Sergio S. Furuie received Bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil, in 1977, M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1980, and Ph.D. degree in electronic systems from University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. He was a visiting scholar at Medical Image Processing Group, University of Pennsylvania, USA, from 1992 to 1994, working with 3D tomographic reconstruction methods and image segmentation. He was head of Research and Development Group of Division of Informatics at Heart Institute from 1995 to 2008. Since 2008, he is full professor at Polytechnic School of Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His areas of interest include tomography, ultrasound, medical image processing, biological signal processing, and modeling of biological systems. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Most deaths from acute myocardial infarction occur outside the hospital environment. In this context, a recent proposal called cardiac sonothrombolysis with microbubbles has the potential to promote significant improvements in patient care. However, it is especially important that the main phenomenon involved in thrombolysis - cavitation of microbubbles - is controlled to avoid harm to th…
In Brazil, cardiovascular diseases account for approximately 25% of all deaths annually, half of them due to acute coronary syndromes, especially acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and its immediate and mid-term consequences. They account for approximately 50% of the costs of our health care system and even so, access to elective therapies such as primary angioplasty and fibrinolytic thera…
Current treatments for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) involve pharmacological thrombolysis and/or coronary intervention through catheterization. The enzymatic approach is systemic and has limited efficacy, whereas percutaneous intervention has low availability in the Health network. The situation is aggravated by the urgency of treatment, with the majority of AMI deaths occurring outsi…
The motivation for this project comes from the literature that has shown that acoustic properties of tissues obtained by ultrasound have high sensitivity for detection of tumors and high specificity in distinguishing between fluid and solid cysts. The use of acoustic radiation, in particular, is interesting, as it is not ionizing radiation; the test can be repeated several times; the equi…
Anatomical and functional information on human structures are of fundamental importance for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The majority of the imaging equipment uses external sources, such as electromagnetic radiation or acoustics to interrogate the structures. However, we have a natural, periodic source that is the heart emitting acoustic waves. These waves are generated by th…
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Medical imaging is responsible for most of the modern medicine advances. Methods such as Computed Tomography (CT), Ultrasound (US) and Nuclear Magnetic Ressonance (NMR) grant the realization of in vivo studies likewise fast and accurate diagnoses. This project aims to investigate an algorithm capable of reconstructing tomographic images using the sonothrombolysis device. Using such hardwa…
Based on data released in 2018 by the World Health Organization, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. One of the main reasons for this high mortality rate is the lack of a fast intervention, especially in cases of myocardial infarction diagnosis, where prolonged lack of blood flow, caused by clots (thrombi), can cause irremediable heart muscle loss. Given the relevanc…
Sonothrombolysis (ultrasound-mediated thrombolysis) is an emerging treatment for acute myocardial infarction based on inducing the cavitation of gas bubbles near culprit thrombi, i.e. causing the bubbles to oscillate in volume until they collapse violently and rupture, at which point their surroundings may experience significant mechanical damage. This damage has been shown to assist the …
The advances in informational systems enabled the expansion of areas such as telemedicine, which seeks to improve the quality of life of patients and society as a whole through an aid offered at distance. This is paramount when analyzing a country of continental dimensions but with regional distortions, for example Brazil. Among its modalities, one that is currently expanding is telederma…
Elastography is a technique that may utilize ultrasound or magnetic resonance to provide information about the mechanic properties of the tissue of interest. This information may be important in lesion characterization and, consequently, may help the physician in the process of diagnosis. During the last decades, ultrasound elastography has been developed rapidly by several research group…
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The great advantage of the nuclear medicine is to analyze the metabolic behavior of patient's tissue, resulting in early diagnoses and more effective treatments. The project focuses on the study of the dynamic and the metabolic quantification of dynamic 3D medical images of the PET/CT modality, by means of realistic and well-controlled processes. The aim of this part of the project is to …
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