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  1. A pilot study on midazolam sedation for murine echocardiography: A potential alternative to isoflurane anesthesia and awake imaging

    Article • Physiological Reports, November 2025, Wiley

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  2. High-Resolution Maps of Left Atrial Displacements and Strains Estimated With 3D Cine MRI Using Online Learning Neural Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, May 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  3. Benchmarking Anomaly Detection Methods for Extracardiac Findings in Cardiac MRI

    Article • Applied Sciences, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  4. Semi-supervised Ensemble Learning for Automatic Interpretation of Lung Ultrasound Videos

    Article • Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  5. BEAS-Net: A Shape-Prior-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Robust Left Ventricular Segmentation in 2-D Echocardiography

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  6. Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

    Article • October 2024, Frontiers

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  7. Automatic multi-view pose estimation in focused cardiac ultrasound

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, May 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  8. Video-level view classification in focused cardiac ultrasound

    Article • April 2024, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  9. Evaluating unsupervised optical flow for keypoint tracking in laparoscopic videos

    Article • March 2024, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  10. Exploring optical flow inclusion into nnU-Net framework for surgical instrument segmentation

    Article • March 2024, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  11. SurgT challenge: Benchmark of soft-tissue trackers for robotic surgery

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, January 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  12. Atrial Strain and Strain Rate in a General Population: Do These Measures Improve the Assessment of Elevated NT‐proBNP Levels?

    Article • Cardiology Research and Practice, January 2024, Wiley

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  13. Virtual Patient Platform and Data Space for Sharing, Learning, Discussing, and Researching

    Article • October 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  14. Efficient Left Ventricle Segmentation in 3D Echocardiography using Deep nnU-Net

    Article • September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  15. Atrial Strain and Strain Rate in a General Population: Do These Measures Improve the Assessment of Elevated NT-proBNP Levels?

    Article • June 2023, Authorea, Inc.

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  16. Sensor Fusion Approach for Multiple Human Motion Detection for Indoor Surveillance Use-Case

    Article • Sensors, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  17. Deep Learning Segmentation of the Right Ventricle in Cardiac MRI: The M&ms Challenge

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    andrea guala, Mr Sandro Queirós

  18. Atrial cardiopathy in young adults with embolic stroke of undetermined source: a myocardial deformation imaging analysis

    Article • The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  19. Power Modulation Echocardiography to Detect and Quantify Myocardial Scar

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, November 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  20. Enhanced motion estimation by training a deep learning optical flow algorithm on a hybrid dataset

    Article • October 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  21. Atrial Cardiopathy in Young Adults With Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: A Myocardial Deformation Imaging Analysis

    Article • August 2022, Research Square

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  22. Automatic Assessment of Pectus Excavatum Severity From CT Images Using Deep Learning

    Article • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  23. Feasibility and Accuracy of Automated Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Analysis of Left Atrial Appendage for Transcatheter Closure

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, January 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  24. Right Ventricular Segmentation in Multi-view Cardiac MRI Using a Unified U-net Model

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  25. Quality Assurance of Segmental Strain Values Provided by Commercial 2-D Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Using in Silico Models: A Report from the EACVI-ASE Strain Standardization Task Force

    Article • Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  26. The Impact of Vendor-Specific Ultrasound Beam-Forming and Processing Techniques on the Visualization of In Vitro Experimental “Scar”: Implications for Myocardial Scar Imaging Using Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Echocardiography

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, October 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  27. Temporal characterization of ventricular function and deformation after Takotsubo syndrome using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  28. A system for the generation of in-car human body pose datasets

    Article • Machine Vision and Applications, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  29. Strain maps of the left atrium imaged with a novel high-resolution CINE MRI protocol*

    Article • July 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  30. Automated Generation of Synthetic in-Car Dataset for Human Body Pose Detection

    Article • January 2020, Scitepress

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  31. Kidney Segmentation in Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Images using a Fast Phase-based Approach

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  32. Technical Note: Assessment of electromagnetic tracking systems in a surgical environment using ultrasonography and ureteroscopy instruments for percutaneous renal access

    Article • Medical Physics, November 2019, Wiley

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  33. Non-invasive myocardial performance mapping using 3D echocardiographic stress–strain loops

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, June 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  34. Semiautomatic Estimation of Device Size for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in 3-D TEE Images

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, May 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Mr Sandro Queirós

  35. Automatic left ventricular segmentation in 4D interventional ultrasound data using a patient-specific temporal synchronized shape prior

    Article • March 2019, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  36. Semi-automatic aortic valve tract segmentation in 3D cardiac magnetic resonance images using shape-based B-spline explicit active surfaces

    Article • March 2019, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  37. Three-dimensional color Doppler ultrasound simulation to mimic paravalvular regurgitation

    Article • March 2019, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  38. Assessment of aortic valve tract dynamics using automatic tracking of 3D transesophageal echocardiographic images

    Article • The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  39. Surface-based registration between CT and US for image-guided percutaneous renal access - A feasibility study

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2019, Wiley

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  40. Real-Time Human Body Pose Estimation for In-Car Depth Images

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  41. Top-Down Human Pose Estimation with Depth Images and Domain Adaptation

    Article • January 2019, Scitepress

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  42. Fully Automatic Assessment of Mitral Valve Morphology from 3D Transthoracic Echocardiography

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor Luigi P. Badano

  43. Personalized dynamic phantom of the right and left ventricles based on patient-specific anatomy for echocardiography studies — Preliminary results

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  44. Segmentation of kidney and renal collecting system on 3D computed tomography images

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  45. Automated segmentation of the atrial region and fossa ovalis towards computer-aided planning of inter-atrial wall interventions

    Article • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Mr Sandro Queirós

  46. Kidney segmentation in ultrasound, magnetic resonance and computed tomography images: A systematic review

    Article • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, April 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  47. Validation of a Novel Software Tool for Automatic Aortic Annular Sizing in Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiographic Images

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, April 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  48. A novel multi-atlas strategy with dense deformation field reconstruction for abdominal and thoracic multi-organ segmentation from computed tomography

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, February 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  49. MITT: Medical Image Tracking Toolbox

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  50. Fast Segmentation of the Left Atrial Appendage in 3D Transesophageal Echocardiographic Images

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares

  51. WNT6 is a novel oncogenic prognostic biomarker in human glioblastoma

    Article • Theranostics, January 2018, Ivyspring International Publisher

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  52. A Novel Interventional Guidance Framework for Transseptal Puncture in Left Atrial Interventions

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares

  53. A competitive strategy for atrial and aortic tract segmentation based on deformable models

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, December 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares

  54. Fast and Fully Automatic Left Ventricular Segmentation and Tracking in Echocardiography Using Shape-Based B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor Jan Engvall

  55. A Dual-Modal CT/US Kidney Phantom Model for Image-Guided Percutaneous Renal Access

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  56. Development of a patient-specific atrial phantom model for planning and training of inter-atrial interventions

    Article • Medical Physics, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Mr Pedro Morais, Fernando Veloso, Mr Sandro Queirós

  57. Fast and fully automatic 3D left ventricular segmentation using shape-based B-spline explicit active surfaces

    Article • September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  58. Fully automatic left ventricular myocardial strain estimation in 2D short-axis tagged magnetic resonance imaging

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, August 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor Jan Engvall

  59. Fast left ventricle tracking using localized anatomical affine optical flow

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, April 2017, Wiley

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Mr Pedro Morais

  60. Classification algorithms for body posture

    Article • April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  61. Instrumented vest for postural reeducation

    Article • April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  62. Automatic 3D aortic annulus sizing by computed tomography in the planning of transcatheter aortic valve implantation

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, January 2017, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  63. Evaluation of spinal posture using Microsoft Kinect™: A preliminary case-study with 98 volunteers

    Article • Porto Biomedical Journal, January 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  64. Aortic Valve Tract Segmentation From 3D-TEE Using Shape-Based B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  65. Detailed Evaluation of Five 3D Speckle Tracking Algorithms Using Synthetic Echocardiographic Recordings

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  66. Kidney segmentation in 3D CT images using B-Spline Explicit Active Surfaces

    Article • May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  67. Fully automatic 3D-TEE segmentation for the planning of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  68. Dense motion field estimation from myocardial boundary displacements

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, December 2015, Wiley

    Mr Pedro Morais, Mr Sandro Queirós

  69. Multi-centre validation of an automatic algorithm for fast 4D myocardial segmentation in cine CMR datasets

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, October 2015, European Society of Cardiology

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor Jan Engvall

  70. Targeting lactate transport suppresses in vivo breast tumour growth

    Article • Oncotarget, May 2015, Impact Journals, LLC

    Mr Sandro Queirós, Professor Fernando Schmitt

  71. Improving the robustness of interventional 4D ultrasound segmentation through the use of personalized prior shape models

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  72. Fast left ventricle tracking in CMR images using localized anatomical affine optical flow

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  73. Semi-automatic 3D segmentation of costal cartilage in CT data from Pectus Excavatum patients

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  74. Robust temporal alignment of multimodal cardiac sequences

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  75. Computer-aided recognition of dental implants in X-ray images

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  76. Voxel-based registration of simulated and real patient CBCT data for accurate dental implant pose estimation

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  77. Fast automatic myocardial segmentation in 4D cine CMR datasets

    Article • Medical Image Analysis, October 2014, Elsevier

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  78. Electromagnetic tracker feasibility in the design of a dental superstructure for edentulous patients

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  79. Real-time hand tracking for rehabilitation and character animation

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  80. Hand-held robotic device for laparoscopic surgery and training

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  81. Palco: A multisensor realtime 3D cartoon production system

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  82. Fast Fully Automatic Segmentation of the Myocardium in 2D Cine MR Images

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  83. Cardiac Motion and Deformation Estimation from Tagged MRI Sequences Using a Temporal Coherent Image Registration Framework

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Sandro Queirós

  84. A laparoscopic surgery training interface

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Sandro Queirós