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='''Paolo Zaffino'''=

='''Paolo Zaffino'''=

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Paolo Zaffino received both his master’s degree cum laude (2011) in Biomedical Engineering and his PhD degree (2015) in Bioengineering from Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro (Italy).

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Paolo Zaffino works as an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy.

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After 4 years (September 2015 - July 2019) as a PostDoc fellow and contractor Professor at the same University, since August 2019 he is assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering.

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At the same University, he earned his PhD in Biomedical and Computer Engineering and his Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering.

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During his PhD he was also a visiting fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, – Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA). His main topics of interest are in the field of medical image processing,

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Furthermore, during his PhD, he was a visiting PhD student at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.

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exploiting machine and deep learning techniques, for clinical applications in diagnosis, radiotherapy and image guided surgery.

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His research focuses on medical image processing for image-guided therapy and surgery, with a particular focus on radiotherapy and proton therapy.

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He attended several international conferences and workshops about these topics. His current international collaborations include Harvard Medical School, (Boston, USA), German Cancer Center –DKFZ (Heidelberg, Germany), University Medical Center Groningen - UMCG (Groningen, Netherlands) and University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology - UMIT (Hall in Tirol, Austria).

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In this regard, over the years, Paolo Zaffino has investigated and developed algorithms for deformable image registration, atlas-based segmentation, image translation, radiomics, and artificial intelligence applied to medical images.

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He is a member of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC) and of European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), where he was awarded with a travel grant for pursuing his research collaboration with UMCG.

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Since 2023, he has held the role of Visiting Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Guest Assistant Professor at the University Medical Center Groningen - UMCG (Groningen, The Netherlands).

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Paolo joined NAMIC community in 2013 and, in 2017, served as local organizing committee for the 25th Slicer Project Week, held in Catanzaro, Italy.

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In 2021, he received the title of "Honorary Research Fellow" from the Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering at University College London (UCL), London, UK. Current scientific collaborations also include Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), the German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ (Heidelberg, Germany), and the European Institute of Oncology - IEO (Milan).

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Paolo Zaffino has also contributed to the development of the open-source software Plastimatch, SlicerArduino, SlicerRT, Radiomics.jl, ITK, and SimpleITK.

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Awarded grants include a PNNR Next Generation EU project, the "European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Travel Fellowship 2019," the "Nvidia Grant 2018," and the "Amazon Web Services Research Grant 2014".

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Finally, Paolo Zaffino, a member of the editorial board of international peer-reviewed journals in the field (“Discover imaging” and “Neural Computing and Applications”), is also a member of the “National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC)” and the “Italian Association of Clinical Engineers”.

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=== Links: ===

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* [https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=lOvu6lAAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao Google scholar]

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*[https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=lOvu6lAAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao Google scholar]

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* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo_Zaffino Research gate]

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*[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo_Zaffino Research gate]

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* [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0219-0157 ORCID]

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*[https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0219-0157 ORCID]

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* [https://github.com/pzaffino GitHub]

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*[https://github.com/pzaffino GitHub]

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* [http://dmsc.unicz.it/personale/docente/paolozaffino University webpage]

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*[http://dmsc.unicz.it/personale/docente/paolozaffino University webpage]

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