Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

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Biography

His clinical activity is focused on high resolution CT (HRCT). Routine clinical activity also includes evaluation of whole-body conventional radiography, CT, MRI and ultrasound examinations. Experience in emergency radiology.His research focuses upon the application of advanced lung and airway imaging methods to benign and malignant thoracic disorders.Specifically, he evaluates the effects of automatic analysis tools (CAD) on observer performance to detect and quantify lung diseases. Most of his research effort directed at quantifying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) components, integrating cardio-thoracic imaging, comparing imaging methods to assess the response of lung cancer to treatment and refine the imaging of conditions with vascular components. Since 2007, he has also been involved in the analysis of the CT data generated by the Multicentric Italian Lung Detection (MILD) trial, and this has resulted in a number of important scientific publications.At present, his main current research topics are the following: development of multidisciplinary systems to stratify risk of lung cancer, phenotyping of COPD, and evaluation of CT and MRI systems in pulmonary arterial hypertension. In addition, he has gained significant interest and expertise in interstitial lung disease, largely because of his attendance of the Royal Brompton Hospital (London) and the Vancouver General Hospital (Canada). He’s been also member of the core panel of the ATS/ERS update of the International Consensus Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias (2013) He has published 95 papers (at May 2014), written several chapters in radiology textbooks. He has held the position of Secretary General of the European Society of Thoracic imaging. He’s currently the Vice-President of the ESTI and member of the Fleischner Society.

Research Interest

Interstitial lung disease,Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,CT screening for lung cancer and Integrated cardio-thoracic imaging

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