Biomedical Informatics and Technologies (BIT)
Mission
The mission of the Biomedical Informatics and Technologies group (BIT) is to contribute to the scientific advances in ICT for translational health, through the study of algorithmic questions and computational solutions inspired by and related to biological and biomedical problems. We are in a privileged position to explore future healthcare scenarios working in R&D towards personalized medicine, where treatments are shaped for each individual considering its multiple dimensions, from molecular profiling to better clinical tools for diagnostic and treatments.
Coordinator
Sérgio Matos
Associate Professor w/ Habilitation
Members (81)
Adriano Gomes
PhD Student
Alexandra Queirós
Coordinator Professor
Ana Isabel Graça
PhD Student
Ana Maria Tomé
Associate Professor
Ana Patrícia Rocha
Researcher
Ana Rita Teixeira
Adjunct Professor
Ana Rita Valente
Adjunct Professor
André Rouco
PhD Student
António Sousa Pereira
Full Professor
António Teixeira
Full Professor
Arnaldo Pereira
Former PhD Student
Augusto Silva
Associate Professor
Beny Rubinstein
PhD Student
Carlos Costa
Associate Professor w/ Habilitation
Catarina Oliveira
Adjunct Professor
Daniela Silva Pais
PhD Student
David Bastos
Former PhD Student
Eduardo Pinho
Former PhD Student
Ellen Cristine Hirose Pereira Nery
PhD Student
Emanuel Matos
Former PhD Student
Fábio Barros
PhD Student
Fernanda Brito Correia
Former PhD Student
Francisco Vaz
Full Professor
Frederico Baptista
PhD Student
Gabriel Silva
Former PhD Student
Gonçalo Teixeira dos Santos
PhD Student
Helio Pesanhane
PhD Student
Ilídio Oliveira
Assistant Professor
Jéssica Tavares
Former PhD Student
Joana Dias
PhD Student
João Manuel Silva
Former PhD Student
João Miguel Andrade
PhD Student
João Rafael Almeida
Assistant Professor
Joaquim Salgueiro dos Santos
Former PhD Student
Joel Arrais
Associate Professor
Jorge Miguel Silva
Assistant Researcher
Jorge Silva Marques
PhD Student
José Costa Gameiro
PhD Student
José Joaquim Alvarelhão
Former PhD Student
José Luís Oliveira
Full Professor
José Maria Fernandes
Assistant Professor
Júlia Ramos
PhD Student
Júlio Castro Lopes
PhD Student
Komalben Kukadiya
PhD Student
Luciana Albuquerque
Former PhD Student
Luís Bastião Silva
Assistant Professor
Luís Casanova Afonso
PhD Student
Luís Gomes Batista
PhD Student
Luís Jesus
Associate Professor w/ Habilitation
Marco António Loureiro
PhD Student
Mário Rodrigues
Coordinator Professor
Micael Pedrosa
Former PhD Student
Miguel Carvalho
PhD Student
Miguel Oliveira e Silva
Assistant Professor
Milton Santos
Adjunct Professor
Nelson Rocha
Full Professor
Nuno Almeida
Researcher
Nuno Gomes
PhD Student
Nuno Monteiro
PhD Student
Pedro Sernadela
Former PhD Student
Pietro Merlin
PhD Student
Raquel Paradinha
PhD Student
Raquel Sebastião
Adjunct Professor
Richard Adolph Aires Jonker
PhD Student
Rodrigo Diaz Guerrero
Former PhD Student
Rui Brandão Antunes
Former PhD Student
Rui Fiel Cordeiro
Former PhD Student
Rui Lebre
Former PhD Student
Rui Pedro Lopes
Associate Professor
Rui Ribeiro Jesus
PhD Student
Samuel Silva
Associate Professor
Sara Pereira
Former PhD Student
Sérgio Matos
Associate Professor w/ Habilitation
Silvia de Francesco
Adjunct professor
Susana Brás
Assistant Professor
Syed Tahir Ali Shah
PhD Student
Teresa Margarida Pereira
PhD Student
Tiago Marques Godinho
Former PhD Student
Tiago Melo Almeida
Former PhD Student
Vicente Barros
PhD Student
Yubraj Gupta
Former PhD Student
Recent Projects (49)
ELIXIR FAIR-FEGA – Accelerating high quality FAIR data deposition in Federated EGA
ELIXIR Fed-A-Crate – Leveraging federated learning and RO-Crates for human genomic data analysis and provenance tracking
GREG – Testing, improving, and co-creating Guidance and Tools for Real World Evidence Generation and Use for Decision-Making in Europe
Create, test and disseminate practical guidance and tools to generate and use real-world evidence (RWE) in the decisions of regulators and health technology assessment (HTA) agencies.
Incite -QMS
VITALITY – Tecnologia inteligente e versátil para uma vida ativa nas casas de hoje / Versatile Intelligent Technology for Active Living in Today’s Homes
Tecnologia inteligente e versátil para uma vida ativa nas casas de hoje / Versatile Intelligent Technology for Active Living in Today’s Homes
BioChef SIG – Browser First Federated Genomics Toolkit
Internal IEETA grant to develop the browser first core of BioChef, a federated genomics toolkit where bioinformatics tools run in the browser through WebAssembly, and to prepare its execution next to protected data.
PARCERIA – Plataforma de Assistentes Colaborativos de Inteligência Artificial
O projeto PARCERIA tem como objetivos desenvolver uma plataforma de agentes IA genérica e modular, adaptável a diferentes domínios de aplicação, e desenvolver e validar assistentes colaborativos para duas áreas de aplicação, ensino e análise de dados de saúde. O…
Next2Heat SP8 – Integrated Multimodal interaction solution for residential environments
Next2Heat main objective is to develop next‑generation efficient, sustainable and safer heating technologies for buildings, including advanced electric heat pumps and low‑impact gas systems.
TIME4LUNG – Early lung cancer detection
Develop, validate and prepare the clinical deployment of Optomics®, a technology combining photonics, biotechnology and AI to generate lung cancer risk scores from a simple blood sample. About 10 000 high-risk individuals will be recruited in Portuguese hospitals, building a…
Reliability4Photonics – Reliability of Spectroscopy and Imaging based Photonic Technologies for Biomedical Applications
A European network to establish protocols for the standardisation and harmonisation of photonic data (Raman, IR and nonlinear optical imaging) for AI-based modelling, speeding up the translation of photonic technologies from the laboratory to clinical use.
ELIXIR BioChef – A Hybrid Workflow Platform for Privacy-Preserving Federated Analysis
BioChef is a visual workflow builder for genomics that runs bioinformatics tools in the browser with WebAssembly. It offers an intuitive drag-and-drop graphical user interface (GUI) tailored for non-technical users or bioinformaticians who want to visually organize genomics pipelines.
Casa Viva+
Conceptualization and development of novel solutions for a smart home promoting a healthier and dignified life at home.
GDI – Genomic Data Infrastructure
The project is designed to support the European 1+ Million Genomes (1+MG) Initiative. It brings together institutions in 22 countries to provide a cross-border federated network of national genome collections, associated with other relevant data, for advancing data-driven biomedical research…
S2MovingCity – Monitorizar e Servir uma Cidade em Movimento.
ACTION – Accessible tourism: Co-creation of Tourism experIence thrOugh Web-based IntelligeNt System
ACTIVAS – Ambientes Construídos para uma Vida Ativa, Segura e Saudável
Multimodal physiological indicators of pain
CAD_FACTS – Coronary Artery Disease Numerical Simulation and Functional Assessment by Advanced Computed Tomograph
HfPT – Health from Portugal
EMPA – Emotional Modulation in Pain Assessment // Modulação Emocional na Avaliação da Dor
HfPT MedGov-AI – Orquestração e Governança de Fornecedores de IA em Imagiologia Médica
CHHA – Connected Home for Healthy Ageing
CHHA delivered two proof‑of‑concept eHealth solutions that used low‑latency, secure, cloud‑integrated networks to provide scalable and inclusive home‑based digital health services. The project showed how advanced networking technologies could transform remote care and reshape smart‑home health monitoring.
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…
