Research

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Journal Papers

• Rio-Torto, Isabel, Kelwin Fernandes, and Luís F. Teixeira. "Understanding the decisions of CNNs: An in-model approach." Pattern Recognition Letters 133 (2020): 373-380.
• Pernes, Diogo, Kelwin Fernandes, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Directional support vector machines." Applied Sciences 9.4 (2019): 725.
• Araujo, Ricardo J., Kelwin Fernandes, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Sparse multi-bending snakes." IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 28.8 (2019): 3898-3909.
• Kelwin Fernandes, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Hypothesis transfer learning based on structural model similarity." Neural Computing and Applications 31 (2019): 3417-3430.
• Kelwin Fernandes, Davide Chicco, Jaime S. Cardoso, and Jessica Fernandes. "Supervised deep learning embeddings for the prediction of cervical cancer diagnosis." PeerJ Computer Science 4 (2018): e154.
• Kelwin Fernandes, Jaime S. Cardoso, and Jessica Fernandes. "Automated methods for the decision support of cervical cancer screening using digital colposcopies." IEEE Access 6 (2018): 33910-33927.
• Kelwin Fernandes, Jaime S. Cardoso, and Birgitte Schmidt Astrup. "A deep learning approach for the forensic evaluation of sexual assault." Pattern Analysis and Applications 21 (2018): 629-640.
• Cruz, Ricardo, Kelwin Fernandes, Joaquim F. Pinto Costa, María Pérez Ortiz, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Binary ranking for ordinal class imbalance." Pattern Analysis and Applications 21 (2018): 931-939.

Conference Papers

• Maia, Paulo, et al. "Applying Machine Learning for Traffic Forecasting in Porto, Portugal." Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases: International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
• Trindade, J., Vinagre, J., Fernandes, K., Paiva, N., & Jorge, A. (2021). Partially Monotonic Learning for Neural Networks. In Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIX: 19th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2021, Porto, Portugal, April 26–28, 2021, Proceedings 19 (pp. 12-23). Springer International Publishing.
• Rio-Torto, Isabel, Kelwin Fernandes, and Luís F. Teixeira. "Towards a Joint Approach to Produce Decisions and Explanations Using CNNs." Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 9th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2019. Springer, 2019.
• Silva, Wilson, Kelwin Fernandes, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "How to produce complementary explanations using an ensemble model." 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2019.
• Rebelo, José, Kelwin Fernandes, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Quality-based regularization for iterative deep image segmentation." 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE, 2019.
• Almeida, Eduardo Nuno, et al. "A machine learning based quality of service estimator for aerial wireless networks." 2019 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob). IEEE, 2019.
• Silva, Wilson, Kelwin Fernandes, Maria J. Cardoso, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Towards complementary explanations using deep neural networks." Understanding and Interpreting Machine Learning in Medical Image Computing Applications (MICCAI Workshops). Springer, 2018.
• Kelwin Fernandes, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Ordinal image segmentation using deep neural networks." 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2018.
• Kelwin Fernandes, Ricardo Cruz, and Jaime S. Cardoso. "Deep image segmentation by quality inference." 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2018.

Patents

• Bernat, Amir Shlomo, et al. "Automated monitoring of medical imaging procedures." U.S. Patent Application No. 16/964,303.

Abstracts

• Gabriel Consuelo, Reuven Weiser, Pedro Serrano, Rene Novoa, Elizabeth Torres, Cathy Sebag, Kelwin Fernandes, David Levitz. "Impact of image capture assistance tools and devices on the exam adequacy rate of automated visual evaluation of cervical images". Optics and Biophotonics in Low-Resource Settings XI, SPIE (2025).
• Pedro Dias, Francisca Morgado, Reuven Weiser, Kelwin Fernandes, David Levitz. "Comparison of performance of different automated visual evaluation quality assessment modules". SPIE Photonics West (2023).
• Francisca Morgado, Pedro Dias, Reuven Weiser, Kelwin Fernandes, David Levitz. "Approaches to blur reduction in cervical images for automated visual evaluation". SPIE Photonics West (2023).