2026
Autores
Sousa, P; Campai, D; Andrade, J; Pereira, P; Goncalves, T; Teixeira, LF; Pereira, T; Oliveira, HP;
Publicação
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, IBPRIA 2025, PT II
Abstract
Cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, with breast and lung cancer being the most prevalent globally. Early and accurate diagnosis is crucial for successful treatment, and medical imaging techniques play a pivotal role in achieving this. This paper proposes a novel pipeline that leverages generative artificial intelligence to enhance medical images by combining synthetic image generation and super-resolution techniques. The framework is validated in two medical use cases (breast and lung cancers), demonstrating its potential to improve the quality and quantity of medical imaging data, ultimately contributing to more precise and effective cancer diagnosis and treatment. Overall, although some limitations do exist, this paper achieved satisfactory results for an image size which is conductive to specialist analysis, and further expands upon this field's capabilities.
2026
Autores
Pfahringer, B; Japkowicz, N; Larrañaga, P; Ribeiro, RP; Dutra, I; Pechenizkiy, M; Cortez, P; Pashami, S; Jorge, AM; Soares, C; Abreu, PH; Gama, J;
Publicação
ECML/PKDD (8)
Abstract
2026
Autores
Nogueira, AFR; Oliveira, HP; Teixeira, LF;
Publicação
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, IBPRIA 2025, PT I
Abstract
The aim of this work is to explore normalising flows to detect anomalous behaviours which is an essential task mainly for surveillance systems-related applications. To accomplish that, a series of ablation studies were performed by varying the parameters of the Spatio-Temporal Graph Normalising Flows (STG-NF) model [3] and combining it with attention mechanisms. Out of all these experiments, it was only possible to improve the state-of-the-art result for the UBnormal dataset by 3.4 percentual points (pp), for the Avenue by 4.7 pp and for the Avenue-HR by 3.2 pp. However, further research remains urgent to find a model that can give the best performance across different scenarios. The inaccuracies of the pose tracking and estimation algorithm seems to be the main factor limiting the models' performance. The code is available at https://github.com/AnaFilipaNogueira/Abnormal-Human-Behaviour-Detection- using-Normalising-Flows-and- Attention-Mechanisms.
2026
Autores
Dutra, I; Pechenizkiy, M; Cortez, P; Pashami, S; Pasquali, A; Moniz, N; Jorge, AM; Soares, C; Abreu, PH; Gama, J;
Publicação
ECML/PKDD (10)
Abstract
2026
Autores
Coelho, J; Vanhoucke, M;
Publicação
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Abstract
This paper solves the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) with a satisfiability problem (SAT) solver. This paper builds further on various existing SAT models for this well-known project scheduling problem and extends them with two methods to satisfy the resource constraints. Specifically, we use the wellknown minimal forbidden sets and compare them with the so-called covers that are traditionally used in SAT implementations. Moreover, we also implement an existing binary decision trees approach under various settings and extend the model with networks with adders, so far never used for solving the RCPSP, to guarantee that resource constraints are satisfied. The algorithms are tested under different settings on a set of 13,413 project instances with diverse network and resource structures, and the experiments demonstrate that a combination of these approaches help in finding better solutions within a reasonable time. Moreover, 393 new lower bounds, 62 new upper bounds, and 290 optimally solved instances (including 18 from the PSPLIB) have been discovered, which, to the best of our knowledge, had not been found before. The strong performance of the new algorithm motivated additional experiments, and the preliminary results suggest several promising directions for future research.
2026
Autores
Moaidi, F; Bessa, J;
Publicação
Energy and AI
Abstract
The growing integration of renewable energy sources and the widespread electrification of the energy demand have significantly reduced the capacity margin of the electrical grid. This demands a more flexible approach to grid operation, for instance, combining real-time topology optimization and redispatching. Traditional expert-driven decision-making rules may become insufficient to manage the increasing complexity of real-time grid operations and derive remedial actions under the N-1 contingency. This work proposes a novel hybrid AI framework for power grid topology control that integrates genetic network programming (GNP), reinforcement learning, and decision trees. A new variant of GNP is introduced that is capable of evolving the decision-making rules by learning from data in a reinforcement learning framework. The graph-based evolutionary structure of GNP and decision trees enables transparent, traceable reasoning. The proposed method outperforms both a baseline expert system and a state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning agent on the IEEE 118-bus system, achieving up to an 28% improvement in a key performance metric used in the Learning to Run a Power Network (L2RPN) competition. © 2025
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