi,
E. et al. ed.), IEEE Computer Society, Zurich, July, 2007, pp.133-139
(PDF)
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- Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira Beatriz Sousa Santos, “There is More
to Color Scales than Meets the Eye: A Review on the
Use of Color in Visualization”, Proceedings
of Information Visualization, IV07,
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- Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Comparison of
Methods for the Simplification of Mesh Models using Quality Indices and an
Observer Study”, Electronic Imaging 2007: Human Vision and Electronic
Imaging XII, SPIE Vol. 6492, San José, USA, February 2007, pp. 64921L1-L12
(PDF)
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- Samuel Silva, Frutuoso, Joaquim Madeira,
Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Evaluation of mesh simplification algorithms using
PolyMeCo: a case study”, Electronic
Imaging 2007: Visualization and Data Analysis 2007, SPIE
Vol. 6495, San José, USA, February 2007, pp. 64950D1-D12 (PDF)
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- Paulo Dias, Angela Pimentel,
Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa
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- Beatriz Sousa
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos, Tom Ertl,
Ken Joy (eds.), Proceedings of EuroVis2006, Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC
Symposium on Visualization (in cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH), 8 – 10
May 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006
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- Leonor Teixeira,
Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa
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- Paulo Dias, Joaquim
Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Using VTK as a Tool for Teaching and
Applying Computer Graphics”, Eurographics
2006, Education Papers,
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- José Silvestre Silva, Augusto
Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “A volumetric pulmonary CT segmentation
method with applications in emphysema assessment”, Medical Imaging
2006: Physiology,
Function, and Structure from Medical Images, Proc.
of SPIE, San Diego, February 2006 (12pag.)
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- Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Perceived
Quality of Simplified Poligonal Meshes: Evaluation
using Observer Studies”, Proceedings of Ibero-American
Symposium on Computer Graphics, SIACG 2006, Santiago de Compostela,
July 2006, (10 pags)
Recent international communications/talks:
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- Beatriz Sousa
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- Beatriz Sousa
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos,
”Human-Computer Interaction influences on my Visualization work”,
Workshop- Building Bridges HCI and Visualization, Interact 2011,
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-Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias,
Paulo Santos, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, "Usability evaluation
in Virtual Environments through empirical studies involving users", 2009
Workshop Challenges in Evaluating Usability and User Experience in Reality
Based Interaction, Workshop of the ACM Computer Human Conference CHI2009, Boston, April 2009 (PDF)
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-Beatriz Sousa Santos,
"Evaluating Visualization Techniques and tools: what are the main issues?,
Beliv'08, BEyond times and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization, Workshop
of the ACM Computer Human Conference CHI2008,
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-Beatriz Sousa
Santos, "Human-Computer Interaction Courses at DETI- Universidade de
Aveiro", ITeach, Human-Computer
Interaction British Educators, Aveiro, March, 2007 (PDF)
Recent
national talks:
o – Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Visão- alguns aspectos relevantes para a Visualização”, Doctoral Programme in Interactive Arts, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica, Porto, October 2010 (PDF)
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Beatriz Sousa Santos, “PhD in
Computer Science/Engineering- DETI-UA”,
Braga, Setember 2010 (PDF)
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Beatriz Sousa Santos, "Introdução à Interacção e Usabilidade: Alguns
aspectos importantes no projecto de sistemas interactivos", Critical Software, Coimbra, November,
2008 (PDF)
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- Beatriz Sousa Santos,
"Avaliação em Visualização de Dados: Introdução, alguns aspectos e
exemplos", Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Informática ProDEI,
FEUP, Porto, December, 2007 (PDF)
Erasmus
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