Department of Biomedical Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

Washington Wagner Azevedo da Silva is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. He worked on neural networks architectures to improve image analysis and processing. His principal research themes are computer-aided diagnosis, kernel-based classifiers and artificial intelligence in health.