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  1. Wearables and Machine Learning Use for Activity of Daily Life and Fall Management in the Elderly: A Systematic Review (Preprint)

    Article • February 2026, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida

  2. A systematic review on wearable-enabled remote health monitoring

    Article • Digital Health, February 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Rute Almeida

  3. Wearable Photoplethysmography Sensors for Postural Change Detection: A Comprehensive Review

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  4. The role of cardiovascular response as a predictor of neurologic disability in children with brain injury – a pilot study

    Article • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida

  5. Integrating Privacy by Design Principles into AI-Driven Systems for Human Activity and Health Monitoring

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  6. Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) in Digestive Healthcare: Regulatory Challenges and Ethical Implications

    Article • Diagnostics, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida

  7. MASK-air: An OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Best Practice for Public Health on Integrated Care for Chronic Diseases

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  8. Poor Rhinitis and Asthma Control Is Associated With Decreased Health-Related Quality of Life and Utilities: A MASK-air Study

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  9. Understanding beliefs about inhaled medication in patients with persistent asthma: a cross-sectional analysis of the INSPIRERS studies

    Article • European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, May 2024, Edra SpA

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  10. Monitoring fatigue and drowsiness in motor vehicle occupants using electrocardiogram and heart rate − A systematic review

    Article • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida

  11. Feasibility and Acceptability of Pediatric Smartphone Lung Auscultation by Parents: Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, April 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida

  12. From MASK-air and SILAM to CATALYSE (Climate Action To Advance HeaLthY Societies in Europe)

    Article • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, February 2024, Esmon Publicidad, SA

    Dr Rute Almeida

  13. Multidisciplinary Development and Initial Validation of a Clinical Knowledge Base on Chronic Respiratory Diseases for mHealth Decision Support Systems

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  14. AnyMApp for Online Usability Testing: The Use-Case of Inspirers-HTN

    Article • December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Ricardo João Cruz-Correia

  15. How Anonymous Are Your Anonymized Data? The AnyMApp Case Study

    Article • December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Ricardo João Cruz-Correia

  16. Patients' Satisfaction with Remote Asthma Medical Follow-Up Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, September 2023, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  17. MASK‐air® direct patient data support the ARIA‐MeDALL hypothesis on allergic phenotypes

    Article • Allergy, August 2023, Wiley

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  18. Symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with persistent asthma: a cross-sectional analysis of the INSPIRERS studies

    Article • BMJ Open, May 2023, BMJ

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  19. Development and validation of an electronic daily control score for asthma (e-DASTHMA): a real-world direct patient data study

    Article • The Lancet Digital Health, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo, PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  20. Measuring adherence to inhaled control medication in patients with asthma: Comparison among an asthma app, patient self‐report and physician assessment

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  21. ATHENA Research Book,Volume 1

    Article • November 2022, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor

    Dr Rute Almeida

  22. Measuring adherence to inhaled control medication in patients with asthma: comparison among an asthma app, patient self-report and physician assessment

    Article • September 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  23. Development and Validation of a Digital Image Processing-Based Pill Detection Tool for an Oral Medication Self-Monitoring System

    Article • Sensors, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  24. Development and Validation of a Digital Image Processing-Based Pill Detection Tool for an Oral Medication Self-Monitoring System

    Article • February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  25. Development and validation of combined symptom‐medication scores for allergic rhinitis*

    Article • Allergy, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, Professor Luís Filipe Azevedo

  26. What Do Physicians Think About the Use of Telemedicine to Recruit and Assess Participants in mHealth-Related Clinical Studies as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, January 2022, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  27. The use of remote care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic a perspective of Portuguese and Spanish physicians

    Article • European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, January 2022, Edra SpA

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  28. Development and Validation of an Electronic Daily Control Score for Asthma (e-DASTHMA)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  29. Use of the Smartphone Camera to Monitor Adherence to Inhaled Therapy

    Article • January 2022, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor

    Dr Rute Almeida

  30. Determinants of the Use of Health and Fitness Mobile Apps by Patients With Asthma: Secondary Analysis of Observational Studies

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, September 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  31. Phenotypes of persistent asthma in adolescents revealed different patterns in longitudinal asthma-related outcomes

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  32. Engagement with an asthma app to monitor medication adherence and its association with patients’ characteristics

    Article • September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  33. Lung Auscultation Using the Smartphone—Feasibility Study in Real-World Clinical Practice

    Article • Sensors, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida

  34. Monitoring Adherence to Asthma Inhalers Using the InspirerMundi App: Analysis of Real-World, Medium-Term Feasibility Studies

    Article • Frontiers in Medical Technology, July 2021, Frontiers

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  35. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Asthma App to Monitor Medication Adherence: Mixed Methods Study

    Article • JMIR mhealth and uhealth, May 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  36. InspirerMundi—Remote Monitoring of Inhaled Medication Adherence through Objective Verification Based on Combined Image Processing Techniques

    Article • Methods of Information in Medicine, April 2021, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Rute Almeida

  37. DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE HEALTH APP FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HYPERTENSION, INCLUDING TREATMENT ADHERENCE ASSESSMENT, USING IMAGE DETECTION TECHNOLOGY – INSPIRERS-HTN

    Article • Journal of Hypertension, April 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  38. Profiling Persistent Asthma Phenotypes in Adolescents: A Longitudinal Diagnostic Evaluation from the INSPIRERS Studies

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  39. What do physicians think about the use of telemedicine to recruit and assess participants in mHealth clinical studies as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic? (Preprint)

    Article • January 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  40. Prescribing patterns of medication for respiratory diseases cluster analysis of the Portuguese electronic prescription database

    Article • European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, January 2021, Edra SpA

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  41. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Asthma App to Monitor Medication Adherence: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

    Article • December 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  42. Identification of clusters of asthma control: A preliminary analysis of the Inspirers studies

    Article • Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia, December 2020, Publicacoes Ciencia e Vida, Lda

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  43. Treatment of allergic rhinitis during and outside the pollen season using mobile technology. A MASK study

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, December 2020, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida

  44. mHealth to Securely Coach Chronic Patients

    Article • November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  45. Determinants of use of health and fitness mobile apps by patients with asthma: secondary analysis of observational studies (Preprint)

    Article • November 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  46. ARIA digital anamorphosis: Digital transformation of health and care in airway diseases from research to practice

    Article • Allergy, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, Professor Adnan Custovic

  47. Patient engagement with an asthma app to improve inhaler adherence

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  48. Feasibility of an asthma app to monitor medication adherence

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  49. Latent classes of adults with persistent asthma: data from the multicentre INSPIRERS studies

    Article • September 2020, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  50. Validation of app and phone versions of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT)

    Article • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, August 2020, Esmon Publicidad, SA

    Maria Luís Marques, Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  51. Abstract

    Article • Allergy, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida

  52. Plateau Waves of Intracranial Pressure and Autonomic Stress Analysis

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

    Dr Rute Almeida

  53. Correlation between work impairment, scores of rhinitis severity and asthma using the MASK‐air ® App

    Article • Allergy, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Giorgio Ciprandi, Professor Adnan Custovic, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  54. Patients to Mobilize Their Data: Secure and Flexible mHealth Delegation

    Article • January 2020, Scitepress

    Dr Rute Almeida

  55. Patient-physician discordance in assessment of adherence to inhaled controller medication: a cross-sectional analysis of two cohorts

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2019, BMJ

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Ricardo João Cruz-Correia

  56. Asthma apps use and interest among patients with asthma: a multicentre study

    Article • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, October 2019, Esmon Publicidad, SA

    Dr Rute Almeida

  57. Data-driven prescription patterns in patients under maintenance treatment for respiratory diseases from the Portuguese prescription database

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Ana Sá-Sousa, Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  58. Reproducibility of the Vivatmopro measurements for exhaled nitric oxide values

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    PhD Rita Amaral, Dr Rute Almeida

  59. Validation of app and telephonic versions of the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT)

    Article • September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  60. Automatic Quality Assessment of a Forced Expiratory Manoeuvre Acquired with the Tablet Microphone

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  61. Combined Image-Based Approach for Monitoring the Adherence to Inhaled Medications

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  62. How Secure Is Your Mobile Health?

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  63. High oral corticosteroid exposure and overuse of short-acting beta-2-agonists were associated with insufficient prescribing of controller medication: a nationwide electronic prescribing and dispensing database analysis

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  64. Next-generation ARIA care pathways for rhinitis and asthma: a model for multimorbid chronic diseases

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, September 2019, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, Professor Adnan Custovic, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  65. HOW INSPIRING IS YOUR APP? A USABILITY TAKE ON AN APP FOR ASTHMAMEDICATION ADHERENCE

    Article • July 2019, IADIS - International Association for the Development of the Information Society

    Dr Rute Almeida

  66. Mobile technology offers novel insights into the control and treatment of allergic rhinitis: The MASK study

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  67. Adherence to treatment in allergic rhinitis using mobile technology. The MASK Study

    Article • Clinical & Experimental Allergy, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Giorgio Ciprandi, Professor Adnan Custovic

  68. Guidance to 2018 good practice: ARIA digitally-enabled, integrated, person-centred care for rhinitis and asthma

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Giorgio Ciprandi, Professor Adnan Custovic, Ms Sian Williams, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  69. Quality assessment and feedback of Smart Device Microphone Spirometry executed by children

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

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  70. Disentangling the heterogeneity of allergic respiratory diseases by latent class analysis reveals novel phenotypes

    Article • Allergy, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  71. How the Smartphone Is Changing Allergy Diagnostics

    Article • Current Allergy and Asthma Reports, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  72. MASK 2017: ARIA digitally-enabled, integrated, person-centred care for rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity using real-world-evidence

    Article • Clinical and Translational Allergy, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida, Ms Sian Williams, Dr Giorgio Ciprandi, Professor Adnan Custovic, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  73. Are paper-based forms and telephone interview equivalent modes of administration for the Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT)?

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  74. SABA overuse in the Portuguese prescription database

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  75. A comparison of unsupervised methods based on dichotomous data to identify clusters of airways symptoms: latent class analysis and partitioning around medoids methods.

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  76. Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) Phase 4 (2018): Change management in allergic rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity using mobile technology

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, Dr Giorgio Ciprandi, Professor Adnan Custovic, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  77. Adult asthma scores - development and validation of multivariable scores to identify asthma in surveys

    Article • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Tiago Jacinto, Dr Rute Almeida

  78. Phenotyping allergic respiratory diseases: An unsupervised classification using latent class analysis

    Article • May 2018, Morressier

    Dr Rute Almeida

  79. Geolocation with respect to personal privacy for the Allergy Diary app - a MASK study

    Article • World Allergy Organization Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida, Professor Adnan Custovic, Prof Maria Teresa MT Ventura

  80. Automatic Quality Assessment of Smart Device Microphone Spirometry

    Article • January 2018, Scitepress

    Dr Rute Almeida, PhD Rita Amaral

  81. Forecasting the local risk for asthma hospitalizations from georeferenced environmental data – a pilot model

    Article • September 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  82. digit—a tool fordetection andidentification ofgenomicinterchromosomaltranslocations

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  83. Implant Stability in the Posterior Maxilla: A Controlled Clinical Trial

    Article • BioMed Research International, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Rute Almeida, Raquel Zita gomes

  84. ARFIMA-GARCH Modeling of HRV: Clinical Application in Acute Brain Injury

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rute Almeida

  85. Forecasting Asthma Hospital Admissions from Remotely Sensed Environmental Data

    Article • January 2017, Scitepress

    Dr Rute Almeida

  86. Respiratory Rate Estimation from Multilead ECG Delineation using VCG Directions on Fiducial Points

    Article • September 2016, Computing in Cardiology

    Dr Rute Almeida

  87. Validation of heart rate monitor Polar RS800 for heart rate variability analysis during exercise

    Article • The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, September 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Rute Almeida

  88. ESICM LIVES 2016: part two

    Article • Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Amos Lal, Dr Rute Almeida

  89. Respiratory rate estimation from multilead directions, based on ECG delineation

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

    Dr Rute Almeida

  90. Heart Rate Variability in Children Submitted to Surgery

    Article • Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research, January 2016, OMICS Publishing Group

    Dr Rute Almeida

  91. Reliability Loss with Sampling Rate Reduction

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

    Dr Rute Almeida

  92. Heart rate variability during plateau waves of intracranial pressure: A pilot descriptive study

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

    Dr Rute Almeida

  93. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) performance to bathymetric estimation using high resolution satellite data in an estuarine environment

    Article • October 2014, SPIE

    Dr Rute Almeida

  94. Fetal QRS detection and heart rate estimation: a wavelet-based approach

    Article • Physiological Measurement, July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Rute Almeida

  95. T-wave alternans and autonomic nervous system activity during orthostatic stress after 5 days of head-down bed-rest

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

    Professor Enrico G CAIANI, Dr Rute Almeida

  96. Impaired T-wave amplitude adaptation to heart-rate induced by cardiac deconditioning after 5-days of head-down bed-rest

    Article • Acta Astronautica, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Enrico G CAIANI, Dr Rute Almeida

  97. Heart rate and ventricular repolarization variabilities interactions modification by microgravity simulation during head-down bed rest test

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

    Dr Rute Almeida

  98. Microgravity effects on ventricular response to heart rate changes

    Article • August 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  99. Respiration Effect on Wavelet-Based ECG T-Wave End Delineation Strategies

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  100. Respiration effect on single and multi lead ECG delineation strategies

    Article • August 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  101. BioSigBrowser, biosignal processing interface

    Article • November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  102. Multilead ECG Delineation Using Spatially Projected Leads From Wavelet Transform Loops

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, August 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  103. QT Variability and HRV Interactions in ECG: Quantification and Reliability

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, July 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  104. dAMUSE—A new tool for denoising and blind source separation

    Article • Digital Signal Processing, July 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Rute Almeida

  105. Improved QT variability quantification by multilead automatic delineation

    Article • January 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  106. A Wavelet-Based ECG Delineator: Evaluation on Standard Databases

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, April 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  107. A parametric model approach for quantification of short term QT variability uncorrelated with heart rate variability

    Article • January 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  108. Tragic Vision in Romeo and Juliet (by James H. Seward)

    Article • Shakespeare Quarterly, January 1976, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  109. QRS Detection Optimization in Stress Test Recordings Using Evolutionary Algorithms

    Article • Jornadas de jóvenes investigadores del I3A, January 1970, Universidad de Zaragoza

    Dr Rute Almeida

  110. Blind source separation using time-delayed signals

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida

  111. Iquantification of the QT variability related to HRV: robustness study facing automatic delineation and noise on the ECG

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Rute Almeida