Telmo Amaral
I'm a third-year PhD student at the School of Computing of the University of Dundee. My work is on automated analysis of breast tissue microarrays, being supervised by Prof. Stephen McKenna and funded by the Breast Cancer Research Trust. The school is involved in several other computer vision and imaging research projects.
For my contact details, please consult this page.
Background
In 2000, I completed a licentiate's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), in Portugal, with a final-year project on simulation of digital-hardware testing. In 2005, I completed a master's degree, also in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the FEUP, with a project and dissertation on remote experimentation.
Between 1998 and 2001, I was a colaborator of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the FEUP, working on: simulation of digital-hardware testing, within the above-mentioned final-year project; assistive technologies, within the EU-funded project CUSTODIAN; and mixed-signal hardware testing, within the EU-funded project ALLEGRO.
Between 2001 and 2003, I worked based in the FEUP as a foreign consultant to the Knowledge Media Institute and the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, developing accessible software for remote experimentation, within the EU-funded project PEARL.
Between 2003 and 2006, I was a research assistant at the School of Computing of the University of Dundee, working on the evaluation of packages of telecare technology, within the UK-funded project Supporting Independence.
Publications
“Scoring of breast tissue microarray spots through ordinal regression”, T. Amaral, S. McKenna, K. Robertson and A. Thompson, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2 (2009), pp. 243–248. Lisbon, Portugal, February. (Preprint)
“Classification of breast tissue microarray spots using texton histograms”, T. Amaral, S. McKenna, K. Robertson and A. Thompson, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (2008), pp. 144–148. Dundee, United Kingdom, July. (Preprint)
“Classification of breast tissue microarray spots using colour and local invariants”, T. Amaral, S. McKenna, K. Robertson and A. Thompson, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (2008), pp. 999–1002. Paris, France, May. (Preprint)
"Data visualisation and data mining technology for supporting care for older people", N. M. Gil, N. A. Hine, J. L. Arnott, J. Hanson, R. G. Curry, T. Amaral and D. Osipovic, ASSETS (2007), pp.139-146. Arizona, USA, 15-17 October. ISBN: 978 1 59593 573, Our Ref: 07/C14.
Aldred, H., Amaral, T., Brownsell, S., Arnott, J. L., Hawley, M. S., and Hine, N. (2005). Supporting older people through telecare. In 8th European conference for the advancement of assistive technology in europe (AAATE 2005), pages 41–45.
Amaral, T., Hine, N., and Arnott, J. L. (2005). Integrating the Single Assessment Process into a lifestyle-monitoring system. In 3rd International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematic (ICOST 2005), pages 42–49.
Colwell, C., Amaral, T., and Cooper, M. (2002). Access to laboratories in distance education using accessible Java. In Techshare 2002 conference.
Cooper, M., Colwell, C., and Amaral, T. (2002). Accessibility and usability in complex web based learning applications: lessons from the PEARL project. In E-Learn 2002 conference, pages 1358–1365.
Ferreira, J. M. M., Amaral, T., Santos, D., Agiannidis, A., and Edge, M. (2000). The CUSTODIAN tool: Simple design of home automation systems for people with special needs. In EIB Event 2000, Scientific Conference and Technology Workshop (EIB’00).
Alves, G. R., Amaral, T., and Ferreira, J. M. M. (1999a). Board-level prototype validation: A built-in controller and extended BS architecture. In International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’99), volume 1, pages 169–172.
Alves, G. R., Amaral, T., and Ferreira, J. M. M. (1999b). A built-in controller and extended BS architecture for prototype debug and test. Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’99), Users’ Forum.
Alves, G. R., Amaral, T., and Ferreira, J. M. M. (1999c). A framework for system-level co-verification using the BST infrastructure. Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’99), Users’ Forum.