J OSÉ C ARLOS R OSA S EABRA
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CONTACTS
PERSONAL
Rua Professor Prado Coelho 26 7ºE,
1600-654 Lisboa, Portugal
Nationality
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
Marital Status
Av. Adelino Amaro da Costa L21 Bloco B 4ºA
2415-367 Leiria, Portugal (2nd address)
Portuguese
Leiria
21-08-1983
Single
(351) 919543296
[email protected]
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Superior School
PhD in Biomedical Imaging (Engineering)
2007-…
Theme: Robust Tissue Reconstruction and Characterization based on 3D Ultrasound. The
study of carotid plaques
Integrated Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering (17/20)
2001-2007
Instituto Superior Técnico and Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Holland (Erasmus Exchange Program)
Theoretical: Medical Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry,
Mechanics, Informatics, Electronics, Management, Biomaterials
Applied: Signal Processing, Finite Elements design, Mathematical modelling,
Programming, Bioinformatics, Physiology
Thesis subject: 3D Ultrasound Imaging and Computer Aided Diagnosis of the
Atherosclerotic Disease (20/20)
High School
Graduation in Natural Sciences (18/20)
1998-2001
Escola Secundária de Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Leiria
EXPERIENCE
Consulting
Reports on Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine for the Consortium for
Biotechnology in Russia
2008-2009
International Internships
Internship at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain
2009
IEEE International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Berder, France
2005
Project: Computational modelling of the hemodynamics of the left ventricle
2005
Curriculum Vitae of José Seabra
Project: Biomechanical study of the trabecular bone and local deformation analysis
by Computed Tomography
2005
Co-Supervision of Projects
3-month project: a framework for 3D Robotic Ultrasound Image Acquisition
2007
Lecturing
Seminars on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Transfer (MEEC – IST)
Summer Course on Medical Image Processing (MeVisLab)
2007
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
José Seabra, Luís Pedro, José Fernandes e Fernandes and João Sanches, A 3D UltrasoundBased Framework to Characterize the Echo-Morphology of Carotid Plaque, IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering, 2009 (in press)
José Seabra, Investigação no Ensino de Engenharia Biomédica: Dois Casos de Estudo, Revista
Saúde e Tecnologia, ESTSeL, 2008
José Seabra, João Sanches and Luís Mendes Pedro, Reconstrução Tridimensional da Placa de
Ateroma da Bifurcação Carotídea, Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Março 2007
Conference Papers
José Seabra and Ana Fred, A Biometric Identification System Based on Thyroid Tissue EchoMorphology - 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal
Processing, Porto Jan 2009
J. Seabra, J. Xavier and J. Sanches, Convex Ultrasound Reconstruction with Log-Euclidean priors,
Proc. Of EMBS 2008 – 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
J. Seabra and J. Sanches, Modeling Log-Compressed Ultrasound Images for Radio Frequency
Signal Recovery, Proc. Of EMBS 2008 – 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
J. Seabra and J. Sanches, Three-Dimensional Labeling of Vulnerable Regions in Carotid Plaques
using Graph-Cuts, Proc. Of EMBS 2008 – 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
J. Seabra, J. Sanches, L. M. Pedro and J. Fernandes e Fernandes, Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic
Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaques, In Proceedings of IbPRIA 2007, Iberian Conference on
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain, 2007
J. Seabra and J. Sanches, Joint 3D Reconstruction and Segmentation of Carotid Arteries and
plaques from US Image Sequences, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferência Portuguesa de
Reconhecimento de Padrões, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007
J. Seabra and J. Sanches, Engineering a 3D Ultrasound Robotic System , Proc. of RecPad 2007
- 13ª Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007
2005
J. Seabra, J. Sanches and L. M. Pedro, Carotid Plaque 3D Compound Imaging and EchoMorphology Analysis: a Bayesian Approach, Proc. of EMBS 2007 - 29th Annual International
Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France , 2007
Internal Reports
2006
José Seabra and João Silva, Micro-Compression and Micro-Computed tomography:
Techniques for assessment of mechanical properties and local structural changes in
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Curriculum Vitae of José Seabra
trabecular bone, Internal Report, TU/e, Holland, 2004
MSc Thesis
3D reconstruction and diagnosis of atherosclerotic plaques, José Seabra, Master Thesis,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa , 2007
2006
AWARDS
Prof. Luis Vidigal award: Best graduation project on Electrical and Computer
Engineering in the Technical University of Lisbon
SKILLS
Topics of Expertise
Medical Imaging Systems: X-Ray, MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, Ultrasound (2D and 3D)
Medical Image Processing
Segmentation and Image Reconstruction
Computer-aided Diagnosis
Cardiovascular Image Analysis
Computational
Programming:
Systems:
Software:
Matlab, Mathematica, C++, MySql, PHP, HTTP, Ansys, Sepran
MS Windows
MS Office, LaTex, MeVisLab, MS Visual Studio
Linguistic
Proficient in English, Basic user of French and Spanish
Social
Strong motivation to learn, to encourage myself and the others, take responsibilities
and accept new challenges
Honest and very polite
Group spirit gained through several group assignments and during the Erasmus
programme
Easiness in adapting to different working environments
Punctual
Organisational
Excellent communication, public presentation and argumentation skills
Sense of responsibility
High capacity in problem analysis and solving
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Curriculum Vitae of José Seabra
Ability to plan and manage different tasks and projects
Entrepreneurship ( pioneer in taking a biomedical engineering degree and following
a PhD program in this field)
Others
Training course on First Aid and CPR (Portuguese Red Cross)
Driving license – category B vehicle
Basic knowledge in playing the piano
INTERESTS
I love travelling; playing sports, in particular, football and tennis; investing in the
stock market, listening to music and going to the movies
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