HC@AIXIA 2024: 3RD AIXIA WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HEALTHCARE (HC@AIXIA 2024)
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, November 27th Thursday, November 28th

Wednesday, November 27th

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10:30-10:35 Session 1: OPENING
Chairs:
Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Location: D1.03
10:35-11:30 Session 2: KEYNOTE - Invited talk
Chair:
Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Location: D1.03
10:35
Sara Montagna (Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Italy)
Bridging AI and Healthcare: Trustworthy and Transparent Diagnostic Solutions with Informed Machine Learning (abstract)
11:30-12:30 Session 3: Medical Imaging and Anomaly Detection (MIAD)
Chair:
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Location: D1.03
11:30
Luca Marconi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Efrem Pirovano (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
CLARITY AI: A Comprehensive Checklist Integrating Established Frameworks for Enhanced Research Quality in Medical AI Studies (abstract)
11:40
Aldo Marzullo (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy)
Marta Bianca Maria Ranzini (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy)
Exploring Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with CLIP in Medical Imaging: Are We There Yet? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aldo Marzullo
11:50
Pierangela Bruno (University of Calabria, Italy)
Antonio Cirella (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Ernesto Di Cesare (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
Antonella Guzzo (University of Calabria, Italy)
Pierpaolo Palumbo (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Silvano Junior Santini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Gaia Sinatti (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Pierpaolo Vittorini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Clara Balsano (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria, Italy)
To Heart via Liver: a Study on Prognostic Stratification of Heart Disease in MASLD Patients using Machine Learning Models (abstract)
12:00
Carmine Dodaro (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy)
Giuseppe Galatà (SurgiQ, Italy)
Marco Maratea (DeMaCS, University of Calabria, Italy)
Cinzia Marte (Università della Calabria, Italy)
Marco Mochi (University of Genoa, Italy)
Nuclear Medicine Rescheduling Problem: A Logic-based Approach (abstract)
15:00-16:00 Session 4: WORKING GROUP MEETING
Chairs:
Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Location: D1.03
16:00-16:15 Session 5: Minute Madness - Lightning Talks: short papers
Chair:
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Location: D1.03
16:00
Andrea Basile (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Fabio Calefato (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Filippo Lanubile (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Giancarlo Logroscino (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Giulio Mallardi (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Benedetta Tafuri (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
A Preliminary Study on Augmenting Neuroimaging data using a Diffusion Model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giulio Mallardi
16:01
Janneke Bolt (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Anna Berghuis (Radboudumc, Netherlands)
Arjen Hommersom (Open University, The Netherlands, Netherlands)
Marike Lombaers (Radboudumc, Netherlands)
Johanna Pijnenborg (Radboudumc, Netherlands)
Silja Renooij (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Bayesian Networks in Medicine: Presenting Query Response Uncertainty for Decision Support (abstract)
PRESENTER: Janneke Bolt
16:02
Megan Macrì (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy)
Pierangela Bruno (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy)
Carmine Dodaro (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy)
Deep Learning Approaches for Segmentation and Classification of Breast Ultrasound Images (abstract)
16:03
Patrizia Ribino (ICAR Institute - National Research Council of Italy, Italy)
Maria Mannone (ICAR Institute - National Research Council of Italy, Italy)
Claudia Di Napoli (C.N.R. - Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy)
Giovanni Paragliola (Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy)
Davide Chicco (Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Francesca Gasparini (Università di Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
Analyzing trajectories of clinical markers in patients with sepsis through multivariate longitudinal clustering (abstract)
PRESENTER: Patrizia Ribino
16:04
Leonardo Sanna (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK, Italy)
Simone Magnolini (FBK, Italy)
Patrizio Bellan (Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Saba Ghanbari Haez (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)
Marina Segala (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Monica Consolandi (FBK, Italy)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
"Doctor, is it normal?" Enabling medical chatbots to provide certified replies to normalcy questions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Leonardo Sanna
16:05
Edoardo De Rose (University of Calabria, Italy)
Carlo Adornetto (University of Calabria, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
Features selection throught autoencoder filtering and DeepShap: an iterative algorithm (abstract)
PRESENTER: Edoardo De Rose
16:06
Luigi Portinale (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy)
Giorgio Leonardi (Computer Science Institute - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Andrea Santomauro (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Similarity-based positional encoding for enhanced classification in medical images (abstract)
16:07
Fabio Angeli (Nessuno, Italy)
An Educational Approach for Neurodiverse Children Using AI: A Case Study on DSA, Autism, and Dyscalculia (abstract)
16:08
Andrea Monaldini (University of Pisa, Italy)
Alina Vozna (University of Pisa, University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Stefania Costantini (University of L'Aquila, Gruppo Nazionale per il Calcolo Scientifico - INdAM, Rome, Italy, Italy)
Blueprint Personas in Digital Health Transformation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alina Vozna
16:15-16:30 Session 6: Minute Madness - Lightning Talks: non-original dissemination and discussion papers
Chair:
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Location: D1.03
16:15
Alessio Zanga (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Alice Bernasconi (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Peter J.F. Lucas (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Hanny Pijnenborg (Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands)
Casper Reijnen (Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands)
Marco Scutari (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland)
Anthony C. Constantinou (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Federated Causal Discovery with Missing Data in a Multicentric Study on Endometrial Cancer (abstract)
16:16
Gebreyowhans Hailekiros Bahre (University of Calabria, York University, Vector Institute, Canada)
Hassan Hamidi (York University,Vector Institute, Canada)
Andrew Sellergren (Google, United States)
Leo Anthony Celi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), United States)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari (York University, Vector Institute, Canada)
Fairness Of AI Models in vector embedded Chest X-ray representations (abstract)
16:17
Carlo Adornetto (University of Calabria, Italy)
Pierangela Bruno (University of Calabria, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Edoardo De Rose (University of Calabria, Italy)
Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria, Italy)
Alessandro Quarta (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
AI-Driven Innovations in Healthcare: Bridging Imaging and Genomics for Advanced Disease Insights (abstract)
16:18
Zuqi Li (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Federico Melograna (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Hanne Hoskens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Diane Duroux (University of Liège, Belgium)
Mary Marazita (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
Susan Walsh (Indiana University Indianapolis, United States)
Seth Weinberg (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
Mark Shriver (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Bertram Müller-Myhsok (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)
Peter Claes (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Kristel Van Steen (University of Liège, Belgium)
netMUG: a novel network-guided multi-view clustering workflow for dissecting genetic and facial heterogeneity (abstract)
16:19
Behnam Yousefi (Institut Pasteur, France)
Federico Melograna (Ku Leuven, Belgium)
Gianluca Galazzo (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Niels van Best (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Monique Mommers (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
John Penders (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Benno Schwikowski (Institut Pasteur, France)
Kristel Van Steen (ULiége, Belgium)
Capturing the dynamics of microbial interactions through individual-specific networks (abstract)
16:20
Benedetta Salvatori (Unit of Medical Genetics, Institute G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy)
Silke Wegener (Department of Obstetrics, Charité -Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany)
Grammata Kotzaeridi (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Annika Herding (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Florian Eppel (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Iris Dressler-Steinbach (Department of Obstetrics, Charité -Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany)
Wolfgang Hernich (Department of Obstetrics, Charité -Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany)
Agnese Piersanti (Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)
Micaela Morettini (Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)
Andrea Tura (CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Padua, Italy)
Christian Göbl (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Identification and validation of gestational diabetes subgroups by data-driven cluster analysis (abstract)
16:21
Pierangela Bruno (University of Calabria, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Calabria, Italy)
Francesca Filice (Università della Calabria, Italy)
Cinzia Marte (Università della Calabria, Italy)
Simona Perri (University of Calabria, Italy)
IDADA: A Blended Inductive-Deductive Approach for Data Augmentation (abstract)
16:22
Rupali Khatun (universitätsklinikum erlangen, Germany)
Soumick Chatterjee (Human Technopole, Italy)
Bert Christoph (Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany, Germany)
Martin Wadepohl (Dr. Sennewald Medizintechnik GmbH, Munich, Germany)
Oliver J. Ott (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany)
Sabine Semrau (universitätsklinikum erlangen, Germany)
Rainer Fietkau (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany)
Andreas Nürnberger (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
Udo Gaipl (Translational Radiobiology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany)
Benjamin Frey (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany)
Complex-valued neural networks to speed-up MR Thermometry during Hyperthermia using Fourier PD and PDUNet (abstract)
16:23
Chethan Radhakrishna (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)
Karthikesh Varma Chintalapati (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)
Sri Chandana Hudukula Ram Kumar (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)
Raviteja Sutrave (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Germany)
Hendrik Mattern (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Germany)
Oliver Speck (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)
Andreas Nürnberger (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
Soumick Chatterjee (Human Technopole, Italy)
SPOCKMIP: Segmentation of Vessels in MRAs with Enhanced Continuity using Maximum Intensity Projection as Loss (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 7: POSTER showcase and discussion
Chairs:
Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Location: D1.03
Thursday, November 28th

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13:30-14:15 Session 9: Prognostic Models and Risk Assessment (PMRA) - part 1
Chair:
Alessio Zanga (University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
Location: D1.03
13:30
Alessia Calzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
Mattia Savardi (University of Brescia, Italy)
Alberto Signoroni (University of Brescia, Italy)
Bimodal ECG-PCG Cardiovascular Disease Detection: a Close Look at Transfer Learning and Data Collection Issues (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alessia Calzoni
13:40
Alice Bernasconi (University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan(IT); Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan(IT), Italy)
Antonio Balordi (University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan(IT), Italy)
Alessio Zanga (University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan(IT); F. Hoffmann - La Roche Ltd, Basel(SW), Italy)
Rafael Cabañas (University of Almería, Almería (SP), Spain)
On Counterfactual Explainations of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents and Young Adults Breast Cancer Survivors (abstract)
13:50
Gianluca Aguzzi (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy)
Matteo Magnini (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy)
Stefano Ferretti (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy)
Giuseppe Pio Salcuni (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy)
Sara Montagna (Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Italy)
Applying Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Open LLMs for a Medical Chatbot Supporting Hypertensive Patients (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sara Montagna
14:15-15:00 Session 10: Prognostic Models and Risk Assessment (PMRA) - part 2
Chair:
Alice Bernasconi (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Location: D1.03
14:15
Niccolò Rocchi (Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Alice Bernasconi (Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Alessio Zanga (Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Alessandro Gronchi (Department of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Dario Callegaro (Department of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Paolo Giovanni Casali (Department of Cancer Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Salvatore Provenzano (Department of Cancer Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Rosalba Miceli (Biostatistics for Clinical Research Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Annalisa Trama (Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Fabio Stella (Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Causal Discovery for Rare Disease Research: Iterative Refinement Applied to Soft Tissue Sarcoma (abstract)
PRESENTER: Niccolò Rocchi
14:25
Simmera Ndlalane (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Olumuyiwa Otegbeye (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Absalom Ezugwu (North-West, University, South Africa)
Strategic Optimization of Blood Supply Chain Management for Efficient Blood Bank Operations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simmera Ndlalane
14:35
Gabriele Tinè (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
Rosalba Miceli (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy)
A-MALA: A New Adaptive Version of the Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Algorithm for Survival Prediction in a High-Dimensional Framework (abstract)
15:00-15:30 Session 11: Techniques and Model Optimization (TMO) - Part 1
Chair:
Aldo Marzullo (Humanitas Research Hospital - AI Center, Italy)
Location: D1.03
15:00
Veera Venkata Naga Krishna Chaitanya Atkuri (Purple Talk Inc.,, United States)
Balancing Accuracy and Safety in AI: A Novel Adversarial Training Approach (abstract)
15:10
Marco Locatelli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Roberto Clemens Cerioli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Daniela Besozzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Arjen Hommersom (Open University, Netherlands)
Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Logic Modelling for Personalized Dynamic Treatment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marco Locatelli
16:00-16:30 Session 12: Techniques and Model Optimization (TMO) - Part 2
Chair:
Aldo Marzullo (Humanitas Research Hospital - AI Center, Italy)
Location: D1.03
16:00
Taiwo Kolajo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Olawande Daramola (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Predicting COVID-19 Post-vaccination Mortality in Persons with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Using Explainable AI (abstract)
16:10
Marco Serenelli (University of Camerino, Italy)
Michela Quadrini (University of Camerino, Italy)
Maria Óskarsdóttir (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)
Encoding Methods Comparison for Stress Detection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michela Quadrini
16:30-17:15 Session 13: Clinical Decision Support and Digital Health - part 1
Chair:
Soumick Chatterjee (Human Technopole, Italy)
Location: D1.03
16:30
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Gianluca Apriceno (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Tania Bailoni (FBK, Italy)
Assessing the Validity of a Functional Status Knowledge Graph in a Large-Scale Living Lab (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mauro Dragoni
16:40
Sofia Fazio (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Statale di Milano, Italy)
Patrizia Ribino (ICAR, National Research Council, Italy)
Francesca Gasparini (Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Norbert Marwan (Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Germany)
Peppino Fazio (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Marco Gherardi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Statale di Milano, Italy)
Maria Mannone (University of Potsdam, Germany; National Research Council (CNR), Italy, Italy)
A physics-based view of brain-network alteration in neurological disease (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sofia Fazio
16:50
Paulo Vitor de Campos Souza (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Brazil)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Care: Implementing Machine Learning for Triage Optimization in Italian Hospitals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mauro Dragoni
17:15-17:50 Session 14: Clinical Decision Support and Digital Health - part 2
Chair:
Soumick Chatterjee (Human Technopole, Italy)
Location: D1.03
17:15
Mohammad Hosseinipour (University of Padova, Italy)
Luca Bergamin (University of Padova, Italy)
Harel Kotler (University of Padova, Italy)
Gisella Gennaro (Veneto Institute of Oncology, Italy)
Fabio Aiolli (University of Padova, Italy)
Addressing Challenges in Image Translation for Contrast-Enhanced Mammography using Generative Adversarial Networks (abstract)
17:25
Francisco de Arriba-Pérez (University of Vigo, Spain)
Silvia García-Méndez (University of Vigo, Spain)
Detecting anxiety and depression in dialogues: a multi-label and explainable approach (abstract)
17:35
Monica Consolandi (FBK, Italy)
Simone Magnolini (FBK, Italy)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Risk Communication in Healthcare: The Management of Misunderstandings (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simone Magnolini
17:50-18:00 Session 15: AWARDS CEREMONY
Chairs:
Fabio Stella (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Francesco Calimeri (University of Calabria, Italy)
Location: D1.03