Title: The new frontiers of Artificial intelligence in child neurology

Speaker: Giuseppina Sgandurra (Department of Clinical and experimental medicine, University of Pisa &  Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris)

Abstract

The use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare is growing, however there are very few studies focused on its use in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of neurodevelopmental disorders. A novel approach called REHANOSTIC (REHAbilitative and diagNOSTIC) will be presented, based on the four building blocks of personalized healthcare in which clinical, digital and neuroimaging data are combined to provide decision support tools for delivering personalized functional diagnosis and target rehabilitation. This approach, codeveloped in the framework of a big European project (www.aincp.eu) in children with cerebral palsy, the most common disability in childhood, is opening the frontiers of the use of AI in the field of child neurology.

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Speaker Bio

Giuseppina Sgandurra is an Associate Professor in Italy, Pisa, at Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa and Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris (FSM). Since 2019, she is the head of INNOVATE (INNOVATivE technologies in neurorehabilitation) Lab at FSM, a multiprofessional work lab composed by physicians, motor and speech therapists, psychologists and engineers. She is PI/CoPI of many national and international projects thanks to her strong expertise on elaborating new clinical and technological approaches for diagnosis and treatment of infants and children with motor developmental disorders and the personalization of assessment and rehabilitation, including tele-rehabilitation and the use of Artificial Intelligence.

She has a first honor degree cum laude in Medicine and Surgery in 2002 at University of Catania, and specialization cum laude in Child Neurology and Psychiatry in 2008 at University of Pisa. She received cum laude the PhD in New strategies in Biomedical Research from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, in 2012.

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