W. 1 - "Is there Hidden Information in My Movement?"

13 February: 10h - 11h

Venue: 'Auditório da Biblioteca'

This workshop will be lectured by Professor Hugo Gamboa and Msc Inês Machado.

Ever thought about the way you move, the way you talk, eat, sit or even sleep? What does it say about you?  What does it say about your health status?

The change of motor activity is one of the essential signs of psychiatric disorders and many of these, including Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder or Parkinson’s disease exhibit diagnostic criteria that require an assessment of the motor activity changes of the patient. The main focus of this workshop is on understanding signals produced by a triaxial accelerometer, then, interpreting them in the context of human movement and finally identifying clinically relevant parameters from the data.

W. 2 - "State-of-the-art in Ultrasound Imaging"

11 February: 14h - 15h

Venue: 'Leopoldo Guimarães' Auditorium'

Echography is still a very important imaging diagnosis tool in medicine. Like other areas of medical imaging, echography has also been through a considerable development, particularly in the quality of 2D and 3D images, portability and equipment design. The workshop will be lectured by Ana Raquel Reis.

W. 3 - "Acquirement and Management of Information in CAD systems"

13 February: 15h

Venue: 'Building VII'

CAD systems:

- General approach on CAD systems;
- Information on a CAD system;
- What’s AutoCAD for and why use it;
- Engineering use for AutoCAD.

Modelation in AutoCAD:
-AutoCAD’s desktop;
-Coordinated systems;
-Point and line representations;
-Other objects;
-Operations on objects;

Acquirement and management of AutoCAD’s information;

Future prospects on the use of AutoCAD.

Note: Workshop limited to 35 enrollments.

W. 4 - "Introduction to LaTeX"

13 February: 10h

Venue: 'Building VII'

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content.

W. 5 - "The Government of Information in Health’s System"

13 February: 14h

Venue: 'Library's Auditorium'

Rui Gomes, PhD in Management at ISCTE/Business School, MSc in Medic Computers at “Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto”; postgraduate in Information Management at “Universidade de Aveiro” and BSc in Electrical Engineering at FCTUC. He is Director of the Technology and Information Management in Hospital Fernando Fonseca (Amadora/Sintra) since 2009. He is a researcher at Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, CIMTESIS and his area of expertise is Innovation and Technology on Health and Knowledge projects. 

W. 6 - "Biomedics, what about after the course?"

14 February: 10h

Venue: 'Library's Auditorium'

This workshop will be lectured by former Biomedical Engineering students with a variety of experiences after they finished their Masters. They will tell you all you need to know about what to do when you end your studies and face the job market. All the worries and fears will be desmystified when people who recently went through searching for a job or applying for a PhD tell you all about their experiences.

W. 7 - "Medical application of IMS technology for Health"

12 February: 10h-13h - First Class 

                              14h-17h - Second Class

     13 February: 14h - Practical section /

Brain storming / Evaluation

Venue: 'Auditório Manuel Laranjeira'

The IMS spectrums are stored in a dot matrix and represent the sum of the contribution of various organic compounds present in the exhaled air. This sum can be visualized in a 2D image, presenting various intensity peaks, which corresponds to the various compounds present in the sample.

To make a quantitative analysis of the exhaled air composition, it is necessary to identify the contribution of the various compounds that might be overlapping each other in the image. To make this analysis, techniques of image processing and function fitting will be presented in this workshop in order to identify and study each of the compound contribution.