Alberto De Luca
Ph.D. Student
delucaal@dei.unipd.it
+39-049-827-7640
Room 301 – 3rd floor – DEI/A
Short Bio
Alberto De Luca was born in Rovigo (Italy) in June 15, 1988. From the University of Padova he received a B.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2011, and a M.Sc. degree in Bioengineering in 2013. Both the Bachelor and Master Thesis regarded the analyis of biomedical image, in the first case acquired from confocal microscopy (supervised from Prof. E. Grisan), in the latter from Magnetic Resonance (supervised by Prof. A. Bertoldo).
Since 2014 he is a PhD Student in Bioengineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, in partnership with Scientific Institute IRCCS E. Medea, Bosisio Parini (LC), Italy. His research activities cover different topics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, as:
- geometrical analysis of the brain from high resolution T1w data, with particular attention to children affected by cortical malformations;
- Diffusion Weighted MRI (DW-MRI), both in terms of quantitative analysis aimed to clinical research and development of novel signal models;
- Muscoskeletal Imaging, including both morphologic acquisitions (T1w, T2w, multi-echo GRE based) and DW-MRI.
Selected Publications
All Publications
2015
Potential neuroirnaging biomarkers validated in Friedreich's ataxia: DTi and functional magnetic resonance findings Conference
Proceedings of the International Ataxia Research Conference 2015, 2015.
Fractal analysis of MRI data for the characterization of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder Journal Article
In: Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1697-1716, 2015.
Temporal lobe damage is linked to epilepsy in multiple sclerosis patients Conference
31st congress of the European committee for treatment and research in Multiple Sclerosis – ECTRIMS, Barcellona, Spain, 2015.
Tissue separation of multi-shell DW-MRI with a physiologically constrained multi compartment model and spherical deconvolution Conference
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 2015.
An automatic classificator based on local fractal features for the identification of cortical malformations Conference
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 2015.
Hippocampi and epilepsy in MS patients: a diffusion weighted imaging study with NODDI Conference
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 2015.
2014
Evaluation of brain complexity in psychiatric patients using fractal geometry Conference
Proceedings of the 23th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, vol. Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2014, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) ISMRM, 2014, (Oral Presentation).