Computational Health

@misc{medica,

title = {MEDICA: Modelling and vErification of alkaptonuria and multiple sclerosis Driven by biomedICAl data},

url = {https://biomedinfo.di.unipi.it/medica-project/},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-29},

urldate = {2023-09-29},

abstract = {Abstract: The goal of this project is to bridge the gap between data, models and validation, integrating the data-driven and model-driven research directions, so that to develop next generation modelling and analysis approaches for biomedical investigations.  We are tackling open research questions for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Alkaptonuria (AKU), for which we have world-leading experts in our consortium.},

howpublished = {PRIN 2022 Project},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{I-POTERI,

title = {I-POTERI: Innovation in the telemonitoring of the rehabilitation of post-operative cardiac patients},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-01},

abstract = {Abstract: Cardiac rehabilitation in the post-surgical phase has an important impact on the patient as it speeds up his psychophysical recovery, and improves the clinical picture by reducing the sense of fatigue, dyspnea, and increases survival. In this context, compliance with the rehabilitation program is a key element for the therapeutic benefits and, at the same time, for providing elements for strengthening the patient, in terms of increasing awareness of their own state of health. To achieve these results, the I-POTERI project aims to evolve current telemonitoring systems by developing and industrializing a SW-HW platform based on the integration of home kits (consisting of wearable and low-invasive medical devices), on the some monitoring microservices, and on innovative AI technology, which will allow the continuous monitoring of numerous parameters both during the patient's normal home activities and during rehabilitation activities. The ultimate goal is to customize and optimize the post-surgical rehabilitation process and to allow personalized intervention by the doctor given the parameters of the rehabilitation process and any anomalies of the monitored vital parameters. The project also aims to carry out a retrospective analysis in terms of the effectiveness of the performance and adequacy of the program, thanks also to the application of data analytics algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with the IFC CNR Pisa and several SME Tuscan companies},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{MOTIF-RAPTOR,

title = {MOTIF-RAPTOR},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {This project aims at designing a computational tool which hinges on Transcription Factors (TF) and integrates sequence-based predictive models, chromatin accessibility, gene expression datasets and GWAS summary statistics to systematically investigate how TF function is affected by genetic variants. We have successfully tested Motif-Raptor on complex traits such as rheumatoid arthritis and red blood cell count and demonstrated its ability to prioritize relevant cell types, potential regulatory TFs and non-coding SNPs which have been previously characterized and validated.},

howpublished = {Collab. with Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{PANS,

title = {PANS},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {This project aims to uncover the mechanisms involved in the development and remission of symptoms for PANS  (pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome). It involves analysis of proteomic and metabolomic data for a set of PANS patients at different disease stages and under different treatments.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with Stanford Medical School},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{sleep_monitoring,

title = {Activity and Sleep monitoring},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {This project explores the interaction between physical and psychological characteristics of healthy individuals, by monitoring various parameters in a set of volunteers, leading to a multi-level analysis. The parameters include accelerometer data, sleep quality, hormone levels, heart rate, stress, emotions, and others, and can provide a wide view of how different processes interact with each other during daily life.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with Biobeats and UNIPI Pharmacy Department},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{PROMET,

title = {PROMET (SPARK Project)},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {Circulating tumor DNA can be detected in cancer patients after tumor resection. This project aims to evaluate whether sequencing of circulating tumor DNA can  be employed in prognosis for cancer patients, concentrating on patients with colorectal cancer liver metastasis. This consists of both survival prediction and selection of prognosis biomarkers.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with the Pisa University Hospital Oncology Unit },

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{covid19,

title = {COVID-19},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {Clinical data for COVID-19 patients can be employed to predict disease progression and final outcomes. However, the quantity of clinical variables and missing data may pose challenges. We are developing a method to select the most important clinical variables and to predict mortality at hospitalisation time.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with the Pisa University Hospital and CNR Pisa},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{DROP,

title = {DROP (SPARK project)},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {While whole slide imaging is providing detailed information to pathologists, diagnosis and therapeutic decisions are still mostly based on expert evaluation of the digital images, which is subjective introducing errors and tampering with reproducibility. This project aims to develop a prototype tool that can aid the evaluation of biomarkers in breast tumour tissues, which employs image analysis and machine learning. },

howpublished = {Collaboration with the University of Pisa Medical School},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{meningitisB,

title = {Vaccination coverage prediction for Meningitis B},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {The project aims to identify genomic characteristics of Meningococcus B strains that predict whether an existing vaccine is able to protect against new isolates of the bacterium. While the state of the art uses pure statistical tools to predict efficiency, this project aims to employ machine learning tools based on Deep Learning. The hope is that these methods, being based on complete genetic sequences, will be more generic and translatable to other vaccines.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with GlaxoSmithKlein},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{vaccine,

title = {Protein selection for vaccine development},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {Vaccine development typically includes a preliminary in silico selection of proteins that can be promising candidates to be included in the vaccine. Current approaches start by annotating proteins with various parameters and then selecting based on the annotations. This project aims to eliminate the intermediate phase of annotating the sequences, by considering the protein sequences directly as input to a classifier.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with GlaxoSmithKlein},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{covid-diabetes,

title = {Covid-19 morbidity and mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus: possible roles of macrophages and of glucose lowering drugs},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-28},

abstract = {The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes COVID-19, which, if severe, features interstitial pneumonia, multiple organ damage, macrophage (MΦ) activation syndrome and vascular thrombosis. People with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) may be more vulnerable to severe COVID-19.

AIMS: 

1. To assess the independent impact of T2DM on the risk of death or transfer to intensive care unit (ICU) of patients admitted to the Covid-1 macro-unit of Ospedale Maggiore.

2. To assess, in a SARS-CoV-dependent model of inflamed human MΦ:

a. the role of T2DM and of some anti-diabetes agents (ADA) in modulating MΦ inflammation;

b. the effects of the MΦ secretome on lung microvascular endothelium.},

howpublished = {Collaboration with University of Parma},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}

@misc{PRIN2017,

title = {Multicriteria Data Structures and Algorithms: from compressed to learned indexes, and beyond.},

url = {http://learned.di.unipi.it/},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-09-01},

abstract = {The ever growing need to efficiently store, retrieve and analyze massive datasets, is currently made more complex by the different requirements posed by users, devices and applications. Such a new level of complexity cannot be handled properly by current data structures for big data problems. This project lays down the theoretical and algorithmic-engineering foundations of a new generation of Multicriteria Data Structures and Algorithms that will seamlessly integrate, via a principled optimization approach, modern compressed data structures with new, revolutionary, data structures learned from the input data by using proper machine-learning tools, with applications to key-value stores and bioinformatics tools.},

howpublished = {PRIN no. 2017WR7SHH},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {misc}

}