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most citedHierarchical 3D Feature Learning for Pancreas Segmentation

19 citations · 38 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CV2026

Retrieval-Augmented Visual Prompting: Guiding Foundation Models in Two-Photon Imaging

Salvatore Calcagno, Marco Finocchiaro, Giovanni Bellitto +3

Two-photon calcium imaging presents a challenging setting for foundation models: image appearance varies substantially across recordings and experimental conditions, annotations ar…

cs.CR2026

TrustErase: Auditable Instant Machine Unlearning with Passport-Embedded Representations

Rutger Hendrix, Leonardo G. Russo, Concetto Spampinato +2

The demand for privacy-compliant AI has amplified the need for machine unlearning; yet, existing retraining or distillation-based methods remain unverifiable and computationally co…

cs.LG2026

Routing without Forgetting

Alessio Masano, Giovanni Bellitto, Dipam Goswani +2

Continual learning in transformers is commonly addressed through parameter-efficient adaptation: prompts, adapters, or LoRA modules are specialized per task while the backbone rema…

cs.LG2026

Dream2Learn: Structured Generative Dreaming for Continual Learning

Salvatore Calcagno, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri +4

Continual learning requires balancing plasticity and stability while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Inspired by human dreaming as a mechanism for internal simulation and knowl…

cs.CV2025

DEXTER: Diffusion-Guided EXplanations with TExtual Reasoning for Vision Models

Simone Carnemolla, Matteo Pennisi, Sarinda Samarasinghe +5

Understanding and explaining the behavior of machine learning models is essential for building transparent and trustworthy AI systems. We introduce DEXTER, a data-free framework th…

cs.AI2025

Zero-Shot Decentralized Federated Learning

Alessio Masano, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri +2

CLIP has revolutionized zero-shot learning by enabling task generalization without fine-tuning. While prompting techniques like CoOp and CoCoOp enhance CLIP's adaptability, their e…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Pre-Forgettable Models: Prompt Learning as a Native Mechanism for Unlearning

Rutger Hendrix, Giovanni Patanè, Leonardo G. Russo +5

Foundation models have transformed multimedia analysis by enabling robust and transferable representations across diverse modalities and tasks. However, their static deployment con…

cs.LG2024

FedRewind: Rewinding Continual Model Exchange for Decentralized Federated Learning

Luca Palazzo, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri +3

In this paper, we present FedRewind, a novel approach to decentralized federated learning that leverages model exchange among nodes to address the issue of data distribution shift.…

cs.CV2024

Diffexplainer: Towards Cross-modal Global Explanations with Diffusion Models

Matteo Pennisi, Giovanni Bellitto, Simone Palazzo +2

We present DiffExplainer, a novel framework that, leveraging language-vision models, enables multimodal global explainability. DiffExplainer employs diffusion models conditioned on…

cs.CV2024

Selective Attention-based Modulation for Continual Learning

Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Matteo Pennisi +5

We present SAM, a biologically-plausible selective attention-driven modulation approach to enhance classification models in a continual learning setting. Inspired by neurophysiolog…

cs.NE2023

Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning

Amelia Sorrenti, Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri +3

We propose Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning (WSCL), a learning strategy leveraging Complementary Learning System theory and the wake-sleep phases of the human brain to improve the…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

A Privacy-Preserving Walk in the Latent Space of Generative Models for Medical Applications

Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto +3

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their ability to generate synthetic samples that match a target distribution. However, from a privacy perspective, using GA…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

On the Effectiveness of Equivariant Regularization for Robust Online Continual Learning

Lorenzo Bonicelli, Matteo Boschini, Emanuele Frascaroli +6

Humans can learn incrementally, whereas neural networks forget previously acquired information catastrophically. Continual Learning (CL) approaches seek to bridge this gap by facil…

cs.CV2023

TinyHD: Efficient Video Saliency Prediction with Heterogeneous Decoders using Hierarchical Maps Distillation

Feiyan Hu, Simone Palazzo, Federica Proietto Salanitri +4

Video saliency prediction has recently attracted attention of the research community, as it is an upstream task for several practical applications. However, current solutions are p…

cs.LG2022

Transfer without Forgetting

Matteo Boschini, Lorenzo Bonicelli, Angelo Porrello +5

This work investigates the entanglement between Continual Learning (CL) and Transfer Learning (TL). In particular, we shed light on the widespread application of network pretrainin…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

Neural Transformers for Intraductal Papillary Mucosal Neoplasms (IPMN) Classification in MRI images

Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto, Simone Palazzo +9

Early detection of precancerous cysts or neoplasms, i.e., Intraductal Papillary Mucosal Neoplasms (IPMN), in pancreas is a challenging and complex task, and it may lead to a more f…

cs.LG2022

Effects of Auxiliary Knowledge on Continual Learning

Giovanni Bellitto, Matteo Pennisi, Simone Palazzo +4

In Continual Learning (CL), a neural network is trained on a stream of data whose distribution changes over time. In this context, the main problem is how to learn new information…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

FedER: Federated Learning through Experience Replay and Privacy-Preserving Data Synthesis

Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto +4

In the medical field, multi-center collaborations are often sought to yield more generalizable findings by leveraging the heterogeneity of patient and clinical data. However, recen…

eess.IV2021★ 19 cited

Hierarchical 3D Feature Learning for Pancreas Segmentation

Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto, Ismail Irmakci +3

We propose a novel 3D fully convolutional deep network for automated pancreas segmentation from both MRI and CT scans. More specifically, the proposed model consists of a 3D encode…