BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications , with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of Trento with a grant funded by Apss through the NeuSurPlan project of the Autonomous Province of Trento, which is co-funded by Apss. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines clinical neuroscience, artificial intelligence and neuroanatomy, the research work was coordinated by Silvio Sarubbo, professor at the Center for Medical Sciences (Cismed), Cimec and the Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (Cibio) of UniTrento and director of the Neurosurgery Operating Unit of Santa Chiara Hospital in Trento; Paolo Avesani, head of the Neuroinformatics Laboratory (NILab) of the Center for Augmented Intelligence of Fondazione Bruno Kessler; and Laurent Petit, researcher at the University of Bordeaux. The collaboration between the Neurosurgery and Anatomical Pathology Operative Units, the latter led by Mattia Barbareschi, a professor at Cismed and the Cibio Department, played a crucial role, in particular for the laboratories and anatomical specimens that they made available.
Silvio Sarubbo explains the innovation that positions Trento as a global point of reference with an effective metaphor: the human brain is a world, and BraDiPho is a 3D map that enables professionals to identify the highways of brain functions and orient themselves with precision when preparing neurosurgical procedures or studying and teaching neuronal anatomy. This tool serves as a guide in white matter research, a field in which Italy and Europe are leaders, opening up new therapeutic perspectives both in neuro-oncology and in neuromodulation, "recognized as one of the new frontiers for the treatment of various neurological and psychiatric diseases."
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