News

April 2015 (7th)

  1. Organization of the 2nd Breast Cancer Workshop at FCUP-Porto, Portugal. The workshop hosts expert speakers on breast cancer research: from the imaging and radiology domains to the data mining and machine learning domains.

March 2015 (25th)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra is a guest speaker at LIAAD Seminar Series at INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal, where she gives a talk on "Effective Classification of Non-Definitive ARS Biopsies using First-Order Rules". [slides]

Winter 2015 (Feb. 2nd to Feb. 27th)

  1. Pedro Ferreira visits University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he works with ABLe principal investigator Prof. Inês Dutra and ABLe project member Prof. Rogerio Salvini.

December 2014 (4th)

  1. Ezilda Almeida presents the paper "ExpertBayes: Automatically Refining Manually Built Bayesian Networks" at ICMLA 2014 in Detroit, USA. [slides]

Winter 2014/15 (Nov. 24th to Feb. 23rd)

  1. Prof. Rogerio Salvini visits University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he works with ABLe principal investigator Prof. Inês Dutra.

October 2014 (17th)

  1. Finn Kuusisto presents the paper "Leveraging Expert Knowledge to Improve Machine-Learned Decision Support Systems" at CIBM Annual Retreat in Wisconsin, USA. [poster]

Winter 2014/15 (Oct. 13th to Feb. 27th)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra visits University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where she works with ABLe project consultant Elizabeth Burnside's research group.

September 2014 (24th)

  1. Start of collaboration with BioDesign group named PushTech, under the scope of the MammoClass tool.

August 2014 (1st to 22nd)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra visits University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where she works with ABLe project consultant Elizabeth Burnside's research group.

July 2014 (14th)

  1. Prof. Rogerio Salvini from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil and ABLe project collaborator begins a one academic year stay as a Visiting Professor at University of Porto, Portugal.

July 2014 (2nd)

  1. Pedro Ferreira gives a talk on "Data Mining Applied to Clinical Data" at CRACS Workshop, Porto, Portugal. [slides]

April 2014 (29th)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra, Ezilda Almeida and Pedro Ferreira attend the seminar "Current and Future Perspectives in Breast Cancer Research", that took place at IPO-Porto, Portugal.

February 2014 (21st)

  1. Start of collaboration with group of Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship from FEUP-Porto, Portugal, in order to introduce the MammoClass tool into the market.

February 2014 (10th to 14th)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra is a guest speaker at IASIS 2014 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, where she gives a talk on "Big Data for Health". [slides]

January 2014 (23rd)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra, Ezilda Almeida, Pedro Ferreira and Tiago Vinhoza participate on INESC TEC Health Open Day 2014 (see Events section), with ExpertBayes and MammoClass demonstrations. [slides]

November 2013 (1st)

  1. Pedro Ferreira presents the paper "Knowledge on Heart Condition of Children based on Demographic and Physiological Features" at RecPad 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. [poster]

October 2013 (9th to 12th)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra presents the paper "Using Machine Learning to Identify Benign Cases with Non-Definitive Biopsy" at HEALTHCOM 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. [poster]

Summer 2013 (Jul. 18th to Sept. 9th)

  1. Prof. Inês Dutra visits University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where she works with ABLe project consultant Elizabeth Burnside's research group.

June 2013 (21st)

  1. Pedro Ferreira presents the paper "Knowledge on Heart Condition of Children based on Demographic and Physiological Features" at CBMS 2013 in Porto, Portugal. [slides]

June 2013 (19th)

  1. Organization of the Breast Cancer Workshop at FMUP-Porto, Portugal. The workshop hosts expert speakers on breast cancer research: from the imaging and radiology domains to the molecular biology and machine learning domains.

June 2013 (18th)

  1. ABLe project consultant Elizabeth Burnside visits Group of Breast Pathology from Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal.

Month Year (Day)

  1. The Institutional Review Board of Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal, approves the collaboration between ABLe and the hospital.

May 2013 (1st)

  1. ABLe project officially starts!