Brígida da Costa Ferreira
Room in IBEB
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Contacts
E-mail: bcferreira[at]ciencias.ulisboa.pt
Professional networks
Research topics
- Medical Physics
- Radiation Therapy
- Dose-Response Modelling
- Advanced Radiation Therapy Techniques
- Treatment Planning
- Radiobiology
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Proton Therapy
Biography
Brigida da Costa Ferreira graduated at the Science Faculty of Lisbon University in Technological Physics and did her PhD at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Medical Radiation Physics. She was a researcher at Aveiro University under the CIENCIA2008 program until 2014 when she became an assistant professor at Porto Polytechnic.
Since 2020 she has been an assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering at FCUL, where she is responsible for the courses of Medical Physics in Diagnostic and Therapy and Diagnostic and Therapy with Radiation and Protons, among others. She is also an integrated researcher at IBEB where her research work is mostly dedicated to the improvement of radiation therapy techniques and radiobiological knowledge. She has published more than 40 papers in scientific journals and has more than 90 presentations at national and international conferences. She supervised over 15 master thesis and 23 bachelor/Erasmus/Summer research projects.
Publications
Journal publications
(2023) An automated treatment planning strategy for highly noncoplanar radiotherapy arc trajectories, International Transactions in Operational Research 30(1), p. 206-223, doi:10.1111/itor.12953
(2023) An automated bi-level optimization approach for IMRT, International Transactions in Operational Research 30(1), p. 224-238, doi:10.1111/itor.13068
(2022) Reflections on beam configuration optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy, Physics in Medicine and Biology 67(13), p. 13TR01, IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ac6fac
(2022) Learning target-based preferences through additive models: An application in radiotherapy treatment planning, European Journal of Operational Research 302(1), p. 270-279, North-Holland, doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2021.12.011
(2021) Comparison of non-coplanar optimization of static beams and arc trajectories for intensity-modulated treatments of meningioma cases, Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 44(4), p. 1273-1283, Springer International Publishing, doi:10.1007/s13246-021-01061-8
(2020) Clinical validation of a graphical method for radiation therapy plan quality assessment, Radiation Oncology 15(1), p. 1-10, BioMed Central, doi:10.1186/s13014-020-01507-5
(2019) Comparison of two beam angular optimization algorithms guided by automated multicriterial IMRT, Physica Medica 64, p. 210-221, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.ejmp.2019.07.012
(2019) Beam angle optimization in IMRT: are we really optimizing what matters?, International Transactions in Operational Research 26(3), p. 908-928, doi:10.1111/itor.12587
(2018) Predicting xerostomia after IMRT treatments: a data mining approach, Health and Technology 8(1-2), p. 159-168, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/s12553-017-0204-4
(2017) Biological dose-escalated definitive radiation therapy in head and neck cancer, British Journal of Radiology 90(1072), p. 20160477, The British Institute of Radiology., doi:10.1259/bjr.20160477
(2016) Treatment failure prediction for head-and-neck cancer radiation therapy, Cancer/Radiothérapie 20(4), p. 268-274, Elsevier Masson, doi:10.1016/j.canrad.2016.02.012
(2016) A derivative-free multistart framework for an automated noncoplanar beam angle optimization in IMRT, Medical Physics 43(10), p. 5514-5526, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, doi:10.1118/1.4962477
(2016) SPIDERplan: A tool to support decision-making in radiation therapy treatment plan assessment, Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy 21(6), p. 508-516, doi:10.1016/j.rpor.2016.07.002
(2016) Compliance to radiation therapy of head and neck cancer patients and impact on treatment outcome, Clinical and Translational Oncology 18(7), p. 677-684, Springer International Publishing, doi:10.1007/s12094-015-1417-5
(2016) Automated fluence map optimization based on fuzzy inference systems, Medical Physics 43(3), p. 1083-1095, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, doi:10.1118/1.4941007
(2015) Commissioning the neutron production of a Linac: Development of a simple tool for second cancer risk estimation, Medical Physics 42(1), p. 276-281, doi:10.1118/1.4903525
(2015) Simulated annealing applied to IMRT beam angle optimization: A computational study, Physica Medica 31(7), p. 747-756, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.ejmp.2015.03.005
(2015) Assessment and topographic characterization of locoregional recurrences in head and neck tumours, Radiation Oncology 10(1), p. 1-9, BioMed Central, doi:10.1186/s13014-015-0345-4
(2015) Commissioning the neutron production of a Linac: Development of a simple tool for second cancer risk estimation, Medical Physics 42(1), p. 276-281, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, doi:10.1118/1.4903525
(2014) A genetic algorithm with neural network fitness function evaluation for IMRT beam angle optimization, Central European Journal of Operations Research 22(3), p. 431-455, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/s10100-013-0289-4
(2013) Selection of intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment beam directions using radial basis functions within a pattern search methods framework, Journal of Global Optimization 57(4), p. 1065-1089, Springer US, doi:10.1007/s10898-012-0002-5
(2013) Pattern search methods framework for beam angle optimization in radiotherapy design, Applied Mathematics and Computation 219(23), p. 10853-10865, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.amc.2013.05.006
(2013) Dose-free monitoring of radiotherapy treatments with scattered photons: First experimental results at a 6-MV linac, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 60(4), p. 3110-3118, IEEE, doi:10.1109/TNS.2013.2265137
(2013) Beam angle optimization for intensity-modulated radiation therapy using a guided pattern search method, Physics in Medicine and Biology 58(9), p. 2939-2953, IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/0031-9155/58/9/2939
(2013) Analysis of fractionation correction methodologies for multiple phase treatment plans in radiation therapy, Medical Physics 40(3), p. 31715, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, doi:10.1118/1.4792636
(2013) Radiobiological evaluation of breast cancer radiotherapy accounting for the effects of patient positioning and breathing in dose delivery. A meta analysis, Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment 12(1), p. 31-44, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, doi:10.7785/tcrt.2012.500274
Conference publications
(2020) PO-1454: Evaluation of two arc trajectory optimization algorithms for intracranial tumours VMAT planning, Radiotherapy and Oncology 152, p. S775-S776, doi:10.1016/s0167-8140(21)01472-9