Presentations
5th International AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Perugia, Italy, 06-08 October 2026
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5th International AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Perugia, Italy, 06-08 October 2026
Presentations from the 37 contributions delivered at the workshop, grouped by thematic session and listed in program order. See the PROGRAM PAGE for further details.
1. TRUTH-Lung: A Multimodal Dataset of CT Scans, Expert Segmentations, and Molecular Biomarkers for Lung Nodule Radiogenomics — Presentation (PPTX)
Andrea Santomauro, Luigi Portinale, Giorgio Leonardi, Francesca Ugo, Ivan Gallesio, Costanza Massarino, Alessia Francese, Annalisa Roveta, Antonio Maconi
Non-original communication
2. Exploring Generative Augmentation for Rare Disease Pathology: a Hirschsprung Disease Case Study — Presentation (PDF)
Mara Pistellato, Miriam Duci, Nicola Galiazzo, Leonardo Maccari, Francesco Fascetti Leon, Francesca Uccheddu
Short paper
3. Synthetic Data Generation, Multi-Dimensional Validation, and Clinically Actionable Risk Stratification in a FIL-DLBCL Clinical Cohort — Presentation (PPTX)
Aaron Costa, Stefano Nera, Riccardo Francia, Luca Piovesan, Simone Pernice, Francesco Merli, Annalisa Arcari, Emanuele Cencini, Stefania Montani, Simone Ferrero, Francesca Cordero, Marco Beccuti
Full paper
4. Omics-Enhanced Multimodal Representations for Cancer Prognosis and Staging — Presentation (PPTX)
Sara De Luca, Federico D’Asaro, Paola Berchialla, Giuseppe Rizzo
Full paper
1. Structure-Aware Representation Learning of ATC Codes — Presentation (PDF)
Christel Sirocchi, Giorgia Roselli, Sara Montagna
Full paper
2. Towards Optimizing Laser Acceleration of Protons for Medical Applications: Benchmarking Generative AI Against Machine Learning Models — Presentation (PPTX)
Arantxa Ortega-Leon, Alessandro Zani, Indaco Biazzo, Lea Schuh, Sergio Consoli
Full paper
3. Comparing Recurrent Neural Networks against Transformers for One-Step Molecular Dynamics Prediction — Presentation (PDF)
Alessia Dodaro, Rama Mhalla, Ibrahim Shkhis, Carlo Adornetto, Vincenzo Damico, Francesca Filice, Gianluigi Greco, Tiziana Marino, Mario Prejanò, Simone Ventrici
Short paper
1. CephAlignNet: A Coarse-to-Fine Deep Learning Framework for Cephalometric Landmark Localization — Presentation (PDF)
Simone Carlassare, Alice Bizzarri, Riccardo Zese
Full paper
2. Evaluating Automated Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Segmentation on Longitudinal MRI Through Prostate Cancer Survival Prediction — Presentation (PPTX)
Fabio Gatelli, Mattia Savardi, Matteo Riva, Alessandro Monti, Marco Ravanelli, Alfredo Berruti, Salvatore Grisanti, Alberto Signoroni
Full paper
3. A Multi-Metric Validation Framework for GNN Explanations in Brain Tumor Segmentation — Presentation (PDF)
Alberto G. Valerio, Francesco Scialpi, Gennaro Vessio, Giovanna Castellano, Gabriella Casalino
Full paper
4. A Two-Stage Radiomics Pipeline for MRI-Based Multi-Class Subtyping of Primary CNS Lymphoma: Dataset and Proposed Method — Presentation (PPTX)
Paolo Fiore, Simone Bartucci, Edoardo De Rose, Francesca Filice, Nicoletta Anzalone, Raffaello Bonacchi, Francesco Calimeri, Teresa Calimeri, Andrés J.M. Ferreri, Simona Perri
Short paper
1. Automated Shift Scheduling in Radiology via Answer Set Programming — Presentation (PDF)
Aurora De Pieri, Francesco Filocamo, Marco Maratea, Cinzia Marte, Chiara Spadafora
Full paper
2. Handling Data Heterogeneity for Clinical Outcome Forecasting in Rehabilitation Environments — Presentation (PPTX)
Corrado Loglisci, Stefano Mazzoleni
Short paper
3. Human Digital Twin and Human-Robot Interaction for Narrative-Enhanced Prediction of Quality of Life of Frail Individuals — Presentation (PDF)
Maria Grazia Miccoli, Berardina De Carolis, Corrado Loglisci, Giuseppe Palestra
Short paper
4. Machine Learning for Daily Rehabilitation Scheduling Capacity Prediction — Presentation (PDF)
Pierangela Bruno, Giuseppe Galatà, Cristian Loria, Matteo Mammoliti, Marco Maratea
Short paper
1. Benchmarking Temporal Reasoning and Audience-Aware Explanation Generation of Modern Large Language Models on Clinical Data — Presentation (PDF)
Gianluca Apriceno, Tania Bailoni, Mauro Dragoni
Short paper
2. Patient-Centred Adaptive Healthcare Scheduling with Explainable Probabilistic Mental and Physical Actions — Presentation (PDF)
Stefania Costantini, Valentina Pitoni, Lorenzo De Lauretis
Full paper
3. What Counts? A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Non-Anthropocentric Ethical Reasoning — Presentation (PDF)
Bianca Lerma, Gianluca Apriceno, Mauro Dragoni
Full paper
4. Where the Risk Lives: Human Junctions, Not Systems - Ten Categories of AI in Healthcare and the Non-Delegable Objective Function — Presentation (PPTX)
Angelo Rossi Mori
Position/discussion paper
1. MAESTRO: a framework for trustworthy integration of LLMs in psychological digital interventions — Presentation (PDF)
Leonardo Sanna, Mattia Franzin, Simone De Carli, Marco Bolpagni, Simone Casazza, Silvia Rizzi, Claudio Eccher, Mauro Dragoni
Full paper
2. Standardizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines in Medical Domains — Presentation (PPTX)
Leonardo Sanna, Esin Ezgi Yildiz, Mauro Dragoni
Non-original communication
3. LLM-as-a-judge for Evaluating the Quality of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems — Presentation (PDF)
Leonardo Sanna, Erica Solinas, Mauro Dragoni
Full paper
4. DUET: Dual-Objective Knowledge Distillation for Task-Aware ECG Representation Learning — Presentation (PDF)
Francesca Filice, Edoardo De Rose, Simone Bartucci, Francesco Calimeri, Simona Perri
Full paper
5. When Metrics Disagree: Format Sensitivity in ECG-Image Adaptation of Small Vision-Language Models — Presentation (PPTX)
Alessandro Mancuso, Alessandro Quarta, Pierangelo Veltri, Francesco Calimeri
Short paper
1. Leveraging Large Language Models for Electronic Health Record Integration from Semi-Structured Clinical Reports — Presentation (PDF)
Carmen Guzmán-García, Maria Chiara Colombi, Gianfranco Lombardo, Carlotta Mutti, Monica Mordonini, Stefano Cagnoni
Full paper
2. Language Models for Labelling and Clinical Knowledge Extraction in Hypertension Management — Presentation (PDF)
Gianluca Aguzzi, Martino Pengo, Grzegorz Bilo, Sara Montagna
Short paper
3. From Clinical Text to Causal Graphs: How Much Supervision Is Needed to Induce Graph-Usable Symptom Variables? — Presentation (PPTX)
Yaqiao Huang, Paloma Rabaey, Henri Arno, Thomas Demeester
Full paper
4. Towards LLM-Assisted Process Modelling from Healthcare Documents: A Framework and a BPMN Case Study — Presentation (PDF)
Sofia Benotti, Roberto Nai, Emilio Sulis, Vittoria M.S. Trifiletti, Guido Boella, Paolo Ferrero, Claudio Plazzotta, Elisa Sandri, Patricia Scioli
Short paper
1. Federated Eligibility Criteria Optimization for Clinical Trial Emulation — Presentation (PPTX)
Eriberto Andrea Franchi, Aldo Marzullo, Elena De Momi, Alberto Redaelli
Full paper
2. Cross-Continental Generalizability of EHR Foundation Model: Predicting Length of Stay in Italy Using US-Trained Embeddings — Presentation (PPTX)
Giovanna Nicora, Francesca Negri, Valentina Tibollo, Alberto Malovini, Arianna Dagliati, Lucia Sacchi, Federico Sottotetti, Paola Baiardi, Riccardo Bellazzi
Non-original communication
3. Imprecise Probabilities for Privacy-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Bayesian Networks — Presentation (PDF)
Niccolò Rocchi, Fabio Stella, Cassio de Campos
Non-original communication
1. MIAO: A Mental Illness Analysis Ontology for Detecting Mental Health Conditions — Presentation (PDF)
Gianluca Apriceno, Sergio Muñoz, Tania Bailoni, Mauro Dragoni, Carlos Á. Iglesias
Non-original communication
2. MIND-WOZ: A Multimodal Sentiment Analysis System for Detecting Mental Health Disorders in Conversations — Presentation (PPTX)
Alessandra Grossi, Giulia Rizzi, Francesca Gasparini
Short paper
1. An MLOps Framework for Reproducible Radiomics Experiments — Presentation (PDF)
Giulio Mallardi, Luigi Quaranta, Donato Boccuzzi, Filippo Lanubile, Giancarlo Logroscino, Benedetta Tafuri
Full paper
2. Flow Builder: no-code conversation design tool for digital therapeutics in psychology — Presentation (PDF)
Leonardo Sanna, Mattia Franzin, Mauro Dragoni, Claudio Eccher
System/prototype
3. Assessing Mental Health Therapeutic Capacity in AI Agents — Presentation (PPTX)
Piergiorgio Maruotti, Mattia Rampazzo, Sergio Muñoz, Mauro Dragoni, Patrizio Bellan
Non-original communication
4. Structural vs Psycholinguistic Evaluation of Foundation Model-Generated Aphasia Therapy Material — Presentation (PDF)
Mihir Mulye, Stefan Conrad, Stefan Knecht
Short paper
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