IDEA

Digital twin research for next-generation lung cancer diagnosis, virtual treatment, and decision support.

IDEA

Research Project

IDEA

Digital twin research for next-generation lung cancer diagnosis, virtual treatment, and decision support.

Digital Twin Lung Cancer Care Clinical Decision Support

Overview

IDEA proposes AI-powered digital twins for next-generation lung cancer care. The project combines imaging, treatment information, data security, explainability, and ethics to support clinical decision-making for non-small cell lung cancer.

The technical programme covers radiological digital twins, virtual scans, virtual treatments, and AI methods that can support diagnosis and therapy planning while accounting for data governance and clinical usability.

Research Directions

  • Radiological digital twins for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment decision support.
  • Virtual scanning and virtual treatments for patient-specific clinical scenarios.
  • Data interfaces, security, explainability, fairness, and ethical analysis.

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. A Systematic Benchmark of GAN Architectures for MRI-to-CT Synthesis
    Alessandro Pesci, Valerio Guarrasi, Marco Alì, Isabella Castiglioni, and Paolo Soda
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.13520, 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. Longitudinal NSCLC Treatment Progression via Multimodal Generative Models
    Massimiliano Mantegna, Elena Mulero Ayllón, Alice Natalina Caragliano, Francesco Di Feola, Claudia Tacconi, Michele Fiore, Edy Ippolito, Carlo Greco, Sara Ramella, Philippe C. Cattin, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.06147, 2026
  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. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Benchmarking GAN-Based vs Classical Data Augmentation on Biomedical Images
    Massimiliano Mantegna, Lorenzo Tronchin, Matteo Tortora, and Paolo Soda
    2025
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Texture-Aware StarGAN for CT data harmonization
    Francesco Di Feola, Pompilio, Ludovica, Cecilia Assolito, Valerio Guarrasi, and Paolo Soda
    2025
    generative AI medical imaging
  15. MARIA: A multimodal transformer model for incomplete healthcare data
    Camillo Maria Caruso, Paolo Soda, and Valerio Guarrasi
    2025
    multimodal learning foundation models clinical prediction
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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