Publications by authors named "V Croce"
The Actinomycetota (formerly Actinobacteria) genus includes phytopathogens with devasting effects in several crops. , the causal agent of tomato bacterial canker, is the most notorious species of the genus. Yet, its origin and natural reservoirs remain elusive, and its populations show pathogenicity profiles with unpredictable plant disease outcomes.
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- Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can cause immune-related adverse events (irAEs), with immune-mediated pneumonitis (im-PN) being a rare but serious complication that requires prompt diagnosis and management to prevent severe outcomes and allow for continued cancer treatment.
- A study collected data from 1004 cancer patients treated with ICIs, finding that 24 (2%) developed im-PN, with varying degrees of severity; most patients responded well to steroid treatment, leading to recovery in 21 individuals within an average of 14 weeks.
- Three main radiologic patterns of im-PN were identified (organizational pneumonia-like, pulmonary eosinophilia, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis), and bronchoalve
We propose a semi-automatic Scan-to-BIM reconstruction approach, making the most of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, for the classification of digital architectural heritage data. Nowadays, Heritage- or Historic-Building Information Modeling (H-BIM) reconstruction from laser scanning or photogrammetric surveys is a manual, time-consuming, overly subjective process, but the emergence of AI techniques, applied to the realm of existing architectural heritage, is offering new ways to interpret, process and elaborate raw digital surveying data, as point clouds. The proposed methodological approach for higher-level automation in Scan-to-BIM reconstruction is threaded as follows: (i) semantic segmentation via Random Forest and import of annotated data in 3D modeling environment, broken down class by class; (ii) reconstruction of geometries of classes of architectural elements; (iii) propagation of reconstructed geometries to all elements belonging to a typological class.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBacterial diseases affecting wheat production in Uruguay are an issue of growing concern yet remain largely uninvestigated in the region. Surveys of 61 wheat fields carried out from 2017 to 2019 yielded a regional collection of 63 strains identified by 16S rRNA gene analysis as spp. A real-time PCR protocol with species-specific primers previously reported allowed the identification of 44 strains as , the causal agent of bacterial leaf streak (BLS) in wheat and other cereal crops.
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