Ana Castro

Ana Castro received her Ph.D. degree on Biomedical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, in 2012. After finishing her degree on Applied Mathematics (Faculty of Science, University of Porto, 2006), she pursued her work on the analysis and control of nociception during anesthesia, receiving the 2012 Pain Award, by the Grünenthal Portuguese Foundation. Current research interests are focused on the signal processing of biomedical signals, and patient monitoring in hospital and home-based scenarios. Main lines of work include acute and chronic pain assessment, monitoring during anesthesia, heart sound analysis for cardiovascular disease detection, and blood pressure estimation through non-invasive methods.

Publications

Heart Sound Analysis for Blood Pressure Estimation
Heart Sound Analysis for Blood Pressure Estimation
Rui Guedes, Henrique Cyrne Carvalho, Ana Castro. © 2019. 12 pages.
This chapter aims to give a perspective on how the study of the heart sound relation with blood pressure has evolved. The use of heart sound as a surrogate of the BP has been...
Heart Sound Analysis for Blood Pressure Estimation
Heart Sound Analysis for Blood Pressure Estimation
Rui Guedes, Henrique Cyrne Carvalho, Ana Castro. © 2018. 11 pages.
This paper aims to give a perspective on how the study of the heart sound relation with blood pressure has evolved. The use of heart sound as a surrogate of the BP has been used...
A Review on Noninvasive Beat-to-Beat Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure Estimation Through Surrogate Cardiovascular Signals
A Review on Noninvasive Beat-to-Beat Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure Estimation Through Surrogate Cardiovascular Signals
Ana Castro, Paulo de Carvalho, Jens Muehlsteff, Sandra S. Mattos, Miguel Coimbra. © 2018. 33 pages.
Blood pressure monitoring is essential in hospital and home monitoring scenarios, with applications requiring on-line beat-to-beat blood pressure estimation, such as...
A Review on Noninvasive Beat-to-Beat Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure Estimation through Surrogate Cardiovascular Signals
A Review on Noninvasive Beat-to-Beat Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure Estimation through Surrogate Cardiovascular Signals
Ana Castro, Paulo de Carvalho, Jens Muehlsteff, Sandra S. Mattos, Miguel Coimbra. © 2017. 34 pages.
Blood pressure monitoring is essential in hospital and home monitoring scenarios, with applications requiring on-line beat-to-beat blood pressure estimation, such as...