Here you can find a consolidated (a.k.a. slowly updated) list of my publications. A frequently updated (and possibly noisy) list of works is available on my Google Scholar profile.
Please find below a short list of highlight publications for my recent activity.
Bacciu, Davide; Lisboa, Paulo J. G.; Vellido, Alfredo Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine Book World Scientific Publisher, 2022, ISBN: 978-1-80061-093-4. Schoitsch, Erwin; Mylonas, Georgios (Ed.) Supporting Privacy Preservation by Distributed and Federated Learning on the Edge Periodical ERCIM News, vol. 127, 2021, visited: 30.09.2021. Bacciu, Davide; Akarmazyan, Siranush; Armengaud, Eric; Bacco, Manlio; Bravos, George; Calandra, Calogero; Carlini, Emanuele; Carta, Antonio; Cassara, Pietro; Coppola, Massimo; Davalas, Charalampos; Dazzi, Patrizio; Degennaro, Maria Carmela; Sarli, Daniele Di; Dobaj, Jürgen; Gallicchio, Claudio; Girbal, Sylvain; Gotta, Alberto; Groppo, Riccardo; Lomonaco, Vincenzo; Macher, Georg; Mazzei, Daniele; Mencagli, Gabriele; Michail, Dimitrios; Micheli, Alessio; Peroglio, Roberta; Petroni, Salvatore; Potenza, Rosaria; Pourdanesh, Farank; Sardianos, Christos; Tserpes, Konstantinos; Tagliabò, Fulvio; Valtl, Jakob; Varlamis, Iraklis; Veledar, Omar (Ed.) TEACHING - Trustworthy autonomous cyber-physical applications through human-centred intelligence Conference Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) , 2021. Bontempi, Gianluca; Chavarriaga, Ricardo; Canck, Hans De; Girardi, Emanuela; Hoos, Holger; Kilbane-Dawe, Iarla; Ball, Tonio; Nowé, Ann; Sousa, Jose; Bacciu, Davide; Aldinucci, Marco; Domenico, Manlio De; Saffiotti, Alessandro; Maratea, Marco The CLAIRE COVID-19 initiative: approach, experiences and recommendations Journal Article In: Ethics and Information Technology, 2021. Ferrari, Elisa; Retico, Alessandra; Bacciu, Davide Measuring the effects of confounders in medical supervised classification problems: the Confounding Index (CI) Journal Article In: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 103, 2020. Bacciu, Davide Reti neurali e linguaggio. Le insidie nascoste di un'algebra delle parole Online Tavosanis, Mirko (Ed.): Lingua Italiana - Treccani 2019, visited: 03.12.2019.
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abstract = {Biology, medicine and biochemistry have become data-centric fields for which Deep Learning methods are delivering groundbreaking results. Addressing high impact challenges, Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine provides an accessible and organic collection of Deep Learning essays on bioinformatics and medicine. It caters for a wide readership, ranging from machine learning practitioners and data scientists seeking methodological knowledge to address biomedical applications, to life science specialists in search of a gentle reference for advanced data analytics.
With contributions from internationally renowned experts, the book covers foundational methodologies in a wide spectrum of life sciences applications, including electronic health record processing, diagnostic imaging, text processing, as well as omics-data processing. This survey of consolidated problems is complemented by a selection of advanced applications, including cheminformatics and biomedical interaction network analysis. A modern and mindful approach to the use of data-driven methodologies in the life sciences also requires careful consideration of the associated societal, ethical, legal and transparency challenges, which are covered in the concluding chapters of this book.},
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With contributions from internationally renowned experts, the book covers foundational methodologies in a wide spectrum of life sciences applications, including electronic health record processing, diagnostic imaging, text processing, as well as omics-data processing. This survey of consolidated problems is complemented by a selection of advanced applications, including cheminformatics and biomedical interaction network analysis. A modern and mindful approach to the use of data-driven methodologies in the life sciences also requires careful consideration of the associated societal, ethical, legal and transparency challenges, which are covered in the concluding chapters of this book.
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) },
abstract = {This paper discusses the perspective of the H2020 TEACHING project on the next generation of autonomous applications running in a distributed and highly heterogeneous environment comprising both virtual and physical resources spanning the edge-cloud continuum. TEACHING puts forward a human-centred vision leveraging the physiological, emotional, and cognitive state of the users as a driver for the adaptation and optimization of the autonomous applications. It does so by building a distributed, embedded and federated learning system complemented by methods and tools to enforce its dependability, security and privacy preservation. The paper discusses the main concepts of the TEACHING approach and singles out the main AI-related research challenges associated with it. Further, we provide a discussion of the design choices for the TEACHING system to tackle the aforementioned challenges},
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@article{Bontempi2021,
title = {The CLAIRE COVID-19 initiative: approach, experiences and recommendations},
author = {Gianluca Bontempi and Ricardo Chavarriaga and Hans De Canck and Emanuela Girardi and Holger Hoos and Iarla Kilbane-Dawe and Tonio Ball and Ann Nowé and Jose Sousa and Davide Bacciu and Marco Aldinucci and Manlio De Domenico and Alessandro Saffiotti and Marco Maratea},
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@article{aime20Confound,
title = {Measuring the effects of confounders in medical supervised classification problems: the Confounding Index (CI)},
author = {Elisa Ferrari and Alessandra Retico and Davide Bacciu},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08871},
doi = {10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101804},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-03-01},
journal = {Artificial Intelligence in Medicine},
volume = {103},
abstract = {Over the years, there has been growing interest in using Machine Learning techniques for biomedical data processing. When tackling these tasks, one needs to bear in mind that biomedical data depends on a variety of characteristics, such as demographic aspects (age, gender, etc) or the acquisition technology, which might be unrelated with the target of the analysis. In supervised tasks, failing to match the ground truth targets with respect to such characteristics, called confounders, may lead to very misleading estimates of the predictive performance. Many strategies have been proposed to handle confounders, ranging from data selection, to normalization techniques, up to the use of training algorithm for learning with imbalanced data. However, all these solutions require the confounders to be known a priori. To this aim, we introduce a novel index that is able to measure the confounding effect of a data attribute in a bias-agnostic way. This index can be used to quantitatively compare the confounding effects of different variables and to inform correction methods such as normalization procedures or ad-hoc-prepared learning algorithms. The effectiveness of this index is validated on both simulated data and real-world neuroimaging data. },
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