Journal Articles 2019(3 publications) [publication]Hakart, H. and Ruano, A. and Ruano M G and Bennani, S. , "GPR target detection using a neural network classifier designed by a multi-objective genetic algorithm", Applied Soft Computing, vol. 79, pp. 310-325, 2019 [publication]Ruano, A. and Hernandez, A. and Dominguez, J.J.G. and Ruano M G and Ureña, J. , "NILM Techniques for Intelligent Home Energy Management and Ambient Assisted Living: A review", Energies, vol. 12, pp. 2203-2232, 2019 [publication]Hernandez, A. and Ruano, A. and Ureña, J. and Ruano M G and Dominguez, J.J.G. , "Applications of NILM Techniques to Energy Management and Assisted Living", IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 52, pp. 164-171, 2019 2018(1 publication) [publication]Ruano M G and Ruano, A. and Hakart, H. and Bennani, S.D. , "Classifier Design by a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Approach for GPR Automatic Target Detection", IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 51, pp. 187-192, 2018 2017(4 publications) [publication]Teixeira, C. and Mendes, L. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "A method for sub-sample computation of time displacements between discrete signals based only on discrete correlation sequences ", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control , vol. 31, pp. 560-560, 2017 [publication]Ferreira, R. and Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "Intelligent non-invasive modeling of ultrasound-induced temperature in tissue phantoms", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 33, pp. 141-150, 2017 [publication]Kianimajd, A. and Henriques, J. and Ruano, A. and Ruano M G and P. Carvalho and Paredes, S. and Rocha, T. , "Comparison of different methods of measuring similarity in physiologic time series", IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 50, 2017 [publication]Ruano M G and Hajimani, E. and Ruano, A. , " An Intelligent Support System for Automatic Diagnosis of Cerebral Vascular Accidents from Brain CT Images", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 146, pp. 109-123, 2017 2016(1 publication) [publication]Ferreira, R. and Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "Non-invasive modelling of ultrasound-induced temperature in tissues: a b-splines neural network solution", IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 49, pp. 297-302, 2016 2014(3 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Ruano, A. and M, F.P. and G., M. and Baros, O. and Khosravani, H.R. , "Seismic Detection using Support Vector Machines", Neurocomputing, pp. 1-1, 2014 [publication]Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "An interpolation-free and fitting-less sub-sample time-delay estimation algorithm", IFMBE Proceedings, vol. 42, pp. 288-291, 2014 [publication]Ruano M G and Duarte, H.S. , "Estimating temperature in perfused tissue phantoms subject to ultrasound heating", IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), vol. 19, pp. 7523-7528, 2014 2010(2 publications) [publication]Alvarenga, A. and Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "Influence of temperature variations on the entropy and correlation of the Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matrix from B-Mode images", Ultrasonics, vol. 50, pp. 290-293, 2010 [citation][year=2016]Khan, B., Khan, B., Han, F., Han, F., Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Masood, R.J. and Masood, R.J., 2016. Bio-inspired approach to invariant recognition and classification of fabric weave patterns and yarn color. Assembly Automation, 36(2), pp.152-158. [citation][year=2016]Yang, D.W. and Wu, H., 2016. Three-dimensional temperature uniformity assessment based on gray level co-occurrence matrix. Applied Thermal Engineering, 108, pp.689-696. [citation][year=2015]Lewis, Matthew A., Robert M. Staruch, and Rajiv Chopra. "Thermometry and ablation monitoring with ultrasound." International Journal of Hyperthermia 31.2 (2015): 163-181. [citation][year=2014]Guidolin, Diego, et al. "Fractal analysis of the structural complexity of the connective tissue in human carotid bodies." Frontiers in physiology 5 (2014). [citation][year=2014]Zhou, Zhuhuang, et al. "A survey of ultrasound elastography approaches to percutaneous ablation monitoring." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine 228.10 (2014): 1069-1082. [citation][year=2013]Wang, Chiao-Yin, et al. "Monitoring radiofrequency ablation with ultrasound Nakagami imaging." Medical physics 40 (2013): 072901. [citation][year=2013]Pantic, Igor, et al. "Nuclear entropy, angular second moment, variance and texture correlation of thymus cortical and medullar lymphocytes: Grey level co-occurrence matrix analysis." Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 85.3 (2013): 1063-1072. [citation][year=2012]Tsui, P., Shu, Y., Chen, W., Liu, H., Hsiao, T., and Chien, Y. Ultrasound temperature estimation based on probability variation of backscatter data. Medical Physics 39 (2012), 2369. [citation][year=2012]Pantic, I., Pantic, S., Basta-Jovanovic, G., Al-Janobi, Assefa, D., and Keller, H. Gray level co-occurrence matrix texture analysis of germinal center light zone lymphocyte nuclei: Physiology viewpoint with focus on apoptosis. Microscopy and Microanalysis 18, 3 (2012), 470 [citation][year=2011]Gadelmawla, E. S. "Estimation of surface roughness for turning operations using image texture features." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture 225.8 (2011): 1281-1292. [citation][year=2011]Zhang, Yudong, and Lenan Wu. "Crop Classification by forward neural network with adaptive chaotic particle swarm optimization." Sensors 11.5 (2011): 4721-4743. [citation][year=2010]Marquez, S., L. Leija, and A. Vera. "Influence of temperature variations on the average grayscale of B-mode images of HIFU-induced lesions." Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE. IEEE, 2010. [citation][year=2010]Kuo, Chung-Feng Jeffrey, et al. "Application of computer vision in the automatic identification and classification of woven fabric weave patterns." Textile Research Journal 80.20 (2010): 2144-2157. [publication]Teixeira, C. and Pereira, W.C. . and Ruano, A. and Ruano M G , "On the possibility of non-invasive multilayer temperature estimation using soft-computing methods", Ultrasonics, vol. 50, pp. 32-43, 2010 [citation][year=2016]Ferreira, R., Ruano, M.G. and Ruano, A.E., 2016. Non-invasive modelling of ultrasound-induced temperature in tissues: a b-splines neural network solution. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(5), pp.297-302. [citation][year=2016]Fuhrmann, T.A., Georg, O., Haller, J., Jenderka, K.V. and Wilkens, V., 2016. Uncertainty estimation for temperature measurement with diagnostic ultrasound. Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound, 4(1), p.28. [citation][year=2016]Ruano, M.G. and Ruano, A.E., 2016, May. Towards ultrasound hyperthermia safe treatments using computational intelligence techniques. In Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2016 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 1-6). IEEE. [citation][year=2016]Sellani, G., Fernandes, D., Nahari, A., de Oliveira, M.F., Valois, C., Pereira, W.C. and Machado, C.B., 2016. Assessing heating distribution by therapeutic ultrasound on bone phantoms and in vitro human samples using infrared thermography. Journal of therapeutic ultrasound, 4(1), p.13. [citation][year=2016]Rodrigo, F., Filipuzzi, M. and Veca, A., Medición de Temperatura mediante Ultrasonido en Terapias de ablación. (http://dea.unsj.edu.ar/ultrasonido/pdfs/Trabajos finales/Bio/Medición de Temperatura mediante Ultrasonido en Terapias de ablación_2011.pdf) [citation][year=2015]Lewis, Matthew A., Robert M. Staruch, and Rajiv Chopra. "Thermometry and ablation monitoring with ultrasound." International Journal of Hyperthermia 31.2 (2015): 163-181. [citation][year=2015]Duarte, H. Simoes, Andre Santos, and M. Graca Ruano. "Spatial monitoring of temperature estimation during ultrasound heating therapy." Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2015 IEEE 4th Portuguese Meeting on. IEEE, 2015. [citation][year=2015]Faust, Oliver, Wenwei Yu, and U. Rajendra Acharya. "The role of real-time in biomedical science: A meta-analysis on computational complexity, delay and speedup." Computers in Biology and Medicine (2015). [citation][year=2014]Lioce, Elisa Edi Anna Nadia, et al. "Therapeutic Ultrasound in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Characterization and Assessment of Its Physical Effects on Joint-Mimicking Phantoms." Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology (2014). [citation][year=2014]Ruano, M. Graça, and H. S. Duarte. "Time-Spatial Ultrasound Induced Temperature Evaluation on Perfused Phantoms." The International Conference on Health Informatics. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 2007(2 publications) [publication]Ferreira, R. and Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , " Intelligent non-invasive modeling of ultrasound-induced temperature in tissue phantoms", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 33, pp. 141-150, 2007 [publication]Ruano M G and Teixeira, C. and Mendes, L. and Pereira, W.C. . , "A method for sub-sample computation of time displacements between discrete signals based only on discrete correlation sequences", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 31, pp. 560-568, 2007 Conference Articles 2019(5 publications) [publication]Leal, A. and Pinto, M. and Henriques, J. and Ruano M G and P. Carvalho and Teixeira, C. , "Preictal Time Assessment using Heart Rate Variability Features in Drug-resistant Epilepsy Patients", in 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2019 [publication]Nunes, D. and Rocha, T. and Traver, V. and Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Paredes, S. and Carvalho, P. and Henriques, J. , "Latent states extraction through Kalman Filter for the prediction of heart failure decompensation events", in 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2019 [publication]Ramos, A. and Leija, L. and Negreira, C. and Moreno, E. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . and Bazan, I. and Merchan, F. and Yegros, C. and Prohias, J. , "A CYTED Network: New Non-invasive Ways for an Early Diagnosis of Chronic and Degenerative Diseases: Diabetes and Cardiovascular", in XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, 2019 [publication]Ruano M G and Fazel, A.S. and Martín, A.J. and Ruano, A. and Dominguez, J.J.G. , "Pulse Transition Time Method for Unobtrusive Blood Pressure Estimation", in XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, 2019 [publication]Ribeiro, R. and Matos, P. and Santo, S. and Palma, F. and Pareira, A. and Pereira, A. and Ruano M G and Boavida, J. , "High risk of cardiovascular episodes and low adherence to risk factors guidelines in a population with diabetes", in Diabetologia, 2019 2018(2 publications) [publication]Nunes, D. and Leal, A. and Rocha, T. and Traver, V. and Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Paredes, S. and P. Carvalho and Henriques, J. , "Risk Prediction of Heart Failure Decompensation Events in Multiparametric Feature Spaces", in 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018 [publication]Ruano M G and Almeida, G. and Palma, F. and Ribeiro, R. , "Reliability of Medical Databases for the use of Real Word Data and Data Mining Techniques for Cardiovascular Diseases Progression in Diabetic Patients", in 2018 Global Medical Engineering Physics Exchanges/Pan American Health Care Exchanges (GMEPE/PAHCE), 2018 2017(5 publications) [publication]Leal, A. and Ruano M G and Henriques, J. and P. Carvalho and Teixeira, C. , "On the viability of ECG features for seizure anticipation on long-term data", in Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI), 2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on, 2017 [publication]Nunes, D. and P. Carvalho and Henriques, J. and Ruano M G and Teixeira, C. , "Pattern discovery and similarity assessment for robust Heart Sound Segmentation", in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 2017 [publication]Ruano M G and P. Carvalho and Henriques, J. and Rocha, T. and Paredes, S. , "Validation of a similarity measurement method for clustering cardiac signals", in IEEE 5th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), Coimbra, 2017, 2017 [publication]Kianimajd, A. and Ruano M G and P. Carvalho and Henriques, J. and Rocha, T. and Paredes, S. and Ruano, A. , "Comparison of different methods of measuring similarity in physiologic time series", in IFAC 2017 World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2017 [publication]Kianimajd, A. and Ruano M G and P. Carvalho and Henriques, J. and Rocha, T. and Ruano, A. , "Analysis of PAM clustering accuracy for cardiac signals classification", in 39th Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2017 2016(3 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Hajimani, E. and Ruano, A. , "A Radial Basis Function classifier for the automatic diagnosis of Cerebral Vascular Accidents", in Global Medical Engineering & Physics Exchanges (GMEPE) & Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE 2016), 2016 [publication]Traver, V. and Romero, A.M. and Bayo, J. and Sala, P. and P. Carvalho and Henriques, J. and Ruano M G , "Enhancing medical evidence discovery through Interactive Pattern Recognition and process mining", in Global Medical Engineering & Physics Exchanges (GMEPE) & Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE 2016),, 2016 [publication]Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "Towards ultrasound hyperthermia safe treatments using computational intelligence techniques", in 11th edition of IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications , Benevento, pp 1-6, Italy, May 15-18 2016, 2016 2015(3 publications) [publication]Nasciemnto, L. and Ruano M G , "Computer-aided bone fracture identification based on ultrasound images", in 4th IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering ( ENBENG 2015), 26-28 Feb 2015 Porto, Portugal, 2015 [publication]Hajimani, E. and Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "MOGA design for neural networks based system for automatic diagnosis of Cerebral Vascular Accidents", in 9th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP 2015), 2015 [publication]Duarte, H.S. and Ruano M G , "Spatial monitoring of temperature estimation during ultrasound heating therapy", in 4th IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG 2015), 2015 2013(5 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Duarte, H.S. and Teixeira, C. , "Tissue Temperature Estimation With Pulse-Echo in Blood Flow Presence", in IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing, 2013 [citation][year=2015]Duarte, H. Simoes, Andre Santos, and M. Graca Ruano. "Spatial monitoring of temperature estimation during ultrasound heating therapy." Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2015 IEEE 4th Portuguese Meeting on. IEEE, 2015. [citation][year=2014]Ruano, M. Graça, and Helder S. Duarte. "Estimating temperature in perfused tissue phantoms subject to ultrasound heating." World Congress. Vol. 19. No. 1. 2014. [publication]Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "An interpolation-free and fitting-less sub-sample time-delay estimation algorithm", in IFMBE International Conference on Health Informatics, 2013 [publication]Ruano M G and Duarte, H.S. , "Time-spatial ultrasound induced temperature evaluation on perfused phantoms", in The International conference on Health Informatics, 2013 [publication]Ruano, A. and G., M. and Baros, O. and Khosravani, H.R. and Ruano M G and M, F.P. , "A Support Vector Machine Seismic Detector for Early-Warning Applications", in International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science, 2013 [publication]Hajimani, E. and Ruano, C.A. and Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "A software Tool for Intelligent CVA Diagnosis by Cerebral Computerized Tomography", in IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP 2013), 2013 2012(2 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Teixeira, C. and Rahmati, J.J. , "Characterization of Temperature-Dependent Echo-Shifts and Backscattered Energy Induced by Thermal Ultrasound", in 5th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, 2012 [publication]Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "15 años de colaboración en i+d del lab. Sstu-Csic con Iberoamérica -sobre sistemas ultrasónicos para diagnóstico médico e inspección industrial", in VIII Iberoamerican Acoustic Congress, 2012 2011(4 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Teixeira, C. , "Noise cancellation technique for Dopper ultrasound spectrogram enhancement", in Panamerican Health Care Exanges, 2011 [citation][year=2013]Graca Ruano, M., H. Simoes Duarte, and C. A. Teixeira. "Tissue temperature estimation with pulse-echo in blood flow presence." Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP), 2013 IEEE 8th International Symposium on. IEEE, 2013. [citation][year=2011]Zabihian, Behrooz, and M. Graça Ruano. "Enhancing time-frequency parameters estimation for Doppler Ultrasound blood-flow signals." Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP), 2011 IEEE 7th International Symposium on. IEEE, 2011. [publication]Ruano M G and Zabihian, B. , "Enhancing Time-Frequency Parameters Estimation for Doppler Ultrasound Blood-Flow Signals ", in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP 2011), 2011 [publication]Ruano M G and Zabihian, B. and Nocetti, F.G. and Gonzalez, J.S. and Matins, M.F. , "Solving Practical Issues of a Portable Doppler Ultrasound System for Blood Flow Assessment During Coronary Graft Surgery", in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP 2011), 2011 [publication]Zabihian, B. and Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G , "Noise Cancellation Technique for Doppler Ultrasound Spectrogram Enhancement", in Proceedings of Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE), 2011 2010(1 publication) [publication]Alvarenga, A. and Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "Evaluation of the influence of large temperature variations on the grey level content of B-mode images", in In physics Procedia(International Congress on Ultrasonics), 2010 [citation][year=2015]Lewis, Matthew A., Robert M. Staruch, and Rajiv Chopra. "Thermometry and ablation monitoring with ultrasound." International Journal of Hyperthermia 31.2 (2015): 163-181. [citation][year=2012]Zhong, J., Liu, W., Du, Z., de Morais, P., Xiang, Q., and Xie, Q. A noninvasive, remote and pre- cise method for temperature and concentration estimation using magnetic nanoparticles. Nanotechnology 23, 7 (2012), 075703 2009(4 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Teixeira, C. and Medeiros, M.C. and Fernandes, A.J.A. , "A scalable and open source linear positioning system controller", in International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, 2009 [publication]Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "On the assessment of time-shift variations from backscattered ultrasound for large temperature changes in biological phantoms", in International Congress on Ultrasonics-ICU’09, 2009 [publication]Alvarenga, A. and Teixeira, C. and Ruano M G and Pereira, W.C. . , "Evaluation of the influence of large temperature variations on the gray level content of B-Mode images", in International Congress on Ultrasonics-ICU’09, 2009 [publication]Nocetti, F.G. and Ruano M G and Gonzalez, J.S. and Matins, M.F. and Moreno, E. and Prohias, J. and Silva, S. , "Diagnostic aid software tool for bypass blood flow evaluation during surgery", in Pan American Health Care Exchanges Conference-PAHCE 2009, 2009 Book Chapters 2013(3 publications) [publication]Ruano M G and Teixeira, C. and Rahmati, J.J. , "Characterization of Temperature-Dependent Echo-Shifts and Backscattered Energy Induced by Thermal Ultrasound", in Soft Computing Applications, vol. 195, pp. 421-431, 2013 [publication]Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "On the use of Artificial Neural Networks for Biomedical Applications", in Soft Computing Applications:Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 195, pp. 433-451, 2013 [publication]Ruano M G and Ruano, A. and G., M. , "On-line Operation of an Intelligent Seismic Detector", in Soft Computing Applications, vol. 195, pp. 531-542, 2013 2009(2 publications) [publication]Teixeira, C. and Pereira, W.C. . and Ruano M G and Ruano, A. , "4. Métodos de Soft Computing para la Estimación no Invasiva de la Temperatura en Medios Multicapa Empleando Ultrasonido Retrodisperso", in Métodos de Procesamiento Avanzado e Inteligencia Artificial en Sistemas Sensores y Biosensores , vol. 1, pp. 445-461, 2009 [publication]Ruano M G and Ruano, A. and Luis, R. and M, F.P. , "5. Diagnóstico de CVA Isquémicos Asistido por Redes Neuronales Mediante la Exploración por CT", in Métodos de Procesamiento Avanzado e Inteligência Artificial en Sistemas Sensores Y Biosensores, vol. 1, pp. 415-424, 2009