Research Area

Non-invasive imaging techniques: Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Computerized  Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance (MR)

Big data, Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Health Care Applications

Processing, quantification, and correction methods for ex-vivo and in-vivo medical images.

CV

National collaborations

Nuclear Medicine Department, Giglio Hospital, Cefalù, Italy

Nuclear Medicine Department, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy

Nuclear Medicine Department, Messina University Hospital, Messina, Italy

Radiology Unit, Palermo University Hospital, Messina, Italy

Radiology Unit, Catania University Hospital, Messina, Italy

Ri.MED Foundation, Palermo

International collaborations

Prof. Anthony Yezzi, Laboratory of Computational Computer Vision (LCCV), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Dr. Samuel Bignardi, Laboratory of Computational Computer Vision (LCCV), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

References

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  • Stefano A, Comelli A, Bravata V, Barone S, Daskalovski I, Savoca G, et al. A preliminary PET radiomics study of brain metastases using a fully automatic segmentation method. BMC Bioinformatics, 2020. In press.
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  • Stefano A, Gioè M, Russo G, Palmucci S, Torrisi SE, Bignardi S, et al. Performance of Radiomics Features in the Quantification of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis from HRCT. Diagnostics 2020, Vol 10, Page 306 2020;10:306. https://doi.org/10.3390/DIAGNOSTICS10050306.
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  • Comelli A, Stefano A*, Russo G, Bignardi S, Sabini MG, Petrucci G, et al. K-nearest neighbor driving active contours to delineate biological tumor volumes. Eng Appl Artif Intell 2019;81:133–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2019.02.005.
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  • Comelli A, Stefano A*, Bignardi S, Russo G, Sabini MG, Ippolito M, et al. Active contour algorithm with discriminant analysis for delineating tumors in positron emission tomography. Artif Intell Med 2019;94:67–78 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2019.01.002.
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  • Comelli A, Stefano A*, Russo G, Sabini MG, Ippolito M, Bignardi S, et al. A smart and operator independent system to delineate tumours in Positron Emission Tomography scans. Comput Biol Med 2018;102:1–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.09.002.
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  • D`Urso D, Stefano A, Romano A, Russo G, Cosentino S, Fallanca F, et al. Analysis of Metabolic Parameters Coming from Basal and Interim PET in Hodgkin Lymphoma. Curr Med Imaging Rev 2017;14:533–44. https://doi.org/10.2174/1573405613666170331110119.
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  • Rundo L, Stefano A, Militello C, Russo G, Sabini MG, D’Arrigo C, et al. A fully automatic approach for multimodal PET and MR image segmentation in gamma knife treatment planning. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2017;144:77–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.03.011.
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