8:45 - 9:00
Opening
9:00 - 13:30
Session 1
Sala Bracci
chairs:
Luca Mesin
James Hughes
9:00 - 10:00
Keynote Lecture: Deep Learning for Biomedical Data
Pierre Baldi 
10:00 - 10:20
Preterm infants' limb-pose estimation from depth images using convolutional neural networks
Lucia Migliorelli
10:20 - 10:40
GMM Based Detection of Schizophrenia Using Eye Tracking
Filip Csoka
10:40 - 11:00
Using Heatmaps for Deep Learning based Disease Classification
Pierangela Bruno
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50
Integrating deep and radiomics features in cancer bioimaging
Nicole Bussola
11:50 - 12:10
Development of a Deep Learning Method to Predict Optimal Ablation Patterns for Atrial Fibrillation
Marica Muffoletto
12:10 - 12:30
Using Node-Based Resilience Clustering to Predict and Analyze Medical Data
John Matta
12:30 - 12:50
Improving the prediction of cardiovascular risk with machine-learning and DNA methylation data
Silvia Benevenuta
12:50 - 13:10
HealthVision: An interactive web based platform for healthcare data analysis and visualisation
Eleftheria Polychronidou
13:10 - 13:30
Comparative Analysis of Feature Selection Methods to Identify Biomarkers in a Stroke-Related Dataset
Thomas Clifford
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00
Session 2A
Sala Bracci
chair:
Eleftheria Polychronidou
15:00 - 15:20
A deep learning approach for length of stay prediction in clinical settings from medical records
Tahmina Zebin
15:20 - 15:40
Design and implementation of a deep recurrent model for prediction of readmission in urgent care using electronic health records
Tahmina Zebin
15:40 - 16:00
Assessment of Purposeful Movements for Post-Stroke Patients in Activites of Daliy Living with Werable Sensor Device
Abdul Haleem Butt
16:00 - 16:20
Multi-objective Optimization Approach to Find Biclusters in Gene Expression Data
Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi
16:20 - 16:40
Enhancement in Focality of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation through High Definition (HD) Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Techniques
Gauray Sharma
16:40 - 17:00
GameAAL - AAL solution based on Gamification and Machine Learning Techniques
Marta Pinto
Session 2B
Sala Veranda
chair:
Marco Masseroli
15:00 - 15:20
Predicting gene expression level in E. coli from mRNA sequence information
Emidio Capriotti
15:20 - 15:40
A multi-trait evaluation of network propagation for GWAS results
Peter Antal
15:40 - 16:00
A single-cell Systems Biology approach for disease-specific subpathway extraction
Aristidis Vrahatis
16:00 - 16:20
Visualizing High-Dimensional Single-Cell RNA-seq Data via Random Projections and Geodesic Distances
Aristidis Vrahatis
16:20 - 16:40
Analysis of Gene Variants for Functional Annotations
Hisham Al-Mubaid
16:40 - 17:00
A Predictive Model for Drug-Drug Interaction Using a Similarity Measure
Shrisha Rao
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:30
Tutorial
Sala Bracci
Francesca Finotello 
19:30 - 20:15
Short Poster Presentations
Sala Bracci
(5 minutes each)
- Dieter Langosch, Yao Xiao, Bo Zeng, Nicola Brenner, Dmitrij Frishman and Marc Teese
Experimental determination and data-driven prediction of homotypic transmembrane domain interfaces -
Luca Zanella, Pina Fusco, Maria Rosaria Esposito, Pierantonio Facco, Fabrizio Bezzo and Elisa Cimetta
A Data-Driven Approach to Assess the Role of Neuroblastoma-Derived Exosomes in Cancer Dissemination -
Quan Gu and Jonathan Lim
A Bi-clustering of metabolic data and an R package for metabolic bicluster analysis -
Antonio Pallotti, Emanuela Tagliente and Leandro Lucangeli
A 5G monitoring system through wearable sensors and machine learning for personalized medicine -
Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina, Alexandra Wojaczek, Mohammed Gasmallah, Hedi Zhou, Dr. Farhana Zulkernine and Dr. Myron Szewczuk
Image Object Detection Facilitates the Study of Fucosylation in
Multicellular Tumour Spheroids -
Pasquale Fedele, Chiara Fedele, Fabio Giannini and Alessandra Rufa
A platform for biofeedback signals analysis -
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq and Fajar Arshad
A convolutional neural network approach for predicting oncogenes using sequence statistical moments into PseAAC -
Akil Loumani, Brahem Chaouch Wafa, Larbi Ahmed Amine, Mediani Ahmed, Bensoltane Ahmed and Bekada Ahmed Mohamed Ali
Rep PCR Characterization of lactic acid bacteria isolated from sheep’s milk in Algeria and assessment their potential probiotics
BBTC Meeting
Sala Veranda
20:30 - 22:30
Dinner & Poster Session
8:40 - 15:20
Session 3
Sala Bracci
chairs:
John Matta
Emidio Capriotti
8:40 - 9:40
Keynote Lecture: Data integration strategies to support clinical research
Riccardo Bellazzi 
9:40 - 10:00
Pandemic: A Graph Evolution Story
Sheridan Houghten
10:00 - 10:20
Descriptive Symbolic Models of Gaits from Parkinson's Disease Patients
James Hughes
10:20 - 10:40
Implementing Phenotypic Plasticity with an Adaptive Generative Representation
Daniel Ashlock
10:40 - 11:00
FRI - Feature Relevance Intervals for Interpretable and Interactive Data Exploration
Lukas Pfannschmidt
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:50
Compression of Biological Networks using a Genetic Algorithm with Localized Merge
Joseph Alexander Brown
11:50 - 12:10
Large Block Matching Characters for Dehydrin Classification
Daniel Ashlock
12:10 - 12:30
ATLAS: a Robust Algorithm for Temporal Sequence Alignment of Treatment Lines using Claim Databases
Martin Prodel
12:30 - 12:50
Identification of optimal surgical intervention for Chiari I malformation
Luca Mesin
12:50 - 13:10
Detection and Assessment of Encephalitis from EEG
Luca Mesin
13:10 - 14:40
Lunch Break
14:40 - 15:00
Cancer Classification using improved Extreme Learning Machine
Swati Vipsita
15:00 - 15:20
FF SVM: New FireFly based Gene Selection Algorithm for Microarray Cancer Classification
Hala Alshamlan
15:30 - 23:00
8:40 - 13:10
Session 4
Sala Bracci
chair:
Peter Antal
8:40 - 9:40
Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez Garcia 
9:40 - 10:00
Biological Random Walks: integrating heterogeneous data in disease gene prioritization
Leonardo Martini
10:00 - 10:20
Genotype Combinations Linked to Phenotype Subgroups in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi
10:20 - 10:40
Non-negative Matrix Tri-Factorization for Data Integration and Network-based Drug Repositioning
Gaia Ceddia
10:40 - 11:00
A Multiobjective Approach to Classification in Drug Discovery
Michael Emmerich
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50
LErNet: characterization of lncRNAs via context-aware network expansion and enrichment analysis
Vincenzo Bonnici
11:50 - 12:10
Evaluating Pruning Methods in Gene Network Inference
Michael Saint-Antoine
12:10 - 12:30
Statistical Representation Models for Mutation Information within Genomic Data
Nuriye Özlem Özcan Şimşek
12:30 - 12:50
Optimum Window Size and Overlapping for Efficient Seizure Prediction
Behrooz Abbaszadeh
12:50 - 13:10
Gene Mutation Analysis for Functional Annotations Using Graph Heuristics
Hisham Al-Mubaid
13:10 - 14:40
Lunch Break
14:40 - 15:00
Session 5
Sala Bracci
chairs:
Emanuele Domenico Giordano
Simone Furini
14:40 - 15:00
Data Science for Vaccines R&D
Duccio Medini
15:00 - 17:50
Session 5A
Sala Bracci
chair:
Emanuele Domenico Giordano
15:00 - 15:20
Information content analysis reveals desirable aspects of in vivo experiments of a synthetic circuit
David Gomez-Cabeza
15:20 - 15:40
ProCell: Investigating cell proliferation with Swarm Intelligence
Marco S. Nobile
15:40 - 16:00
Automatic parameterization of the purine metabolism pathway through discrete event-based simulation
Simone Caligola
16:00 - 16:20
In silico simulations reveal a causative link between increased glycolysis and metabolic reprogramming in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Roberto Pagliarini
16:20 - 16:50
Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:10
Determining structural parameter identifiability in biological dynamical models by analysing the statistical properties of the likelihood behavior
Angela Re
17:10 - 17:30
Volumetric Representation of Biomolecules Using Cell Decomposition and Robotics
Mahendra Kumar Gohil
17:30 - 17:50
Structural Prediction of RNA Loops by Simulated Annealing
Mahendra Kumar Gohil
Session 5B
Sala Veranda
chair:
Simone Furini
15:00 - 15:20
A Probabilistic Programming Approach to Protein Structure Superposition
Lys Sanz Moreta
15:20 - 15:40
Predicting the Functions of Proteins from their Co-occurrences with Implicit and Explicit Functional Terms in Texts
Kamal Taha
15:40 - 16:00
Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Global Alignment of Protein-Protein Interaction Network
Qanita Bani Baker
16:00 - 16:20
Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions based on Biological Information using Extreme Gradient Boosting
Paolo Valdez
Jerome Cary Beltran
16:20 - 16:50
Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:10
Interactions between Inter Partes Review and Hatch-Waxman Litigations
Feng-Chi Chen
17:10 - 17:30
Constructing a Semantic Graph with Depression Symptoms Extracted from Twitter
Long Ma
17:30 - 17:50
A Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Used for Feature Selection of UCI Biomedical Data Sets
Talha Ali Khan
18:00 - 18:15
Best Paper Award Announcement & Closing
Sala Bracci
18:15 - 20:00
Free Time
20:00 - 22:00
Dinner