Publications

• Toivanen, J., Paldanius, A., Dekdouk, B., Candiani, V., Hänninen, A., Savolainen, T., Strbian, D., Forss, N., Hyvönen, N., Hyttinen, J., Kolehmainen, V., A Simulation-based Feasibility Study of Monitoring of Intracerebral Hemorrhages and Detection of Secondary Hemorrhages Using Electrical Impedance Tomography, Journal of Medical Imaging, 11(1), 014502, 2024. 

• Razzetta, C., Candiani, V., Crocco, M., Benvenuto, F., Hybrid time-frequency parametric modelling of medical ultrasound signal transmission, Advances of Computational Science and Engineering, 2023, 1(3): 249-270.

• Guastavino, S., Candiani, V., Bemporad, A., Marchetti, F., Benvenuto, F., Massone, A. M., Susino, R., Telloni, D., Fineschi, S., Piana, M., Physics-driven machine learning for the prediction of coronal mass ejections' travel times, The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, 954(2): 151. 

• Telloni, D., Lo Schiavo, M., Magli, E., Fineschi, S.,  Guastavino, S., Nicolini, G., Susino, R., Giordano, S., Amadori, F., Candiani, V., Piana, M., and Massone, A. M., Prediction Capability of Geomagnetic Events from Solar Wind Data using Machine Learning Techniques, The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, 952(2): 111.

• Cama, I., Candiani, V., Roccatagliata, L., Fiaschi, P., Rebella, G., Resaz, M., Piana, M., and Campi, C., Segmentation agreement and the reliability of radiomics features, Advances of Computational Science and Engineering, 2023, 1(2): 202-217. 

• Candiani, V., Computational approaches in electrical impedance tomography with applications to head imaging, Aalto University publication series Doctoral Dissertation 139/2021, November 2021.

• Candiani, V., Hyvönen, N., Kaipio, J. P., Kolehmainen, V.,  Approximation error method for imaging the human head by electrical impedance tomography, Inverse Problems, 37(12), 125008, 2021.

• Candiani, V., Santacesaria, M., Neural networks for classification of stroke in electrical impedance tomography on a 3D head model, Mathematics in Engineering, 4(4), 1-22, 2021.

• Candiani, V., Dardé, J., Garde, H., Hyvönen, N.,  Monotonicity-based reconstruction of extreme inclusions in electrical impedance tomography, SIAM J. Math. Analysis, 52(6), 6234-6259, 2020.

• Candiani, V., Hannukainen, A., Hyvönen, N., Computational framework for applying electrical impedance tomography to head imaging, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 41(5), B1034-B1060, 2019.

Preprints

• Grisanti, S., Garbarino, S., Bellucci, M., Schenone, C., Candiani, V., Di Lillo, S., Campi, C., Barisione, E., Aloè, T., Tagliabue, E., Serventi, A., Pesce, G., Massucco, S., Cabona, C., Lechiara, A., Uccelli, A., Schenone, A., Piana, M., Benedetti, L., Neurological long-COVID in the outpatient clinic: is it so long?, submitted, February 2024.

• Razzetta, C., Candiani, V., Crocco, M., Benvenuto, F., A stochastic approach to delays optimization for narrowband transmit beam pattern in medical ultrasound, arXiv, December 2023.

• Cama, I., Candiani, V., Piana, M., and Campi, C., A comprehensive package for segmentation and radiomics analysis of Magnetic Resonance images, submitted, November 2022.

Main projects

• Modeling and optimization of ultrasound imaging algorithms (April 2023 -Present), collaborators: C. Razzetta, F. Benvenuto, M. Crocco

• Artificial intelligence for the analysis of coronal mass ejections' data  with the design, creation, and validation of neural networks to integrate existing pipelines (Dec 2021 - Present), collaborators: M. Piana, C. Campi, S. Guastavino, F. Marchetti, the  Heliophysics Space Weather Center at Altec SpA, and INAF - OATo (Astrophysical Observatory in Turin).

• Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence for stratification of meningioma patients (Dec 2021 - present), collaborators: M. Piana, C. Campi, I. Cama, L. Roccatagliata, G. Rebella, M. Resaz (IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova) and multiple myeloma patients (Dec. 2022 - present), collaborators:  A. Tagliafico, G. Costa.

• Computational approaches in electrical impedance tomography with applications to head imaging (Nov 2017 – present), collaborators: A. Hannukainen, N. Hyvönen, H. Garde, J. Dardé, J.P. Kaipio, V. Kolehmainen, M. Santacesaria, A. Paldanius, J. Toivanen, B. Dekdouk, N. Forss, J. Hyttinen, D. Strbian, A. Hänninen, T. Savolainen.

Software

• FEM 3D head model for estimating conductivity distribution inside the human head.

• A comprehensive package for image segmentation and radiomics analysis of Magnetic Resonance sequences (GitHub).

• Link to the MIDA Group GitHub.

Teaching & Teaching assistant

Teaching

• (upcoming new) Nonlinear Imaging (Imaging non lineare, DIMA, University of Genova, Spring 2025)

• 42916 - Mathematics applied to Medicine (Applicazioni della Matematica alla Medicina, DIMA, University of Genova, Spring 2024)

• 80589 - Linear Algebra (Geometria, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Fall 2023, Fall 2024)

• 72290  - Calculus 1 (Analisi Matematica I, DITEN, University of Genova, academic year 2022-2023)

Teaching assistant

• MS-E1654 - Computational inverse problems (Aalto University, Spring 2018, Spring 2019)

• MS-E1652 - Computational methods for differential equations (Aalto University, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)

• MS-C2128 - Prediction and time series analysis (Aalto University, Fall 2019)

• MS-E1461 - Hilbert Spaces (Aalto University, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)

• MS-A0311 - Differential and integral calculus 3 (Aalto University, Spring 2021)

• Tutor for bachelor level courses (Aalto University, 2017 - 2020).

Talks, seminars and posters

Upcoming contributions

Past contributions

• (Plenary talk) Scientific toolkit for kernel-based approximation and its applications (SToK2023), Camerino, Italy (6/12/2023).

• (Poster) New technologies and strategies to fight cancer (8th Annual meeting ACC), Genoa, Italy (28/09/2023).

• International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), Tokyo, Japan (24/08/2023).

• Genoa Space Weather Week 2023 (details), Genoa, Italy (23/05/2023).

• (Poster) IEEE - ISBI 2023 Conference (ISBI2023), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (20/04/2023).

• (Poster) European Space Weather Week 2022, (ESWW 2022), Zagreb, Croatia (24/10/2022).

• GIMC-SIMAI Young 2022, Pavia, Italy (30/09/2022).

• Young Applied Mathematicians Conference (YAMC 2022), Arenzano, Italy (19/09/2022).

• MAThematical CHallenges to and from new technologiES Workshop (MATCHES 2022), Rome, Italy (24/06/2022).

• Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation conference (IPMS 2020), Malta ( 24/05/2022).

• SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS22), (virtual) Berlin, Germany (25/03/2022).

• Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale conference (SIMAI 2020), Parma, Italy (31/08/2021).

• SIAM Annual Meeting 2021 (AN21), (virtual) Spokane, Washington, USA (19/07/2021).

• Inverse Days 2020 (FIPS), (virtual) Helsinki, Finland (15/12/2020).

• EIT seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, organized online (15/05/2020).

• Applied Math Seminar talk, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (17/02/2020).

• Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference (ANZIAM 2020), Hunter Valley, Australia (4/02/2020).

• Inverse Days 2019 (FIPS), University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland (18/12/2019).

• Inverse Problems Seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (18/11/2019).

• International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), Valencia, Spain (19/07/2019).

• Applied Inverse Problems Conference (AIP 2019), Grenoble, France (10/07/2019). 

• EIT seminar, Tampere, Finland (4/04/2019).

Grants and Awards

• Part of I. Furci's GNCS-INDAM project "Analisi e applicazioni di matrici strutturate (a blocchi)"

• GNCS-INDAM Bando giovani ricercatori (Grant "Young Researchers" 2022).

• Aalto University dissertation award (2022). The core criteria for the award are quality, impact and originality. 

• Finnish Inverse Prize (Dissertation Prize 2021). Annual award of the Finnish Inverse Problems Society to a young researcher for an outstanding doctoral thesis in inverse problems.

• 26 000 euros grant awarded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kultturirahasto) as a continuation for the above project, February 2020 (link).

• 8 000 euros grant awarded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kultturirahasto) for the project Computational method for determining the type of stroke by impedance tomography, February 2019. 

Other Activities

Conferences

• Organizer of the minisymposium "Recent advances in Ultrasound Biomedical Imaging" at ICIAM23 conference.

• Part of the organizing committee for the conference "28th Nordic Congress of Mathematicians", Aalto University, August 2022.

• Part of the organizing committee for the conference "Inverse Days 2018", Aalto University, December 2018.

Service

• Member of the orienteering committee at the Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Genoa, academic year 2023-24.

• Co-supervisor of the master thesis Dimensionality reduction techniques and application to cytometry data by A. Reghitto (26/07/2023).

• Scientific tutor for high school students at the Mathematics stage (2022, 2023) at DIMA.

• Volunteer for the October 2020 math camp for high school students.

• Co-organizer of the seminar series "What is..?" at Aalto University, meant for PhD students and post-docs (Sept 2019 - Nov 2021). 

• Co-organizer of the Mathematical workshops for "Tyttöjen päivä" (Girls' Day) for high schools, at Heureka Science Center, Helsinki, October 2019, as a means of encouraging girls to become interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).