NATURE METHODS - NEW PUBLICATION 2021!

The fourth publication of my life in a Nature journal! :o) :o) :o)

Official link with open access PDF:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01291-4

 NatureMethods2021

 


FUTURE SCIENCE - FUTURE STAR AWARD 2021

Finalist (one of the 4 in the world) selected by the scientific committee composed of Editors and researchers of the publisher “Future Science” which publishes prestigious scientific journals including BioTechniques:

https://www.biotechniques.com/interview/future-science-future-star-finalist-filippo-piccinini/

Corriere di Faenza, Corriere di Ravenna, Il Piccolo, Buonsenso Faenza, FaenzaNetTV, Ravenna24Ore.it and Forli24Ore created articles and interviews about it. Here the links and some images:

https://www.ravenna24ore.it/notizie/sanita/2021/08/30/un-bioingegnere-romagnolo-candidato-a-un-prestigioso-premio/

https://www.corriereromagna.it/meldola-bioingegnere-dell-irst-candidato-a-premio-scientifico/

 

 

 


FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

We just published an important article on SENSORS, where we quantitatively demonstrated that the "working distance", "angle of inclination", and "light conditions" can strongly impact temperature measurements obtained with the contactless infrared thermometers commonly used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ravenna24Ore.it and Forli24Ore created a small interview about it. Here the links of the post:

https://www.ravenna24ore.it/notizie/sanita/2021/06/03/covid-i-misuratori-di-temperatura-ad-infrarossi-sono-cosi-affidabili/

https://www.forli24ore.it/notizie/sanita/2021/06/03/covid-i-misuratori-di-temperatura-ad-infrarossi-sono-cosi-affidabili/

 

 


SPECIAL ISSUE, SENSORS (Q1, JCR IF2019: 3.275), 03/11/2020-31/08/2021

Dear Researcher,

The journal Sensors is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Computer Vision and Sensors Innovations for Microscopy Imaging Applications” (Guest Editors: Filippo Piccinini, Antonella Carbonaro, Peter Horvath, Gastone Castellani) which is now open for submissions:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Microscopy_Imaging

Both review articles and original research papers are solicited. For this purpose, this Special Issue will be conducted under, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Computer vision
- Microscopy
- Novel imaging and sensing
- Imaging technology for biomedical applications
- Software development
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Segmentation, tracking, and classification
- Image processing
- Signal processing

The submission deadline is 31 August 2021. You may send your manuscript any time now until the deadline.
The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs).

Please feel free to contact me with any questions (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Filippo Piccinini
Guest Editor

 

 


OCTOBER 22, 2020, "1ST NEXT GENERATION GISM"

- Irene Berlotto, Abano Terme
- Andrea Grosso, Basilea
- Ana Ivanovska, Galway
- Carlotta Perucca Orfei, Milano
- Filippo Piccinini, Meldola
- Serena Vella, Milano

...the future of GISM (Gruppo Italiano Staminali Mesenchimali) is in good hands! ;o) 

Video (to see it click on the image and register) of the 1st "Next Generation GISM live webinar":

 

 


JANUARY 20, 2020, "UICC AWARD 2019"

"The only European awarded by the Union International Cancer Control (UICC) is Filippo Piccinini from Faenza (Ravenna, Italy)!"
"Only 5 worldwide have been awarded!"
"A hope for the future of cancer research!"
Official website of "Ravenna 24 ore": News in Ravenna 24 ore
Official website of "ItaliaOnLine": News in ItaliaOnLine
Official website of "Il Buon Senso": News in Il Buon Senso

 


NOVEMBER 29, 2019, "SAGRA DEL TORTELLONE SAN PATRIZIESE"

I was invited by the organizers of the "Sagra del Tortellone San Patriziese" to give a final talk at the charity dinner that anticipated a very important donation to the Istituto Oncologico Romagnolo (IOR)
Official website of "Ravenna Today": News in Ravenna Today
Official website of "Ravenna Web TV": News in Ravenna Web TV
Official website of "Ravenna Notizie": News in Ravenna Notizie

 


NOVEMBER 19, 2018, "SAGRA DEL TORTELLONE SAN PATRIZIESE"

I was invited by the organizers of the "Sagra del Tortellone San Patriziese" to give a final talk at the charity dinner that anticipated a very important donation to the Istituto Oncologico Romagnolo (IOR)
Official website of "Ravenna Today": News in Ravenna Today
Official website of "Facebook": News in Facebook

 


OCTOBER 10, 2018, ECHO OF THE PUBLICATION IN "NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY"

Nice interviews in "Resto del Carlino", "Forlì Today", and other newspapers of my land!
Official website of "Sesto Potere": News in Sesto Potere
Official website of "Resto del Carlino": News in Resto del Carlino
Official website of "Forlì Today": News in Forly Today
Official website of "E-R Salute": News in E-R Salute
Official website of "Buon Senso Faenza": News in Buon Senso Faenza
Official website of "Ingegneria Biomedica": News in www.ingegneriabiomedica.org

 


DECEMBER 31, 2017, NEW YEAR'S PARTY 2018

Not just science, but also "public speaker" for... :o)
Forli, December 31, 2017, New Year's Party 2018, "Pepper Disco".

 

 

 


FameLab TALKING SCIENCE COMPETITION 2017

Roma, 12th May 2017. I was selected as one of the 20 national finalists.

Title: "The APP-man (EN)", "L'APPologo (IT)". Filippo's presentation (3 minutes):

 

 

 


FameLab TALKING SCIENCE COMPETITION 2017: WINNER OF THE LOCAL SELECTION!

Modena, Rocca di Vignola, 24th March 2017. I won the local selection! The award is a 3-day course (all expenses paid!) with Theatre Directors and other famous public speakers for improving my public speaking, and the access to the national final!

Official website: FameLab Italia
Modena Today: See news


 


NOVEMBER 8, 2016: PROF. UMBERTO VERONESI, A GREAT MAN AND RESEARCHER

Today, Tuesday 8th November 2016, Prof. Veronesi has left us.
He was a great Italian oncologist and politician, well known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer.

I meet Prof. Veronesi for the first time during the Conference: Future of Science, September 16-18, 2012, Venice.
I would like to thank you again...

 

 


FEBRUARY 2016: WINNER OF A FEBS SHORT TERM FELLOWSHIP

I'm happy to announce that the project I submitted to FEBS has been granted!


I will be again four months in the research group of Prof. Peter Horvath (Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary)!

 

 


Public Event: "THE RESEARCHERS' NIGHT 2015"

Bologna, 25th September 2015. The researchers meet the citizens: public demonstration of some research activities.
Official website: "Notte Europea dei Ricercatori"

Presentation's title: "The world of the infinitely small", by Filippo Piccinini and Davide Angeli:

 

 

 


MAY 2015: WINNER OF A EMBO SHORT TERM FELLOWSHIP

I'm happy to announce that the project I submitted to EMBO has been granted!


I will be in the research group of Prof. Peter Horvath (Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary),
to work two months and half for developing CellTracker, a free open-source software for tracking living cells in vitro.

What is Celltracker? I'll explain it with this fantastic video (turn up the sound volume)!!!

 

 

 


A NICE STORY IN MY LIFE

This is a nice story regarding the topic “Illumination Correction in Microscopy”, that started precisely in 2009 when I was 24 years old, with my master thesis:
“F. Piccinini, A. Bevilacqua, M. Ursino, E. Lucarelli, Algorithm for the building mosaics of images regarding adherent live stem cells, 14th October 2009, Biomedical Engineering, University of Bologna”.

After two years, it brought me to a contribution in a conference:
“A. Bevilacqua, F. Piccinini, A. Gherardi, Vignetting correction by exploiting an optical microscopy image sequence. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Boston, USA, August 30 – September 3, 2011, pp. 6166—6169”.

Then to an article in Journal of Microscopy:
“F. Piccinini, E. Lucarelli, A. Gherardi and A. Bevilacqua, Multi-image based method to correct vignetting effect in light microscopy images. Journal of Microscopy, 248(1):6-22, October 2012.”.

In 2013 it led to a second conference contribution:
“F. Piccinini, A. Bevilacqua, K. Smith, P. Horvath, Vignetting and photo-bleaching correction in automated fluorescence microscopy from an array of overlapping images. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), San Francisco, CA, USA, April 7-11, 2013, pp. 464 – 467”.

And finally:
“K. Smith, Y. Li, F. Piccinini, G. Csucs, C. Balazs, A. Bevilacqua and P. Horvath, CIDRE: An illumination correction method for optical microscopy. Nature Methods, 12(5):404-406, May 2015”!

“Life is strange, but… it is always beautiful! Remember, smile! ;o)”

Pdf of the CIDRE article offically available at: Nature Methods website

 

 


FameLab TALKING SCIENCE COMPETITION 2015

Bologna, 11th March 2015. I was selected as one of the 10 local finalists (36 candidates).
Official website: FameLab Bologna

Full TV registration of the show: YouTube link (1.5 hours)

Filippo's presentation (3 minutes):

 

 


FILIPPO'S SPEECH AT THE CEREMONY FOR THE DOCTORAL DEGREE

University of Bologna, June 21, 2013. My speech followed the ones of the Magnifico Rettore,
Mayor of Bologna, Dr. Daniela Bolzani and preceded the speech of the President of the Italian
National Research Council and the nomination of the 350 PhD Students present.

In follow the links to some national newspapers or institutions that have mentioned my speech:
Mention in: Il Resto Del Carlino (1) (2)
Mention in: La Repubblica
Mention in: ARCES, University of Bologna
Mention in: IOR NEWS

Official video of the speech of Filippo Piccinini.
Official video of the Ceremony Introduction. I entered around minute 10:20.
Official video of the speech of Magnifico Rettore Ivano Dionigi.
Official video of the speech of Mayor of Bologna Virginio Merola.
Official video of the speech of Dr. Daniela Bolzani.
Official video of the speech of President of CNR Luigi Nicolais.
Official video of the graduation (Students with surname A-L).
Official video of the graduation (Students with surname M-Z). I entered around minute 08:40.

Furthermore, I acquired this video using my personal digital camera:

 

 

 


IMAGE ELABORATION, WHY???

This presentation is an easy and funny way to answer those who ask me why and what I do in my work!!

 

 

 


ADVANCE PROJECT

In collaboration CVG - IOR (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna). Demo of a standard working day in the Laboratory of Dr. Enrico Lucarelli. Movie made by Computer Vision Group.

 

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