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Paula Branco
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Research
Latest papers
Development and internal validation of models to predict postoperative troponin and myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery by incorporating hypotension as a predictor: single-centre retrospective cohort study
BJA Open · 2026
Enhancing TSH-based congenital hypothyroidism screening using machine learning and resampling algorithms.
BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025
Definition of the microbial rare biosphere through unsupervised machine learning.
Communications biology · 2025
Latest funding
- $25,000
A novel approach to integrating young people's perspectives in shared decision making research
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,450,725
Artificial Intelligence Supported In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Prediction, Prevention, and Management
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $30,000
Decoding molecular signatures in solid-state nanopore signals using AI/ML
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
10 publications.
Development and internal validation of models to predict postoperative troponin and myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery by incorporating hypotension as a predictor: single-centre retrospective cohort study
Best R, Gao SS, MacDonell S-Y, Devereaux PJ, Branco P, Görges M, Flexman AM, Wu L, Ree R, Lo C
Enhancing TSH-based congenital hypothyroidism screening using machine learning and resampling algorithms.
De Furia A, Branco P, Henderson M
Definition of the microbial rare biosphere through unsupervised machine learning.
Pascoal F, Branco P, Torgo L, Costa R, Magalhães C
A comprehensive study of machine learning techniques for log-based anomaly detection.
Ali S, Boufaied C, Bianculli D, Branco P, Briand L
The effect of resampling techniques on the performances of machine learning clinical risk prediction models in the setting of severe class imbalance: development and internal validation in a retrospective cohort.
Ke JXC, DhakshinaMurthy A, George RB, Branco P
A systematic literature review of cyber-security data repositories and performance assessment metrics for semi-supervised learning.
Mvula PK, Branco P, Jourdan GV, Viktor HL
Evaluating Word Embedding Feature Extraction Techniques for Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems.
Mvula PK, Branco P, Jourdan GV, Viktor HL
COVID-19 malicious domain names classification.
Mvula PK, Branco P, Jourdan GV, Viktor HL
The spatial distribution and biogeochemical drivers of nitrogen cycle genes in an Antarctic desert.
Pascoal F, Areosa I, Torgo L, Branco P, Baptista MS, Lee CK, Cary SC, Magalhães C
Postoperative mortality risk prediction that incorporates intraoperative vital signs: development and internal validation in a historical cohort.
Ke JXC, McIsaac DI, George RB, Branco P, Cook EF, Beattie WS, Urquhart R, MacDonald DB
A novel approach to integrating young people's perspectives in shared decision making research
Principal investigators: Toupin April, Karine; Proulx, Laurie
Keywords: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; Pain; Patient Engagement; Pediatric Rheumatology; Shared Decision Making
Artificial Intelligence Supported In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Prediction, Prevention, and Management
Principal investigators: Sun, Christopher L
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Critical Care; Deep-Learning; Early Warning Scores; In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest; Prevention; Rapid Response Team; Track And Trigger System
Decoding molecular signatures in solid-state nanopore signals using AI/ML
Principal investigators: Harden, James J
Keywords: artificial intelligence; convolutional neural networks; digital signal process; generative adversarial networks; machine learning; personalized medicine; proteomics; recurrent neural networks; solid-state nanopore; statistical analysis
A novel approach to integrating young people's perspectives in shared decision making research
Principal investigators: Toupin April, Karine; Proulx, Laurie
Keywords: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; Pain; Patient Engagement; Pediatric Rheumatology; Shared Decision Making
Machine Learning Methods for Malware Detection
Principal investigators: Branco, Paula
Machine Learning Methods for Malware Detection
Principal investigators: Branco, Paula
Keywords: imbalanced data distributions; rare events detection; machine learning; data streams; data mining; cybersecurity
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Guy-Vincent Jourdan and Paula Branco: 3 shared papers
- Philip Devereaux and Paula Branco: 1 shared paper
- Robin Urquhart and Paula Branco: 1 shared paper
- Lionel Briand and Paula Branco: 1 shared paper
- Faculty of Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , School of - science informatique et de génie électrique, École de
- Electrical engineering and computer science
- Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
- Medicine
Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Guy-Vincent Jourdan
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , School of - science informatique et de génie électrique, École de
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Philip Devereaux
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Robin Urquhart
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Lionel Briand
Electrical engineering and computer science
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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