Members

Our group, despite its relatively small size, is vibrant, very focused, and consists of creative and talented students. We aim to address issues relevant to the biomedical community by Bringing Intelligence to Pixels.

Group leader

Email: rferrari@ufscar.br

Room: G06

Phone: +55 (16) 3306-6607

Lab: BIP-Lab

Ricardo José Ferrari, PhD - Associate Professor

Ricardo J. Ferrari obtained his degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil, in 1995. He later earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 1998 and 2002, respectively. During his Ph.D., he received a prestigious Brazilian scholarship to undertake a portion of his research at the University of Calgary (UofC), Canada, where he contributed to the development of medical image processing algorithms for breast cancer detection from 1999 to 2000. From 2004 to 2005, Ricardo served as an Associate Researcher specializing in medical image analysis at the University of Alberta (UofA), and subsequently, between 2007 and 2008, he was affiliated with Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Ricardo has held positions with prominent medical technology companies in Canada, including Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd and Z-Tech Company. Since 2013, he has assumed the role of Associate Professor in the Department of Computing (DC) at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, SP, Brazil. His research focus encompasses multidimensional signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning. Presently, his research endeavors are directed towards the development of computer-aided detection and diagnosis systems tailored for neurodegenerative disorders, such as Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

As for his scientific contributions to the community, Ricardo began a new position as an Associate Editor for the Frontier in Computational Neuroscience. He has also been an active reviewer for other highly reputable journals and conferences such as Expert Systems and Applications, Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters, Computers in Biology and Medicine, among others.

PhD Students

Paulo Matheus Girardi

(CAPES scholarship)

Paulo holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from UFSCar (2023) and a specialization in Physics Teaching from PRISMA College (2021). He also earned an MBA in Software Engineering (2020) and a bachelor's degree in Control and Automation Engineering (2017). Currently, he is a Doctoral Student in the Computer Science Postgraduate Program at UFSCar, with research interests in Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Computer Vision. His PhD project focuses on "Developing MRI Biomarkers for Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease progression.

Email: paulogirardi@estudante.ufscar.br

Leandro Prado de Andrade

Leandro holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of São Carlos (2019), specialization in Computer Networks from ESAB (2015), a degree in Computer Science from the José do Rosário Vellano University (2013) and a degree in Dentistry from the Federal University of Alfenas (2008). He is currently an Information Technology Analyst at the Federal University of Alfenas in the area of Networks and Infrastructure. He is interested in the following areas: Networks, Privacy, Information Security, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Computer Vision. The title of his PhD project is "Development of Convolutional Neural Networks for the Alzheimer's diagnosis."

Email: leandro.andrade@unifal-mg.edu.br

MSc Students

Marco Antonio Bernardi Grivol

Marco Grivol has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the Federal University of São Carlos (2022), where he took part as a researcher with scholarship from CNPq in Digital Image and Signal Processing. His undergraduate final project was on using Autoencoders for feature extraction from MRI data for the classification of Alzheimer’s disease using XGBoost. He is currently enrolled in a Master’s program and the focus of his research is on prediction models for conversion from MCI to Alzheimer's disease.

Email: marcogrivol@estudante.ufscar.br

João G. Coli de Souza Monteneri Nacinben

João Nacinben graduated in Computer Engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos (2022). During his undergraduate studies, he received a FAPESP scholarship to work on a scientific initiation project focused on segmenting lesions in multiple sclerosis patients by enhancing an existing unsupervised computer vision technique. He is currently enrolled in a Master's program and the focus of his research is on an iterative statistical model for the segmentation of MS-lesions in MR FLAIR images.

Email: joao.nacinben@estudante.ufscar.br

Italo Antonio Duarte de Oliveira

Italo Oliveira graduated in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 2022. During his undergraduate studies, he concluded two scientific initiation projects, one related to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and the other related to intravital microscopy videos. He is currently enrolled in a Master's program, focusing his research on predicting the conversion from MCI to AD cases using convolutional neural network (CNN) and vision transformer (ViT) techniques.

Email: italo@estudante.ufscar.br

Vivian Ferreira Margarido

(CAPES scholarship)

Vivian F. Margarido graduated in Bioprocess and Biotechnology Engineering from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) (2021). She developed a scientific initiation project on renewable energies with a PIBIC-CNPq scholarship. During the graduation, she had contact with disciplines of computer science and human biology. She is currently enrolled in a Master's program at the Federal University of São Carlos, where she is developing a project related to Alzheimer diagnosis by computer vision.

Email: vivian.margarido@estudante.ufscar.br

Matheus Ramos de Carvalho

Matheus Ramos graduated in Computer Science from the Federal University of São Carlos in 2023. He participated in two Mathematics Scientific Initiation Projects associated with PICME, supported by a CNPq scholarship. The first project was focused on Mathematical Logic. The second one was centered on Ordinary Differential Equations and families of plane curves. He is currently enrolled in a Master's program in the Computational Vision area with the project title "to be defined."

Email:

matheusramoscarvalho@estudante.ufscar.br

Rafael Rodrigues Bordin

Rafael R. Bordin graduated in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 2023. During his undergraduate studies, worked with Active Learning and Set Expansion algorithms. His undergraduate final project was on using clustering algorithms to segment MS lesions on MRI data. He is currently enrolled in a Master’s program and the focus of his research is currently to be defined.

Email: rafael.bordin@estudante.ufscar.br

Filipe de Jesus Neves

Filipe Neves obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas in 2023. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at DC-UFSCar, with his research focus yet to be determined.

Email: filipe@estudante.ufscar.br

BSc Students

Alumni

Former Master´s students

Amandia de Oliveira Sá - (Feb/2016)
Breno de Silveira Souza - (Ago/2019)
Bruno César Gregório da Silva - (Mar/2016)
Carlos Henrique Villa-Pinto - (Mar/2016)
Fernando de Natali Frascá - (Jun/2020)
Jonas de Carvalho Felinto - (Apr/2018)
Katia Maria Poloni - (Mar/2018)
Kathiani Elisa de Souza - (Feb/2016)
Lucas José Cruz de Mendonça - (Feb/2022)
Marcelo Ruan Moura Araújo - (Jun/2020)
Matheus Müller Korb - (Dez/2018)
Paulo Guilherme de Lima Freire (Mar/2016)

Former PhD´s students

Katia Maria Poloni (Sep/2021)
Bruno César Gregório da Silva (Mar/2020)
Paulo Guilherme de Lima Freire (Sep/2019)

Former Undergraduate students

Ana Carolina Castro Rosal
Amanda Basso de Oliveira
Breno da Silveira Souza
Bruno César Gregório da Silva
Camilo Aparecido Ferri Moreira
Carlos Henrique Villa Pinto
Fábio Henrique Clug
Fabio Hideki Lagoa
Fernanda Ferreira
Gabriel Teixeira Caschera
Italo Antonio Duarte de Oliveira
Jefferson Teixeira
João G.C. de Souza M. Nacinben
João Paulo Migliatti
Leonardo H. Fernandes da Silva
Luccas Mendes Rodrigues
Nicole Zafalon Kovacs
Paulo Guilherme de Lima Freire
Paulo Henrique Dal Bello
Pedro Lemos Mandim
Thais Oyamada Tanaka
Vinícius Ito Nagura
Vitor Hugo Chaves Cambui
Yuri Saito

Leo Rodrigues Aoki

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The student is currently enrolled in a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering in the Department of Computing at the Federal University of São Carlos (DC-UFSCar). The title of his research project is segmentation of MS-lesions in MR images using statistical mixture models.

Email: jaoki@estudante.ufscar.br

Yasmin Victoria Oliveira

(FAPESP scholarship)

Yasmin is currently enrolled in a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering in the Department of Computing at the Federal University of São Carlos (DC-UFSCar). The title of her research project is “Automation of Koedam's Parietal Atrophy Scale in Alzheimer's Disease Using T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Attributes and Clustering Techniques”.

Email: yasminvo@estudante.ufscar.br