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HC@AIxIA + HYDRA 2025
International Joint Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (HC@AIxIA) and HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning (HYDRA)
Bologna, Italy, 25-26 October 2025
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NOTE: HC@AIxIA + HYDRA 2025 is an event of the ECAI 2025 conference; details about venue, transportation, accommodation, social events and more can be found on the ECAI 2025 website.
The International Joint Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (HC@AIxIA) and HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning (HYDRA) - HC@AIxIA + HYDRA 2025 is OVER. You can find some figures and stats about the workshop, alongside information about the AIxIA working group for Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare, at the link below:
➡️ HC@AIxIA+HYDRA 2025: Figures, Stats, and info. 📶
If you want to join the HC@AIxIA working group or have some additional info, please visit the WG site or drop us an email here: hc-aixia@googlegroups.com.
Workshop program
Workshop program
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Slides
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Program Schedule
Program Schedule
25 October 2025 (SATURDAY)
25 October 2025 (SATURDAY)
09:00 OPENING 🚀
Rehabilitation & Human-Robot Interaction
09:10
Oktay Ozan Güner, Sergio Consoli, Vicenç Gómez, Mario Ceresa: Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Self-Supervised Learning Models for Human Activity Recognition on Wearables
09:20
Mihir Mulye, Stefan Conrad, Stefan Knecht: Using multi-modal generative models for creating speech therapy material
INVITED TALK
09:30
Gabriella Casalino: Explaining Smartphone-Based Acoustic Data for Bipolar Disorder Monitoring
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
AI for Diagnosis & Medical Imaging
11:00
Diogen Babuc, Teodor-Florin Fortiş: MultiH-EU: An AI-Driven Decision Support System for Multi-Disease Diagnosis
11:10
Lorenzo Mannocci, Francesca Naretto, Lucia Passaro, Anna Monreale: RAG-Enhanced LLMs for Interactive Explainability in Clinical Decision Support Systems
11:20
Lorenzo Megliola, Francesco Barbato, Emanuele Ielo, Filippo Sorichetti: KaiMed: A Hybrid Multi-Agent AI Platform for Clinical Reasoning and Cross-Specialty Discovery
11:30
Andrea Santomauro, Giorgio Leonardi, Luigi Portinale: Comparing different positional encodings for the interpretation of medical images
Short papers
11:40
Simone Bartucci, Edoardo De Rose, Alessandro Quarta, Rossella Quarta, Alessia Donata Camarda, Alberto Polimeni, Francesco Calimeri: Designing a Multimodal Dataset for AI-Based Prognosis in STEMI
Riccardo Fidanza, Daniele Meli, Emilia Maggio: Automatic Explainable Progress Prediction of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration
11:50
Christel Sirocchi, Damiano Verda: Explaining medical time series classification through boundary-aware feature analysis
Yvon Kokou Awuklu, Vianney Jouhet, Katsumi Inoue, Fleur Mougin, Meghyn Bienvenu: A Logic-Based Framework for Inferring Medical Events
12:00
Alice Bernasconi, Federico Pirola, Alessio Zanga, Antonio Balordi: When ‘Scarce’ Becomes ‘Too Scarce’: The Rare Diseases Drama
Marek Landowski, Anna Landowska: Application of Nonlinear Autoregressive Neural Network for Prediction of HIV Infections in Poland
12:10
Philippe Rambaud, Arpad Rimmel, Imen Trabelsi, Justine Zini, Alexandre Wodecki, Emmanuelle Motte Signoret, François Jouen, Joanna Tomasik, Jean Bergounioux: SEDformer: Path Signatures and Transformers to Predict Newborns Movement Symmetry
Kiwon Yeom: Adaptive Compliance Control for User Centric Resistance in Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots
Stefania Montani, Giorgio Leonardi, Manuel Striani: LLM-Powered Conformance Checking for Medical Processes
12:30 LUNCH
Temporal Data Modeling and Analysis
14:00
Federico Pirola, Fabio Antonio Stella, Marco Grzegorczyk: LUME-DBN: Full Bayesian Learning of DBNs from Incomplete data in Intensive Care
14:20
Fatemeh Barazesh Morgani, Erin Goddard, Gustavo Enrique Batista: Using Temporal Features to Improve Accuracy in Multivariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA) of M/EEG Data
14:40
Théo Dupuy, Binbin Xu, Stéphane Perrey, Jacky Montmain, Abdelhak Imoussaten: Relevance-Aware Thresholding in Online Conformal Prediction for Time Series
15:00
Simone Bartucci, Edoardo De Rose, Francesca Filice, Francesco Calimeri, Simona Perri: Hidden Rhythms: an Embedding Framework for Downstream Tasks Validated on ECG Data
15:10
Angelo Ziletti, Leonardo D'Ambrosi: Generating patient cohorts from electronic health records using two-step retrieval-augmented text-to-SQL generation
15:20
Ann-Kathrin Dörr, Tina Schmidt, Jens Schoth, Ivana Kraiselburd, Folker Meyer: Which Metadata Matters? Evaluating Predictive Features for Environmental Time Series
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
Causal Modeling and Data Reasoning
16:00
Luigi Colucci Cante, Mariangela Graziano, Irene Siragusa, Beniamino Di Martino, Roberto Pirrone: An automatic alignment strategy for medical ontologies: the MedPix 2.0 case study
16:20
Alessio Zanga, Francesca Graziano, Giuseppe Citerio, Paola Rebora, Stefania Galimberti, Shubhayu Bhattacharyay, David K. Menon, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Fabio Antonio Stella: Learning a Causal Model for Intracranial Pressure in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
16:40
Alessandro Bregoli, Francesco Bellocchio, Luca Neri, Fabio Antonio Stella: Survival Hidden Markov Model
17:00
Antonio Balordi, Alice Bernasconi, Alessio Merlo: Patient’s Privacy vs. Public Health: Can AI Solve the Hippocratic Dilemma?
17:10
Luca Laboccetta, Giorgio Terracina, Francesco Calimeri, Simona Perri, Massimiliano Ruffolo, Davide Iacopino, Marta Maria, Salvatore Iiritano: An approach leveraging Deep Learning and Stream Reasoning for dynamic task assignments balancing productivity and well being
17:20
Marina Andric, Mauro Dragoni: Machine Learning and Statistical Insights into Hospital Stay Durations: The Italian EHR Case
26 October 2025 (SUNDAY)
26 October 2025 (SUNDAY)
09:00 Housekeeping 😇
Patient management
09:10
Rinu Elizabeth Paul, Lucas Deichsel, Tanja Schultz: Depth Sensor based AI-services for Nursing Homes
09:30
Ron Franco, Avi Segal, Kobi Gal: A Hybrid Inductive-Deductive Approach for Resource-Efficient Suicide Risk Detection in Counseling Conversations
09:50
Justin Armanini, Fabio Antonio Stella: Triage Discrimination: Myth or Reality?
10:10
Paulo Viktor Campos Sousa, Mauro Dragoni: Data-Driven Patient Care Level Classification Using Machine Learning
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
Neuro-symbolic and Multi-modal Learning
11:00
Mauro Dragoni, Gianluca Apriceno, Tania Bailoni: Integrating Multi-Domain Data and Knowledge for Personalized Health: The Salute+ Use Case
Chi Him Ng, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen: A boxology-based analysis of design patterns for neuro-symbolic medical decision making systems
11:10
Marco Locatelli, Arjen Hommersom, Roberto Clemens Cerioli, Daniela Besozzi, Fabio Antonio Stella: Expert-Guided POMDP Learning for Data-Efficient Modeling in Healthcare
11:30
Gianluca Apriceno, Marina Segala, Giovanni Valer, Nicola Muraro, Vincenzo Netti, Paulo Viktor Campos Sousa, Mauro Dragoni: A Hybrid Evolutionary Fuzzy Neural Approach for Maternal Health Risk Prediction
11:50
Veselka Boeva, Alexander James Orest Ojutkangas, Shahrooz Abghari: Multi-View Multi-Instance Learning for Health Recovery Monitoring in Older Adults
12:00
Roushnaty Ali Yamani, Naira Abdou Mohamed, Aouane El Mahjoub: Mining Scientific Abstracts for Pesticide-Related Health Risks
12:10
Simone Caruso, Carmine Dodaro, Marco Maratea, Cinzia Marte, Marco Mochi: An LBBD approach for Solving the Chemotherapy Treatment Scheduling Problem
12:30 LUNCH
Large Language Models in Healthcare
14:00
Matteo Magnini, Gianluca Aguzzi, Leonardo Sanna, Simone Magnolini, Patrizio Bellan, Mauro Dragoni, Sara Montagna: Automated Machine Learning to Enhance Knowledge Retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
14:20
Mauro Dragoni, Renan Lirio de Souza: Interpolation-Based Data Augmentation for Automatic Persuasive System
14:40
Marco Bolpagni, Simone De Carli, Leonardo Sanna, Silvia Gabrielli, Mauro Dragoni: Exploring Large Language Models as Digital Health Coaches: A Role-Play Approach to Brief Action Planning
15:00
Gianluca Apriceno, Tania Bailoni, Mauro Dragoni: Assessing Temporal Reasoning of Large Language Models on Structured Temporal Clinical Data
15:10
Doriana Armenise, Ginevra Battello, Andrea Brunello, Lorenza Driul, Angelo Montanari, Elisa Rizzante, Nicola Saccomanno, Andrea Salvador, Serena Xodo, Silvia Zermano: Unified Peripartum Database with Natural-Language-to-SQL Capabilities at Udine University Hospital: Design and Prototype
15:20
Leonardo Sanna, Marco Bolpagni, Valentina Fietta, Simone De Carli, Mattia Franzin, Giorgia Gavioli, Lorenzo Gios, Susanna Pardini, Anna Elena Nicoletti, Silvia Rizzi, Silvia Gabrielli, Mauro Dragoni: Are we ready for multi-agent systems to deliver structured mental health support? Lessons from adapting Self-Help+ intervention
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
Healthcare applications
16:00
Jasmin Saxer, Isabella Maria Aigner, Luise Linzmeier, Andreas Weiler, Kurt Stockinger: Query Carefully: Detecting the Unanswerables in Text-to-SQL Tasks
16:10
Stefania Costantini, Giovanni De Gasperis, Pasquale De Meo, Francesco Gullo, Alessandro Provetti: Multi-agent Dynamic Resource Allocation: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
16:20 HC@AIxIA - WG meeting
Remote participation: https://shorturl.at/EL09x
17:20 Awards 🏆 + CLOSING 🏁
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