Biomedical Image Processing

Several imaging techniques including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (anatomical or functional) radiography, thermography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, CT, Positron Emission Tomography may be exploited to study the anatomical and functional features of the neuro-cardio-vascular system. In our research group, we study how the dynamical information gathered from image processing might be of help in the understanding of the nervous systems activity.

G Valenza, L Passamonti, A Duggento, N Toschi, R Barbieri, "Uncovering Complex Central Autonomic Networks at Rest: an fMRI Study on Complex Cardiovascular Oscillations". Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 17, num. 164, 20190878, pp. 1-12, 2020.

Valenza, Gaetano, et al. "The central autonomic network at rest: uncovering functional MRI correlates of time-varying autonomic outflow". Neuroimage 197 (2019): 383-390.

Duggento, A., Passamonti, L., Valenza, G., Barbieri, R., Guerrisi, M., & Toschi, N. (2018) "Multivariate Granger causality unveils directed parietal to prefrontal cortex connectivity during task-free MRI". Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-11.