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DAY 1 - September 6, 2023 DAY 2 - September 7, 2023 DAY 3 - September 8, 2023
08:00 REGISTRATION 08:45 SESSION #6
Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology (part 1)

CHAIR: D. Chicco 		08:45 SESSION #9
Prediction uncertainty in machine learning

CHAIR: D. Dannhauser
08:45 OPENING
09:00
SESSION #1
The many aspects of machine learning explainability in medical imaging

CHAIRS: S. Calderaro, C. Militello, F. Prinzi, F. Vella
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:00 COFFEE BREAK 10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE #3
"Using electronic health records for healthcare research: Opportunities and challenges"
Jessica Barrett, University of Cambridge, UK

10:30
SESSION #2
Distributed computing in bioinformatics and computational biology

CHAIR: G. Grani
11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE #2
"Data science for life scientists: should everyone learn programming or is there an alternative?"
Blaž Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
11:15
SESSION #10
Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology (part 3)

CHAIR: D. Chicco
11:20
SESSION #3
An Italian snapshot on present and future informatics research in bioinformatics

CHAIRS: S. Pernice, G. Baruzzo

INVITED TALK: "Computational Reproducibility in the Life Sciences", Marco Beccuti
11:45
SESSION #7
Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology (part 2)

CHAIR: D. Chicco
11:50
SESSION #11
MAIN TRACK (part 3)

CHAIRS: R. Gatta, E. Tavazzi, E. Longato
12:45 LUNCH
12:40 LUNCH 13:00 LUNCH
14:00
RSG-Italy Young Symposium - ROUND TABLE
"50 shades of bioinformatics: a kaleidoscope of expertises"

CHAIRS: G. Cesaro, D. Bressan

SPEAKERS: L. Moron Dalla Tor, L. Veschetti, G. Fiandaca, Y. Ciani
14:15
RSG-Italy Young Symposium - STUDENT FLASH TALKS

CHAIRS: G. Cesaro, D. Bressan
14:10 KEYNOTE LECTURE #1
"Developments in medical informatics: responsible approaches and reliable systems"
Arianna Dagliati, University of Pavia, Italy
14:45 SESSION #8
Modelling and simulation methods for computational biology and systems medicine

CHAIRS: B.G. Galuzzi, S. Avesani

INVITED TALK: "A Quick Retrospective and Prospective Survey of Simulation in Biomedicine and Cancer Research", Marco Antoniotti 		14:50
SESSION #12
Advanced statistical and computational methodologies for single-cell omics data

CHAIRS: D. Righelli, A. Carissimo

INVITED TALK: "Learning gene association networks using single-cell RNA-seq data: a graphical model approach", Davide Risso
14:55
SESSION #4
MAIN TRACK (part 1)

CHAIRS: G. Baruzzo, M. Bellato, F. Eduati
16:20 COFFEE BREAK 16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:50
SESSION #5
MAIN TRACK (part 2)

CHAIRS: F. Eduati, M. Bellato, E. Longato
16:40 FREE TIME / CITY TOUR 16:40
SESSION #13
MAIN TRACK (part 4)

CHAIRS: E. Tavazzi, E. Longato
18:15 18:15 CLOSING

Instructions for supplements/proceedings and farewell
18:30
20:00 SOCIAL DINNER at Caffè Pedrocchi
23:30

Detailed programme

  • 08:00 - 08:45 - REGISTRATION


  • 08:45 - 09:00 - OPENING


  • 09:00 - 10:00 - SESSION #1 (5 orals / 12’ each):

    The many aspects of machine learning explainability in medical imaging

    CHAIRS: S. Calderaro, C. Militello, F. Prinzi, F. Vella

    • #4754 - Salvatore Calderaro, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Giuseppe Marino, Riccardo Rizzo and Filippo Vella, "Vision Transformers for Explainable Classification of Histopathological Images"
    • #9353 - Lisa Cuneo, Federico Siciliano, Marco Castello, Simonluca Piazza, Fabrizio Silvestri and Alberto Diaspro, "Explainable-by-design Machine Learning Model for Overlapping Fluorophores Separation based on fluorescence lifetime"
    • #1584 - Francesco Prinzi, Carmelo Militello, Tommaso Vincenzo Bartolotta and Salvatore Vitabile, "Breast Cancer Malignancy Prediction by means of an Explainable Model based on a Multimodal Signature"
    • #5852 - Federico Cabitza, Andrea Campagner, Lorenzo Famiglini, Chiara Natali, Valerio Caccavella and Enrico Gallazzi, "Show, Don’t Tell. Pro-hoc Explanations in Vertebral Fracture Detection from X-rays"
    • #5824 - Salvatore Calderaro, Giosué Lo Bosco, Riccardo Rizzo and Filippo Vella, "Tissue Classification in Histopathology Images using Deep Metric Learning"

  • 10:00 - 10:30 - COFFEE BREAK


  • 10:30 - 11:20 - SESSION #2 (4 orals / 12' each):

    Distributed computing in bioinformatics and computational biology

    CHAIR: G. Grani

    • #9363 - Nicola Apollonio, Paolo Giulio Franciosa and Daniele Santoni, "Evaluating homophily/heterophily of weighted large networks through second-order statistics in a data streaming setting"
    • #1746 - Giorgio Grani, Umberto Ferraro Petrillo and Davide Chicco, "Detection of a predictive gene signature for glioblastoma prognosis based on a computational intelligence grid approach applied to gene expression"
    • #6585 - Lorenzo Di Rocco and Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, "Toward distributed variants calling: scalable MapReduce pipeline for isolated SNPs detection."
    • #4689 - Mariella Bonomo, Armando La Placa and Simona E. Rombo (presenter: Lorenzo Di Rocco), "SPALD: Spark Based Associations Prediction Tool between lncRNA and Diseases"

  • 11:20 - 12:40 - SESSION #3 (4 orals / 12’ each + 1 invited speaker 30'):

    An Italian snapshot on present and future informatics research in bioinformatics

    CHAIRS: S. Pernice, G. Baruzzo
    INVITED TALK: "Computational reproducibility in the life sciences", Marco Beccuti

    • #789 - Giang Pham, Martina Cirinciani, Eleonora Da Pozzo, Claudia Martini and Paolo Milazzo, "Computational estimation of the impact of amino acid mutations on protein-ligand affinity based on Alphafold and MD simulation"
    • #4270 - Francesca Longhin, Enidia Hazizaj, Giacomo Baruzzo and Barbara Di Camillo, "Leveraging on somatic sample simulators for realistic data-driven generation of tumoral genomes"
    • #9205 - Vincenzo Bonnici, Giuditta Franco and Elena Soriato, "Recurrence distance distributions as genomic fingerprints"
    • #9379 - Riccardo Aucello, Nicola Licheri, Elena Rosso, Giulio Ferrero, Sandro Gepiro Contaldo, Simone Pernice, Pietro Liò, Francesca Cordero and Marco Beccuti, "Functional data integration approach combining mechanistic models and multiphase feature selection methodologies."

  • 12:40 - 14:10 - LUNCH


  • 14:10 - 14:55 - KEYNOTE LECTURE

    Developments in medical informatics: responsible approaches and reliable systems

    Arianna Dagliati, University of Pavia, Italy


  • 14:55 - 16:20 - SESSION #4 (7 orals / 12’ each):

    Main track (part 1)

    CHAIR: G. Baruzzo, M. Bellato, F. Eduati

    • #1168 - Michela Quadrini, Chiara Cintioni, Denise Falcone and Luca Tesei, "PhyloRNA: a database of RNA secondary structures with associated phylogeny"
    • #1121 - Cathal Ormond, Niamh Ryan, Elizabeth Heron and Aiden Corvin, "Evaluating the consistency of gene annotation for ClinVar variants across multiple genome builds"
    • #5536 - Yazdan Asgari, Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier, Taban Baghfalaki, Elise Lucotte, Mojgan Karimi, Mohammed Sedki, Amélie Ngo, Benoit Liquet and Thérèse Truong, "A pipeline for exploring gene-level pleiotropy of GWAS data"
    • #7274 - Bianca Alexandra Pasat, Eleftherios Pilalis, Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Afshin Samali and Adrienne M Gorman, "Multi-Omics Master: An inclusive pipeline for omics analyses"
    • #9317 - Emile Benoist, Geraldine Jean, Hélène Rogniaux, Guillaume Fertin and Dominique Tessier, "ProSpect allows fast and without a priori peptide identification in a peptidomics context"
    • #2292 - Carlo Alberto Rossi, Ana Vinuela, Jochen M. Schwenk, Ewan R. Pearson, Andrea Mari and Roberto Bizzotto, "Proteomics and following beta-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes: An IMI DIRECT study"
    • #8113 - Michela Quadrini and Carlo Ferrari, "Exploiting the role of Features for Antigens-Antibodies Interaction Site Prediction"

  • 16:20 - 16:50 - COFFEE BREAK


  • 16:50 - 18:15 - SESSION #5 (7 orals / 12’ each):

    Main track (part 2)

    CHAIR: F. Eduati, M. Bellato, E. Longato

    • #9165 - Leonardo Lazzaro, Margherita Cavattoni and Matteo Comin, "More data is not always better: The influence of RefSeq database grows on metagenomic taxonomic classification"
    • #1605 - Matteo Baldan, Giacomo Baruzzo and Barbara Di Camillo, "N2BPC: an algorithmic approach from Networks to Bacteria's metabolite Production and Consumption"
    • #861 - Aranka Steyaert, Marie Van Hecke, Kathleen Marchal and Jan Fostier, "De Novo Bacterial Haplotype Reconstruction from de Bruijn Graphs Using Conditional Random Fields"
    • #1711 - Davide Torre, Giuseppe F. Italiano and Blerina Sinaimeri, "Exploring the Structure of Aquatic Food Webs: A Network-based Analysis"
    • #7053 - Sumam Francis and Marie-Francine Moens, "Injecting Categorical Label and Syntactic Information into Biomedical NER"
    • #5507 - Espoir Kabanga, Wesley De Neve and Arnout Van Messem, "Towards Interpretable Multitask Learning for Splice Site and Translation Initiation Site Prediction"
    • #7727 - Dario Simionato, Antonio Collesei, Federica Miglietta and Fabio Vandin, "ALLSTAR: Inference of ReliAble CausaL RuLes between Somatic MuTAtions and CanceR Phenotypes"

  • 8:45 - 10:30 - SESSION #6 (8 orals / 12’ each):

    Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology (part 1)

    CHAIRS: D. Chicco

    • #710 - Riccardo Benedetti, Sara Montagna, Muhammad Suffian, Alessandro Bogliolo, Stefano Ferretti, Barbara Canonico, Stefano Papa and Claudio Ortolani, "Supervised Machine Learning for Automating Cellular Population Extraction in Flow Cytometry"
    • #3735 - Sara Joubbi, Giuseppe Maccari, Dario Cardamone, Giorgio Ciano, Alessio Micheli, Paolo Milazzo and Duccio Medini, "Antibody target classification from sequence information"
    • #5000 - Camila Riccio-Rengifo, Silvia Cascianelli, Gaia Ceddia and Marco Masseroli, "Non-negative Matrix Tri-Factorization for data integration and knowledge inference on breast cancer subtyping"
    • #5341 - Mauro Nascimben and Lia Rimondini, "Virtual screening by spiking neural networks: a case study on cytochrome P450"
    • #7233 - Maria Claudia Costa, Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello, Michele Ceccarelli and Luigi Cerulo, "Robust Feature Selection strategy detects a panel of miRNAs as putative diagnostic biomarkers in Breast Cancer"
    • #7663 - Sofia Mongardi, Silvia Cascianelli and Marco Masseroli, "Biologically-driven feature selection for improved functional interpretability of gene expression data analysis"
    • #7976 - Raissa Silva, Cédric Riedel, Benoit Guibert, Florence Ruffle, Mélina Gallopin, Anthony Boureux and Thérèse Commes, "Comparing machine learning models for predicting mutation status in Acute Myeloid Leukemia patients using RNA-seq data"
    • #8994 - Tanakamol Mahawan, Ainhoa Mielgo, Eva Caamano-Gutierrez and Natapol Pornputtapong, "Robust and Consistent Biomarker Identification of Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Metastasis by Machine Learning Approach"

  • 10:30 - 11:00 - COFFEE BREAK


  • 11:00 - 11:45 - KEYNOTE LECTURE

    Data science for life scientists: should everyone learn programming or is there an alternative?

    Blaž Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia


  • 11:45 - 12:45 - SESSION #7 (4 orals / 12’ each):

    Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology (part 2)

    CHAIRS: D. Chicco

    • #550 - Christel Sirocchi, Alessandro Bogliolo and Sara Montagna, "Medical-Informed Machine Learning: Integrating Prior Knowledge into Medical Decision Systems"
    • #856 - Alessandro Guazzo, Michele Atzeni, Elena Idi, Isotta Trescato, Erica Tavazzi, Enrico Longato, Umberto Manera, Adriano Chiò, Marta Gromicho, Inês Alves, Mamede de Carvalho, Martina Vettoretti and Barbara Di Camillo, "Predicting Clinical Outcomes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Progression using Logistic Regression and Deep-Learning Multilayer Perceptron Approaches"
    • #2612 - Sandra Eugenia Barajas Montiel and Carlos Alberto Reyes García, "Attribute Extraction using Fuzzy Granulation of Electrodermal Activity for Academic Stress Classification"
    • #5266 - Michela Sperti, Umberto Michelucci, Arnaud Gucciardi, Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos, Guglielmo Gallone, Mario Iannaccone, Francesco Bruno, Ovidio De Filippo, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, Gaetano M. De Ferrari, Umberto Morbiducci and Marco A. Deriu, "Personalized Time-to-Event Prediction in Acute Coronary Syndrome"

  • 12:45 - 14:00 - LUNCH


  • 14:00 - 14:45 - RSG-Italy Young Symposium

    ROUND TABLE "50 shades of bioinformatics: a kaleidoscope of expertises"

    CHAIRS: G. Cesaro, D. Bressan
    SPEAKERS: L. Moron Dalla Tor, L. Veschetti, G. Fiandaca, Y. Ciani


  • 14:45 - 16:40 - SESSION #8 (7 orals / 12' each + invited speaker 30'):

    Modelling and simulation methods for computational biology and systems medicine

    CHAIRS: B.G. Galuzzi, S. Avesani
    INVITED TALK: "A quick retrospective and prospective survey of simulation in biomedicine and cancer research", Marco Antoniotti

    • #3322 - Daniele Baccega, Simone Pernice, Paolo Castagno, Matteo Sereno and Marco Beccuti, "Evaluating the Impact of Mask and Quarantine Policies on the Spread of COVID-19 in Schools using computational modeling"
    • #5698 - Marco Beccuti, Giuliana Franceschinis, Marzio Pennisi, Simone Pernice and Irene Terrone, "Petri Net modeling and Stochastic Simulation of a Cancer Vaccine"
    • #4092 - Massimo Bellato, Marco Cappellato, Sara Rebecca, Andrea Calzavara, Alessandro Lucchiari, Niccolò Venturini Degli Esposti and Barbara Di Camillo, "Bactlife: A Dash GUI to simulate bacterial communities evolution"
    • #5827 - Lanxin Li, Mayetri Gupta, Vincent Macaulay and Indranil Mukhopadhyay, "Bayesian GWAS with Evolutionary Monte Carlo"
    • #5535 - Irene Terrone, Daniela Volpatto, Simone Pernice, Elvio Amparore, Roberta Sirovich, Francesca Cordero and Marco Beccuti, "Extending the GreatMod modeling framework to simulate complex systems with general-distributed events"
    • #9071 - Giovanni Marteletto, Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi and Chiara Damiani, "A feature selection analysis for classifying damaged cells in scRNA-seq experiments"
    • #5658 - Paola Lecca and Angela Re, "Identification of the latent geometry of a biochemical network from transfer entropy"

  • 16:40 - 20:00 - Free time / City tour (17:30 and 18:15)


  • 20:00 - 23:30 - Social Dinner

  • 8:45 - 10:00 - SESSION #9 (6 orals / 12’ each):

    Prediction uncertainty in machine learning

    CHAIRS: D. Dannhauser

    • #6279 - Petra Martina Baumann, Francois Pouwer and Jane Speight, "Sensitivity analysis of different priors in a Bayesian regression model of the effect of hypoglycaemia on SF-36 outcomes."
    • #5599 - Simone Rancati, Giovanna Nicora, Simone Marini, Marco Salemi, Mattia Prosperi and Riccardo Bellazzi, "Predicting emerging SARS-Cov-2 lineages through an Autoencoder-based anomaly detection algorithm"
    • #2711 - Johra Muhammad Moosa and Bin Ma, "Improving Peptide Identification Rate by Machine Learning with Next-Ranked Peptide Spectrum Matches"
    • #1437 - Francesca Miccolis, Marta Lovino and Elisa Ficarra, "Prioritizing gene fusions: a benchmark study of computational tools"
    • #1770 - Bastian Pfeifer and Michael G. Schimek, "Improving the stability of tree-based feature importance ranks via consensus signals"
    • #5652 - Claudia De Clemente, Luigi Fausto Canonico and Maria Isabella Maremonti, "Out-of-distribution classification of optical cell snapshots"

  • 10:00 - 10:30 - COFFEE BREAK


  • 10:30 - 11:15 - KEYNOTE LECTURE

    Using electronic health records for healthcare research: Opportunities and challenges

    Jessica Barrett, University of Cambridge, UK


  • 11:15 - 11:50 - SESSION #10 (3 orals / 12’ each):

    Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology (part 3)

    CHAIRS: D. Chicco

    • #1564 - Andrea Campagner, Frida Milella, Giuseppe Banfi and Federico Cabitza, "Second Opinion Machine Learning for Fast-Track Pathway Assignment in Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery: the Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures"
    • #3690 - Ingrid Aurora Valencia Hernández, Carlos Alberto Reyes García, Alicia Morales Reyes and Gabriela del Carmen Lopez Armas, "Breast density classification from mammograms segmentation using Genetic Programming and Fuzzy Logic."
    • #5148 - Antonio Agliata, Francesco Bardozzo, Salvatore Bottiglieri, Giovanni Marco Di Vincenzo, Mariacarmen Sorrentino and Roberto Tagliaferri, "Transfer Learning and AutoML as a Support for the Pneumonia Diagnosis using Chest X-Ray scan"

  • 11:50 - 13:00 - SESSION #11 (5 orals / 12’ each):

    Main track (part 3)

    CHAIRS: R. Gatta, E. Tavazzi, E. Longato

    • #7903 - Luca Cossu, Francesco Prendin, Giacomo Cappon, David Herzig, Lia Bally and Andrea Facchinetti, "Integrating a predictive algorithm for improved post-bariatric hypoglycaemia monitoring and treatment using the IMPACT mHealth platform"
    • #827 - Sergio Cannata, Giovanni Cicceri, Giansalvo Cirrincione, Tiziana Currieri, Marta Lovino, Carmelo Militello, Francesco Prinzi, Eros Pasero and Salvatore Vitabile, "Diffuser Data Augmentation for ViT-based Classification of Dermatoscopic Melanoma Images"
    • #4924 - Daniel Bloor, Nnamdi Ugwuoke, David Taylor, Keir Lewis, Luis Mur and Chuan Lu, "Towards a Personalized Health Knowledge Graph Framework for Patient Monitoring"
    • #7356 - Michel Barlaud, Cyprien Gille, Thierry Pourcher and Gregoire D'Andrea, "Computational Intelligence using a Supervised Autoencoder Neural Network with multi-categorical medical data for Thyroid Nodule Diagnosis"
    • #3716 - Benedetta Gottardelli, Leonardo Nucciarelli, Erica Tavazzi and Andrea Damiani, "GEN-RWD Sandbox: A Modular Architecture for Privacy-preserving Data Sharing for AI-driven Medical Research"

  • 13:00 - 14:15 - LUNCH


  • 14:15 - 14:50 - RSG-Italy Young Symposium

    FLASH TALKS (5 abstracts / 5' each + 10' Q/A & award)

    CHAIRS: G. Cesaro, D. Bressan

    • #2218 - Andrea Poletti, Jean-Baptiste Alberge, Gaia Mazzocchetti, Vincenza Solli, Ajsi Kapari, Enrica Borsi, Ilaria Vigliotta, Marina Martello, Silvia Armuzzi, Barbara Taurisano, Ignazia Pistis, Irene Ghobrial and Carolina Tarragna, "TiMMing: Developing An Innovative Suite Of Bioinformatic Tools To Harmonize And Track The Origin Of Copy Number Alterations In The Evolutionary History Of Multiple Myeloma"
    • #3022 - Ajsi Kanapari, Vincenza Solli, Gaia Mazzocchetti, Andrea Poletti, Marina Martello, Ilaria Vigliotta, Ignazia Pistis, Enrica Borsi, Barbara Taurisano, Silvia Armuzzi and Carolina Terragna, "Identification of Outcome-Oriented Cut-Offs for Copy Number Alterations in Multiple Myeloma: Improving Prognostic Accuracy of CNAs calls"
    • #7327 - Luca Pestarino, Sina Rostami, Trine Ballestad Rounge, Kristina Lindemann and Hilde Langseth, "RNA expression and genetic variants in the causal estimation of endometrial cancer risk – A Mendelian randomization study"
    • #8377 - Silvia Berardelli, Federica De Paoli, Giovanna Nicora, Ivan Limongelli, Ettore Rizzo, Paolo Magni and Susanna Zucca, "A machine learning approach for the detection of incidental findings in genetic testing"
    • #1496 - Chiquito Crasto, Anuththara Lokubandara and Vasanth Mandla, "Exploring Odorant Conformational Space in the Olfactory Receptor Binding Region"

  • 14:50 - 16:10 - SESSION #12 (4 orals / 12’ each + invited speaker 30'):

    Advanced statistical and computational methodologies for single-cell omics data

    CHAIRS: D. Righelli, A. Carissimo INVITED TALK: "Learning gene association networks using single-cell RNA-seq data: a graphical model approach", Davide Risso

    • #3983 - Valeria Policastro, Dario Righelli and Annamaria Carissimo, "Robustness in single cell clustering"
    • #498 - Giulia Cesaro, Giacomo Baruzzo and Barbara Di Camillo, "Differential cellular communication analysis from large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data"
    • #1980 - Stefania Pirrotta, Sara Castiglioni, Enrica Calura, Davide Risso and Andrea Sottosanti, "Spatially Informed Clustering on Cancer Signatures"
    • #5573 - Felicita Pia Masone and Francesco Napolitano, "Identification of treatment-responsive genes in spatial transcriptomics data by leveraging injection site information"

  • 16:10 - 16:40 - COFFEE BREAK


  • 16:40 - 18:15 - SESSION #13 (7 orals / 12’ each):

    Main track (part 4)

    CHAIRS: E. Tavazzi, E. Longato

    • #9135 - Elisa Pellizzari, Francesco Prendin, Giacomo Cappon, Giovanni Sparacino and Andrea Facchinetti, "Improving the management of hyperglycemia in type 1 diabetes therapy: an algorithm for the suggestion of corrective insulin boluses based on future glucose prediction"
    • #1458 - Stefania Orini, Mariagrazia Lorusso, Mariachiara Savino and Roberto Gatta, "An innovative approach for trace inspection in Process Mining for Healthcare"
    • #4247 - Daniele Pala, Giacomo Zagami, Cosimo Strusi, Pietro Bosoni, Cristiana Larizza, Riccardo Bellazzi and Arianna Dagliati, "Land Use Regression on Interpolated Urban Graphs to Assess Air Pollution Personal Exposure"
    • #4934 - Mahin Vazifehdan, Pietro Bosoni, Daniele Pala, Eleonora Tavazzi, Roberto Bergamaschi, Riccardo Bellazzi and Arianna Dagliati, "Longitudinal Missing Data Imputation for Predicting Disability Stage of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis"
    • #7314 - Davide Chicco and Francesca Gasparini, "Random Forests feature ranking reveals most predictive clinical variables for sepsis among electronic health records of elderly patients with advanced lung cancer"
    • #2837 - Giacomo Biganzoli, Giuseppe Marano and Patrizia Boracchi, "Exploring complex effects in modeling sub-distribution hazard rates and cumulative incidence for competing risks: an application with distant breast cancer recurrences data"
    • #6896 - Giuseppe Marano, Giacomo Biganzoli, Ester Luconi, Elia Biganzoli and Patrizia Boracchi, "Can smoothing methods recognize patterns in the hazard function in complex clinical scenarios? A simulation study using discrete-time regression models"

  • 18:15 - 18:30 - Instructions for supplements / proceedings and farewell