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Overview

Paola Scifo is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy and has a strong research presence in the field of medicine, particularly in radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research focus spans several subfields, including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis

Some of Paola Scifo's recent papers demonstrate their involvement in advanced imaging techniques and radiomic analysis. Notable publications include:

  • Radiomics in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: methodological issues and clinical significance, 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • State of the art of radiomic analysis in the clinical management of prostate cancer: A systematic review, 2021, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology
  • fMRI-Targeted High-Angular Resolution Diffusion MR Tractography to Identify Functional Language Tracts in Healthy Controls and Glioma Patients, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/MR imaging and radiomic parameters in predicting histopathological prognostic factors in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine well-differentiated tumours, 2022, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Role of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET radiomics to predict post-surgical ISUP grade in primary prostate cancer, 2023, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Maria Picchio
  • Carolina Bezzi
  • Ilaria Neri
  • Samuele Ghezzo
  • Paola Mapelli

Publication venues where Scifo has frequently contributed are:

  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Cancers
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • European Journal of Cancer

Their work predominantly spans across imaging techniques related to cancer diagnosis and treatment, brain connectivity studies, and the clinical use of radiomics for disease characterization and prognosis.

Best Publications

  • Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits

    Marco Tettamanti;Giovanni Buccino;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Vittorio Gallese

  • Intramyocellular triglyceride content is a determinant of in vivo insulin resistance in humans: a 1H-13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy assessment in offspring of type 2 diabetic parents.

    G Perseghin;P Scifo;F De Cobelli;E Pagliato

  • Bilingualism Tunes the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Conflict Monitoring

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;David W. Green;Mireia Hernandez

  • Neural language networks at birth

    Daniela Perani;Maria C. Saccuman;Paola Scifo;Alfred Anwander

  • The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: an fMRI study during verbal fluency

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Eraldo Paulesu;Simona Brambati

  • Effects of metabolic modulation by trimetazidine on left ventricular function and phosphocreatine/adenosine triphosphate ratio in patients with heart failure.

    Gabriele Fragasso;Gianluca Perseghin;Francesco De Cobelli;Antonio Esposito

  • Functional specializations for music processing in the human newborn brain

    Daniela Perani;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Paola Scifo;Danilo Spada

  • A modified damped Richardson–Lucy algorithm to reduce isotropic background effects in spherical deconvolution

    Flavio Dell'Acqua;Paola Scifo;Giovanna Rizzo;Marco Catani

  • A framework to study the cortical folding patterns.

    J.-F. Mangin;D. Rivière;A. Cachia;E. Duchesnay

  • Functional heterogeneity of left inferior frontal cortex as revealed by fMRI.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Ben Goldacre;Paola Scifo;Stefano F. Cappa

  • Habitual Physical Activity Is Associated With Intrahepatic Fat Content in Humans

    Gianluca Perseghin;Guido Lattuada;Francesco De Cobelli;Francesca Ragogna

  • Increased mediastinal fat and impaired left ventricular energy metabolism in young men with newly found fatty liver.

    Gianluca Perseghin;Guido Lattuada;Francesco De Cobelli;Antonio Esposito

  • A Model-Based Deconvolution Approach to Solve Fiber Crossing in Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging

    F. Dell'Acqua;G. Rizzo;P. Scifo;R.A. Clarke

  • White matter integrity in obstructive sleep apnea before and after treatment.

    Vincenza Castronovo;Paola Scifo;Antonella Castellano;Mark S. Aloia

  • A fMRI study of word retrieval in aphasia.

    D Perani;S.F Cappa;M Tettamanti;M Rosa

  • Diffusion tensor imaging and voxel based morphometry study in early progressive supranuclear palsy

    Alessandro Padovani;Barbara Borroni;Simona Maria Brambati;Chiara Agosti

  • Interhemispheric transmission of visuomotor information in humans: fMRI evidence.

    M. Tettamanti;E. Paulesu;P. Scifo;A. Maravita

  • Evidence of White Matter Changes on Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Frontotemporal Dementia

    Barbara Borroni;Simona Maria Brambati;Chiara Agosti;Stefano Gipponi

  • Renal Arterial Stenosis: Prospective Comparison of Color Doppler US and Breath-hold, Three-dimensional, Dynamic, Gadolinium-enhanced MR Angiography

    Francesco De Cobelli;Massimo Venturini;Angelo Vanzulli;Sandro Sironi

  • Insulin resistance and whole body energy homeostasis in obese adolescents with fatty liver disease.

    Gianluca Perseghin;Riccardo Bonfanti;Serena Magni;Guido Lattuada

  • Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2005 17: 273-281

    Giovanni Buccino Marco Tettamanti;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Vittorio Gallese;Massimo Danna

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
F. Fazio
F. Fazio University of Milano-Bicocca
Eraldo Paulesu
Eraldo Paulesu University of Milano-Bicocca
Marco Tettamanti
Marco Tettamanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Flavio Dell'Acqua
Flavio Dell'Acqua King's College London
Nicola Canessa
Nicola Canessa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Jubin Abutalebi
Jubin Abutalebi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Giacomo Rizzolatti University of Parma
Simona Maria Brambati
Simona Maria Brambati University of Montreal

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