Speaker: Andrea Mario Vergani
17 Febbraio 2026 | 14:15
DEIB, Aula BIO1 (Ed. 21)
Per maggiori informazioni: Silvia Cascianelli | silvia.cascianelli@polimi.it
Sommario
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 at 2:15 pm a new appointment of Data Science Seminars: Bioinformatics focus will take place in DEIB BIO1 Room (Building 21) organized by the Data Science for Bioinformatics group.The seminar will be held by Andrea Mario Vergani, PhD student in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences, on the following subject: "Big healthcare data and cardiovascular risk: The role of complex modalities in disease prediction".
The growing availability of biobank-scale data offers invaluable opportunities for studying the impacts of big health data modalities on biological mechanisms and disease. The aim of the talk is to assess the relevance of multi-modal healthcare data in the cardiovascular field, and the opportunities to exploit novel features and the relationships between heterogeneous data sources towards personalized risk prediction.
Specifically, the first part of the talk will discuss how a cross-modal representation of cardiac imaging, electrocardiogram, and genetic data can predict the future occurrence of cardiovascular events, thus shedding light on the relevance of multi-modal integration of medical test data for risk definition. The second part, instead, will explore the role of unconventional phenotypes to predict incident disease, particularly focusing on deep representation learning-derived factors from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and single-nucleotide polymorphism data.