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  1. FALQON-MST: A Fully Quantum Framework for Graph Optimization in Vision Systems

    Article • January 2026, Scitepress

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  2. Domain-Invariant Classification of Misplaced Medical Devices in Plain Chest X-Ray Images

    Article • August 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  3. Efficient and Sustainable Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement through Latency-Aware Pruned Model

    Article • August 2025, International Speech Communication Association

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  4. Tackling Reverberation and Binaural Data on Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement through RecognAVSE

    Article • August 2025, International Speech Communication Association

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  5. EEG microstates classification empowered with optimum-path forest using different distance measurements

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, June 2025, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  6. AI Detects Facial Changes to Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos, Guilherme Camargo de Oliveira

  7. Customized Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling with Joint Convolutions for Urban Tree Segmentation

    Article • January 2025, Scitepress

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  8. A Quantum-inspired Approach to Estimate Optimum-Path Forest Prototypes based on the Traveling Salesman Problem

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  9. Graph Matching Networks Meet Optimum-Path Forest: How to Prune Ensembles Efficiently

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  10. A binary particle swarm optimization-based pruning approach for environmentally sustainable and robust CNNs

    Article • Neurocomputing, December 2024, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  11. Hate Speech Detection in Portuguese Using BERTimbau

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  12. A comprehensive study among distance measures on supervised optimum-path forest classification

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, October 2024, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  13. Robust deep learning for eye fundus images: Bridging real and synthetic data for enhancing generalization

    Article • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, August 2024, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  14. Facial expressions to identify post-stroke: A pilot study

    Article • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, June 2024, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  15. DeepCraftFuse: visual and deeply-learnable features work better together for esophageal cancer detection in patients with Barrett’s esophagus

    Article • Neural Computing and Applications, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  16. A review of deep learning‐based approaches for deepfake content detection

    Article • Expert Systems, February 2024, Wiley

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  17. Convolutional Neural Networks and Image Patches for Lithological Classification of Brazilian Pre-Salt Rocks

    Article • January 2024, Scitepress

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  18. Facial Point Graphs for Stroke Identification

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  19. Tabular data augmentation for video-based detection of hypomimia in Parkinson’s disease

    Article • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, October 2023, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  20. A Historic-Best Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Trust-based Routing in Smart Grid Networks

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  21. OPFsemble: An Ensemble Pruning Approach via Optimum-Path Forest

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  22. Gait Recognition Based on Deep Learning: A Survey

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  23. Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids

    Article • Neurocomputing, March 2023, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  24. PL-kNN: A Python-based implementation of a parameterless k ...

    Article • Software Impacts, March 2023, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  25. Multimodal audio-visual information fusion using canonical-correlated Graph Neural Network for energy-efficient speech enhancement

    Article • Information Fusion, February 2023, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  26. Harmony Search-Based Approaches for Fine-Tuning Deep Belief Networks

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  27. A Multi-Class Probabilistic Optimum-Path Forest

    Article • January 2023, Scitepress

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  28. Feature Selection and Hyperparameter Fine-Tuning in Artificial Neural Networks for Wood Quality Classification

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  29. FakeRecogna Anomaly: Fake News Detection in a New Brazilian Corpus

    Article • January 2023, Scitepress

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  30. Metaheuristics for Feature Selection: A Comprehensive Comparison Using Opytimizer

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  31. Temporal Dengue Outbreak Prediction from Climatic Variables using Finite Element Machine for Regression

    Article • November 2022, Authorea, Inc.

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  32. Multiclass Oversampling via Optimum-Path Forest for Tree Species Classification from Street-view Perspectives

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  33. FEMa-FS: Finite Element Machines for Feature Selection

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  34. Intelligent IoT security monitoring based on fuzzy optimum-path forest classifier

    Article • Soft Computing, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  35. PL-k NN: A Parameterless Nearest Neighbors Classifier

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  36. ComplexWoundDB: A Database for Automatic Complex Wound Tissue Categorization

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  37. Handling imbalanced datasets through Optimum-Path Forest

    Article • Knowledge-Based Systems, April 2022, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  38. Intelligent IoT Security Monitoring based on Fuzzy Optimum-Path Forest Classifier

    Article • March 2022, Research Square

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  39. A Comprehensive Study Among Distance Measures on Supervised Optimum-Path Forest Classification

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  40. Multimodal Audio-Visual Information Fusion Using Canonical-Correlated Graph Neural Network for Energy-Efficient Speech Enhancement

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  41. Detecting atherosclerotic plaque calcifications of the carotid artery through optimum-path forest

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  42. An End-to-End Approach for Seam Carving Detection Using Deep Neural Networks

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  43. MaxDropoutV2: An Improved Method to Drop Out Neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  44. From Actions to Events: A Transfer Learning Approach Using Improved Deep Belief Networks

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  45. Reinforcing learning in Deep Belief Networks through nature-inspired optimization

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, September 2021, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  46. DDIPNet and DDIPNet+: Discriminant Deep Image Prior Networks for Remote Sensing Image Classification

    Article • July 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  47. Deep Regressor Networks for Blind Image Deblurring

    Article • July 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  48. Computer-assisted Parkinson's disease diagnosis using fuzzy optimum- path forest and Restricted Boltzmann Machines

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor PLACIDO ROGERIO PINHEIRO, Leandro Aparecido Passos

  49. Normalizing images is good to improve computer-assisted COVID-19 diagnosis

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  50. Enhancing Hyper-to-Real Space Projections Through Euclidean Norm Meta-heuristic Optimization

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  51. Fine-tuning Generative Adversarial Networks using Metaheuristics

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  52. A metaheuristic-driven approach to fine-tune Deep Boltzmann Machines

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, December 2020, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  53. A Novel Approach for Optimum-Path Forest Classification Using Fuzzy Logic

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  54. A critical literature survey and prospects on tampering and anomaly detection in image data

    Article • Applied Soft Computing, December 2020, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  55. Assisting Barrett's esophagus identification using endoscopic data augmentation based on Generative Adversarial Networks

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, November 2020, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  56. Harnessing Particle Swarm optimization Through Relativistic Velocity

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  57. O^2PF: Oversampling via Optimum-Path Forest for Breast Cancer Detection

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  58. Fine-tuning restricted Boltzmann machines using quaternion-based flower pollination algorithm

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  59. On the Assessment of Nature-Inspired Meta-Heuristic Optimization Techniques to Fine-Tune Deep Belief Networks

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  60. Evolving Long Short-Term Memory Networks

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  61. A Layer-Wise Information Reinforcement Approach to Improve Learning in Deep Belief Networks

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  62. Intestinal Parasites Classification Using Deep Belief Networks

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  63. A Novel Siamese-Based Approach for Scene Change Detection With Applications to Obstructed Routes in Hazardous Environments

    Article • IEEE Intelligent Systems, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  64. On the Training Algorithms for Restricted Boltzmann Machines

    Article • October 2019, Comissao Especial de Informatica na Educacao

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  65. Adaptive Improved Flower Pollination Algorithm for Global Optimization

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  66. A short- and long-term demand based analysis of a CO2 concentrated solar power system with backup heating

    Article • Applied Thermal Engineering, September 2019, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  67. κ-Entropy Based Restricted Boltzmann Machines

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  68. Quaternion-Based Backtracking Search Optimization Algorithm

    Article • June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  69. Intelligent Network Security Monitoring Based on Optimum-Path Forest Clustering

    Article • IEEE Network, March 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Leandro Aparecido Passos

  70. Barrett’s esophagus analysis using infinity Restricted Boltzmann Machines

    Article • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, February 2019, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  71. Exudate detection in fundus images using deeply-learnable features

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, January 2019, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  72. A Hybrid Approach for Breast Mass Categorization

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  73. JADE-Based Feature Selection for Non-technical Losses Detection

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  74. Time-dependent behavior of a recompression cycle with direct CO2 heating through a parabolic collector array

    Article • Applied Thermal Engineering, July 2018, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  75. Enhancing Brain Storm Optimization Through Optimum-Path Forest

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  76. Fine Tuning Deep Boltzmann Machines Through Meta-Heuristic Approaches

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  77. Parkinson Disease Identification Using Residual Networks and Optimum-Path Forest

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  78. Fine-Tuning Infinity Restricted Boltzmann Machines

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

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  79. Temperature-Based Deep Boltzmann Machines

    Article • Neural Processing Letters, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  80. Optimal scale of solar-trough powered plants operating with carbon dioxide

    Article • Applied Thermal Engineering, September 2017, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  81. Deep Boltzmann Machines Using Adaptive Temperatures

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  82. Parkinson’s Disease Identification Using Restricted Boltzmann Machines

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  83. Unsupervised non-technical losses identification through optimum-path forest

    Article • Electric Power Systems Research, November 2016, Elsevier

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  84. Learning Parameters in Deep Belief Networks Through Firefly Algorithm

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  85. Unsupervised Breast Masses Classification through Optimum-Path Forest

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Leandro Aparecido Passos

  86. On the Training of Artificial Neural Networks with Radial Basis Function Using Optimum-Path Forest Clustering

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

    Professor João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Leandro Aparecido Passos

  87. PPARγ expression is increased in systemic lupus erythematosus patients and represses CD40/CD40L signaling pathway

    Article • Lupus, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Leandro Aparecido Passos