publications

2025

1. An optimized ensemble search approach for classification of higher-level gait disorder using brain magnetic resonance images

   Mogensen, Klara,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Larsson, Jenny, Hansson, William, Wåhlin, Anders, Koskinen, Lars-Owe, Malm, Jan, Eklund, Anders, Soda, Paolo, and Qvarlander, Sara

   Computers in Biology and Medicine 2025

2024

1. Multimodal explainability via latent shift applied to COVID-19 stratification

   Guarrasi, Valerio, Tronchin, Lorenzo, Albano, Domenico, Faiella, Eliodoro, Fazzini, Deborah, Santucci, Domiziana, and Soda, Paolo

   Pattern Recognition 2024
2. A deep learning approach for virtual contrast enhancement in Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography

   Rofena, Aurora,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Sarli, Marina, Piccolo, Claudia Lucia, Sammarra, Matteo, Zobel, Bruno Beomonte, and Soda, Paolo

   Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 2024
3. Exploring nasopharyngeal microbiota profile in children affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection

   Romani, L, Del Chierico, F, Pane, S, Ristori, MV, Pirona, I, Guarrasi, V, Cotugno, N, Bernardi, S, Lancella, L, Perno, CF, and others,

   Microbiology Spectrum 2024
4. Multi-Scale Texture Loss for CT denoising with GANs

   Di Feola, Francesco, Tronchin, Lorenzo,  Guarrasi, Valerio, and Soda, Paolo

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16640 2024
5. Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Learning for COVID-19 Prognosis

   Ruffini, Filippo, Tronchin, Lorenzo, Wu, Zhuoru, Chen, Wenting, Soda, Paolo, Shen, Linlin, and Guarrasi, Valerio

   In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2024
6. A deep learning approach for overall survival prediction in lung cancer with missing values

   Caruso, Camillo Maria,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Ramella, Sara, and Soda, Paolo

   Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2024
7. Emerging Microorganisms and Infectious Diseases: One Health Approach for Health Shared Vision

   Ristori, Maria Vittoria,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Soda, Paolo, Petrosillo, Nicola, Gurrieri, Fiorella, Longo, Umile Giuseppe, Ciccozzi, Massimo, Riva, Elisabetta, and Angeletti, Silvia

   Genes 2024
8. Not Another Imputation Method: A Transformer-based Model for Missing Values in Tabular Datasets

   Caruso, Camillo Maria, Soda, Paolo, and Guarrasi, Valerio

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11540 2024
9. A Systematic Review of Intermediate Fusion in Multimodal Deep Learning for Biomedical Applications

   Guarrasi, Valerio, Aksu, Fatih, Caruso, Camillo Maria, Di Feola, Francesco, Rofena, Aurora, Ruffini, Filippo, and Soda, Paolo

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02686 2024
10. Virtual scanner: leveraging resilient generative ai for radiological imaging in the era of medical digital twins

    Adornato, Carolina, Assolito, Cecilia, Cordelli, Ermanno, Di Feola, Francesco,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Iannello, Giulio, Marcoccia, Lorenzo, Ayllon, Elena Mulero, Restivo, Rebecca, Rofena, Aurora, and others,

    In 2024 Ital-IA Intelligenza Artificiale-Thematic Workshops, Ital-IA 2024, Naples, Italy, May 29-30, 2024 2024
11. Towards AI-driven next generation personalized healthcare and well-being

    Aksu, Fatih, Bria, Alessandro, Caragliano, Alice Natalina, Caruso, Camillo Maria, Chen, Wenting, Cordelli, Ermanno, Coser, Omar, Francesconi, Arianna, Furia, Leonardo,  Guarrasi, Valerio, and others,

    In 2024 Ital-IA Intelligenza Artificiale-Thematic Workshops, Ital-IA 2024, Naples, Italy, May 29-30, 2024 2024
12. RobustRecSys@ RecSys2024: Design, Evaluation and Deployment of Robust Recommender Systems

    Guarrasi, Valerio, Siciliano, Federico, and Silvestri, Fabrizio

    In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2024
13. Class Balancing Diversity Multimodal Ensemble for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Early Detection

    Francesconi, Arianna, Biase, Lazzaro, Cappetta, Donato, Rebecchi, Fabio, Soda, Paolo, Sicilia, Rosa, and Guarrasi, Valerio

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10374 2024
14. Radiomics for Predicting Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer: Insights from Contrast-Enhanced Mammography (CEM)

    Piccolo, Claudia Lucia, Sarli, Marina, Pileri, Matteo, Tommasiello, Manuela, Rofena, Aurora,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Soda, Paolo, and Beomonte Zobel, Bruno

    Journal of Clinical Medicine 2024
15. MARIA: a Multimodal Transformer Model for Incomplete Healthcare Data

    Caruso, Camillo Maria, Soda, Paolo, and Guarrasi, Valerio

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14810 2024

2023

1. Multi-objective optimization determines when, which and how to fuse deep networks: An application to predict COVID-19 outcomes

   Guarrasi, Valerio, and Soda, Paolo

   Computers in Biology and Medicine 2023
2. Ecology and machine learning-based classification models of gut microbiota and inflammatory markers may evaluate the effects of probiotic supplementation in patients recently recovered from COVID-19

   Laterza, Lucrezia, Putignani, Lorenza, Settanni, Carlo Romano, Petito, Valentina, Varca, Simone, De Maio, Flavio, Macari, Gabriele,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Gremese, Elisa, Tolusso, Barbara, and others,

   International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023
3. Building an AI-enabled metaverse for intelligent healthcare: opportunities and challenges

   Guarrasi, Valerio, Tronchin, Lorenzo, Caruso, Camillo Maria, Rofena, Aurora, Manni, Guido, Aksu, Fatih, Paolo, Domenico, Iannello, Giulio, Sicilia, Rosa, Cordelli, Ermanno, and others,

   In Ital-IA 2023, Italia Intelligenza Artificiale Thematic Workshops, co-located with the 3rd CINI National Lab AIIS Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital IA 2023), Pisa, Italy, May 29-30, 2023 2023
4. Making AI trustworthy in multimodal and healthcare scenarios.

   Cordelli, Ermanno,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Iannello, Giulio, Ruffini, Filippo, Sicilia, Rosa, Soda, Paolo, and Tronchin, Lorenzo

   In Ital-IA 2023
5. Sustainable AI: inside the deep, alongside the green.

   Conte, Francesco, Cordelli, Ermanno,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Iannello, Giulio, Sicilia, Rosa, Soda, Paolo, Tortora, Matteo, and Tronchin, Lorenzo

   In Ital-IA 2023
6. Williams–Beuren syndrome shapes the gut microbiota metaproteome

   Marzano, Valeria, Levi Mortera, Stefano, Vernocchi, Pamela, Del Chierico, Federica, Marangelo, Chiara,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Gardini, Simone, Dentici, Maria Lisa, Capolino, Rossella, Digilio, Maria Cristina, and others,

   Scientific Reports 2023
7. Gut microbiota functional profiling in autism spectrum disorders: bacterial VOCs and related metabolic pathways acting as disease biomarkers and predictors

   Vernocchi, Pamela, Marangelo, Chiara, Guerrera, Silvia, Del Chierico, Federica,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Gardini, Simone, Conte, Federica, Paci, Paola, Ianiro, Gianluca, Gasbarrini, Antonio, and others,

   Frontiers in Microbiology 2023
8. A graph neural network-based model with Out-of-Distribution Robustness for enhancing Antiretroviral Therapy Outcome Prediction for HIV-1

   Di Teodoro, Giulia, Siciliano, Federico,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke, Ghisetti, Valeria, Sönnerborg, Anders, Zazzi, Maurizio, Silvestri, Fabrizio, and Palagi, Laura

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17506 2023

2022

1. Pareto optimization of deep networks for COVID-19 diagnosis from chest X-rays

   Guarrasi, Valerio, D’Amico, Natascha Claudia, Sicilia, Rosa, Cordelli, Ermanno, and Soda, Paolo

   Pattern Recognition 2022
2. Gut microbiota ecology and inferred functions in children with ASD compared to neurotypical subjects

   Vernocchi, Pamela, Ristori, Maria Vittoria, Guerrera, Silvia,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Conte, Federica, Russo, Alessandra, Lupi, Elisabetta, Albitar-Nehme, Sami, Gardini, Simone, Paci, Paola, and others,

   Frontiers in Microbiology 2022
3. Convolutional neural networks for automated classification of prostate multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging based on image quality

   Cipollari, Stefano,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Pecoraro, Martina, Bicchetti, Marco, Messina, Emanuele, Farina, Lorenzo, Paci, Paola, Catalano, Carlo, and Panebianco, Valeria

   Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2022
4. Optimized fusion of CNNs to diagnose pulmonary diseases on chest X-Rays

   Guarrasi, Valerio, and Soda, Paolo

   In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing 2022
5. The relationship between pediatric gut microbiota and SARS-CoV-2 infection

   Romani, Lorenza, Del Chierico, Federica, Macari, Gabriele, Pane, Stefania, Ristori, Maria Vittoria,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Gardini, Simone, Pascucci, Giuseppe Rubens, Cotugno, Nicola, Perno, Carlo Federico, and others,

   Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2022
6. Gut microbiota functional traits, blood pH, and anti-GAD antibodies concur in the clinical characterization of T1D at onset

   Del Chierico, Federica, Conta, Giorgia, Matteoli, Maria Cristina, Fierabracci, Alessandra, Reddel, Sofia, Macari, Gabriele, Gardini, Simone,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Levi Mortera, Stefano, Marzano, Valeria, and others,

   International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022
7. Comparison of current methods for anti-dsDNA antibody detection and reshaping diagnostic strategies

   Infantino, Maria, Palterer, Boaz, Previtali, Giulia, Alessio, Maria-Grazia, Villalta, Danilo, Carbone, Teresa, Platzgummer, Stefan, Paura, Giusi, Castiglione, Caterina, Fabris, Martina, and others,

   Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 2022
8. Comparison of current methods for anti-dsDNA antibody detection and reshaping diagnostic strategies

   Previtali, Giulia, BERGAMO, ATS, Alessio, Mariagrazia, Fabris, Martina, Pesce, Giampaola, Cinquanta, Luigi,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Manfredi, Mariangela, Dio, Nuovo Ospedale San Giovanni, Bizzaro, Nicola, and others,

   2022
9. A multimodal ensemble driven by multiobjective optimisation to predict overall survival in non-small-cell lung cancer

   Caruso, Camillo Maria,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Cordelli, Ermanno, Sicilia, Rosa, Gentile, Silvia, Messina, Laura, Fiore, Michele, Piccolo, Claudia, Beomonte Zobel, Bruno, Iannello, Giulio, and others,

   Journal of Imaging 2022
10. Functional and taxonomic traits of the gut microbiota in type 1 diabetes children at the onset: A metaproteomic study

    Levi Mortera, Stefano, Marzano, Valeria, Vernocchi, Pamela, Matteoli, Maria Cristina,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Gardini, Simone, Del Chierico, Federica, Rapini, Novella, Deodati, Annalisa, Fierabracci, Alessandra, and others,

    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022

2021

1. Fecal microbiota signatures of insulin resistance, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome in youth with obesity: a pilot study

   Del Chierico, Federica, Manco, Melania, Gardini, Simone,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Russo, Alessandra, Bianchi, Marzia, Tortosa, Valentina, Quagliariello, Andrea, Shashaj, Blegina, Fintini, Danilo, and others,

   Acta diabetologica 2021
2. Nasopharyngeal microbiota in hospitalized children with Bordetella pertussis and Rhinovirus infection

   Tozzi, AE, Del Chierico, F, Pandolfi, E, Reddel, S, Gesualdo, F, Gardini, S, Guarrasi, V, Russo, L, Croci, I, Campagna, I, and others,

   Scientific Reports 2021
3. AIforCOVID: Predicting the clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19 applying AI to chest-X-rays. An Italian multicentre study

   Soda, Paolo, D’Amico, Natascha Claudia, Tessadori, Jacopo, Valbusa, Giovanni,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Bortolotto, Chandra, Akbar, Muhammad Usman, Sicilia, Rosa, Cordelli, Ermanno, Fazzini, Deborah, and others,

   Medical image analysis 2021
4. Hepatitis C diagnosis and treatment in people who use drugs: mind the gap in the linkage to care

   Taibi, C, Luzzitelli, I, Comandini, U Visco, Girardi, E, Monacelli, G, Rapisarda, LM, Garbuglia, AR, Minosse, C, Guarrasi, V, Vincenzi, L, and others,

   European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences 2021
5. Temporal network motifs: Models, limitations, evaluation

   Liu, Penghang,  Guarrasi, Valerio, and Sarıyüce, Ahmet Erdem

   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2021
6. A multi-expert system to detect covid-19 cases in x-ray images

   Guarrasi, Valerio, D’Amico, Natascha Claudia, Sicilia, Rosa, Cordelli, Ermanno, and Soda, Paolo

   In 2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2021
7. Assessing the impact of data-driven limitations on tracing and forecasting the outbreak dynamics of COVID-19

   Fiscon, Giulia, Salvadore, Francesco,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Garbuglia, Anna Rosa, and Paci, Paola

   Computers in biology and medicine 2021

2020

1. Human papillomavirus infections in cervical samples from HIV-positive women: evaluation of the presence of the nonavalent HPV genotypes and genetic diversity

   Sias, Catia,  Guarrasi, Valerio, Minosse, Claudia, Lapa, Daniele, Nonno, Franca Del, Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria, Garbuglia, Anna Rosa, Del Porto, Paola, and Paci, Paola

   Frontiers in microbiology 2020