Valentina Candiani

Publications

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?, accepted in European Journal of Neurology, September 2024.
Razzetta, C., Candiani, V., Crocco, M., Benvenuto, F., A stochastic approach to delays optimization for narrowband transmit beam pattern in medical ultrasound, Discover Applied Sciences, 2024, 6, 370.
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.

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).