Augusto Silva

Position	Associate professor
Affiliation	DETI / University of Aveiro
Group	Biomedical Informatics and Technologies
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students	António Guerra
Former PhD students	Lara Carramate, Carlos Costa, Silvia De Francesco, Luís Lança, Ramón Casanova Luís, Paula Martins, Noel Pérez, José Silvestre Serra da Silva, Milton Santos
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Bioimage Informatics, Digital Systems, Image Analysis and Understanding, Medical Imaging Networks and Systems
Projects
Past projects	Cloud Thinking, DICOM P2P, EMIF, Heron II, IBERO-NBIC, MMIR, SCREEN-DR, epSOS
Events	HCIST'2017
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0003-3786-2889
Personal page	http://sweet.ua.pt/augusto.silva/

Publications

Books

• Luís Lança, Augusto Silva. Digital Imaging Systems for Plain Radiography. Springer, October 2012

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Adriana Murraças, Paula Martins, Carlos Ferreira, Tiago Godinho, Augusto Silva. Data Mining of MR Technical Parameters: A Case Study for SAR in a Large-Scale MR Repository. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), vol. 12, January 2021
• L.F.N.D.Carramate, A.L.M.Silva, C.D.R.Azevedo, Silvia De Francesco, Augusto Silva, J.F.C.A.Veloso. Multi-slice Energy Resolving CT system using a THCOBRA detector operating in NeCH4. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 947, December 2019 [IF 2018: 1.433 (Q2, 11/34)]
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião Silva, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM Metadata Analysis for Population Studies. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 1-17, January 2019
• Milton Santos, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM metadata quality auditing for medical imaging stakeholders characterisation: a pilot study. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, May 2018
• Roberto A. Dias, Bruno P. Gonçalves, Joana F. da Rocha, Odete A. B. da Cruz e Silva, Augusto Silva, Sandra I. Vieira. NeuronRead, an open source semi-automated tool for morphometric analysis of phase contrast and fluorescence neuronal images. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, vol. 85, p. 57-69, December 2017
• Noel Pérez, Miguel Guevara, Augusto Silva, Isabel Ramos. Improving the Mann-Whitney statistical test for feature selection: An approach in breast cancer diagnosis on mammography. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 63, no. 1, p. 19-31, January 2015 [IF 2015: 2.142 (Q2, 34/130)]
• Frederico Valente, Augusto Silva, Carlos Costa. Content-based Image Retrieval for Clinical Applications: An Overview of Current Approaches and Challenges. Current Medical Imaging Reviews, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 250-262, December 2013 [IF 2013: 1.059, 1.059 (Q4, 94/122), 0.730, 0.730 (Q4, 112/125)]
• Frederico Valente, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva. Dicoogle, a Pacs Featuring Profiled Content Based Image Retrieval. PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 5, May 2013 [IF 2013: 3.534 (Q1, 8/55)] [IF 2018: 2.776 (Q2, 24/69)]
• L F N D Carramate, F Nachtrab, M Firsching, A L M Silva, Augusto Silva, J F C A Veloso, N Uhlmann. Energy resolving CT systems using Medipix2 and MHSP detectors. Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 8, March 2013 [IF 2013: 1.526 (Q2, 21/57)]
• R. P. Moutinho, L. Coelho, Augusto Silva, J. A. Lobo Pereira, M. Pinto, I. P. Baptista. Validation of a dental image-analyzer tool to measure the radiographic defect angle of the intrabony defect in periodontitis patients. Journal of Periodontal Research, vol. 47, no. 6, p. 695-700, December 2012 [IF 2012: 1.990, 1.990, 1.990]
• L F N D Carramate, C A B Oliveira, A L M Silva, Augusto Silva, J M F dos Santos, J F C A Veloso. Multi-slice quantum Computed Tomography system using a MHSP. Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 7, no. 1, p. C01106, January 2012 [IF 2012: 1.656 (Q2, 15/57)]
• Carlos Costa, Carlos Viana Ferreira, Luís Bastião Silva, Luis Ribeiro, Augusto Silva, José Luís Oliveira. Dicoogle - an Open Source Peer-to-Peer PACS. Journal of Digital Imaging, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 848-856, October 2011 [IF 2011: 1.255] [IF 2018: 2.572 (Q2, 51/129)]
• José Silvestre Silva, Augusto Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos. Image Denoising Methods for Tumor Discrimination in High-Resolution Computed Tomography. Journal of Digital Imaging, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 464-469, June 2011 [IF 2011: 1.255] [IF 2018: 2.572 (Q2, 51/129)]
• L F N D Carramate, C A B Oliveira, A L M Silva, Augusto Silva, J M F dos Santos, J F C A Veloso. Energy weighting technique in Quantum Computed Tomography using a MPGD. Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 6, no. 2, p. C02002, February 2011 [IF 2011: 1.869 (Q1, 11/58)]
• Carlos Costa, José Luís Oliveira, Augusto Silva, Vasco Gama Ribeiro, José Ribeiro. Design, development, exploitation and assessment of a Cardiology Web PACS. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 93, no. 3, p. 273-282, March 2009 [IF 2009: 1.144] [IF 2018: 3.424 (Q1, 15/105)]
• MF Botelho, MA Tavares Marques, Célia Gomes, Augusto Silva, Vasco Bairos, MA Santos Rosa, A Pena Abrunhosa, JJ Pedroso de Lima. Nanoradioliposomes molecularly modulated to study teh lung deep lymphatics drainage. Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 261-293, March 2009
• W. J. Teeuw, L. Coelho, Augusto Silva, C. J. N. M. van der Palen, F. G. J. M. Lessmann, U. van der Velden, and B. G. Loos. Validation of a dental image analyzer tool to measure alveolar bone loss in periodontitis patients. Journal of Periodontal Research, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 94–102, February 2009 [IF 2009: 1.966, 1.966, 1.966]
• Carlos Costa, Filipe Freitas, Marco Pereira, Augusto Silva, José Luís Oliveira. Indexing and retrieving DICOM data in disperse and unstructured archives. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 71-77, January 2009
• Paula Martins, Inês Carbone, Alda Pinto, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira. European Portuguese MRI based speech production studies. Speech Communication, vol. 50, no. 11-12, p. 925–952, November 2008 [IF 2008: 1.229 (Q2, 11/26)]
• Luís Lança, Augusto Silva. Evaluation of exposure index (IgM) in orthopaedic radiography. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol. 129, no. 1-3, p. 112-118, April 2008 [IF 2008: 0.951]
• ...further results

Other articles in journals

• Milton Santos, Luis Bastião, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM Metadata Analysis for Population Characterization: A Feasibility Study. Procedia Computer Science, vol. 100, p. 355-361, October 2016
• Frederico Valente, Augusto Silva, Carlos Costa, C.Suárez-Ortega. Performance analysis of machine learning algorithms for automated diagnosis using a dataflow-based approach on the grid. International Journal of Image Mining, vol. 1, no. 2-3, p. 261–278, November 2015
• Milton Santos, Luis Bastião, Nuno Neves, Dulce Francisco, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM Metadata Access, Consolidation and Usage in Radiology Department Performance Analysis. A Non-proprietary Approach. Procedia Computer Science, vol. 64, p. 651-658, October 2015
• Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Samuel Silva, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira, Carlos Daniel Ferreira. Polygonal Mesh Comparison Applied to the Study of European Portuguese Sounds. International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 28-44, January 2012
• Luís Lança, Augusto Silva. Digital radiography detectors – A technical overview: Part 2. Radiography, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 134-138, May 2009
• Luís Lança, Augusto Silva. Digital radiography detectors – A technical overview: Part 1. Radiography, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 58-62, February 2009

Chapters in books

• Milton Santos, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM Metadata Quality Analysis for Mammography Radiation Exposure Characterization. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, A Rocha, H Adeli, L Reis, S Costanzo, I Orovic, F Moreira (Ed.), Springer, Cham, vol. 1159, p. 155-164, May 2020
• Milton Santos, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. Characterization of the Stakeholders of Medical Imaging Based on an Image Repository. Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies, Álvaro Rocha, A. Correia, H Adeli, L. Reis, S. Costanzo (Ed.), Springer Nature, vol. 570, p. 805–814, April 2017
• Susana Brás, Augusto Silva, José Ribeiro, José Luís Oliveira. New Insights in Echocardiography Based Left-Ventricle Dynamics Assessment. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering SE - 30, F. Ortuño and I. Rojas (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, vol. 9043, p. 292-302, April 2015
• Milton Santos, Luis Bastião, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. Clinical Data Mining in Small Hospital PACS: Contributions for Radiology Department Inprovement. Healthcare Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, IGI Global, p. 47-66, January 2015
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião Silva, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. Clinical Data Mining in Small Hospital PACS: Contributions for Radiology Department Improvement. Information Systems and Technologies for Enhancing Health and Social Care, IGI Global, vol. chapter 16, p. p236-251, March 2013
• Frederico Valente, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva. Content Based Retrieval Systems in a Clinical Context. Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice, Okechukwu Felix Erondu (Ed.), INTECH, p. 3 - 20, February 2013
• Paula Martins, Inês Domingues, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira. Effects coarticulatoires sur le portugais européen: une première étude IRM. Production et Perception de la Parole : La coarticulation, des Indices aux Représentations, M. EMBARKI; C. DODANE (Ed.), L'Harmattan, 2012
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião Silva, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM and Clinical Data Mining in a Small Hospital PACS: A Pilot Study. ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Centeris 2011, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, João Varajão, Philip Powell and Ricardo Martinho (Ed.), Springer, vol. 221, p. 254-261, October 2011
• Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva, José Luís Oliveira. Current Perspectives on PACS and a Cardiology Case Study. Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare-2, S. Vaidya, L. C. Jain, H. Yoshida (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, vol. 65, p. 79-108, 2007

Articles in conference proceedings

• Milton Santos, Nelson Rocha, Augusto Silva. Dose analytics over large DICOM datasets: a case study in mammography and a quest for meta data quality. European Congress of Radiology, 2020
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião Silva, Nelson Rocha, Augusto Silva. A multi­site head CT topogram acquisition protocol analysis based on DICOM metadata. European Congress of Radiology, 2017
• Jorge Miguel Silva, Augusto Silva, Pedro Vilela. Enhanced Cerebral Vascular Segmentation with Harmonic Constraints. RECPAD 2017 - The 23rd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Lisboa, Portugal, vol. 200, 2017
• Milton Santos, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. Characterization of the Stakeholders of Medical Imaging based on an Image Repository. World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2017, April 2017
• Susana Brás, Augusto Silva, José Ribeiro, José Luís Oliveira. New Insights in Echocardiography Based Left-Ventricle Dynamics Assessment. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Proceeedings of the Third International Conference, IWBBIO, Part I, Granada, Spain, vol. Part I, p. 292-302, April 2015
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião, Alexandra Queirós, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. Information Model for Radiology Performance Indicators based on DICOM. Healthinf 2015 - International Conference of Health Informatics, p. 182-190, January 2015
• Milton Santos, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM metadata-mining in PACS for Computed Radiography X-Ray Exposure Analysis - A Mammography Multisite Study. European Congress of Radiology, 2014
• Frederico Valente, Augusto Silva, Carlos Costa, José Miguel Franco Valiente, César Suárez-Ortega, Miguel Guevara. A dataflow-based appraoch to the design and distribution of medical image analytics. Proceedings of 8th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID), Aveiro, Portugal, p. 201-212, September 2014
• Noel Pérez, Miguel Guevara, Augusto Silva, Isabel Ramos, Joana Loureiro. Improving the performance of machine learning classifiers for Breast Cancer diagnosis based on feature selection. Proceedings of the 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, AIMA'14, Warsaw, Poland, September 2014
• Milton Santos, Luis Bastião, Augusto Silva, Carlos Costa, Nelson Rocha. Multi Site DICOM Metadata Access for Secondary Use, CISTI'2013. CISTI'2013 (8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies), 2013
• Noel Pérez, Miguel Guevara, Augusto Silva. Improving breast cancer classification with mammography, supported on an appropriate variable selection analysis. SPIE Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Orlando, FL, USA, vol. 8670, p. doi: 10.1117/12.2007912, June 2013
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião Silva, Silvia De Francesco, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. Multi Vendor DICOM Metadata Access: A Multi Site Hospital Approach Using Dicoogle. 8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2013), Lisboa, Portugal, June 2013
• António J. S. Teixeira, Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Augusto Silva. Production and Modeling of the European Portuguese Palatal Lateral. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, vol. LNCS Volume 7243/2012, Springer, p. 318-328, 2012
• António J. S. Teixeira, Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Carlos Daniel Ferreira, Augusto Silva, Ryan Shosted. Real-Time MRI for Portuguese - Database, Methods and Applications. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, vol. LNCS Volume 7243/2012, Springer, p. 306-317, 2012
• Frederico Valente, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva. An Index Based Approach to Query Mammograpic Databases.. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, p. 1075-1077, July 2012
• Samuel Silva, Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira. Segmentation and Analysis of the Oral and Nasal Cavities from MR Time Sequences. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, vol. LNCS 7325, p. 214-221, June 2012
• Milton Santos, Luís Bastião Silva, Carlos Costa, Augusto Silva, Nelson Rocha. DICOM and Clinical Data Mining in a Small Hospital PACS: A Pilot Study. Conference of Enterprise Information Systems (CENTERIS’2011), 2011
• Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Samuel Silva, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira. Tongue Segmentation from MRI Images Using ITK-SNAP: Preliminary Evaluation. IADIS International Conference Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing 2011, Rome, July 2011
• Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, Carlos Daniel Ferreira, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira. 3D MRI and semi-automatic segmentation techniques applied to the study of European Portuguese lateral sounds. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP'11), Montreal, June 2011
• António J. S. Teixeira, Paula Martins, Augusto Silva, Catarina Oliveira. An MRI Study of Consonantal Coarticulation Resistance in Portuguese. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP'11), Montrreal, Canada, June 2011
• ...further results

PhD thesis

• Augusto Silva. Problemas de Reconstrução de Imagem em Tomografia Dinâmica com Raios X. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, March 1999

Augusto Silva

augusto.silva@ua.pt

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Univ. Aveiro

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