FAIR

National PNRR partnership for human-centred and resilient artificial intelligence, including ArCo's work on robust multimodal biomedical AI.

FAIR

National Partnership

FAIR

National PNRR partnership for human-centred and resilient artificial intelligence, including ArCo's work on robust multimodal biomedical AI.

Trustworthy AI Resilient AI Multimodal Learning

Overview

FAIR is the Italian PNRR extended partnership dedicated to Future Artificial Intelligence Research. The programme addresses core AI challenges including human-centred interaction, integration across data sources, resilience, adaptability, quality, sustainability, and bio-inspired intelligence.

Within this national ecosystem, ArCo contributes to the Resilient AI line with expertise in multimodal biomedical AI, explainable decision support, missing modalities, adversarial robustness, fairness, and robust learning for medical data collected in real-world clinical settings.

Research Directions

  • Human-centred AI methods designed to collaborate with people and operate in evolving contexts.
  • Robust and resilient learning under noisy, incomplete, inconsistent, and real-world data.
  • Data augmentation, adversarial robustness, fairness, and multimodal representation learning for biomedical case studies.

Related Publications

  1. Beyond a single mode: GAN ensembles for diverse medical data generation
    Lorenzo Tronchin, Tommy Löfstedt, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2026
    generative AI medical imaging
  2. Predicting lung cancer survival with attention-based CT slices combination
    Domenico Paolo, Carlo Greco, Edy Ippolito, Michele Fiore, Sara Ramella, Paolo Soda, Matteo Tortora, Alessandro Bria, and Rosa Sicilia
    2026
  3. XGeM: A multi-prompt foundation model for multimodal medical data generation
    Daniele Molino, Francesco Di Feola, Eliodoro Faiella, Deborah Fazzini, Domiziana Santucci, Linlin Shen, Valerio Guarrasi, and Paolo Soda
    2026
    foundation models generative AI multimodal learning
  4. Cross-Dataset Multivariate Time-Series Model for Parkinson’s Diagnosis via Keyboard Dynamics
    Francesconi, Arianna, Donato Cappetta, Rebecchi, Fabio, Paolo Soda, Valerio Guarrasi, and Rosa Sicilia
    2026
    foundation models medical imaging
  5. Not another imputation method: A transformer-based model for missing values in tabular datasets
    Camillo Maria Caruso, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2026
    multimodal learning clinical prediction foundation models
  6. LatentAugment: Data Augmentation via Guided Manipulation of GAN’s Latent Space
    Lorenzo Tronchin, Minh H. Vu, Paolo Soda, and Tommy Löfstedt
    2025
    generative AI multimodal learning
  7. Evaluating Vision Language Model Adaptations for Radiology Report Generation in Low-Resource Languages
    Marco Salmè, Rosa Sicilia, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    foundation models medical imaging
  8. Benchmarking foundation models and parameter-efficient fine-tuning for prognosis prediction in medical imaging
    Filippo Ruffini, Elena Mulero Ayllón, Linlin Shen, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    foundation models clinical prediction medical imaging
  9. Lesion-Aware Generative Artificial Intelligence for Virtual Contrast-Enhanced Mammography in Breast Cancer
    Aurora Rofena, Manchia, Arianna, Claudia Lucia Piccolo, Bruno Beomonte Zobel, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    radiomics oncology generative AI
  10. Augmented intelligence for multimodal virtual biopsy in breast cancer using generative artificial intelligence
    Aurora Rofena, Claudia Lucia Piccolo, Bruno Beomonte Zobel, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    oncology multimodal learning generative AI
  11. Hierarchical embedding attention for overall survival prediction in lung cancer from unstructured EHRs
    Domenico Paolo, Carlo Greco, Alessio Cortellini, Sara Ramella, Paolo Soda, Alessandro Bria, and Rosa Sicilia
    2025
    oncology foundation models generative AI
  12. Any-to-Any Vision-Language Model for Multimodal X-ray Imaging and Radiological Report Generation
    Daniele Molino, Francesco Di Feola, Linlin Shen, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    foundation models medical imaging generative AI
  13. Benchmarking GAN-Based vs Classical Data Augmentation on Biomedical Images
    Massimiliano Mantegna, Lorenzo Tronchin, Matteo Tortora, and Paolo Soda
    2025
  14. Whole-Body Image-to-Image Translation for a Virtual Scanner in a Healthcare Digital Twin
    Valerio Guarrasi, Francesco Di Feola, Rebecca Restivo, Lorenzo Tronchin, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    medical imaging generative AI
  15. Timing Is Everything: Finding the Optimal Fusion Points in Multimodal Medical Imaging
    Valerio Guarrasi, Klara Mogensen, Sara Tassinari, Sara Qvarlander, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    multimodal learning medical imaging
  16. Beyond unimodal analysis: Multimodal ensemble learning for enhanced assessment of atherosclerotic disease progression
    Valerio Guarrasi, Amanda Bertgren, Ulf Näslund, Patrik Wennberg, Paolo Soda, and Christer Grönlund
    2025
    multimodal learning clinical prediction
  17. A systematic review of intermediate fusion in multimodal deep learning for biomedical applications
    Valerio Guarrasi, Fatih Aksu, Camillo Maria Caruso, Francesco Di Feola, Aurora Rofena, Filippo Ruffini, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    multimodal learning
  18. Class balancing diversity multimodal ensemble for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and early detection
    Francesconi, Arianna, Lazzaro di Biase, Donato Cappetta, Rebecchi, Fabio, Paolo Soda, Rosa Sicilia, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    clinical prediction multimodal learning
  19. Texture-Aware StarGAN for CT data harmonization
    Francesco Di Feola, Pompilio, Ludovica, Cecilia Assolito, Valerio Guarrasi, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    generative AI medical imaging
  20. Multi-scale texture loss for CT denoising with GANs
    Francesco Di Feola, Lorenzo Tronchin, Valerio Guarrasi, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    generative AI radiomics
  21. MARIA: A multimodal transformer model for incomplete healthcare data
    Camillo Maria Caruso, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    multimodal learning foundation models clinical prediction
  22. Multimodal Doctor-in-the-Loop: A Clinically-Guided Explainable Framework for Predicting Pathological Response in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
    Alice Natalina Caragliano, Claudia Tacconi, Carlo Greco, Lorenzo Nibid, Edy Ippolito, Michele Fiore, Giuseppe Perrone, Sara Ramella, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    radiomics oncology multimodal learning
  23. Doctor-in-the-Loop: An explainable, multi-view deep learning framework for predicting pathological response in non-small cell lung cancer
    Alice Natalina Caragliano, Filippo Ruffini, Carlo Greco, Edy Ippolito, Michele Fiore, Claudia Tacconi, Lorenzo Nibid, Giuseppe Perrone, Sara Ramella, Paolo Soda, and 1 more author
    2025
    explainability oncology medical imaging
  24. Can Foundation Models Really Segment Tumors? A Benchmarking Odyssey in Lung CT Imaging
    Elena Mulero Ayllón, Massimiliano Mantegna, Linlin Shen, Paolo Soda, Valerio Guarrasi, and Matteo Tortora
    2025
    foundation models medical imaging
  25. Multi-stage intermediate fusion for multimodal learning to classify non-small cell lung cancer subtypes from CT and PET
    Fatih Aksu, Fabrizia Gelardi, Arturo Chiti, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    radiomics oncology multimodal learning
  26. Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Learning for COVID-19 Prognosis
    Filippo Ruffini, Lorenzo Tronchin, Zhuoru Wu, Wenting Chen, Paolo Soda, Linlin Shen, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2024
    COVID-19 clinical prediction multimodal learning
  27. A deep learning approach for virtual contrast enhancement in Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography
    Aurora Rofena, Valerio Guarrasi, Marina Sarli, Claudia Lucia Piccolo, Matteo Sammarra, Bruno Beomonte Zobel, and Paolo Soda
    2024
    medical imaging generative AI
  28. An optimized ensemble search approach for classification of higher-level gait disorder using brain magnetic resonance images
    Klara Mogensen, Valerio Guarrasi, Jenny Larsson, William Hansson, Anders Wåhlin, Lars‐Owe Koskinen, Jan Malm, Anders Eklúnd, Paolo Soda, and Sara Qvarlander
    2024
    medical imaging clinical prediction
  29. Multimodal explainability via latent shift applied to COVID-19 stratification
    Valerio Guarrasi, Lorenzo Tronchin, Domenico Albano, Eliodoro Faiella, Deborah Fazzini, Domiziana Santucci, and Paolo Soda
    2024
    explainability multimodal learning COVID-19
    MISE FAIR cebmi
  30. Multi input–Multi output 3D CNN for dementia severity assessment with incomplete multimodal data
    Michela Gravina, Ángel García‐Pedrero, Consuelo Gonzalo‐Martín, Carlo Sansone, and Paolo Soda
    2024
  31. Cross-Modality Calibration in Multi-Input Network for Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis Evaluation
    Michela Gravina, Domiziana Santucci, Ermanno Cordelli, Paolo Soda, and Carlo Sansone
    2024
    radiomics oncology multimodal learning
  32. Machine learning predicts pulmonary Long Covid sequelae using clinical data
    Ermanno Cordelli, Paolo Soda, Sara Citter, Elia Schiavon, Christian Salvatore, Deborah Fazzini, Greta Clementi, Michaela Cellina, Andrea Cozzi, Chandra Bortolotto, and 7 more authors
    2024
    clinical prediction
  33. A deep learning approach for overall survival prediction in lung cancer with missing values
    Camillo Maria Caruso, Valerio Guarrasi, Sara Ramella, and Paolo Soda
    2024
    clinical prediction oncology
  34. Toward a Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for Histological Subtype Classification in NSCLC
    Fatih Aksu, Fabrizia Gelardi, Arturo Chiti, and Paolo Soda
    2024
    oncology multimodal learning medical imaging
  35. Named Entity Recognition in Italian Lung Cancer Clinical Reports using Transformers
    Domenico Paolo, Alessandro Bria, Carlo Greco, Marco Russano, Sara Ramella, Paolo Soda, and Rosa Sicilia
    2023
    oncology foundation models medical imaging
  36. Early Experiences on using Triplet Networks for Histological Subtype Classification in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
    Fatih Aksu, Fabrizia Gelardi, Arturo Chiti, and Paolo Soda
    2023
    radiomics oncology medical imaging