Since August, 2013, I am an R&D software engineer at the TecGraf Institute of PUC-Rio University, working on the design, development, and maintenance of computer graphics applications for the Oil & Gas industry.


From January, 2011, to March, 2013, I was a post-doc assistant researcher of the Centre Léon Bérard in Lyon, France. My research projects involved the implementation, clinical validation, and deployment of registration algorithms for lung CT images used in the planning of radiotherapy against lung cancer (for more info, please see the popi-model and VV).

I received my PhD in 2010 from the VisionLab group of the Dept. of Physics of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jan Sijbers. The title of my thesis was "A Decision Support System for the Assessment and Stenting of Tracheal Stenosis", in which I proposed methods to automatically quantify tracheal stenosis and predict patient-specific stent dimensions using deformable shape models (pdf; slides; videos).

I received my M.Sc. in 2001 from the LCG group of the Systems Engineering and Computing Department of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Antônio Oliveira. The title of my thesis was "Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Head Models from Magnetic Resonance Images".

In 1999, I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

From 1998 to 2006, I was engaged in many professional and research activities in the software development sector, mostly in the fields of graphics, imaging, and multimedia. More information about me can be found following the links on the right.


Publications

Journal papers

  • V. Delmon, S. Rit, R. Pinho, and D. Sarrut. Registration of sliding objects using direction dependent b-splines decomposition. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 58 (2013) 1303-1314. doi

  • Pechin Lo, Bram van Ginneken, Joseph M. Reinhardt, Tarunashree Yavarna, Pim A. de Jong, Benjamin Irving, Catalin Fetita, Margarete Ortner, Rômulo Pinho, Jan Sijbers, Marco Feuerstein, Anna Fabijanska, Christian Bauer, Reinhard Beichel, Carlos S. Mendoza, Rafael Wiemker, Jaesung Lee, Anthony P. Reeves, Silvia Born, Oliver Weinheimer, Eva M. van Rikxoort, Juerg Tschirren, Ken Mori, Benjamin Odry, David P. Naidich, Ieneke Hartmann, Eric A. Hoffman, Mathias Prokop, Jesper H. Pedersen, Marleen de Bruijne. Extraction of Airways from CT (EXACT’09). IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, vol. 31, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 2093-2107. doi

  • L. Vanacken, R. Pinho, J. Sijbers, and K. Coninx, Force Feedback to Assist Active Contour Modelling for Tracheal Stenosis Segmentation. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 2012, Article ID 632498, 9 pages, 2012. doi.

  • R. Pinho, K. G. Tournoy, and J. Sijbers. Assessment and stenting of tracheal stenosis using deformable shape models. Medical Image Analysis, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 250-266 doi.


Book chapters

  • R. Pinho, K. G. Tournoy, and J. Sijbers. Computer-aided assessment and stenting of tracheal stenosis. In Ayman El-Baz; Jasjit S. Suri , editors, Lung Imaging and Computer Aided Diagnosis. CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, 2011, ISBN 9781439845578. pdf


Conference proceedings (full paper)

  • D. Sarrut, L. Claude, S. Rit, R. Pinho, G. Pitson and R. Lynch. Investigating mediastinal lymph node stations segmentation on thoracic CT following experts guidelines. In Image-Guidance and Multimodal Dose Planning in Radiation Therapy, pages 1-8, Nice, France, September, 2012.

  • S. Rit, R. Pinho, V. Delmon, M. Pech, G. Bouilhol, J. Schaerer, B. Navalpakkam, J. Vandemeulebroucke, P. Seroul, and D. Sarrut. VV, a 4D slicer. In 4th International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pages 171-175, Toronto, Canada, September, 2011.

  • V. Delmon, S. Rit, D. Sarrut, and R. Pinho. Direction dependent B-splines decomposition for the registration of sliding objects. In 4th International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pages 45-55, Toronto, Canada, September, 2011.

  • R. Pinho, V. Delmon, J. Vandemeulebroucke, S. Rit, and D. Sarrut. Keuhkot: A Method for Lung Segmentation. In 4th International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pages 225-232, Toronto, Canada, September, 2011.

  • R. Pinho, K. G. Tournoy, and J. Sijbers. A decision support system for the treatment of tracheal stenosis. In Proc. of Workshop on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (WADGMM), pages 72-76, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.

  • R. Pinho, S. Luyckx, and J. Sijbers. Robust region growing based intrathoracic airway tree segmentation. In 2nd International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pages 261-271, London, England, September 2009.

  • R. Pinho, K. G. Tournoy, R. Gosselin, and J. Sijbers. Assessment of tracheal stenosis using active shape models of healthy tracheas: A surface registration study. In 2nd International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pages 125-136, London, England, September 2009.

  • R. Pinho, K. J. Batenburg, and J. Sijbers. Seeing through the window: Pre-fetching strategies for out-of-core image processing algorithms. In Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, volume 6919, page 69190D, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2008a. SPIE doi.

  • R. Pinho, T. Huysmans, W. Vos, and J. Sijbers. Tracheal stent prediction using statistical deformable models of tubular shapes. In Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, page 69144O, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2008b doi.

  • R. Pinho, J. Sijbers, and T. Huysmans. Segmentation of the human trachea using deformable statistical models of tubular shapes. In Proc. of Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, volume 4678 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 531-542, August 2007 doi.

  • R. Pinho, J. Sijbers, and W. Vos. Effcient approaches to intrathoracic airway tree segmentations. In Proc. of the Biomedical Engineering IEEE/EMBS Benelux Symposium, volume 2, pages 151-154, Brussels, Belgium, December 2006.


Conference proceedings (abstract)

  • R. Pinho, S. Rit, G. Bouilhol, M. Ayadi, M.C. Biston, V. Delmon, L. Claude, D. Sarrut. Mise-en-scène of a system to control the image workflow in radiotherapy: evaluation of tumour delineation and margin calculation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, Melbourne, Australia, May 2013 (accepted).

  • V. Delmon, S. Rit, J. Vandemeulebroucke, R. Pinho, M. Vila-Oliva, and D. Sarrut. In-room breathing motion estimation from limited projection views using a sliding deformation model. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, Melbourne, Australia, May 2013. (accepted).

  • S. Rit, R. Pinho, G. Bouilhol, M. Ayadi, M. Biston, L. Claude, D. Sarrut. Phase II Clinical Trial Comparing Mid-Position with Internal Target Volume Treatment Planning. In ESTRO 31, Barcelona, Spain, May 2012.

  • A. Bernat, T. Huysmans, F. van Glabbeek, J. Sijbers, R. Pinho, and J. L. Gielen. Exploring the clavicle: Morphometric di erences using a 3d model. In AAOS Annual Meeting, Las Vegas,Nevada, February 2009.

  • T. Huysmans, A. Bernat, R. Pinho, J. Sijbers, F. van Glabbeeck, P. M. Parizel, and H. Bortier. A framework for morphometric analysis of long bones: Application to the human clavicle. In Liege Image Days 2008: Medical Imaging, March 2008.

  • R. Pinho, T. Huysmans, W. Vos, and J. Sijbers. Tracheal stent prediction using statistical deformable models of healthy tracheas. In Liege Image Days 2008: Medical Imaging, March 2008.