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Focal epilepsy is a chronic condition characterized by hyper-activity and abnormal synchronization of a specific brain region. For pharmacoresistant patients, the surgical resection of the critical area is considered a valid clinical solution, therefore, an accurate localization is crucial to minimize neurological damage. In current clinical...

Network inference is the reverse-engineering problem of inferring graphs from data. With the always increasing availability of data, methods based on probability assumptions that infer multiple intertwined networks have been proposed in literature. These methods, while being extremely flexible, have the major drawback of presenting a high...

Underwater noise analysis allows estimation of parameters of meteorological interest, difficult to monitor with in situ devices, especially in very harsh environments such as polar waters. Rainfall detection is a fundamental step of acoustical meteorology toward quantifying precipitation and, indirectly, wind. To date, this task has been...

Graphical models allow to describe the interplay among variables of a system through a compact representation, suitable when relations evolve over time. For example, in a biological setting, genes interact differently depending on external environmental or metabolic factors. To incorporate this dynamics a viable strategy is to estimate a...

: This work represents the first attempt to provide an overview of how to face data integration as the result of a dialogue between neuroscientists and computer scientists. Indeed, data integration is fundamental for studying complex multifactorial diseases, such as the neurodegenerative diseases. This work aims at warning the readers of common...

With the increasing share of elderly population worldwide, the necessity of assistive technologies to support clinicians in monitoring their health conditions is becoming more and more relevant. Recent medical literature has proposed the notion of frail elderly, which rapidly became a key element of clinical practices for the estimation of...

AIMS: The purpose of this work is to find the gut microbial fingerprinting of pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes. METHODS: The microbiome of 31 children with type 1 diabetes at onset and of 25 healthy children was determined using multiple polymorphic regions of the 16S ribosomal RNA. We performed machine-learning analyses and metagenome...