Susana Brás

Position	Researcher
Affiliation	IEETA
Group	Biomedical Informatics and Technologies
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students
Former PhD students	João M. Carvalho
Former masters students	Show list
Courses
Projects	APH-ALARM
Past projects	Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Diamarker, NRCD, TO2, VR2, VR2Market
Events	INForum 2017
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0001-8650-9219
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Contact information

Susana Brás
IEETA / DETI
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Phone: +351 234 370 543
E-mail: susana.bras [at] ua.pt

ORCID

Short biography

Susana Brás was born in Chaves, Portugal in 1983. She is a Researcher at Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University of Aveiro, Portugal. At this moment, she is focused on ECG biometric identification, emotional modulated environments and information extraction from large biomedical databases. Before, she was a PhD student at Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, at University of Porto, Portugal. Her thesis was focused on automation in anesthesia, basically the drug distribution and effect (alterations in the brain electrical activity) were studied, modeled and a controller was presented for the hypnotic effect. Her background is in Applied Mathematics, from the Sciences Faculty, at University of Porto. Before joining the research activity, she worked as actuary (pension funds analyst and technician) at a private Bank in Portugal. During this activity she was responsible for the management of the company website, public and private access. Also, she was responsible for several commercial and technical tasks.

Keywords: affective computing, data mining, machine learning, signal processing, time series analysis, multimodal systems

Publications

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Ana Almeida, Susana Brás, Ilídio Oliveira, Susana Sargento. Vehicular traffic flow prediction using deployed traffic counters in a city. Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 128, p. 429-442, January 2022
• Chunyu Tan, Liming Zhang, Tao Qian, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Statistical n-best AFD based Sparse Representation for ECG Biometric Identification. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, October 2021
• Mariana S. Ramos, João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. On the Impact of the Data Acquisition Protocol on ECG Biometric Identification. Sensors, vol. 21, p. 4645, July 2021 [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• Gisela Pinto, João M. Carvalho, Filipa Barros, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. Multimodal Emotion Evaluation: A Physiological Model for Cost-Effective Emotion Classification. Sensors, vol. 20, no. 12, p. 3510, June 2020 [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Diogo Pratas, Jacqueline Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Extended-Alphabet Finite-Context Models. Pattern Recognition Letters, no. 112, p. 49-55, September 2018 [IF 2018: 2.810 (Q2, 50/134)]
• Susana Brás, Sandra C. Soares, Telmo Cruz, Tiago Magalhães, Bernardo Marques, Cláudia Dantas, Nuno Fernandes, José Maria Fernandes. The Feasibility of an Augment Reality System to Study the Psychophysiological Correlates of Fear-Related Responses. Brain and Behavior, vol. 8, p. e01084, September 2018
• Susana Brás, Jacqueline H. Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Biometric and emotion identification: an ECG compression based method. Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9:467, April 2018 [IF 2018: 2.129 (Q2, 40/137)]
• Jacqueline Ferreira, Susana Brás, Carlos F. Silva, Sandra C. Soares. An Automatic Classifier of Emotions Build from Noise Entropy. Psychophysiology, vol. 54, no. 4, p. 620-627, April 2017
• Susana Brás, Sandra Soares, Ricardo Moreira, José Maria Fernandes. BeMonitored: Monitoring psychophysiology and behavior using Android in phobias. Behavior Research Methods, vol. 48, no. 3, p. 1100-1108, September 2016 [IF 2016: 3.623 (Q1, 1/13)]
• Susana Brás, Apostolos Georgakis, Lénio Ribeiro, David A. Ferreira, Luis Antunes, Catarina S. Nunes. Electroencephalogram-based indices applied to dogs’ depth of anaesthesia monitoring. Research in Veterinary Science, vol. 97, no. 3, p. 597-604, December 2014 [IF 2014: 1.409 (Q2, 34/133)]
• Luciana A. Campos, Valter L. Pereira Jr., Amita Muralikrishna, Sulayma Albarwani, Susana Brás, Sónia Gouveia. Mathematical Biomarkers for the Autonomic Regulation of Cardiovascular System. Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 4, p. 279, September 2013
• Susana Brás, Sónia Gouveia, Lénio Ribeiro, David A. Ferreira, Luis Antunes, Catarina S. Nunes. Fuzzy Logic Model to describe anesthetic effect and muscular influence on EEG Cerebral State Index. Research in Veterinary Science, vol. 94, no. 3, p. 735-742, June 2013 [IF 2013: 1.511 (Q1, 29/132)]
• Lénio M. Ribeiro, David A. Ferreira, Susana Brás, J. M. Gonzalo-Orden, Luis M. Antunes. Correlation between clinical signs of depth of anaesthesia and cerebral state index responses in dogs with different target-controlled infusions of propofol. Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, vol. 39, p. 21-28, January 2012 [IF 2012: 1.340, 1.340]

Chapters in books

• Susana Brás, João M. Carvalho, Filipa Barros, Claudia Figueiredo, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. An Information-Theoretical Method for Emotion Classification. XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019. IFMBE Proceedings, Henriques J., Neves N., de Carvalho P. (Ed.), Springer, Cham, vol. 76, 2020
• 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

Articles in conference proceedings

• Luisa Castro, Filipa Barros, Sandra C. Soares, Susana Brás. ECG and EDA information transfer on emotion evaluation. Entropy 2021: The Scientific Tool of the 21st Century, Porto, Portugal, p. 1, May 2021
• João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. Entropy-Based ECG Biometric Identification. Entropy 2021: The Scientific Tool of the 21st Century, Porto, Portugal, p. 1, May 2021
• David Ferreira, Nuno Almeida, Susana Brás, Sandra C. Soares, António J. S. Teixeira, Samuel Silva. Enabling Multimodal Emotionally-Aware Ecosystems through a W3C-aligned Generic Interaction Modality. Proc. MobiHealth, Dublin, Ireland, vol. LNICS 320, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49289-2_11, June 2020
• A. F. Tavares, Ilídio Oliveira, Susana Brás, Susana Sargento. Estimation of buses arrival time combining historic and live mobility data. InForum Simpósio de Informática, Guimarães, Portugal, September 2019
• Filipa Barros, Cláudia Figueiredo, Susana Brás, João M. Carvalho, Sandra Soares. The role of somatic trait anxiety and alexithymia on the physiological and subjective response to emotional stimuli. 19th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2019
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Myocardial infarction detection using a compression-based approach. Journal of Statistics on Health Decision -- Special Issue - Statistics on Health Decision Making: state of the art, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 1, May 2019
• F. Barros, C. Costa, C. Figueiredo, Susana Brás, João M. Carvalho, S. Magano, N. Madeira, S. C. Soares. Cognitive and somatic trait anxiety: subjective and psychophysiological responses. 27th European Congress of Psychiatry, Warsaw, Poland, April 2019
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Compression-Based Classification of ECG Using First-Order Derivatives. 10th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2018, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Guimarães, Portugal, vol. 273, p. 27-36, March 2019
• Tiago Henriques, Samuel Silva, Susana Brás, Sandra C. Soares, Nuno Almeida, António J. S. Teixeira. Emotionally-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Preliminary Work on a Generic Affective Modality. Proc. DSAI, Thessaloniki, Greece, vol. ISBN: 978-1-4503-6467-6, June 2018
• Luísa Castro, Andreia Teixeira, Susana Brás, Marcelo Santos, Cristina Costa-Santos. Towards FHR biometric identification: a comparison between compression and entropy based approaches. IEEE 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Karlstad, Sweden, p. 440-441, June 2018
• Samuel Silva, Sandra C. Soares, Susana Brás, José Maria Fernandes, Manuel Coroa, Nuno Madeira, Tiago Santos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. From the Lab into People’s Lives: Setting a Roadmap for Mental Healthcare Assistive Technologies derived from Psychophysiology. Proc. 26th European Congress of Psychiatry, Nice, France, March 2018
• Bernardo Marques, Susana Brás, Sandra C. Soares, José Maria Fernandes. Psychophysiology assessment tool using Virtual Reality. InForum Simpósio de Informática 2017, Aveiro, October 2017
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. The Impact of Noise Removal on a Compression-based ECG Biometric Identification System. 23rd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Lisboa, October 2017
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Jacqueline Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Impact of the acquisition time on ECG compression-based biometric identification systems. IbPRIA 2017 - 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Faro, Portugal, vol. LNCS 10255, p. 169-176, June 2017
• Susana Brás, Jacqueline Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Compression Methods on Emotion Identification - Preliminary Study. 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• Tiago Magalhães, José Maria Fernandes, Ilídio Oliveira, Susana Brás. Initial validation of online ECG signal segmentation. 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. Irregularity Detection in ECG signal using a semi-fiducial method. 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• Bernardo Marques, Susana Brás, Sandra C. Soares, José Maria Fernandes. Psychophysiology assessment tool using Virtual Reality - Case Study. 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• Sónia Gouveia, A. O. Pinheiro, Susana Brás, Luciana A. Campos. Fuzzy logic SBP and RR modelling evaluated under parasympathetic blockade. Computing in Cardiology, vol. 43, p. 497-500, September 2016
• Jacqueline Ferreira, Susana Brás, Laura Alho, Joana Raposo, Gabriela Ramos, Carlos Silva, Sandra C. Soares. An automatic classifier of emotions based on ECG noise. 11º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, Lisboa, Portugal, April 2016
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PhD thesis

• Susana Brás. Automation in Veterinary Anaesthesia: modelling and control. PhD Thesis, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, December 2010