HC@AIxIA 2024
Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare 2024

Table of Contents

• Summary: There were a total of 51 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 28 papers were accepted for this volume, 18 as regular papers and 9 as short papers. 9 more papers were part of the technical program of HC@AIxIA 2024, but are not included in this volume, as they were non-original works (i.e., already published or submitted elsewhere).

Papers

• CLARITY AI: A Comprehensive Checklist Integrating Established Frameworks for Enhanced Research Quality in Medical AI Studies 1--14
  Luca Marconi , Efrem Pirovano , Federico Cabitza
• Assessing the Validity of a Functional Status Knowledge Graph in a Large-Scale Living Lab 15--29
  Mauro Dragoni , Gianluca Apriceno , Tania Bailoni
• To Heart via Liver: a Study on Prognostic Stratification of Heart Disease in MASLD Patients using Machine Learning Models 30--39
  Pierangela Bruno , Antonio Cirella , Ernesto Di Cesare , Gianluigi Greco , Antonella Guzzo , Pierpaolo Palumbo , Silvano Junior Santini , Gaia Sinatti , Pierpaolo Vittorini , Francesco Calimeri , Clara Balsano
• Blueprint Personas in Digital Health Transformation (SHORT PAPER) 40--49
  Andrea Monaldini , Alina Vozna , Stefania Costantini
• Strategic Optimization of Blood Allocation in Blood Banks for Enhanced Resource Utilization 50--63
  Simmera Ndlalane , Olumuyiwa Otegbeye , Absalom Ezugwu
• Features Selection Through Autoencoder Filtering and Deepshap: an Iterative Algorithm (SHORT PAPER) 64--70
  Edoardo De Rose , Carlo Adornetto , Francesco Calimeri , Gianluigi Greco
• "Doctor, Is It Normal?" Enabling Medical Chatbots to Provide Certified Replies to Normalcy Questions (SHORT PAPER) 71--77
  Leonardo Sanna , Simone Magnolini , Patrizio Bellan , Saba Ghanbari Haez , Marina Segala , Monica Consolandi , Mauro Dragoni
• An Adaptive Version of the Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Algorithm for Survival Prediction in a High-Dimensional Framework 78--92
  Gabriele Tinè , Rosalba Miceli
• Bimodal ECG-PCG Cardiovascular Disease Detection: a Close Look at Transfer Learning and Data Collection Issues 93--107
  Alessia Calzoni , Mattia Savardi , Alberto Signoroni
• Bayesian Networks in Medicine: Presenting Query Response Uncertainty for Decision Support (SHORT PAPER) 108--115
  Janneke Bolt , Anna Berghuis , Arjen Hommersom , Marike Lombaers , Johanna Pijnenborg , Silja Renooij
• Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Logic Modelling for Personalized Dynamic Treatment 116--129
  Marco Locatelli , Roberto Clemens Cerioli , Daniela Besozzi , Arjen Hommersom , Fabio Stella
• Predicting COVID-19 Post-vaccination Mortality in Persons with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Using Explainable AI 130--145
  Taiwo Kolajo , Olawande Daramola
• Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Care: Implementing Machine Learning for Triage Optimization in Italian Hospitals 146--157
  Paulo Vitor de Campos Souza , Mauro Dragoni
• Exploring Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with CLIP in Medical Imaging: Are We There Yet? 158--168
  Aldo Marzullo , Marta Bianca Maria Ranzini
• A Physics-Based View of Brain-Network Alteration in Neurological Disease 169--181
  Sofia Fazio , Patrizia Ribino , Francesca Gasparini , Norbert Marwan , Peppino Fazio , Marco Gherardi , Maria Mannone
• Similarity-Based Positional Encoding for Enhanced Classification in Medical Images (SHORT PAPER) 182--188
  Luigi Portinale , Giorgio Leonardi , Andrea Santomauro
• Applying Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Open LLMs for a Medical Chatbot Supporting Hypertensive Patients 189--201
  Gianluca Aguzzi , Matteo Magnini , Stefano Ferretti , Giuseppe Pio Salcuni , Sara Montagna
• CHAT(Child Helper and Assistant Tool): An AI-Based Educational Tool for Supporting Neurodiverse Children with Autism, Dyscalculia, and DSA (SHORT PAPER) 202--210
  Fabio Angeli
• On Counterfactual Explainations of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents and Young Adults Breast Cancer Survivors 211--223
  Alice Bernasconi , Antonio Balordi , Alessio Zanga , Rafael Cabañas
• Deep Learning Approaches for Segmentation and Classification of Breast Ultrasound Images (SHORT PAPER) 224--232
  Megan Macrì , Pierangela Bruno , Carmine Dodaro
• Nuclear Medicine Rescheduling Problem: A Logic-based Approach 233--246
  Carmine Dodaro , Giuseppe Galatà , Marco Maratea , Cinzia Marte , Marco Mochi
• Analyzing Trajectories of Clinical Markers in Patients with Sepsis Through Multivariate Longitudinal Clustering (SHORT PAPER) 247--256
  Patrizia Ribino , Maria Mannone , Claudia Di Napoli , Giovanni Paragliola , Davide Chicco , Francesca Gasparini
• Detecting Anxiety and Depression in Dialogues: a Multi-Label and Explainable Approach 257--271
  Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez
• A Preliminary Study on Augmenting Neuroimaging data using a Diffusion Model (SHORT PAPER) 272--280
  Andrea Basile , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile , Giancarlo Logroscino , Giulio Mallardi , Benedetta Tafuri
• Risk Communication in Healthcare: The Management of Misunderstandings 281--295
  Monica Consolandi , Simone Magnolini , Mauro Dragoni
• Addressing Challenges in Image Translation for Contrast-Enhanced Mammography using Generative Adversarial Networks 296--310
  Mohammad Hosseinipour , Luca Bergamin , Harel Kotler , Gisella Gennaro , Fabio Aiolli
• Encoding Methods Comparison for Stress Detection 311--320
  Marco Serenelli , Michela Quadrini , Maria Óskarsdóttir , Michele Loreti

Non-original papers presented to HC@AIxIA 2024 (refer to the official website for details and URIs/DOIs)

• Identification and Validation of Gestational Diabetes Subgroups by Data-Driven Cluster Analysis
  Benedetta Salvatori , Silke Wegener , Grammata Kotzaeridi , Annika Herding , Florian Eppel , Iris Dressler-Steinbach , Wolfgang Hernich , Agnese Piersanti , Micaela Morettini , Andrea Tura , Christian Göbl
• Capturing the Dynamics of Microbial Interactions Through Individual-Specific Networks
  Behnam Yousefi , Federico Melograna , Gianluca Galazzo , Niels van Best , Monique Mommers , John Penders , Benno Schwikowski , Kristel Van Steen
• Complex-Valued Neural Networks to Speed-up MR Thermometry During Hyperthermia Using Fourier PD and PDUNet
  Rupali Khatun , Soumick Chatterjee , Bert Christoph , Martin Wadepohl , Oliver J. Ott , Sabine Semrau , Rainer Fietkau , Andreas Nürnberger , Udo Gaipl , Benjamin Frey
• netMUG: a Novel Network-Guided Multi-View Clustering Workflow for Dissecting Genetic and Facial Heterogeneity
  Zuqi Li , Federico Melograna , Hanne Hoskens , Diane Duroux , Mary Marazita , Susan Walsh , Seth Weinberg , Mark Shriver , Bertram Müller-Myhsok , Peter Claes , Kristel Van Steen
• IDADA: A Blended Inductive-Deductive Approach for Data Augmentation
  Pierangela Bruno , Francesco Calimeri , Francesca Filice , Cinzia Marte , Simona Perri
• SPOCKMIP: Segmentation of Vessels in MRAs with Enhanced Continuity using Maximum Intensity Projection as Loss
  Chethan Radhakrishna , Karthikesh Varma Chintalapati , Sri Chandana Hudukula Ram Kumar , Raviteja Sutrave , Hendrik Mattern , Oliver Speck , Andreas Nürnberger , Soumick Chatterjee
• AI-Driven Innovations in Healthcare: Bridging Imaging and Genomics for Advanced Disease Insights
  Carlo Adornetto , Pierangela Bruno , Francesco Calimeri , Edoardo De Rose , Gianluigi Greco , Alessandro Quarta
• Federated Causal Discovery with Missing Data in a Multicentric Study on Endometrial Cancer
  Alessio Zanga , Alice Bernasconi , Peter J.F. Lucas , Hanny Pijnenborg , Casper Reijnen , Marco Scutari , Anthony C. Constantinou
• Fairness Of AI Models in Vector Embedded Chest X-Ray Representations
  Gebreyowhans Hailekiros Bahre , Hassan Hamidi , Andrew Sellergren , Leo Anthony Celi , Francesco Calimeri , Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari