João Paulo Cunha

Position	Associate professor
Group	Biomedical Informatics and Technologies
Status	Former member
Country	Portugal
Students
Former PhD students	José Maria Fernandes, Liliana da Silva Ferreira, Ilídio Oliveira, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Li Zhanjian, Virgilio Bento
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Electronica e Sistemas Médicos
Projects
Past projects	CAPVIEW, Diamarker, MISC, MyPointingDevice, VR2, VR2Market, VitalResponder, epSOS, mypointingremote
Events	CAIP2011, EMBC2012, ENS 2011, HBM 2011, ICIAR2011, IEEE EMBC2011, pHealth2012
Proposals
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Publications

Books

• Liliana da Silva Ferreira, António J. S. Teixeira, João Paulo Cunha. Medical Information Extraction - Information Extraction from Portuguese Hospital Discharge Letters. Lambert Academic Publishing, June 2012

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Márcio Neves Cardoso, José Maria Fernandes, Teresa Coelho, João Paulo Cunha. Supporting the Assessment of Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis Patients Based On 3-D Gait Analysis and Machine Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 29, p. 1350-1362, July 2021
• Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Márcio Neves Cardoso, José Maria Fernandes, Teresa Coelho, João Paulo Cunha. Clinical 3-D Gait Assessment of Patients With Polyneuropathy Associated With Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis. Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 11, no. 1546, November 2020
• Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, Márcio Cardoso, José Maria Fernandes, Teresa Coelho, João Paulo Cunha. Validation of a Single RGB-D Camera for Gait Assessment of Polyneuropathy Patients. Sensors, vol. 19, no. 22, p. 4929, November 2019 [IF 2019: 3.275 (Q1, 15/64)] [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, Hugo Miguel Pereira Choupina, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Cunha. Full-body motion assessment: Concurrent validation of two body tracking depth sensors versus a gold standard system during gait. Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 87, p. 189-196, April 2019
• Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Cunha. System for automatic gait analysis based on a single RGB-D camera. PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 8, August 2018 [IF 2018: 2.776 (Q2, 24/69)]
• João Paulo Cunha, Hugo Miguel Pereira Choupina, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, José Maria Fernandes, Felix Achilles, Anna Mira Loesch, Christian Vollmar, Elisabeth Hartl, Soheyl Noachtar. NeuroKinect: A Novel Low-Cost 3Dvideo-EEG System for Epileptic Seizure Motion Quantification. PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 1, p. e0145669, January 2016 [IF 2016: 2.806 (Q1, 15/64)] [IF 2018: 2.776 (Q2, 24/69)]
• Sophie Donnet, Ramon Bartolo, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Cunha, Luis Prado, Hugo Merchant. Monkeys time their pauses of movement and not their movement-kinematics during a synchronization-continuation rhythmic task. Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 111, no. 10, p. 2138-49, February 2014 [IF 2014: 2.887 (Q2, 29/83)]
• João Paulo Cunha, Jan Rémi, Christian Vollmar, José Maria Fernandes, Jose A. Gonzalez-Victores, Soheyl Noachtar. Upper limb automatisms differ quantitatively in temporal and frontal lobe epilepsies. Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 27, no. 2, p. 404-408, May 2013 [IF 2013: 2.061, 2.061 (Q3, Q3, 70/136, 70/136)]
• João Paulo Cunha, Virgilio Bento, Luis Paula, Eduardo Dias, Chandas Bilgin, Soheyl Noachtar. Movement quantification in epileptic seizures: A feasibility study for a new 3D approach. Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 34, p. 938-45, September 2012 [IF 2012: 1.779]
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. On using permutation tests to estimate the classification significance of functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Neurocomputing, vol. 82, p. 224–233, April 2012 [IF 2012: 1.634 (Q2, 37/115)] [IF 2018: 4.072 (Q1, 28/134)]
• David Ribeiro, Lianshe Fu, Luis Carlos, João Paulo Cunha. A novel dry active biosignal electrode based on an hybrid organic-inorganic interface material. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 11, no. 10, p. 2241-2245, October 2011 [IF 2011: 1.520, 1.520, 1.520]
• AS Peters, J Rémi, C Vollmar, J Gonzalez-Victores, João Paulo Cunha, S Noachtar. Dysprosody during epileptic seizures lateralizes to the non-dominant hemisphere. Neurology, vol. 77, p. 1482-1486, October 2011 [IF 2011: 8.312]
• Jan Rémi, Philipp Wagner, Rebecca O'Dwyer, João Paulo Cunha, Christian Vollmar, Isabella Krotofil, Soheyl Noachtar. Ictal Head Turning in Frontal and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsia, vol. 52, no. 8, p. 1447-1451, August 2011 [IF 2011: 3.961]
• Ilídio Oliveira, João Paulo Cunha. Integration Services to Enable Regional Shared Electronic Health Records. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 169, p. 310-314, August 2011
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Using multivariate pattern analysis to study how specific brain regions respond to different visual stimulation. Journal of Neurology, vol. 258, p. S167, May 2011 [IF 2011: 3.473, 3.473, 3.473, 3.473]
• Jan Rémi, João Paulo Cunha, Christian Vollmar, Ozgur Topçuoglu, Alexander Meier, Steffen Ulowetz, Pedro Beleza, Soheyl Noachtar. Quantitative Movement Analysis Differentiates Focal Seizures Characterized by Automatisms. Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 642-647, April 2011 [IF 2011: 1.994, 1.994 (Q2, Q2, 65/130, 65/130)]
• Pedro Dias, Isabel Soares, John Klein, João Paulo Cunha, Glenn Roisman. Autonomic correlates of attachment insecurity in a sample of women with eating disorders. Attachment & Human Development, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 155-167, March 2011 [IF 2011: 1.426]
• Zulfiya Mirzadjanova, Astrid S. Peters, Jan Rémi, Candas Bilgin, João Paulo Cunha, Soheyl Noachtar. Significance of lateralization of upper limb automatisms in temporal lobe epilepsy: A quantitative movement analysis. Epilepsia, vol. 51, no. 10, p. 2140-2146, October 2010 [IF 2010: 3.955]
• João Paulo Cunha, José Maria Fernandes, Astrid Petters, Candas Bilgin, Jan Rémi, Zulfiya Mirzadjanova, José Gonzalez-Vitores, Soheyl Noachtar. Quantitative Analysis of Upper Limb Automatisms in Temporal and Frontal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsia, vol. 51, no. S4, p. 53-53, June 2010 [IF 2010: 3.955]
• João Paulo Cunha, José Maria Fernandes, Virgilio Bento, L. Paula, F. Oliveira, C. Bilgin, S. Noachtar. 3D movement quantification in epilepsy: new contribution for quantitative semiology analysis. Epilepsia, vol. 50, no. s10, p. 84, October 2009 [IF 2009: 4.052]
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Other articles in journals

• Liliana da Silva Ferreira, António J. S. Teixeira, João Paulo Cunha. Extracção de Informação de Relatórios Médicos. LinguaMática, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 89-102, 2009
• Luis A. Meireles, José Luís Azevedo, João Paulo Cunha, F. Xavier Malcata. On-line Determination of Biomass in a Microalgae Bioreactor Using a Novel Computerized Flow Injection Analysis System. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 18, no. 6, p. 1387-1391, January 2002

Chapters in books

• Hugo Choupina, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, José Maria Fernandes, Christian Vollman, S Noachtar, João Paulo Cunha. NeuroKinect 3.0: Multi-bed 3Dvideo-EEG system for epilepsy clinical motion monitoring. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 247, p. 46-50, June 2018
• Paulo Azevedo, F. Marques, José Maria Fernandes, Jorge Humberto Amorim, Joana Valente, Ana Miranda, Carlos Borrego, João Paulo Cunha. A wearable technological solution for firefighters smoke exposure monitoring. Advances in Forest Fire Research, D.X. Viegas (Ed.), Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-0884-6_144, 2014
• Liliana da Silva Ferreira, António J. S. Teixeira, João Paulo Cunha. Medical Information Extraction in European Portuguese. Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services: Developments and Applications, Isabel Maria Miranda, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Ed.), IGI Global, 2012
• Virgilio Bento, Vitor Cruz, David Ribeiro, Márcio Colunas, João Paulo Cunha. The SWORD Tele-Rehabilitation System. pHealth 2012, Bernd Blobel, Peter Pharow, Filipe Sousa (Ed.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, vol. 177, p. 76-81, 2012
• Diogo C Teles, Márcio M Colunas, José Maria Fernandes, Ilídio Oliveira, João Paulo Cunha. iVital: A Real Time Monitoring System for First Response Teams. Mobile Networks and Management, Kostas Pentikousis, Rui Aguiar, Susana Sargento, Ramón Agüero (Ed.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p. 396-404, 2012
• João Paulo Cunha. pHealth and Wearable Technologies: a permanent challenge. pHealth 2012, Bernd Blobel, Peter Pharow Filipe Sousa (Ed.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, p. 185-95, 2012
• André Zúquete, Bruno Quintela, João Paulo Cunha. Biometric Authentication with Electroencephalograms: Evaluation of its Suitability Using Visual Evoked Potentials. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Ana Fred, Joaquim Filipe, Hugo Gamboa (Ed.), Springer, vol. 127, p. 290-306, 2011
• Ilídio Oliveira, Eduardo Dias, Luís Alves, João Barros, Jorge Silva, Miguel Monteiro, António Sousa Pereira, José Maria Fernandes, Aurélio Campinho, João Paulo Cunha. Extending a desktop endoscopic capsule video analysis tool used by doctors with advanced computing resources. IberGrid2011 5th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference, I. Campos Placencia, J. Marco de Lucas, J. Gomes, G. Barreira (Ed.), Spain: NetBiblo S.L., La Coruña, p. 156-168, 2011
• David Pacheco, Ilídio Oliveira, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Cunha. MAGI: A medical application Grid interfacing portal for eScience. 3rd Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IberGrid'09)D, V. Hernández Garcia, G. Barreira, I. Blanquer Espert, J. Gomes (Ed.), Spain: NetBiblo S.L., La Coruña, p. 31-42, 2010
• João Paulo Cunha, José Maria Fernandes, Ilídio Oliveira, Micael Pedrosa, Luís Alves, António Sousa Pereira. The Portuguese BING network: Towards a brain imaging Grid virtual community. 3rd Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IberGrid'09), V. Hernández Garcia, G. Barreira, I. Blanquer Espert, J. Gomes (Ed.), Valencia, Spain: NetBiblo S.L., La Coruña, 2009
• André Zúquete, Hélder Gomes, João Paulo Cunha. Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Ana Fred, Joaquim Filipe and Hugo Gamboa (Ed.), Springer, vol. 25, p. 479-492, 2008
• Ilídio Oliveira, José Maria Fernandes, Luís Alves, António Sousa Pereira, João Paulo Cunha. GERES-med: An Architecture for Grid-Enabled scientific REpositorieS for medical applications. IBERGRID 2008 - 2nd Iberian Grid Infrastruture Conference, Porto, Portugal, Netbiblo, S.L., p. 163-173, 2008
• Liliana da Silva Ferreira, António J. S. Teixeira, João Paulo Cunha. REMMA - Reconhecimento de Entidades Mencionadas do MedAlert. Desafios na avaliação conjunta do reconhecimento de entidades mencionadas: O Segundo HAREM, C. Mota and D. Santos (Ed.), Linguateca, p. 213-229, 2008

Articles in conference proceedings

• Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, José Maria Fernandes, Hugo Choupina, Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, João Paulo Cunha. Subject Identification Based on Gait Using a RGB-D Camera. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, SoCPaR 2018; Porto; Portugal, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17065-3_8, vol. 942, p. 76-85, January 2020
• Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Miguel Pereira Choupina, Márcio Cardoso, José Maria Fernandes, Teresa Coelho, João Paulo Cunha. TTR-FAP Progression Evaluation Based on Gait Analysis Using a Single RGB-D Camera. 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857354, p. 5494-5497, 2019
• Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, José Maria Fernandes, Teresa Coelho, João Paulo Cunha. The first Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy gait quantification study - Preliminary results. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., p. 1368-1371, July 2017
• João Paulo Cunha, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, José Maria Fernandes, Maria José Rosas, Rui Vaz, Felix Achilles, Anna Mira Loesch, Christian Vollmar, Elisabeth Hartl, Soheyl Noachtar. A novel portable, low-cost kinect-based system for motion analysis in neurological diseases. 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, 2016, pp. 2339-2342. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591199 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7591199&isnumber=7590615, 2016
• Maria José Rosas, João Paulo Cunha, Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, José Maria Fernandes, Rui Vaz. Movement quantification for evaluation of gait in Parkinson's disease using a RGB‐D camera system. Movement Disorders 2015;30 Suppl 1 :2096, 2016
• Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, José Maria Fernandes, Maria José Rosas, Rui Vaz, João Paulo Cunha. Kinect V2 Based System for Parkinson's Disease Assessment. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE , DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318601, 2015
• Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, José Maria Fernandes, Maria José Rosas, Rui Vaz, João Paulo Cunha. Estimativa do sub-score UPDRS de marcha em doentes parkinsónicos usando um sistema de quantificação 3D de movimento portátil e de baixo custo. Congresso Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurocirurgia, p. 20, 2014
• Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Hugo Choupina, José Maria Fernandes, Maria José Rosas, Rui Vaz, João Paulo Cunha. Parkinson's disease assessment based on gait analysis using an innovative RGB-D camera system. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6944285, vol. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944285, August 2014
• Ana Patrícia Oliveira Ferreira da Rocha, Oscar Pereira, David Ribeiro, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Cunha. MonitorMe: Online video monitoring for first responders using a smartphone. e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6720774&isnumber=6720623, vol. doi: 10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720774, October 2013
• Fábio M. Marques, Paulo Azevedo, João Paulo Cunha, Bernardo Cunha, Susana Brás, José Maria Fernandes. FIREMAN: FIRefighter team brEathing Management system using ANdroid. 17th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Zurique, Switzerland, p. 133-134, September 2013
• Susana Brás, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Cunha. ECG Delineation and Morphological Analysis for Firefighters Tasks Differentiation. 26th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Porto, Portugal, June 2013
• Ilídio Oliveira, Nelson Silva, Ivo da Veiga, João Paulo Cunha. Supporting nursing care assessment protocols with smartphones. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics, p. p. 81-86, 2012
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Using permutation tests to study how the dimensionality, the number of classes, and the number of samples affect classification analysis. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR, 2012
• Susana Brás, David Ribeiro, João Paulo Cunha, Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho. A novel non-invasive continuous system for estimating arterial blood pressure: first-in-man clinical results. European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress, Munich, August 2012
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. A winner shoe in the motor cortex. 22nd Meeting of the European Neurological Society, vol. 259, p. S84-S85, June 2012
• Oscar A.M. Pereira, David Ribeiro, Susana Brás, João Paulo Cunha. Wearable Sensors for Posture Monitoring and Fall Detection for elderly People. 9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nanotechnologies for personalized health (phealth 2012), Porto, Portugal, June 2012
• Susana Brás, Nuno Ferreira, João Paulo Cunha. ECG Artefact detection algorithm - An algorithm to improve long-term ECG analysis. BIOSIGNALS 2012 – Int Conf on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Vilamoura, Portugal, p. 329-333, February 2012
• José Maria Fernandes, Sérgio Tafula, João Paulo Cunha. 3D-Video-fMRI: 3D motion tracking in a 3T MRI environment. M Kamel, A. Campilho (eds) ICIAR2011, vol. LNCS 6754, p. 59-67, 2011
• José Maria Fernandes, Sérgio Tafula, João Paulo Cunha. Different fMRI activations if a response box or a 3D movement tracking system is used. Human Brain Mapping 2011, Quebec City, Canada, 2011
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Functional brain mapping by methods of evolutionary natural selection. Computer analysis of images and patterns, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. LNCS 6855, p. 293-299, September 2011
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