Articles & abstracts

October 2016
Learning from a lot: Empirical Bayes in high-dimensional prediction settings
Submitted to “Statistical Science”
Authors: Van de Wiel MA, Münch M, Te Beest D


May 2016
Pre-surgical Assessment of Mandibular Bone Invasion from Oral Cancer: Comparison Between Different Imaging Techniques and Relevance of Radiologist Expertise
Submitted to “La Radiologia Medica” (official journal of The Italian Society of Medical Radiology)
Authors: Mario Silva, Eleonora I Zambrini, Gianfranco Chiari, Ilaria Montermini, Carmelinda Manna, Tito Poli, Davide Lanfranco, Enrico Sesenna, Elena Thai, Nicola Sverzellati
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May 2016
Information Technology for Medical Appropriateness Through Support Algorithms and Recovery of Patients’ Clinical History
Published in Scitepress – Science and Technology Publications . IProceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2016, Rome, Italy
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=YdzpjPtt6+Y{cbc2d05f4d7ba1a5ebf92c9270bdbee22deebb822af761a1ff2f743ee2338260}3d&t=1
Authors: Enrico Serracca Marco Brambilla Tito Poli and Elena Martinelli
University Hospital of PARMA, Italy
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February 2016
Beyond TNM staging system stratification in oral cancer patients: the OraMod project implements SNB technique
Authors: Lanfranco, D MD, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy – Rossi, S PhD, COMT Department, University of Parma, Parma, Italy – Bertani , N PhD, COMT Department, University of Parma, Parma, Italy – Sesenna, E Prof., University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy – Leemans, R Prof, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Van de Wiel, M Prof., VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Brakenhoff, RH Prof., VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Te Beest, D PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Mes, S PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Scheckenbach, K MD, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, H & N Surgery of the University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany – Silva, M MD, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy  – Jung, F MSc, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD – Wesarg, S PhD, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD – Poli, T Prof., University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
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January 2016
Applications of molecular diagnostics for personalized treatment of head and neck cancer: state of the art
Published on Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics – Volume 16, Issue 2, 2016
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1586/14737159.2016.1126512
Authors: Steven W. MesC. René Leemans  and Ruud H. Brakenhoff
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


September 2015
Better prediction by use of co-data: adaptive group-regularized ridge regression
Published on Stat Med. 2015 Sep 13. – www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26365903
Authors: Van de Wiel MA (1,2), Lien TG (3), Verlaat W (4), van Wieringen WN (1,2), Wilting SM (4).
1) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2) Department of Mathematics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3) Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
4) Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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May 2015
Proteoglycan-based diversification of disease outcome in head and neck cancer patients identifies NG2/CSPG4 and syndecan-2 as unique relapse and overall survival predicting factors
3rd May 2015 – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25935541
Authors: Anna Farnedi, Silvia Rossi, Nicoletta Bertani, Mariolina Gulli, Enrico Maria Silini, Maria Teresa Mucignat, Tito Poli, Enrico Sesenna, Davide Lanfranco, Lucio Montebugnoli, Elisa Leonardi, Claudio Marchetti, Renato Cocchi, Andrea Ambrosini-Spaltro, Maria Pia Foschini and Roberto Perris.
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May 2015
Degree Thesis “Oramod project – VPH based predictive model for oral cancer reoccurrence in the clinical practice”
Università degli Studi di Parma (Italy) – Maxillo-Facial Surgeon Department
Student: Dott. Davide Lanfranco
Supervisor: Prof. Sesenna Enrico
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March 2015
Research “p16 alterations in head and neck carcinoma” using the contributions of Neomark Project and OraMod project
Ferri A.; Poli T.; Lanfranco D.; Pizzi S.; Silini E.M.; Sesenna E.
Maxillo-Facial surgery section (University of Parma – Italy)
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September 2014
Risk stratification and prediction of locoregional recurrence in OSCC: the OraMark project up-dates and refines the Neomark project results
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February 2014
Personalized Articulated Atlas with a Dynamic Adaptation Strategy for Bone Segmentation in CT- or CT/MR- Head&Neck Images 
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February 2014
OralMod project. Helping clinicians predict oral cavity cancer reoccurrence
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