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Research

From 2015 to 2022 I worked on ways to store, share and protect medical images across hospitals. Much of it lives on in Dicoogle, the open-source PACS.

20 publications5 journal articles14 conference papers1 PhD thesis

The ascent

Years on the x-axis, degrees as elevation

An academic path drawn like a trail profile: BSc in 2011, MSc and research at IEETA, and the PhD summit in 2022.
  1. 2011–2015

    BSc, Computer & Telematics Eng.

    Universidade de Aveiro

  2. 2015–2017

    MSc, Computer & Telematics Eng.

    Thesis at BMD Software: "Accounting Mechanism for Shared Medical Imaging Repositories".

  3. 2016–2017

    Junior Researcher, IEETA

    A web DICOM viewer for gigapixel whole-slide pathology images.

  4. 2017–2022

    Researcher, IEETA

    Developing and maintaining Dicoogle, alongside the PhD from 2018.

  5. 2018–2022

    PhD in ICT

    Universidade da Coruña

PhD thesis · 2022

Profile-based sharing of medical imaging data

Doctorate in Information and Communications Technology, Universidade da Coruña.

Themes

  • Medical imaging
  • PACS
  • DICOM
  • Digital pathology
  • Decentralized healthcare
  • Blockchain
  • Access control
  • Distributed databases

Publications

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Showing 20 of 20 publications

2022

  1. Dicoogle Open Source: the establishment of a new paradigm in medical imaging

    Lebre R, Bastião Silva L, Costa C

    JournalJournal of Medical Systems

2021

  1. A performant protocol for distributed health records databases

    Pedrosa M, Lebre R, Costa C

    JournalIEEE Access

  2. Pathobox: The Collaborative Tele-pathology Platform with Access Management

    Lebre R, Jesus R, Nunes P, Costa C

    Book chapterCommunications in Computer and Information Science

  3. An efficient and reliable architecture for distributing medical imaging data

    Lebre R, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE EHB 2021

  4. Holder-of-key threshold access token for anonymous data resources

    Pedrosa M, Lebre R, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE ISCC 2021

  5. Decentralizing the storage of a DICOM compliant PACS

    Lebre R, Bastião Silva L, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE BIBM 2021

  6. A non-relational approach for distributed medical imaging databases

    Lebre R, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE BHI-BSN 2021

2020

  1. A Cloud-ready Architecture for Shared Medical Imaging Repository

    Lebre R, Bastião L, Costa C

    JournalJournal of Digital Imaging

  2. A safe architecture for authorisation grant in healthcare ecosystems

    Lebre R, Pedrosa M, Gestal M, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE ICHI 2020

  3. Dicoogle Framework for Medical Imaging Teaching and Research

    Lebre R, Pinho E, Silva J, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE ICTS4eHealth 2020

  4. NoSQL distributed database for DICOM objects

    Almeida A, Oliveira T, Lebre R, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE ICHI 2020

  5. Role-based architecture for secure management of telepathology sessions

    Jesus R, Nunes P, Lebre R, Costa C

    ConferenceMIE 2020

  6. Data and sessions management in a telepathology platform

    Nunes P, Jesus R, Lebre R, Costa C

    ConferenceHEALTHINF 2020

2019

  1. ETL Framework for Real-Time Business Intelligence over Medical Imaging Repositories

    Godinho T, Lebre R, Almeida J, Costa C

    JournalJournal of Digital Imaging

  2. Automated pattern recognition of cerebral amyloid angiopathy patients

    Solange F, Lebre R

    ConferenceRecPad 2019

  3. Collaborative Framework for a Whole-Slide Image Viewer

    Lebre R, Jesus R, Nunes P, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE CBMS 2019

  4. An Accounting Mechanism for Standard Medical Imaging Services

    Lebre R, Bastião L, Costa C

    ConferenceIEEE EMBS 2019

2018

  1. A performant and fully DICOM compliant Web PACS for Digital Pathology

    Lebre R, Godinho T, Costa C, Silva A

    ConferenceCARS 2018

  2. Shared Medical Imaging Repositories

    Lebre R, Bastião Silva L, Costa C

    ConferenceMIE 2018

2017

  1. An efficient architecture to support digital pathology in standard medical imaging repositories

    Godinho T, Lebre R, Bastião Silva L, Costa C

    JournalJournal of Biomedical Informatics