Vision-based Assessment of Joint Swelling in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Defne Eken, Rima Ribei, James Galloway, Timothy Neate, Robert D. Howe, Letizia Gionfrida

Soon in IEEE EMBC

2026

Egocentric Hand Pose for Robot Learning from Sterile Manipulations

Eugenia Mawuenya Akpo, Shirui Lyu, Nicholas Raison, Christos Bergeles, and Letizia Gionfrida

Soon IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob

2026

Remote Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients via sEMG-Based Activity Recognition

Immacolata Esposito, Defne Eken, James Galloway, Egidio De Benedetto, and Letizia Gionfrida

Soon in IEEE AVSS

2026

RGB-D and IMU-based staircase quantification for assistive navigation using step estimation for exoskeleton support

Edgar R. Guzman, Letizia Gionfrida, Robert D. Howe

Computer Vision and Image Understanding,

February 2026

OVGrasp: Open-Vocabulary Grasping Assistance via Multimodal Intent Detection

Chen Hu, Shan Luo, Letizia Gionfrida

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Februrary 2026

Image-Based Finger Thickness Measurement for Rheumatoid Arthritis Monitoring

 Defne Eken, Timothy Neate, James Galloway, Letizia Gionfrida

24th IEEE Proceedings on EMBS/BMES Annual Meeting

October 2025

Muscle Architecture Parameters Inferred from Simulated Single-Element Ultrasound Traces

Letizia Gionfrida, Daekyum Kim, Yichu Jin, Conor J. Walsh, Robert D. Howe

10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob),

September 2024

Improved fascicle length estimates from ultrasound using a U-net-LSTM framework

Letizia Gionfrida, R.W. Nuckols, Conor Walsh, Robert D. Howe

International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 

Septmber 2023