Publications by authors named "Emanuela Puppo"
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- The "Blue Sky Radiomics" study aims to evaluate a specific radiomic signature in patients with stage III unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving treatment involving chemoradiotherapy and immunotherapy.
- The study involved analyzing primary lung tumors on CT scans taken before and after treatment, utilizing various scanners and protocols to assess the consistency of radiomic features extracted from the scans.
- The results showed that initial acquisition parameters significantly affected 76% of the radiomic features, but after applying a harmonization process, the features became independent of these protocols, highlighting the importance of harmonization for ensuring reliable radiomic data.
Older adults are the main victims of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and elderly in Long Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) are severely hit in terms of mortality. This paper presents a quantitative study of the impact of COVID-19 outbreak in Italy during first stages of the epidemic, focusing on the effects on mortality increase among older adults over 80 and its correlation with LTCFs. The study of growth patterns shows a power-law scaling regime for the first stage of the pandemic with an uneven behaviour among different regions as well as for the overall mortality increase according to the different impact of COVID-19.
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