Artificial Intelligence Scientist

Pedro C. Neto

Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Unilabs &
Invited Assistant Professor at FEUP.
Bridging the gap between Academic Research and Clinical Application.

Pedro C. Neto
700+
Citations
15
h-index
21
i10-index
25+
Peer-Reviewed Papers

Selected Research

Focused on interpretable Machine Learning and Computer-Aided Diagnosis.

NPJ Precision Oncology 2024

An interpretable machine learning system for colorectal cancer diagnosis from pathology slides

Developed a novel semi-supervised approach to leverage weak and full-annotations for an efficient MIL approach with tile sampling. Released +5000 medical exams dataset with ~7TB of data.

Modern Pathology 2023

Annotating for artificial intelligence applications in digital pathology: A practical guide for pathologists and researchers

Introduced and aggregated knowledge developed across a large digital pathology project, to create guidelines on how to close the gap between engineers and pathologists for efficient and accurate annotation.

In The News

Opinion Pieces

PÚBLICO Sep 15, 2025

Entre o hype e a relevância clínica: inteligência artificial na saúde

An analysis of the current state of AI in healthcare, distinguishing between market hype and genuine clinical value.

ScienceBits Podcast Mar 4, 2024

Será possível mitigar o viés nos algoritmos de reconhecimento facial?

A discussion on the mitigation of face recognition demographic bias.

Work Experience

AI Scientist

Unilabs • 2024 - Present

Invited Assistant Professor

FEUP • 2022 - Present

Research Scientist

INESC TEC • 2020 - 2024

Summer Research Intern

Feedzai • 2020 - 2020

Research Assistant

Aalto University • 2019 - 2020

Featured Projects

Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis AI

Artificial Intelligence Solution to Diagnose Colorectal Cancer and Dysplasia from Whole-Slide Images.

Explainable AI

Novel Explainable Artificial Intelligence approaches applied to Biometrics and Face Recognition tasks. Most are generalizable across domains.

Medical AI at Unilabs

Developing Medical AI at Unilabs across a diverse spectrum of data types, domains and requirements.

Technologies & Expertise

AI & Machine Learning

PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Computer Vision, Deep Learning.

Programming

Python, C++, SQL

Research & Tools

Git, Docker, LaTeX, Digital Pathology (WSI), Biometrics.

Clinical AI

Medical Imaging, Computer-aided Diagnosis, Explainable AI (XAI).

Get In Touch