Prof. Joao Manuel Ribeiro da Silva Tavares
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Prof. Joao Manuel Ribeiro da Silva Tavares

Professor
University of Porto, Portugal


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Porto, Portugal

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Biography

Dr. Joao Manuel Ribeiro da Silva Tavares obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Porto, Portugal in 2001. Currently he is working as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. His area of research related to Computational Vision, Image Processing and Analysis, Medical Imaging, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Biomedical Engineering, Modelling and Simulation, Product Development. He supervised 68 Masters, 9 PhD students, 14 PhD currently in his supervision. He also involved in 7 Post-doctoral projects. Dr. Joao Manuel received honors include, Award of Incentive to Research, Best paper published in 2012, Best paper award, Best student paper award, Project awarded for 2003/2004 of the Scientific Research in Pre-Graduation Program in the field of Engineering. He has published (184) papers in national and international journals, (31) books, (32) chapters in book, (333) in national and international conferences contributed as author/co-author. He is also member of editor board in number of international journals. He also organized number of scientific events.

Area of Interest:

Computer Sciences
100%
Computer Engineering
62%
Computer Vision
90%
Image Processing
75%
Computer Graphics
55%

Research Publications in Numbers

Books
68
Chapters
14
Articles
269
Abstracts
84

Selected Publications

  1. Silva, E.D.M., J.P. Leite, F.A.D.F. Neto, J.P. Leite, W.M. Fialho, V.H.C. de Albuquerque and J.M.R. Tavares, 2016. Evaluation of the magnetic permeability for the microstructural characterization of a duplex stainless steel. J. Testing Eval., 44: 1-7.
  2. Sousa, A.S. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2015. Interlimb coordination during step-to-step transition and gait performance. J. Motor Behav., 47: 563-574.
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  3. Rodrigues, R., J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares, 2015. Users' emotions and experience in service design. Appl. Ergon., .
  4. Ridha, H., K.H. Almitani, A. Chamekh, H. Toumi and J.M.R. Tavares, 2015. A theory for bone resorption based on the local rupture of osteocytes cells connections: A finite element study. Math. Biosci., 262: 46-55.
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  5. Morais, P., J.L. Vilaca, J.. Ector, J. D'hooge and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2015. Novel solutions applied in transseptal puncture: a systematic review of current literature. J. Med. Syst., .
  6. Maria R., C. Aroeira, B. Estevam, L, Casas, M.A. Eustaquio, P.M. Greco, J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares, 2015. Non-invasive methods of computer vision in the global body posture evaluation of the adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A systematic review. J. Bodywork Mov. Ther., .
  7. Manuel, J., R.S. Tavares, M. Renato and N. Jorge, 2015. Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, Pages: 395.
  8. Ma, Z. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2015. A novel approach to segment skin lesions in dermoscopic images based on a deformable model. IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform. 10.1109/JBHI.2015.2390032.
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  9. Joao, M.R.S. Tavares and R.M.N. Jorge (Ed.). 2015. Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing V Proceedings of the 5th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - VipIMAGE 2015. CRC Press, US, Pages: 356.
  10. Hambli, R., S. Frikha, H. Toumi and J.M.R. Tavares, 2015. Finite element prediction of fatigue damage growth in cancellous bone. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng. 10.1080/10255842.2015.1048687.
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  11. Fernandes, A., N. Rocha, R. Santos and J.M.R. Tavares, 2015. Effects of dual-task training on balance and executive functions in Parkinson's disease: A pilot study. Somatosensory Motor Res. 10.3109/08990220.2014.1002605.
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  12. Barkaoui, A., R. Hambli and J.M.R. Tavares, 2015. Effect of material and structural factors on fracture behaviour of mineralised collagen microfibril using finite element simulation. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 18: 1181-1190.
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  13. Zhang, Y.J., J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares (Ed.). 2014. Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images - Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications (4th International Conference, CompIMAGE 2014, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 3-5, 2014, Proceedings). Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Pages: 416.
  14. Sousa, L.C., C.F. Castro, C.C. Antonio, A.M.F. Santos and R.M. dos Santos et al., 2014. Toward hemodynamic diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis based on ultrasound image data and computational modeling. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 52: 971-983.
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  15. Sousa, L.C., C.F. Castro, C.C. Antonio, A. Santos and R. Santos et al., 2014. Haemodynamic conditions of patient-specific carotid bifurcation based on ultrasound imaging. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng.: Imag. Visualization, 2: 157-166.
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  16. Sousa, L.C., C. Castro, C.A.C. Antonio, J.M. Tavares and A.M. Santos et al., 2014. Simulated hemodynamics in human carotid bifurcation based on Doppler ultrasound data. Int. J. Clin. Neurosci. Mental Health, Vol. 2014. .
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  17. Sousa, A.S.P., A. Silva, R. Macedo, R. Santos and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2014. Influence of long-term wearing of unstable shoes on compensatory control of posture: An electromyography-based analysis. Gait Posture, 39: 98-104.
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  18. Oliveira, F.P.M. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2014. Medical image registration: A review. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 17: 73-93.
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  19. Oliveira, F.P., D.B. Faria, D.C. Costa and J.M.R. Tavares, 2014. A robust computational solution for automated quantification of a specific binding ratio based on [123I] FP-CIT SPECT images. Q. J. Nuclear Med. Mol. Imag., 58: 74-84.
  20. Oliveira, F.P., D.B. Faria and J.M.R. Tavares, 2014. Automated segmentation of the incus and malleus ossicles in conventional tri-dimensional computed tomography images. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part H: J. Eng. Med., 228: 810-818.
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  21. Manuel J.R.S. Tavares, X. Luo and S. Li, 2014. Bio- Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations - MICCAI 2013 Workshop. Springer, London NewYork, Pages: 147.
  22. Liberal, F.D.G., A.A.S. Tavares and J.M.R. Tavares, 2014. Comparative analysis of 11 different radioisotopes for palliative treatment of bone metastases by computational methods. Med. Phys., Vol. 41. 10.1118/1.4897240.
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  23. Li, S., J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares, (Ed.). 2014. Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis. Springer, Heidelberg, New York, Pages: 442.
  24. Iwashita, A.., J.P. Papa, A.N. Souza, A.X. Falcao and R.A. Lotufo et al., 2014. A path-and label-cost propagation approach to speedup the training of the optimum-path forest classifier. Pattern Recogn. Lett., 40: 121-127.
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  25. Iacoviello, D., P.D. Giamberardino, R.M. Natal Jorge, J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares, 2014. Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications. Springer, London New York, Pages: 314.
  26. Ferreira, A., F. Gentil and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2014. Segmentation algorithms for ear image data towards biomechanical studies. Comput. Methods in Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 17: 888-904.
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  27. Fernandes, A., R. Santos, N. Rocha and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2014. The influence of pauses on the fatigue of upper limb muscles during the task of ironing. Somatosen. Motor Res., 31: 11-15.
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  28. Editors: Natal Jorge, R.M., J.C. Reis Campos, A.P. Vaz Mario, S.M. Santos, J.M.R.S. Tavares (Ed.). 2014. Biodental Engineering III. CRC Press, London New York, Pages: 318.
  29. Durao, L.M.P., J.M.R. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, J.F.S. Marques and O.N. Andrade, 2014. Drilling damage in composite material. Materials, 7: 3802-3819.
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  30. Durao, L.M.P., D. Goncalves, J.M.R. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, A.M.R.D.A. Vieira and A.P.M. Baptista, 2014. Delamination in carbon/epoxy plates drilling: Tool and feed rate effect. Int. J. Mater. Prod. Technol., 49: 267-284.
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  31. De Oliveira, S.L.G., J.R. Nogueira and J.M.R. Tavares, 2014. A systematic review of algorithms with linear-time behaviour to generate Delaunay and Voronoi tessellations. Comput. Model. Eng. Sci., 100: 31-57.
  32. De Araujo, A.F., C.E. Constantinoua and J.M.R. Tavares, 2014. New artificial life model for image enhancement. Expert Syst. Applic., 41: 5892-5906.
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  33. Ventura, S.M.R., D.R.S. Freitas, I.M.A. Ramos and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Morphologic differences in the vocal tract resonance cavities of voice professionals: An MRI-based study. J. Voice, 27: 132-140.
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  34. Tavares, A.A.S. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2013. Computational modeling of cellular effects post-irradiation with low- and high-let particles and different absorbed doses. Dose-Response, 11: 191-206.
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  35. Sousa, A.S.P., R. Macedo, R. Santos and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2013. Influence of wearing an unstable shoe construction on compensatory control of posture. Hum. Movement Sci., 32: 1353-1364.
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  36. Sousa, A.S.P., A. Silva, R. Santos, F. Sousa and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2013. Interlimb coordination during the stance phase of gait in subjects with stroke. Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabilit., 94: 2515-2522.
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  37. Sousa, A.S., A. Silva and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Interlimb relation during the double support phase of gait: An electromyographic, mechanical and energy based analysis. Proc. Inst. Mechan. Eng. Part H: J. Eng. Med., 227: 327-333.
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  38. Silva, A., A.S.P. Sousa, R. Pinheiro, J. Ferraz, J.M.R.S. Tavares, R. Santos and F. Sousa, 2013. Activation timing of soleus and tibialis anterior muscles during sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit in post-stroke vs. healthy subjects. Somatosen. Motor Res., 30: 48-55.
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  39. Santos, I.C. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Additional peculiarities of medical devices that should be considered in their development process. Expert Rev. Med. Devices, 10: 411-420.
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  40. Santos, A., L. Sousa, J. Tavares, R. Santos, P. Castro and E. Azevedo, 2013. Computer simulation of the cardiovascular system. Cerebrovascular Dis., 35: 45-45.
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  41. Santos, A., J. Tavares, L. Sousa, C. Castro and C. Antonio et al., 2013. Carotid artery bifurcation modelling from patient CT angiography and ultrasound technics. Cerebrovasc Dis., 35: 47-47.
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  42. Papa, J.P., R.Y. Nakamura, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, A.X. Falcao and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Computer techniques towards the automatic characterization of graphite particles in metallographic images of industrial materials. Expert Syst. Applic., 40: 590-597.
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  43. Oliveira, F.P. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Enhanced spatio-temporal alignment of plantar pressure image sequences using B-splines. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 51: 267-276.
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  44. Nunes, T.M., V.H.C. de Albuquerque, J.P. Papa, C.C. Silva, P.G. Normando, E.P. Moura and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Automatic microstructural characterization and classification using artificial intelligence techniques on ultrasound signals. Expert Syst. Applic., 40: 3096-3105.
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  45. Natal Jorge, R.M., J.C. Reis Campos, Joao Manuel R.S. Tavares, (Ed.). 2013. Biodental Engineering II. CRC Press, London New York, Pages: 208.
  46. Manuel, J.R.S. R.M. Tavares and N. Jorge, 2013. Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV. CRC Press, London New York, Pages: 492.
  47. Manuel J., R.S. Tavares, M. Renato and N. Natal, 2013. Topics in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision. Springer, London New York, Pages: 309.
  48. Ma, Z., R.N. Jorge, T. Mascarenhas and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. A level set based algorithm to reconstruct the urinary bladder from multiple views. Med. Eng. Phys., 35: 1819-1824.
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  49. Ma, Z., R.M.N. Jorge, T. Mascarenhas and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Segmentation of female pelvic organs in axial magnetic resonance images using coupled geometric deformable models. Comput. Biol. Med., 43: 248-258.
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  50. Gentil, F., M. Parente, P. Martins, C. Garbe and J. Paco et al., 2013. The influence of muscles activation on the dynamical behaviour of the tympano-ossicular system of the middle ear. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 16: 392-402.
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  51. Durao, L.M.P., J.M.R. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque and D.J. Goncalves, 2013. Damage evaluation of drilled carbon/epoxy laminates based on area assessment methods. Composite Struct., 96: 576-583.
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  52. Durao, L.M.P., D.J. Goncalves, J.M.R.S. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque and T.H. Panzera et al., 2013. Drilling delamination outcomes on glass and sisal reinforced plastics. Mater. Sci. Forum, 730: 301-306.
  53. De Oliveira, S.L.G., M. Kischinhevsk and J.M.R. Tavares, 2013. Novel graph-based adaptive triangular mesh refinement for finite-volume discretizations. Comput. Model. Eng. Sci., 95: 119-141.
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  54. De Oliveira, F.S., S.L.G. de Oliveira, M. Kischinhevsky and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2013. Moving mesh for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Sistemas de Informacao, 11: 11-16.
  55. Carvalho, A.R., J.M.R. Tavares and J.C. Principe, 2013. A novel nonparametric distance estimator for densities with error bounds. Entropy, 15: 1609-1623.
  56. Vasconcelos, M.J., S.M. Ventura, D.R. Freitas and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Inter-speaker speech variability assessment using statistical deformable models from 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance images. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part H: J. Eng. Med., 226: 185-196.
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  57. Sousa, A.S.P., R. Santos, F.P.M. Oliveira, P. Carvalho and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Analysis of ground reaction force and electromyographic activity of the gastrocnemius muscle during double support. Proc. Instit. Mechan. Eng. Part H: J. Eng. Medic., 226: 397-405.
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  58. Sousa, A.S., A. Silva and J.M.R. Tavares, 2012. Biomechanical and neurophysiological mechanisms related to postural control and efficiency of movement: A review. Somatosensory Motor Res., 29: 131-143.
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  59. Sousa, A., J.M.R.S. Tavares, R. Macedo, A.M. Rodrigues and R. Santos, 2012. Influence of wearing an unstable shoe on thigh and leg muscle activity and venous response in upright standing. Applied Ergonom., 43: 933-939.
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  60. Sousa, A. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Effect of gait speed on muscle activity patterns and magnitude during stance. Motor Control, 16: 480-492.
  61. Silva, A., A.S.P. Sousa, R. Pinheiro, J.M.R.S. Tavares, R. Santos and F. Sousa, 2012. Soleus activity in post-stroke subjects: Movement sequence from standing to sitting. Somatosen. Motor Res., 29: 71-76.
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  62. Silva, A., A.S.P. Sousa, J.M.R.S. Tavares, A. Tinoco, R. Santos and F. Sousa, 2012. Ankle dynamic in stroke patients: Agonist vs. antagonist muscle relations. Somatosen. Motor Res., 29: 111-116.
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  63. Santos, I.C., G.S. Gazelle, L.A. Rocha and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Modeling of the medical device development process. Expert Rev. Med. Devices, 9: 537-543.
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  64. Santos, I.C., G.S. Gazelle, L.A. Rocha and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Medical device specificities: Opportunities for a dedicated product development methodology. Expert Rev. Med. Devices, 9: 299-311.
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  65. Santos, I.C., G.S. Gazelle, L.A. Rocha and J.M.R. Tavares, 2012. Evolution of the cost-effectiveness of endovascular and open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. J. Med. Devices, Vol. 6. .
  66. Santos, I.C., A. Rodrigues, L. Figueiredo, L.A. Rocha and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Mechanical properties of stent-graft materials. Inst. Mech. Eng., 226: 330-341.
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  67. Papa, J.P., A.X. Falcao, V.H.C. de Albuquerque and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Efficient supervised optimum-path forest classification for large datasets. Pattern Recognit., 45: 512-520.
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  68. Oliveira, F.P.M., A. Sousa, R. Santos and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Towards an efficient and robust foot classification from pedobarographic images. Comput. Methods Biomechan. Biomed. Eng., 15: 1181-1188.
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  69. Oliveira, F.P.M. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Registration of plantar pressure images. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 28: 589-603.
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  70. Natal Jorge, R.M. , J. Manuel, R.S. Tavares, M. Pinotti and A. Slade, (Ed.). 2012. Technologies for medical sciences. Springer, New York London, Pages: 333.
  71. Ma, Z., R.N.M. Jorge, T. Mascarenhas and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Segmentation of female pelvic cavity in axial T2-weighted MR images towards the 3D reconstruction. Int. J. Numer. Methods Biomed. Eng., 28: 714-726.
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  72. Giamberardino, P.D., D. Iacoviello, R.M. Natal Jorge, J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares, 2012. Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications III. CRC Press, London Now York, Pages: 496.
  73. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., C.C. Silva, P.G. Normando, E.P. Moura and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Thermal aging effects on the microstructure of Nb-bearing nickel based superalloy weld overlays using ultrasound techniques. Mater. Design, 36: 337-347.
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  74. Candido, G.V.D.M., T.A.D.A. Melo, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, R.M. Gomes, S.J.G. de Lima and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2012. Characterization of a CuAlBe alloy with different Cr contents. J. Mater. Eng. Performance, 21: 2398-2406.
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  75. Ventura, S.M.R., D.R.S. Freitas and J.M.R. Tavares, 2011. Toward dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract during speech production. J. Voice, 25: 511-518.
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  76. Vasconcelos, M.J.M., S.M.R. Ventura, D.R.S. Freitas and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Towards the automatic study of the vocal tract from magnetic resonance images. J. Voice, 25: 732-742.
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  77. Tavares, A.A.S. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. 99mTc auger electrons-analysis on the effects of low absorbed doses by computational methods. Applied Radiat. Isotopes, 69: 607-608.
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  78. Silva, P.M.D.O., H.F.G. de Abreu, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, P. de Lima Neto and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Cold deformation effect on the microstructures and mechanical properties of AISI 301LN and 316L stainless steels. Mater. Design, 32: 605-614.
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  79. Saleme, C.S., M.P.L. Parente, R.N. Jorge, M. Pinotti and A.L. Silva-Filho et al., 2011. An approach on determining the displacements of the pelvic floor during voluntary contraction using numerical simulation and MRI. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 14: 365-370.
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  80. Richter‐Trummer, V., E.A. Marques, F.J.P. Chaves, J.M.R.S. Tavares, L.F.M. da Silva and P.M.S.T. de Castro, 2011. Analysis of crack growth behavior in a double cantilever beam adhesive fracture test by different digital image processing techniques. Materialwissenschaft Werkstofftechnik, 42: 452-459.
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  81. Oliveira, F.P.M., A. Sousa, R. Santos and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Spatio-temporal alignment of pedobarographic image sequences. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 49: 843-850.
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  82. Oliveira, F.P.M. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Novel framework for registration of pedobarographic image data. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 49: 313-323.
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  83. Natal Jorge, R.M., Manuel, J., R.S. Tavares, M. Pinotti and A. Slade, (Ed.). 2011. Technology and Medical Sciences. Taylor and Francis, London New York, Pages: 376.
  84. Moura, D.C., J. Boisvert, J.G. Barbosa, H. Labelle and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Fast 3D reconstruction of the spine from biplanar radiographs using a deformable articulated model. Med. Eng. Phys., 33: 924-933.
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  85. Manuel J., R.S. Tavares and R.M. Natal Jorge, 2011. Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: VipIMAGE 2011 Proceedings of the III ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: VipIMAGE 2011. Taylor and Francis, US, Pages: 460.
  86. Ma, Z., R.N. Jorge, T. Mascarenhas and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Novel approach to segment the inner and outer boundaries of the bladder wall in T2-weighted magnetic resonance images. Ann. Biomed. Eng., 39: 2287-2297.
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  87. Gentil, F., M. Parente, P. Martins, C. Garbe, R.N. Jorge, A. Ferreira and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. The influence of the mechanical behaviour of the middle ear ligaments: A finite element analysis. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part H: J. Eng. Med., 225: 68-76.
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  88. Durao, L.M.P., D.J. Goncalves, J.M.R. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque and A.T. Marques, 2011. Comparative analysis of drills for composite laminates. J. Comp. Mater., 46: 1649-1659.
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  89. De Araujo Freitas, V.L., P.G. Normando, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, E. de Macedo Silva, A.A. Silva and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Nondestructive characterization and evaluation of embrittlement kinetics and elastic constants of duplex stainless steel SAF 2205 for different aging times at 425°C and 475°C. J. Nondestructive Eval., 30: 130-136.
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  90. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., C.C. Silva, T.I.D.S. Menezes, J.P. Farias and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Automatic evaluation of nickel alloy secondary phases from SEM images. Microscopy Res. Tech., 74: 36-46.
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  91. Barbosa, J.G., B. Figueiredo, N. Bettencourt and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2011. Towards automatic quantification of the epicardial fat in non-contrasted CT images. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 14: 905-914.
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  92. Vasconcelos, M.J.M., S.R. Ventura, D.R.S. Freitas and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Using statistical deformable models to reconstruct vocal tract shape from magnetic resonance images. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part H: J. Eng. Med., 224: 1153-1163.
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  93. Tavares, A.A.S. and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Evaluating 99mTc auger electrons for targeted tumor radiotherapy by computational methods. Med. Phys., 37: 3551-3559.
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  94. Tavares, A.A.S. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2010. 99mTc auger electrons for targeted tumour therapy: A review. Int. J. Radiation Biol., 86: 261-270.
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  95. Reboucas Filho, P.P., T. da Silveira Cavalcante, V.H.C. de Albuquerque and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Brinell and Vickers hardness measurement using image processing and analysis techniques. J. Testing Evaluation, 38: 88-94.
  96. Ranchordas, A.K., J.M. Pereira, H.J. Araujo, J. Manuel and R.S. Tavares, 2010. Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications. Springer, New York London, Pages: 370.
  97. Oliveira, F.P.M., T.C. Pataky and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Registration of pedobarographic image data in the frequency domain. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 13: 731-740.
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  98. Moura, D.C., J.G. Barbosa, A.M. Reis and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. A flexible approach for the calibration of biplanar radiography of the spine on conventional radiological systems. Comput. Mod. Eng. Sci., 60: 115-138.
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  99. Ma, Z., R.N.M. Jorge and J.M.R. Tavares, 2010. A shape guided C-V model to segment the levator ani muscle in axial magnetic resonance images. Med. Eng. Phys., 32: 766-774.
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  100. Ma, Z., J.M.R. Tavares, R.N. Jorge and T. Mascarenhas, 2010. A review of algorithms for medical image segmentation and their applications to the female pelvic cavity. Comput. Methods Biomechanics Biomed. Eng., 13: 235-246.
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  101. J.M.R.S. Tavares and R.M. Natal Jorge, (Ed.). 2010. Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - Recent Trends. Springer, New York London, Pages: 349.
  102. Durao, L.M.P., J.M.R. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, A.T. Marques, A.G. Magalhaes and A.A. Vieira, 2010. Tool effects on hybrid laminates drilling. Mater. Manufacturing Process., 25: 476-481.
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  103. Durao, L.M.P., D.J. Goncalves, J.M.R.S. Tavares, V.H.C. de Albuquerque, A.A. Vieira and A.T. Marques, 2010. Drilling tool geometry evaluation for reinforced composite laminates. Comp. Struct., 92: 1545-1550.
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  104. Durao, L.M.P., D.J. Goncalves, J.M.R. Tavares, V.H.C. Albuquerque, A.T. Marques and A.P.M. Baptista, 2010. Drilling of carbon fibre reinforced laminates-a comparative analysis of five different drills on thrust force, roughness and delamination. Mater. Sci. Forum, 636: 206-213.
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  105. De Araujo Freitas, V.L., V.H.C. de Albuquerque, E. de Macedo Silva, A.A. Silva and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Nondestructive characterization of microstructures and determination of elastic properties in plain carbon steel using ultrasonic measurements. Mater. Sci. Eng.: A, 527: 4431-4437.
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  106. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., T.A.D.A. Melo, R.M. Gomes, S.J.G. de Lima and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Grain size and temperature influence on the toughness of a CuAlBe shape memory alloy. Mater. Sci. Eng.: A, 528: 459-466.
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  107. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., T.A.D.A. Melo, D.F. de Oliveira, R.M. Gomes and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Evaluation of grain refiners influence on the mechanical properties in a CuAlBe shape memory alloy by ultrasonic and mechanical tensile testing. Mater. Design, 31: 3275-3281.
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  108. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., P.P. Filho, T.S. Cavalcante and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. New computational solution to quantify synthetic material porosity from optical microscopic images. J. Microscopy, 240: 50-59.
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  109. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., J.M.R. Tavares and P.C. Cortez, 2010. Quantification of the microstructures of hypoeutectic white cast iron using mathematical morphology and an artificial neural network. Int. J. Microstructure Mater. Properties, 5: 52-64.
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  110. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., J.M.R. Tavares and L.M. Durao, 2010. Evaluation of delamination damage on composite plates using an artificial neural network for the radiographic image analysis. J. Composite Mater., 44: 1139-1159.
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  111. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., E. de Macedo Silva, J.P. Leite, E.P. de Moura, V.L. de Araujo Freitas and J.M.R. Tavares, 2010. Spinodal decomposition mechanism study on the duplex stainless steel UNS S31803 using ultrasonic speed measurements. Mater. Design, 31: 2147-2150.
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  112. Barneva, R.P., V.E. Brimkov, H.A. Hauptman, M. Renato, N. Jorge and J.M.R.S. Tavares, 2010. Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany, Pages: 326.
  113. Azevedo, T.C., J.M.R. Tavares and M.A. Vaz, 2010. Three-dimensional reconstruction and characterization of human external shapes from two-dimensional images using volumetric methods. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng., 13: 359-369.
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  114. Alexandre, D.S. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2010. Introduction of human perception in visualization. Int. J. Imaging, 4: 60-70.
  115. Ventura, S.R., D.R. Freitas and J.M.R. Tavares, 2009. Application of MRI and biomedical engineering in speech production study. Comput. Methods Biomechanics Biomed. Eng., 12: 671-681.
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  116. Tavares, J.M.R., F. Carvalho, F. Oliveira, I. Reis, M.J.M. Vasconcelos et al., 2009. Computer analysis of objects' movement in image sequences: Methods and applications. Int. J. Comput. Vision Biomechanics, 2: 209-220.
  117. Santos, I.C., J.M.R. Tavares, J.G. Mendes and M.P. Paulo, 2009. Acquisition and analysis of 3D mandibular movement using a device based on electromagnetic sensors and a neural network. J. Med. Eng. Technol., 33: 437-441.
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  118. Pinho, R.R. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2009. Tracking features in image sequences with Kalman filtering, global optimization, mahalanobis distance and a management model. Comput. Mod. Eng. Sci., 46: 51-75.
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  119. Oliveira, F.P., J.M.R. Tavares and T.C. Pataky, 2009. Rapid pedobarographic image registration based on contour curvature and optimization. J. Biomechanics, 42: 2620-2623.
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  120. Oliveira, F.P. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2009. Matching contours in images through the use of curvature, distance to centroid and global optimization with order-preserving constraint. Comput. Mod. Eng. Sci., 43: 91-110.
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  121. Natal Jorge, R.M., S.M. Santos and J.M.R.S. Tavares, (Ed.). 2009. Biodental Engeneering - Proceedings of the I International Conference on Biodental Engineering. Taylor and Francis, US, Pages: 244.
  122. Marques, A.T., L.M. Durao, A.G. Magalhaes, J.F. Silva and J.M.R. Tavares, 2009. Delamination analysis of carbon fibre reinforced laminates: Evaluation of a special step drill. Composites Sci. Technol., 69: 2376-2382.
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  123. De Macedo Silva, E., V.H.C. de Albuquerque, J.P. Leite, A.C.G. Varela, E.P. De Moura and J.M.R. Tavares, 2009. Phase transformations evaluation on a UNS S31803 duplex stainless steel based on nondestructive testing. Mater. Sci. Eng.: A, 516: 126-130.
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  124. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., A.R. de Alexandria, P.C. Cortez and J.M.R. Tavares, 2009. Evaluation of multilayer perceptron and self-organizing map neural network topologies applied on microstructure segmentation from metallographic images. NDT E Int., 42: 644-651.
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  125. Vasconcelos, M.J.M. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2008. Methods to automatically build point distribution models for objects like hand palms and faces represented in images. Comput. Mod. Eng. Sci., 36: 213-241.
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  126. Santos, I.C., J.M.R. Tavares, J. Mendes and M.P. Paulo, 2008. A prototype system for acquisition and analysis of 3D mandibular movement. Int. J. Mechanics Mater. Design, 4: 173-180.
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  127. Oliveira, F.P. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2008. Optimization of the global matching between two contours defined by ordered points using an algorithm based on dynamic programming. INFOCOMP J. Comput. Sci., 7: 12-20.
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  128. Oliveira, F.P. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2008. Algorithm of dynamic programming for optimization of the global matching between two contours defined by ordered points. Comput. Mod. Eng. Sci., 31: 1-11.
  129. Moura, D.C., J.G. Barbosa, J.M.R. Tavares and A.M. Reis, 2008. Calibration of bi-planar radiography with a minimal-size calibration object. Int. J. Comput. Assisted Radiol. Surg., 3: S352-S353.
  130. Goncalves, P.C., J.M.R. Tavares and R.N. Jorge, 2008. Segmentation and simulation of objects represented in images using physical principles. Comput. Mod. Eng. Sci., 32: 45-55.
  131. Goncalves, P.C. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2008. A GUI for a software that analyses a composite bolted joint. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interaction, 1: 25-41.
  132. Faria, D., J. Patrina, A. Sevilla, J. Tavares and L. Ribeiro et al., 2008. Respiratory movements cause significant misregistration and altered SUVs in thoracic PET-CT studies with 18F-DG. Eur. J. Nuclear Med. Mol. Imaging, 35: S213-S214.
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  133. Durao, L.M.P., J.M.R. Tavares, A. Goncalves de Magalhaes, A.T. Marques and A.P.M. Baptista, 2008. Damage analysis of carbon/epoxy plates after drilling. Int. J. Mater. Prod. Technol., 32: 226-242.
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  134. Durao, L.M., A.G. Magalhaes, J.M.R. Tavares and A.T. Marques, 2008. Analyzing objects in images for estimating the delamination influence on load carrying capacity of composite laminates. ELCVIA: Electr. Lett. Comput. Vision Image Anal., 7: 11-21.
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  135. De Albuquerque, V.H.C., P.C. Cortez, A.R. de Alexandria and J.M.R. Tavares, 2008. A new solution for automatic microstructures analysis from images based on a backpropagation artificial neural network. Nondestructive Testing Evaluation, 23: 273-283.
  136. Azevedo, T., M.A. Vaz and J.M.R. Tavares, 2008. External anatomical shapes reconstruction from turntable image sequences using a single off-the-shelf camera. ELCVIA: Electr. Lett. Comput. Vision Image Anal., 7: 22-34.
  137. Santos, I.C., J.M.R. Tavares, J.G. Mendes and M.P. Paulo, 2007. A prototype for the acquisition and analysis of the 3D mandibular movement. J. Soc. Simulation, 2: 136-136.
  138. Pinho, R.R., J.M.R. Tavares and M.F.V. Correia, 2007. Efficient approximation of the Mahalanobis distance for tracking with the Kalman filter. Int. J. Simulation Modell., 6: 84-92.
  139. Pinho, R.R., J.M.R. Tavares and M.V. Correia, 2006. An improved management model for tracking missing features in computer vision long image sequences. Trans. Inform. Sci. Applic., 4: 196-203.
  140. Pinho, R.R., J.M.R. Tavares and M.V. Correia, 2006. An improved management model for tracking missing features in computer vision long image sequences. Trans. Inform. Sci. Applic., 3: 2165-2171.
  141. Bastos, L.F. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2006. Matching of objects nodal points improvement using optimization. Inverse Problems Sci. Eng., 14: 529-541.
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  142. Tavares, J.M.R. and R.R. Pinho, 2005. Temporal Estimation of the deformation between objects by a physical methodology. J. Comput. Sci., 4: 9-18.
  143. Tavares, J.M.R. and L.F. Bastos, 2005. Improvement of modal matching image objects in dynamic pedobarography using optimization techniques. Electr. Lett. Comput. Vision Image Anal., 5: 1-20.
  144. Bastos, L.F. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2005. Objects matching using optimization techniques. Latin Am. Trans., 3: 193-204.
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  145. Bastos, L.F. and J.M.R. Tavares, 2004. Objects matching improvement using optimization techniques in a geometric modal methodology. J. WSCG, 12: 13-16.