Francisco Maria Calisto

Researcher

As a researcher, I am currently working on the intersection of HCI and AI in medical imaging. My research focus is on understanding and reducing the user burden of interactive technologies for healthcare professionals, patients, and people with disabilities across the design of future applications. Throughout my career, I have worked with several R&D laboratories, including INESC-ID, as well as ISR-Lisboa in collaboration with ITI more recently, associated laboratories from IST from University of Lisbon. Between August 2022 and January 2023, I worked with John Zimmerman and Adam Perer as a Visiting Scholar of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). During my time at the HCII @ CMU, we investigated how to blend human and machine intelligence for better decision-making. I have published in top-tier journals and presented at prestigious conferences, such as the IJHCS (Q1 in 2021), AI in Medicine (Q1 in 2022), CHI, ISS, ISBI, between others. My publications can be found next.

1. Francisco Maria Calisto, Nuno J. Nunes, Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2022. "Modeling Adoption of Intelligent Agents in Medical Imaging" (PDF). International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 168, 2022, 102922, ISSN 1071-5819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102922
2. Francisco Maria Calisto, Carlos Santiago, Nuno J. Nunes, Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2022. "BreastScreening-AI: Evaluating Medical Intelligent Agents for Human-AI Interactions" (PDF). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 127, 2022, 102285, ISSN 0933-3657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2022.102285
3. Francisco Maria Calisto, Carlos Santiago, Nuno J. Nunes, Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2022. "Introduction of Human-Centric AI Assistant to Aid Radiologists for Multimodal Breast Image Classification" (PDF). International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 150, 2021, 102607, ISSN 1071-5819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102607

1. Francisco Maria Calisto, João Fernandes, Margarida Morais, Carlos Santiago, João Maria Abrantes, Nuno J. Nunes, and Jacinto C .Nascimento. 2023. "Assertiveness-based Agent Communication for a Personalized Medicine on Medical Imaging Diagnosis" (PDF). In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 13, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548
2. Pedro Diogo, Margarida Morais, Francisco Maria Calisto, Carlos Santiago, Clara Aleluia and Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2023. "Weakly-Supervised Diagnosis and Detection of Breast Cancer using Deep Multiple Instance Learning" (PDF). 2023 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230448
3. Margarida Morais, Francisco Maria Calisto, Carlos Santiago, Clara Aleluia and Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2023. "Classification of Breast Cancer in MRI with Multimodal Fusion" (PDF). 2023 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230686
4. Francisco Maria Calisto, Nuno Nunes, and Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2020. "BreastScreening: On the Use of Multi-Modality in Medical Imaging Diagnosis" (PDF). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 49, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399744
5. Francisco Maria Calisto, Alfredo Ferreira, Jacinto C. Nascimento, and Daniel Gonçalves. 2017. "Towards Touch-Based Medical Image Diagnosis Annotation" (PDF). In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 390–395. https://doi.org/10.1145/3132272.3134111

1. Francisco Maria Calisto, Carlos Santiago, Nuno J. Nunes, Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2023. "Interactive Agents with an Assertiveness-based Communication Method and System for a Personalized Medicine on Breast Cancer Diagnosis" (PDF). Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal, European Union (EU), April, 2023, application, Filed by Instituto Superior Técnico on April 24th., 2023 as Priority to PT118618.
2. Francisco Maria Calisto, Jacinto C. Nascimento. 2020. "Computational Method and System for Improved Identification of Breast Lesions" (PDF). Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal, European Union (EU), September, 2020, application PCT/PT2021/050029 events of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Patent No. 2022071818, EP application number EP21816193.3 events of European Patent Office (EPO) reference 2023-0251RG, Date April 26th., 2023, Filed by Instituto Superior Técnico on September 30th., 2020 as Priority to PT116801 and PT116801A, Issued April 4th., 2022. [Online]. Available: WO2022071818A1

1. Ana Paula Vasconcelos, ..., Francisco Maria Calisto et al. 2022. "X National Consensus of Breast Cancer -- Portuguese Society of Senology 2022" (PDF). Editor: Portuguese Society of Senology. December, 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368451160

Software Engineer

I have also worked as a software engineer with a focus on developing tools using JavaScript tools, such as NodeJS frameworks or the CornerstoneJS library, for medical imaging. I have also utilized Python and R for statistical analysis. My experience as a software engineer has allowed me to effectively develop and implement software solutions to support my research. With my software engineering background, I am capable of creating robust and efficient systems to facilitate data analysis and interpretation in the field of medical imaging.

• Front-end Development
• Web Development
• Project Management
• Agile Development & Scrum

Entrepreneur

My life as entrepreneur start with launching my own brand called oppr. The primary goal of this organization was to select the best technologies. The oppr organization aims at implementing the best solutions on several issues, as well as bringing together the highest talent across a technological community. By adopting those solutions to solve the problem and presenting a complete, as well as a coherent range of possibilities, our solutions and services are helping to improve performance. The organization positively overcome the challenges inherent in innovating activity. From this project, it makes me improve my managing capabilities by providing me with the problem of organizing and monitoring more than 20 people.

Following the above entrepreneur steps, I pass to the development of an Agriculture system for the Livestock management. The collaborative relation was with a Startup called Agroop, aiming at the development of a novel technological solution for monitoring farms. The Livestock project aims to quantitatively and qualitatively describing each Livestock production in terms of feed and Livestock resources, as well as produced commodities. By providing insights into several metrics, the Livestock system was important for the regions and agro-ecological zones of Portugal.

Finally, a third entrepreneurship project, called SnapJob (formally GigZap), was a part of my entrepreneur path. SnapJob (formally GigZap) is a platform for search and dissemination of punctual, temporary and volunteer jobs, which aggregates advertising from various companies and institutions across a single platform. Working for this project as Partner and Project Manager, the project gave me experience on an overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure.