HEAD OF Digital Health, MeDiTech Institute
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Alessandro Puiatti

RESEARCH AREA AND MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS/TOPICS

The healthcare domain has been entering the digital era for many years now. Still, only recently it started to apply the digitalization of processes and services on a larger scale. A critical enabler is the increased availability of all kinds of health-related data. Digital Health is expected to grow in importance in the coming years, promising the possibility of enhancing the efficiency of healthcare delivery and making medicine more personalized and precise. It can empower consumers to make better-informed decisions about their health and provide new options for facilitating prevention, early diagnosis of life-threatening diseases, and managing chronic conditions outside traditional care settings.

In this respect, our main research interests are:

  • Data acquisition and analysis mainly in the field of neurodegenerative disease to support early diagnosis and personalized treatments;
  • Development of mobile health, personalized health, and telemedicine systems for acquiring and analyzing data to support treatment and diagnosis;
  • Development of systems to support data management, process optimization, and the improvement of care pathways in healthcare facilities.
PUBLICATIONS
  • Thenaisie Y, Lee K, Moerman C, Scafa S, Gálvez A, Pirondini E, Burri M, Ravier J, Puiatti A, Accolla E, Wicki B, Zacharia A, Castro Jiménez M, Bally JF, Courtine G, Bloch J, Moraud EM. Principles of gait encoding in the subthalamic nucleus of people with Parkinson’s disease. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Sep 7;14(661):eabo1800. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abo1800. Epub 2022 Sep 7. PMID: 36070366.
  • Raschellà, F., Scafa, S., Puiatti, A., Martin Moraud, E. and Ratti, P.-L. (2022), Actigraphy Enables Home Screening of Rapid Eye Movement Behavior Disorder in Parkinson’s Disease. Ann Neurol. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26517
  • M. Rezaei, M. C. Stevens, A. Argha, A. Mascheroni, A. Puiatti and N. H. Lovell, ”An Unobtrusive Human Activity Recognition System Using Low Resolution Thermal Sensors, Machine and Deep Learning,” in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2022.3186313
  • MascheroniA,ChoeE,LuoY,MarazzaM,FerlitoC,CaverzasioS,MezzanotteF,Kaelin-LangA,Faraci F, Puiatti A, Ratti P, ” The SleepFit Tablet Application for Home-Based Clinical Data Collection in Parkinson Disease: User-Centric Development and Usability Study” JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2021;9(6):e16304, DOI: 10.2196/16304
  • Capra, M.; Sapienza, S.; Motto Ros, P.; Serrani, A.; Martina, M.; Puiatti, A.; Bonato, P.; Demarchi, D. Assessing the Feasibility of Augmenting Fall Detection Systems by Relying on UWB-Based Position Tracking and a Home Robot. Sensors 202020, 5361. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20185361
  • P. L. Ratti, F. Faraci, S. Hackethal, A. Mascheroni, C. Ferlito, S. Caverzasio, N. Amato, E. K. Choe, Y. Luo, P. E. Nunes-Ferreira, S. Galati, A. Puiatti, A. Kaelin-Lang, ”A new prospective, home-based monitoring of motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease”, Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 2019
  • L. Fiorillo, A. Puiatti, M. Papandrea, P. L. Ratti, P. Favaro, C. Roth, P. Bargiotas, C. Bassetti, F. Faraci, ”Automated sleep scoring: A review of the latest approaches”, Journal of Sleep Medicine Review, 2019
  • N. Wedasingha, P. Samarasinghe, D. Singarathnam, M. Papandrea, A. Puiatti and L. Seneviratne, ”Child Head Gesture Classification through Transformers,” TENCON 2022 – 2022 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TENCON55691.2022.9977990
  • N. Wedasingha, P. Samarasinghe, L. Seneviratne, A. Puiatti, M. Papandrea and D. Dhanayaka, ”Skele- ton Based Periodicity Analysis of Repetitive Actions,” 2022 IEEE 7th International conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2CT54291.2022.9824090
  • S. Sguazza, A. Puiatti, S. Bernaschina, F. Faraci, G. Ramelli, V. D’Apuzzo, E. Rossini, M. Papan- drea, “Sensor data synchronization in a IoT environment for infants motricity measurement”, HealthyIoT – 6th EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, December 4-6, 2019, Braga, Portugal
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
  • Abreco
  • SNF
  • Innosuisse
  • Private foundations