Biomedical Informatics and Technologies (BIT)

PRR-equipamento – UID/PRR/00127/2025 – IEETA

Reforçar a capacidade computacional para investigação em IA. Garantir escalabilidade, desempenho e fiabilidade da infraestrutura. Assegurar compatibilidade com frameworks avançadas de ML/DL/IA generativa. Promover comunicação rápida e armazenamento seguro de dados. Manter uma estratégia contínua de atualização tecnológica.

OLI Health

The project aims the design, technical development, and validation of an innovative solution for the regular monitoring of data related to the health and well-being of the individual. It is intended to develop a technological solution that will allow the…

AWARE – Enhancing the level of cybersecurity awareness in VET related to digital transformation

Address the increased risks related to a more digitalised world in general, on the individual level and in everyday life, in school, at work, at home, and more specifically, in relation to VET, the risks coming from the digital transformation…

Prevent2Protect – Coming out of the box: Moving from traditional to virtual procedures to explore prospective memory and contamination

VADER – Video-conference Analysis to Detect Emotions and Reactions

The implementation of a scalable video communication solution that optimizes resource consumption at the client, network and server levels; The implementation of a sentiment analysis module over video data to provide information concerning the interaction of the participants on a…

PT2020 Odyssey

Odyssey - Platform for Automated Sensing in Archaeology (https://odyssey.pt) will use image processing and artificial intelligence techniques to detect archaeological sites from data from different sources, automating and complementing human work to improve results, resulting in a disruptive monetizable Geographic…

PandIA – Management of Pandemic Social Isolation Based on City and Social Intelligence

The project aims to monitor the progression of a disease/pandemic in a geographical area. To achieve this goal, different data sources will be combined, involving healthcare institutions, municipalities, social networks, and public domain websites and datasets.

TO2 – Non-contact oxygen saturation and temperature stations

Develop and integrate sensors into portable stations for non-contact measurement of physiological parameters indicative of COVID-19, namely decreased oxygen saturation (SpO2) level and high body temperature.

AAL APH ALARM

APH-Alarm (https://aph-alarm-project.com) is a comprehensive safety solution for people with Aphasia. The aim of the system is to provide alarm messages without the need of speaking or in situations where common emergency triggers are out of reach.

RH4.0 FeD

The objectives are to develop methods for time series forecasting to predict the number of customers in retail stores hourly, and for automatic sizing and scheduling of teams in a workforce management system. The system is used monthly to assign…

EHDEN – European Health Data & 
Evidence Network

EHDEN aims to address the current challenges in generating insights and evidence from real-world clinical data at scale, to support patients, clinicians, payers, regulators, governments, and the industry in understanding wellbeing, disease, treatments, outcomes and new therapeutics and devices.(https://www.ehden.eu).

D4 – Deep Drug Discovery and Deployment

D4 proposes the use of state-of-the-art Deep Learning methods to tackle the challenges identified on each of the initial stages of the drug discovery pipeline. The main contribution was the creation of an improved computational pipeline that uses Deep Learning…

SmAC – Desenvolvimento de uma solução de descarga inovadora com alta performance de funcionamento e estabilidade

Design, technical development, prototyping and final validation of a new innovative water flushing system that would integrate the toilet and allow multiple functions, including volume and flush flow control, including a wide range of functions related to monitoring and alerts…

DyNaVoiceR – Dysphonic to Natural Voice Reconstruction

Convert whispered speech into synthetic voiced speech Facilitate human-to-human and human-to-machine communication Reinforce the acoustic signature of the speaker

VoxSenes: segmental changes and rhythm variations on European Portuguese aging voice

VoxSenes project (http://voxsenes.web.ua.pt/) aims to study the speech changes due to aging at the segmental and suprasegmental levels by analyzing the variation of acoustic and articulatory parameters.

LLMCP LisPan: Living Lab para Conteúdos e Plataformas de Media


Exploration and deepening of the understanding of the online behavior of individuals, including the phenomena of multitasking and crossmedia media. The project aims to study the use of the Internet and new media in Portugal, using techniques for recording behavior,…

SmartWalk – Cidades Inteligentes para Cidadãos Sénior Ativos

Initially monitor the physical activity of the elderly who adhere to the initiative and verify that they are complying with the activity recommended by the World Health Organization. If they did not comply, a health professional, assisted by the algorithms…

BluEyes – Beacons and HCI: making the invisible visible

It is intended to make the invisible visible to blind citizens, improving mobility in the urban transport of Coimbra, visits to the Bordaliana Route in Caldas da Rainha and pedestrian circulation for access to the services of public buildings of…

SOCA – Smart Open Campus

The main objective of SOCA is to create an open innovation ecosystem where data is gathered from multiple sources, processed, integrated, and made available for applications and users, to create a service sphere able to assist every individual inside it…

SmartWalk – Smartcities for Active Seniors


SmartWalk aims at increasing the quality of life of elder population by creating tools to monitor and help preserving functional capacities. The increase of elderly population makes a pressing matter the
promotion of healthy aging, with autonomy and independence, and preserving…

The development of nasal vowels and diphthongs in European Portuguese

Recording and automatic processing of MRI-data to support speech production studies

NETDIAMOND – NEw Targets in DIAstolic heart failure: from coMOrbidities to persoNalizeD medicine

Heart failure (HF) is a highly prevalent syndrome of impaired cardiac function that constitutes the main cause of hospitalization and disability amongst the elderly, a leading cause of mortality, morbidity and resource consumption. HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is…

MIRMIR: Multimodal Information Retrieval in Medical Imaging Repositories

Investigate new solutions for extracting, merging and searching over multimodal medical imaging data, including text (DICOM metadata and diagnosis reports) and image information.

SCREEN-DR: Image Analysis and Machine Learning Platform for Innovation in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most prevalent microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and can lead to irreversible visual loss. Screening programs, based on retinal imaging techniques, are fundamental to detect the disease since the initial stages are asymptomatic. Most of…

SGH – Smart Green Homes

The project aimed to take advantage of developments in materials science in conjunction with innovative technology integration strategies. In this context, one of the objectives was to explore the integration of home equipment to improve ease of use and efficiency.

EMIF – European Medical Information Framework

This project combines the topic of generating a common patient health Information Framework (IF) with addressing the two Research Topics (RT’s) Obesity and its metabolic complications and Markers for the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias. (http://www.emif.eu)

RD-CONNECT – An integrated platform connecting registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research

The RD-Connect Project was a multidisciplinary project that united partners from the EU and beyond to create an integrated global infrastructure for Rare Disease research. It provided the infrastructure to develop three new platforms to improve the study and analysis…