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Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

I have a record of more than 70 published in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings 

1.     Atakli, Tagus Enes, Pasquale Fedele, and Giovanna Maria Dimitri. "Modelling a User-Centric Interactive AI Agent in Healthcare Applications." Next Research (2026) (Elsevier): 102305.

2.     Perez-Cruz, F*., Hitaj, B.*, Dimitri, G. M.*, Deb, O.*, M'Charrak, A., Srivastava, S., ... & Shin, H. S. (2026). The Unreasonable Benchmark. Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research. (* equal contribution)

3.     Dimitri, Giovanna Maria. "Machine Learning and Cultural Heritage: An Italian Perspective." IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2026).

4.     Schettini, C. F., & Dimitri, G. M. (2026). InfluEmo: Influence of Emotions on Instagram Influencers’ Success. Computers, 15(2), 118.

5.     Guiducci, L., Saulle, C., Dimitri, G. M., Valli, B., Alpini, S., Tenti, C., & Rizzo, A. (2026). Dialogical AI for cognitive bias mitigation in medical diagnosis. Applied Sciences, 16(2), 710.

6.     Dimitri, G. M., et al. "Continual learning for agrifood: A systematic review." IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AGRIFOOD ELECTRONICS. (2025): 1-11

7.     Profetto, L., Antonini, A., Fibbi, L., Ortolani, A., & Dimitri, G. M. (2025). A Two-Step Machine Learning Approach Integrating GNSS-Derived PWV for Improved Precipitation Forecasting. Entropy, 27(10), 1034

8. Angiolini, Giulio, and Giovanna Maria Dimitri. "Analyzing the Impact of Organic Food Consumption on Citizens Health Using Unsupervised Machine Learning." Mathematics 13.8 (2025). (Impact Factor: 2.0)

9. Dimitri, G.M., et al. "WeAIR: Wearable Swarm Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring to Foster Citizens’ Awareness of Climate Change." Computer Standards & Interfaces (2025): 104004, Elsevier, Volume 94, August 2025, 104004 (Impact Factor: 3.1)

10.  Farina, Giovanni,…Dimitri, G.M., et al. "Interoperable Traceability in Agrifood Supply Chains: Enhancing Transport Systems Through IoT Sensor Data, Blockchain, and DataSpace." Sensors 25.11 (2025): 3419. (Impact Factor: 3.5)

11.  Suriyagandhi, V., Ma, Y., Paparozzi, V., Guarnieri, T., Di Pietro, B., Dimitri, G. M., ... & Nardini, C. (2025). “Mechanotransduction and inflammation: an updated comprehensive representation”. Mechanobiology in Medicine, 3(1), 100112. (Impact Factor: 4.4, Scimago and Scopus not available yet)

12.  Florindi, Filippo, Pasquale Fedele, and Dimitri G.M. "A novel solution for the development of a sentimental analysis chatbot integrating ChatGPT." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2024): 1-14, Springer. (Impact Factor: 3.06, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 87%)

13.  Dimitri, G.M., and Alberto Trambusti. "Precision Agriculture for Wine Production: A Machine Learning Approach to Link Weather Conditions and Wine Quality." Heliyon (2024): e31648. (Impact Factor: 4.0, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 86%)

14.  Abady, L., Dimitri G.M., Barni, Mauro. "A One-Class Classifier for the Detection of GAN Manipulated Multi-Spectral Satellite Images." Remote Sensing 16.5 (2024): 781. (Impact Factor: 4.84, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 90%)

15.  Vozzi, F., Pedrelli, L., Dimitri, G. M., Micheli, A., Persiani, E., Piacenti, M., ... & Morales, M. A. (2024). “Echo state networks for the recognition of type 1 Brugada syndrome from conventional 12-LEAD ECG”. Heliyon (Impact Factor: 4.0, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 86%)

16.  Castelli, T., Mocenni, C., Dimitri, G.M., “A machine learning approach to assess Sustainable Development Goals food performances: The Italian case.” PLOS ONE. 19. E0296465. 10.1371/journal.pone.0296465, (2024), (Impact Score: 3.58, Impact Factor: 3.752, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 87%)

17.  Andreini, P.*, Bonechi, S.*, Dimitri, G.M.* (2023) "Enhancing Glomeruli Segmentation through Cross–Species Pre–Training" (all authors contributed equally, i.e. I am the first author), in press for Neurocomputing, Elsevier journal (Impact Factor 5.779, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 93%)

18.  Vitanza, E.*, Dimitri, G. M.*, & Mocenni, C.* (2023). “A multi-modal machine learning approach to detect extreme rainfall events in Sicily.” Scientific Reports, 13(1), 6196 (* equal contribution) (Impact Factor 4.6, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 92%)

19.  Pucci, F., Fedele,P., and Dimitri, G.M. "Speech emotion recognition with artificial intelligence for contact tracing in the COVID‐19 pandemic.” Cognitive Computation and Systems 5.1 (2023): 71-85 (not yet with impact factor due to being a new journal)

20.  Miconi Federico*, Dimitri G.M.* "A machine learning approach to model and predict the electric vehicles scenario: the Italian case", PloS ONE (2023) *Authors Contributed Equally (Impact Score: 3.58, Impact Factor: 3.752, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 87%)

21.   Guerranti, Filippo, and Giovanna Maria Dimitri. "A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Employee Attrition." Applied Sciences 13.1 (2023): 267, (Impact Score: 3.67, Impact Factor: 2.838, Scimago: Q2, Scopus: 75%)

22.  Dimitri G.M., "A Short Survey on Deep Learning for Multimodal Integration: Applications, Future Perspectives and Challenges", Computers 2022, 11(11), 163; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers11110163 (Impact Score: 2.75, Impact Factor: 2.604, Scimago: Q2, Scopus: )

23.  Dimitri, G.M. et al. "NMR Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning Approaches for Age Prediction in Healthy and Parkinson's Disease Cohorts through Metabolomic Fingerprints", Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(18), 8954; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12188954 (Impact Score: 3.67, Impact Factor:2.838, Scimago: Q2,Scopus:)

24.  Dimitri, Giovanna Maria, et al. "Multimodal and multicontrast image fusion via deep generative models." Information Fusion 88, Elsevier (2022): 146-160. (Impact Score: 18.92, Impact Factor: 17.564, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 99%)

25.  Dimitri, G.M., et al. "Deep Learning Approaches for the Segmentation of Glomeruli in Kidney Histopathological Images." Mathematics 10.11 (2022): 1934 (Impact Score.: 2.84, Impact Factor.: 1.74, Scimago:Q2, Scopus: 88%)

26.  Bongini, P., Pancino, N., Dimitri, G. M., prize, M., Scarselli, F., & Lio, P. (2022). “Modular multi-source prediction of drug side--effects with DruGNN.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. (Impact Score: 2.85, Impact Factor: 3.71, Scimago: Q2, Scopus: 94%)

27.    Zago, E.*, Dal Molin, A.*, Dimitri, G. M.*, Xumerle, L., Pirazzini, C., Bacalini, M. G., ... & Nardini, C. (2022). “Early downregulation of hsa-miR-144-3p in serum from drug-naïve Parkinson's disease patients.” Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-13. (* all the authors contributed equally, i.e. I am a first author) (Impact Factor 4.6, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 92%)

28.  Dimitri, G.M., et al. "Modelling Brain–Heart Crosstalk Information in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury." Neurocritical Care (2022): 1-13. (Impact Score: 2.69, Impact Factor: 3.2, Scopus: 80%, Scimago: Q1)

29.  Pancino, N.; Graziani, C.; Lachi, V.; Sampoli, M.L.; Ștefǎnescu, E.; Bianchini, M.; Dimitri, G.M. “A Mixed Statistical and Machine Learning Approach for the Analysis of Multimodal Trail Making Test Data.” Mathematics (2021), 9, 3159. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9243159 (Impact Score.: 2.84, Impact Factor.: 1.74, Scopus: 88%, Scimago: Q2)

30.    Bonechi,S....., Dimitri G.M "Segmentation of aorta 3D CT images based on 2D convolutional neural networks", Electronics (2021) (Impact Score: 0.38, Impact Factor: 2.39, Scopus: Q2, Scimago: 68%)

31.  Azevedo, T.*, Dimitri, G. M*., Lió, P., & Gamazon, E. R. (2021). “Multilayer modelling of the human transcriptome and biological mechanisms of complex diseases and traits.” npj Systems Biology and Applications, 7(1), 1-13 (authors contributed equally, i.e. I am the first author) (Impact Score: 3.97, Impact Factor: 4.18, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 92%)

32.  Spiga, O.*, Cicaloni, V.*, Dimitri, G.M., et al, “Machine Learning application for patient stratification and phenotype/genotype investigation in rare disease”, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Oxford (2021) (Impact Score: 9.15, Impact Factor: 11.62 Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 91%)

33.  Pirazzini, Chiara,...Dimitri, G.M.,... et al. "A Geroscience approach for Parkinson's Disease: conceptual framework and design of PROPAG-AGEING project." Mechanisms of Ageing and Development (2020): 111426., Elsevier (Impact Score: 5.432, Impact Factor: 5.43, Scimago: Q1, Scopus: 87%)

34.  Cicaloni, V., Spiga, O., Dimitri, G.M., Maiocchi, R., Millucci, L., Giustarini, D., Bernardini G., Bernini A., Marzocchi B., Braconi D.& Santucci, A. (2019). “Interactive alkaptonuria database: investigating clinical data to improve patient care in a rare disease”. The FASEB Journal, fj-201901529R. (2019) (Impact Score: 5.02, Impact Factor: 5.19 Scopus: 87%, Scimago: Q1)

35.  Maj, C., Azevedo, T., Giansanti, V., Borisov, O., Dimitri, G.M., Spasov, S., Pietro Lio' & Merelli, I. (2019). “Integration of machine learning methods to dissect genetically imputed transcriptomic profiles in Alzheimer's Disease.” Frontiers in Genetics, 10, 726. (Impact Score: 4.37, Impact Factor: 3.78, Scopus: Q2, Scimago: 53%)

36.  Dimitri, G. M., Agrawal S., Young A., Donnelly J., Liu X., Smielewski P., Hutchinson P., Czosnyka M., Lió P., Haubrich C. "A multiplex network approach for the analysis of intracranial pressure and heart rate data in traumatic brain injured patients." Applied Network Science 2.1 (2017): 29, Springer Editions. (Impact Score: 2.65, now it is among the Q1 journals, but was just born in 2017 when I published the paper )

37.  Dimitri, G.M., Lio' P., "DrugClust: A machine learning approach for drugs side effects prediction." Computational Biology and Chemistry 68 (2017): 204-210, Elsevier. (Impact Score: 3.69, Impact Factor: 2.87, Scimago: Q2, Scopus: 90%)

Publications in Proceedings of Conferences and Contributions in Volumes

38.  Dimitri, Giovanna Maria, et al. "Machine Learning in Metabolomics for the Early Detection of Fusarium Verticillioides Infection in Maize." Neural Networks: Overview of Current Theories and Applications. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2026. 133-142.

39.  Guiducci, Leonardo, Antonio Rizzo, and Giovanna Maria Dimitri. "Unpacking the Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Elastic Decision Transformers: A Post-Hoc Analysis of Embedding Geometry and Performance." ESANN. 2026.

40.  Citterio, B. F., Papetti, D. M., Dimitri, G. M., & Tangherloni, A. EvoGrad: Accelerated Metaheuristics in a Differentiable Wonderland. 2026 WCCI Conference. IEEE, 2026, Maastricht

41.  Lachi, V., Dimitri, G. M., Di Stefano, A., Liò, P., Bianchini, M., & Mocenni, C. (2025, September). Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on the Italian Twitter Vaccination Debate: A Network-Based Analysis. In Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 171-185). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

42.  Bergamin, Luca, Giovanna Maria Dimitri, and Fabio Aiolli. "Integrating Background Knowledge in Medical Semantic Segmentation with Logic Tensor Networks." 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2025.

43.  Caiazzo, I., Dimitri, G.M., and Tronci, L. "IncluInstIT: Un nuovo corpus per lo studio di linguaggio inclusivo su Instagram." Diversità, Equità e Inclusione: Sfide e Opportunità per l’Informatica Umanistica nell’Era dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, Proceedings del XIV Convegno Annuale AIUCD2025. 2025. 35-39.

44.  Blanchini, M, Dimitri G.M., and Barni,M. "Beyond Pixels: Sentiment-Based Assessment of Image Inpainting Techniques with Application to Forgery Removal." 2025 25th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP). IEEE, 2025.

45.  Guiducci, L. Dimitri G.M., Palma G., Rizzo, L., "Introducing Intrinsic Motivation in Elastic Decision Transformers", accepted for presentation and proceedings publications for ESANN 2025 (https://www.esann.org/)

46.  Choksi, B., Zalaffi, G., Dimitri G.M., Roig, G. "Analysing the impact of brain-inspired predictive coding dynamics through gradient based explainability methods", accepted for ESANN 2025 (https://www.esann.org/)

47.  Dimitri G.M., Tondi, B., Barni, M. "Enhancing Synthetic Generated-Images Detection through Post-Hoc Calibration" accepted for publication at 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference Workshop on AI for Multimedia Forensics and Disinformation Detection Workshop, Tucson, Arizona (USA), February 2025

48.  Blanchini, M., Dimitri G.M., Abady, L., Tondi, B., Barni, M., "Semiotic-Based Construction of a Large Emotional Image Dataset with Neutral Samples", accepted for publication at IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Tucson, Arizona (USA) (https://wacv2025.thecvf.com/)

49.  Farina, G.,......Dimitri G.M.,......Chessa S., "Interoperable Traceability in Supply Chains: A Use Case in Agritech", accepted for publication at EA IntSys Conference, https://futuretransport.eai-conferences.org/2024/accepted-papers-2/, Pisa, December 2024

50.  Dimitri, G.M, Cappelli I., Scarselli F., Fort A., Gori M., "Graph Neural Networks for Missing Data Imputation in Time Series From Metereological Sensors", accepted for presentation at IEEE MetroXRaine 2024 Conference, St. Albans London 2024 (Post-Conference Proceedings will be published after the conference and indexed in IEEEXplore)

51.  Bacco, M., Kocian, A., Crivello, A., Gori, M., Dimitri, G.M. et al. "Agricultural Data Space: the METRIQA Platform and a Case Study in the CODECS project" accepted and presented at IEEE FedCis Conference, Belgrade, 2024 (Post-Conference Proceedings will be published after the conference and indexed in IEEEXplore)

52.  Dimitri, G.M., Ciasca, B., Lattanzio, V., Kocian, A., Moretti, A.,Chessa,S., Scarselli,F. and Gori, M.: “Machine Learning in metabolomics for the early detection of Fusarium verticillioides infection in maize.” accepted and presented at WIRN 2024 (https://www.siren-neural-net.it/wirn-2024/program/), and currently under post-conference proceedings publication process

53.  Alamayreh, O., Wang, J., Dimitri, G. M., Tondi, B., & Barni, M. (2023). “A Siamese Based System for City Verification.” In ECAI 2023 (pp. 69-76). IOS Press.

54.  Dimitri G.M. et al, "WeAIR: Wearable Swarm Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring to Foster Citizens' Awareness of Climate Change", accepted at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023 conference (Milan 2023, https://metroxraine.org/)

55.  Bianchini,M., and Dimitri, G.M. "Deep learning techniques for biomedical data processing." Intelligent Decision Technologies (2023): 1-18

56.  "Investigating the Impact of Extreme Rainfall Events on Individual Perception of Climate Change", Vitanza, E., Dimitri, G.M., Mocenni, C., accepted for presentation at the 2023 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Catania, September 26–29, 2023 (http://nolta2023.org)

57.  Barni, Mauro, Costanzo, A., Dimitri, G. M., & Tondi, B: "A GPU-accelerated algorithm for copy move detection in large-scale satellite images." Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIX. Vol. 12733. SPIE, 2023.

58.  " Micheli, Alessio, Dimitri, G.M., et al. "A Preliminary Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for the Diagnosis of Brugada Syndrome from ECG-Extracted Features." Advanced Neural Artificial Intelligence: Theories and Applications. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. 3-12.

59.  Chessa, S., Dimitri, G. M., Gori, M., & Kocian, A. (2023, July). WoA: an infrastructural, web-based approach to digital agriculture. In International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (pp. 113-122). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland

60.  Alamayreh, O., Dimitri G.M., et al. "Which country is this picture from? New data and methods for DNN-based country recognition." ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2023 (p.p. 1-5)

61.  Andreini, P, Dimitri G.M., "Deep Semantic Segmentation Models in Computer Vision", Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges 5-7 October 2022

62.  Abady, Lydia, Dimitri, Giovanna Maria, Barni, Mauro (2022). Detection and Localization of GAN Manipulated Multi-spectral Satellite Images. In: ESANN 2022. p. 339-344, Bruges, Belgium, 5-7 October, 2022, doi: 10.14428/esann/2022.ES2022-39 -

63.    Meconcelli D., Bonechi S., Dimitri G.M., "Deep Learning Approaches for mice glomeruli segmentation", Accepted at ESANN European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges 5-7 October 2022

64.  Dimitri, G. M., Gallicchio, C., Micheli, A., Morales, M. A., Ungaro, E., & Vozzi, F. (2021). A preliminary evaluation of Echo State Networks for Brugada syndrome classification. In 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 01-08). IEEE.

65.  Spasov, S. E., Campbell, A., Dimitri, G.M., Di Stefano, A., & Lio, P. (2021, April). TG-DGM Conference: Clustering Brain Activity using a Temporal Graph Deep Generative Model. In Medical Imaging with Deep Learning.

66.  Ciano, G., Dimitri, G.M. et al. "SlAide2Voice: a new educational tool for students with visual disabilities." teleXbe. 2021.

67.  Dimitri, G.M., et al. "Unsupervised stratification in neuroimaging through deep latent embeddings." 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE, 2020.

68.  Dimitri, G.M., et al. "Introducing brain-heart crosstalks information in clinical decision support systems for TBI patients, through ICM+." 2020 11th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO). IEEE, 2020.

69.  Dimitri, G.M., Beqiri, E., Czosnyka, M., Ercole, A., Smielewski, P., Liò, P., & CENTER-TBI High Resolution Sub- Study Participants and Investigators,. Analysing cardio-cerebral crosstalks in an adult cohort from CENTER-TBI. Acta Neurochirurgica: Supplementum (2020)

70.  Bianchini, M., Dimitri, G. M., Maggini, M., Scarselli, F. (2018). Deep Neural Networks for Structured Data. In Computational Intelligence for Pattern Recognition (pp. 29-51). Springer, Cham

71.  Kusztos, R., Dimitri, G.M., and Lio' P. "Neural Models for Brain Networks Connectivity Analysis." International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. Springer, Cham, 2018.

72.  Dimitri, G. M., Agrawal S., Young A., Donnelly J., Liu X., Smielewski P., Hutchinson P., Czosnyka M., Lió P., Haubrich C. "Simultaneous transients of intracranial pressure and heart rate in traumatic brain injury: Methods of analysis." Intracranial Pressure & Neuromonitoring XVI. Springer, Cham, (2018). 147-151.

73.  Rossi, A., Tiezzi, M., Dimitri, G. M., Bianchini, M., Maggini, M., Scarselli, F. Inductive–Transductive Learning with Graph Neural Networks. In IAPR Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition (pp. 201-212). Springer, Cham., (2018, September).

74.  Dimitri, G. M. "The impact of syntax highlighting in sonic pi." Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2015). 2015.