Italian researcher @ CREF, former Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow. Myelin, white matter and zapping brains.

Roma, Lazio
Joined December 2009
Ten years (!) after submitting the grant, NextBrain is published in @Nature . NextBrain is a brain atlas built from 3D histology that enables segmentation of 3D brain scans (MRI, Hip-CT, even photos!) into hundreds of regions. Article, data, code, videos, & more in this 🧵 (1/3)
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Join us for BrainHack Rome 2025 😃 Where neuroscience meets open science, collaboration, and innovation. Let’s connect the dots between brain structure and function! 📅Save the date: 8-11 April 2025 📍Rome, Italy🇮🇹 🔗Further info: brainhackrome.github.io/ @ingmatman @MaryDrive
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After two years full of changes, I am happy to share that I have secured a permanent position at the Enrico Fermi Research Centre in Rome, with start date next week! Looking forward to even more MRI than ever 🧠 @cref_official #milestones
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After seven (7!) years of work with >20 researchers at 10 different institutions, we are super excited to release NextBrain, a next-gen probabilistic atlas of the human brain with 333 regions: github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextB… Preprint, data, code, videos, and much more in this 🧵(1/5)
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At this @GolgiBrain talk, @ingmatman @CUBRICcardiff addresses on linking #brain structure and #function: a tale of #space and #time. #imagimg
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Struggling storing/sharing large MRI datasets?🧠Check out our latest work on data compression with periodic activation networks: arxiv.org/abs/2208.01602 We found that this lossy compression can provide up to 10x extra compression, with (arguably) acceptable information loss (1/2)
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Replying to @CUBRICcardiff
@CUBRICcardiff brain quiz!! Thanks to @ingmatman and @MarcoPalombo3 for organizing it :D!!!
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Ongoing hacking at the #CONNECThon with super scanners, pocket MRI, self-made AI and some diffused relax 🧠🔬🧪🥼🥽 @MarcoPalombo3 @Dee_Kay_Jay @CUBRICcardiff
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Did anyone say FREE CONNECThon?? 🤑 Registrations are open! 📯 Come and hack with us right before @ISMRM at @CUBRICcardiff! 🎬 @cardiffuni #hackathon #mri #DeepLearning
📢CONNECThon updates! Website & preliminary program updated; FREE registration now open at connecthon.github.io Registrations will tell us how many participants to expect, so please register asap if you plan to join us 😊 👀on the website for future updates on the projects!
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Do you want to push the boundaries of what you can do with MRI scanners?🚀 Join us for the CONNECThon🧠🫀🫁 a hackathon event taking place in Cardiff right before ISMRM (4th-6th May)! Projects and info coming soon on connecthon.github.io @CUBRICcardiff @MarcoPalombo3
1\ Preprint from the IronTract Challenge!💉🧠 A 2-year effort in the tractography community to find optimal data analysis strategies for HCP-style, multi-shell dMRI & beyond: doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.17.4… Major undertaking by @chiaramff @Haber_Lab @QMENTA_Inc & all-⭐️ challenge teams:
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SynthSeg is now available in the development version of @FreeSurferMRI at surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/p…. You can simply run "synthseg --i in.nii --o out.nii" to segment brain MR of any resolution & contrast. Paper at arxiv.org/abs/2107.09559 With @LeemputKoen, @AdrianDalca, @BruceFischl
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Excited to have won the best paper award of @SashimiWorkshop 2021! We presented Synth-by-Reg, a contastive learning approach to image synthesis and registration (link.springer.com/chapter/10…) Thanks to all the organizers and participants for such a great workshop!
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Happy to share our latest: Dissecting whole-brain conduction delays through MRI microstructural measures rdcu.be/ct756 a huge thanks to co-authors @QiyuanTian Qiuyun Fan Mara Cercignani @SusieHuangMDPhD! A good read if you are into #brain #connectivity and #delays (1/3)
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Using high-gradient diffusion MRI, we looked at whole-brain conduction velocity/delay distributions and how they change w/ microstructure (axonal diameter & myelin) and connection lengths. Long story short: delays linearly scale with length, in line with direct stim studies (2/3)
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Do you want to dig into it beyond the paper? You are more than welcome to: both the connectivity matrices (doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.…) and the code (github.com/matteomancini/dis…) to replicate the results are publicly available! (3/3)
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What a last day of #BrainhackOHBM 2021 🌍 We hacked, we learned, and we made friends along the way 👯 A huge heartfelt thank you to everyone for making this year so much fun! 🥳 See you next week at #OHBM2021 @OHBM @OHBM_Trainees @brainhackorg #OpenCollaboration #OpenScience
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Another wonderful session in the books! Thanks @ingmatman & the whole @OhbmOpen team 🙏🏼Honestly, is there a better way to warm up for #OHBM2021 then this wonderful #brainhack? 🚀
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Eye opening to hear the team discuss all the unique potential and challenges of a highly singular project— from data and design to funding and publication 👀
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Without exaggerating, two of the best things that happened in my academic life during the past year @brainhack and @neuromatch - they come together! Don't miss this session at the OHBM Brainhack! #brainhack #notyourusualhackathon #neuromatch #nma #ohbm
#Brainhack Atlantis Update: Good morning & welcome back! ☕️☀️ We’re getting ready to bring @neuromatch back to the stage to start Day 2, now on the other side of the world! Join us in 30 min. @OHBM @OHBM_Trainees
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