João Santos

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

João Santos is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiation and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, João Santos has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 19 papers in Radiation and 16 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in João Santos's work include Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (14 papers), Magnetic properties of thin films (12 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (12 papers). João Santos is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (14 papers), Magnetic properties of thin films (12 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (12 papers). João Santos collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and United States. João Santos's co-authors include Pedro Henriques Abreu, Miriam Seoane Santos, J. Soares, Hélder Araújo, Inês Domingues, Hugo Duarte, Pedro Martins, Alberto Fernández, Nathalie Japkowicz and Gisèle Pereira and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Review B and Journal of Cell Science.

In The Last Decade

João Santos

73 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Cross-Validation for Imbalanced Datasets: Avoiding Overoptimistic and Overfitting Approaches [Research Frontier]

2018 277 citations Miriam Seoane Santos, J. Soares et al. profile →

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João Santos

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Yupei Zhang China

Zhihao Wu China

Ping Lü China

Michael Kühn Germany

Yichi Zhang China

Yonggang Lu China

Zhicheng Zhang China

Lauren Kim United States

Eduardo Romero Colombia

Zhiwei Wang China

Yupei Zhang China

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20 of 20 papers shown

Santos, João, et al.. (2025). Effect of OSEM Reconstruction Iteration Number and Monte Carlo Collimator Modeling on 166Ho Activity Quantification in SPECT/CT. Applied Sciences. 15(3). 1589–1589. 1 indexed citations

Estrela, Marta, et al.. (2025). Educational interventions for the adoption of healthy lifestyles and improvement of health literacy: a systematic review. Public Health. 245. 105788–105788. 3 indexed citations

Santos, João, et al.. (2024). Nano iron doped calcium phosphates act as pH-Sensitive and biodegradable peroxidase-like nanozymes for cancer chemodynamic therapy and MRI contrast. Materials Today Chemistry. 35. 101861–101861. 8 indexed citations

Gleisner, Katarina Sjögreen, Glenn Flux, Klaus Bacher, et al.. (2023). EFOMP policy statement NO. 19: Dosimetry in nuclear medicine therapy – Molecular radiotherapy. Physica Medica. 116. 103166–103166. 10 indexed citations

Santos, Miriam Seoane, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Nathalie Japkowicz, et al.. (2022). On the joint-effect of class imbalance and overlap: a critical review. Artificial Intelligence Review. 55(8). 6207–6275. 70 indexed citations

Santos, Miriam Seoane, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Nathalie Japkowicz, Alberto Fernández, & João Santos. (2022). A unifying view of class overlap and imbalance: Key concepts, multi-view panorama, and open avenues for research. Information Fusion. 89. 228–253. 51 indexed citations

Santos, Miriam Seoane, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Alberto Fernández, Julián Luengo, & João Santos. (2022). The impact of heterogeneous distance functions on missing data imputation and classification performance. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 111. 104791–104791. 16 indexed citations

Laranjeira, Marta S., et al.. (2022). Magnetic mesoporous silica nanoparticles as a theranostic approach for breast cancer: Loading and release of the poorly soluble drug exemestane. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 619. 121711–121711. 23 indexed citations

Santos, Miriam Seoane, et al.. (2019). Generating Synthetic Missing Data: A Review by Missing Mechanism. IEEE Access. 7. 11651–11667. 59 indexed citations

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Alves, J.G., et al.. (2019). Dose to the interventional radiologist in CTF-guided procedures. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics. 58(3). 373–384. 3 indexed citations

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Domingues, Inês, et al.. (2018). Interpreting deep learning models for ordinal problems.. The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks. 4 indexed citations

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Santos, João, et al.. (2018). Primo software as a tool for Monte Carlo simulations of intensity modulated radiotherapy: a feasibility study. Radiation Oncology. 13(1). 91–91. 10 indexed citations

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Santos, João, et al.. (2016). CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ACTIVE DOSEMETER ACCORDING TO IEC 61526:2010. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 170(1-4). 127–131. 8 indexed citations

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Neto, Victor, et al.. (2012). The Effect of Megavoltage Radiation on Polymeric Materials to be Used in Biomedical Devices. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 12(8). 6779–6784. 2 indexed citations

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Teles, P., M. Neves, Ana Isabel Santos, et al.. (2011). Study of nuclear medicine practices in Portugal from an internal dosimetry perspective. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 149(4). 438–443. 10 indexed citations

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Santos, João, et al.. (2011). Characterization of Geometric Uncertainties of a Dose Calibrator During Measurement of 90Y Activity. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. 39(2). 125–130. 7 indexed citations

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Santos, João & Rui Nunes. (2010). Ethical issues related to professional exposure of pregnant women in the medical field: monitoring and limiting effective dose. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 144(1-4). 525–529. 2 indexed citations

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Alves, J.G., et al.. (2010). Preliminary assessment of the dose to the interventional radiologist in fluoro-CT-guided procedures. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 144(1-4). 448–452. 12 indexed citations

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Santos, João, et al.. (2009). Syringe shape and positioning relative to efficiency volume inside dose calibrators and its role in nuclear medicine quality assurance programs. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 67(6). 1104–1109. 10 indexed citations

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Santos, João & Paula de Oliveira. (1999). A converging finite volume scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws with source terms. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 111(1-2). 239–251. 5 indexed citations

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