7243 Sergio Di Bona

Dr. Sergio Di Bona is a senior software engineer of Dedalus S.p.A., Project Manager of the R&D Division of Dedalus S.p.A. He obtained his Ph.D. honours degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 2002. He performed his doctorate researches within a scientific collaboration with the Italian National Research Council, the Bavarian Research Centre for Knowledge Based Systems of Erlangen (FORWISS) and with the Chair of Pattern Recognition at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, working in the field of three-dimensional image segmentation and classification. He is now Project Manager of the R&D Division of Dedalus S.p.A., being in charge of both national and international research projects, and associate researcher at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council of Pisa (ISTI-CNR). His main interests include image understanding and pattern recognition, neural network applications in computer vision, 3D modelling and deformation analysis in the field of Medical Imaging, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery processes, biomedical informatics, domotics and telematics, telemedicine and intelligent computing. He is the author of several scientific papers and, at present, he is involved in several European projects mainly in the field of the e-health.