Ana Catarina Pelicano
Gabinete no IBEB
1.03
Contactos
E-mail: acpelicano[at]ciencias.ulisboa.pt
Redes profissionais
Currículo
Tópicos de investigação
- Cancro da mama
- Imagem Médica
- Imagem Por Microondas
- Modelação computacional
- Processamento de Imagem
- Propriedades Dielétricas
Biografia
Catarina received an integrated BSc+MSc degree in Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) in January 2020. In 2017, she concluded her bachelor’s research project within the IMPACT (Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy) project at the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Her master’s project entitled “Modelling the Head and Neck Region for Microwave Imaging of Cervical Lymph Nodes” (2019) was conducted during an internship at Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB), Lisbon, Portugal. From 2020 onward, Catarina has been actively engaged as a researcher at IBEB, specializing in the domain of medical microwave imaging. In October 2020, Catarina was granted a PhD scholarship from IBEB with reference UI/00645/2020. She has authored 2 journal papers and 2 conference papers as the primary author. She has presented her work at other 11 other national conferences/events, 2 international conferences, plus oral presentations at two international meetings. She has also secured funding from competitive European initiatives and research projects such as a Short Term Scientific Mission, Training School funding and funding for an international meeting, all within COST Action CA17115. Additionally, she is also the recipient of 2 awards: Sensors 2022 Travel Award in Intelligent Sensors and Smart Sensing by Sensors MDPI, and the Best PhD work in Innovation, Health Systems and Digital Transformation by Prémios Ulisboa – RedeSAÚDE 2022. In the forthcoming years, her aspirations include advancing breast cancer microwave imaging technology, and contributing to the transformative impact of engineering on people’s well-being and health.
Publicações
Publicações em revistas
(2024) In Vivo Measurements of Murine Melanoma's Complex Permittivity between 500 MHz - 8.5 GHz, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, doi:10.1109/LAWP.2024.3460183
(2024) Repository of MRI-derived models of the breast with single and multiple benign and malignant tumors for microwave imaging research, PLoS ONE 19(5 May), p. e0302974, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0302974
(2021) Development of 3d mri-based anatomically realistic models of breast tissues and tumours for microwave imaging diagnosis, Sensors 21(24), p. 8265, MDPI, doi:10.3390/s21248265
(2020) Development of a 3d anthropomorphic phantom generator for microwave imaging applications of the head and neck region, Sensors (Switzerland) 20(7), p. 2029, MDPI, doi:10.3390/s20072029
Publicações em conferências
(2024) The Effect of Pressure of the Open-ended Coaxial Probe on the Measurement of Ex Vivo Biological Tissues Dielectric Properties, 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2024, p. 1-5, doi:10.23919/EuCAP60739.2024.10501083
(2024) Breast MRI Multi-tumor Segmentation Using 3D Region Growing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 14470 LNCS, p. 15-29, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49249-5_2
(2022) Preliminary development of anatomically realistic breast tumor models for microwave imaging, 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022, doi:10.23919/eucap53622.2022.9769591
(2020) Head and Neck Numerical Phantom Development for Cervical Lymph Node Microwave Imaging, 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020, doi:10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135898