Gustavo Carneiro

Gustavo Carneiro

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


I have focused my research on the development and application of computer vision and machine learning techniques, with particular emphasis on medical image analysis problems.  For more details on the current (and past) research problems, please check this page

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2015 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
    2014 - 2015 Humboldt Experienced Researcher Technical University of Munich
    2011 - 2014 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
    2011 - 2011 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow University of Lisbon
    2008 - 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor University of Lisbon
    2006 - 2008 Senior Research Scientist Siemens Corporate Research
    2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow University of British Columbia
    2004 - 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, San Diego
  • Language Competencies

    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    French Can read
    Portuguese Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    Spanish; Castilian Can read and understand spoken
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    1999 - 2004 University of Toronto Canada PhD
    1997 - 1999 Instituto Militar de Engenharia Brazil MSc
    1992 - 1996 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil Bachelor's degree
  • Research Interests

Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (ARC CoE 2014-2020)

Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund (IABF) Project: New class of intelligent robotic imaging system for keyhole surgeries (2017-2020)

Discovery Project: Automated Analysis of Multi-modal Medical Data using Deep Belief Networks (ARC Discovery Project 2014-2016)

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Project: Computational infrastructure for developing deep machine learning models (ARC LIEF 2016)

University of Adelaide - Interdisciplinary Research Fund Grant – Project Title: Novel Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare (2016-2017). 

Automatic Quantification of Acute and Chronic Hypoxia in Tumors from Immunohistochemical Fluorescence Images using Deep Structured Inference (Humboldt Fellowship 2014-2015)

Combining Multiple Dynamic Models and Deep Learning Architectures for Tracking the Left Ventricle Endocardium in Ultrasound Data (Portuguese Science Foundation FCT 2010-2012)

Printart: Where Computer Vision Meets Art (Portuguese Science Foundation FCT 2010-2012)

Learning to Combine Hierarchical Image Modeling with 2-D Segmentation and 3-D Pose Recovery of Visual Objects (Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship 2010-2011)

University of Adelaide

​Instituto Superior Tecnico - University of Lisbon

University of Toronto

  • CSC 324 - Principles of Programming Languages (Fall 2004)
  • CSC 446, Computer Methods for Partial Differential Equations (TA) (Winter 2002). 
  • CSC 418, Computer Graphics (TA) (1999-2003).
  • CSC 458, Computer Networks (TA) (Winter 2000). 
  • CSC 258, Computer Organization (TA) (Summer 2000).
  • CSC 260, An Introduction to Scientific, Symbolic, and Graphical Computation (TA) (Winter 2003). 
  • SCI 199, Computer and Images. (TA) (2000-2001)
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Co-Supervisor Artificial Intelligence and Endoscopy - Enhancing early detection and improving outcomes in dysplasia and cancer of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tracts. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jin Lin Tan
    2023 Co-Supervisor Enhancing Medical Decision-Making with Reinforcement Learning Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Nilesh Ramgolam
    2022 Co-Supervisor Improving Colorectal cancer detection through Colonoscopy exams with Explainable AI and Teachable AI Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Dileepa Pitawela
    2021 Principal Supervisor Deep Multimodal and Multi-view Learning Methods Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yuanhong Chen
    2021 Principal Supervisor Learning noisy labels using causal approaches Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Arpit Garg
    2021 Principal Supervisor Imagendo: Diagnosing endometriosis with imaging and AI Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yuan Zhang
    2020 Co-Supervisor Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Navigation and Planning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sam Bahrami
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2021 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Interpretable Deep Learning for Medical Imaging and Computer Vision Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chong Wang
    2021 - 2023 Principal Supervisor The Utility of Validation Sets for Meta-learning Methods for Noisy-Label and Imbalanced Learning Problems Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Dung Anh Hoang
    2021 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Relaxed Invariant Representation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Hossein Askari Lyarjdameh
    2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Weakly-supervised learning in Computer Vision and Medical Imaging Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Fengbei Liu
    2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Label Efficient Learning for Semantic Segmentation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yuyuan Liu
    2019 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Efficient Deep Learning Models with Autoencoder Regularization and Information Bottleneck Compression Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Jerome Oskar Williams
    2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Anomaly Detection in Computer Vision and Medical Imaging Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yu Tian
    2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Harnessing meta-learning via probabilistic modelling and trajectory optimisation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Cuong Cao Nguyen
    2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Weakly Supervised Localisation for Censor Aware Survival Prediction from Medical Images Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Renato Hermoza Aragones
    2017 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Endoscopy-Focused Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention of Colorectal Cancer Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Dr Leonardo Zorron Cheng Tao Pu
    2017 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Self-Supervised Learning for Geometry Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Huangying Zhan
    2016 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Closing the implementation gap in pre-deployment medical AI study design Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Lauren Oakden-Rayner
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Bayesian Data Augmentation and Generative Active Learning for Robust Imbalanced Deep Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Toan Minh Tran
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Data Augmentation for Multi-domain and Multi-model Generalised Zero-shot Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Rafael Felix Alves
    2015 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Pre-hoc and Post-hoc Diagnosis and Interpretation of Breast Magnetic Resonance Volumes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gabriel Maicas Suso
    2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Single View 3D Reconstruction using Deep Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Adrian Robert Johnston
    2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Methods for Understanding and Improving Deep Learning Classification Models Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Zhibin Liao
    2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Moving Least Squares Registration in Computer Vision: New Applications and Algorithms Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xiang Liu
    2013 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Automated Detection, Segmentation and Classification of Masses from Mammograms using Deep Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Neeraj Dhungel
    2011 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Medical Image Segmentation Combining Level Set Method and Deep Belief Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tuan Anh Ngo

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