FONDAZIONE

International Center of Computational Neurophotonics

Maria Chiara Pettenati, Program Manager

ICOST 2012 @ Artimino, Italy

Founders

Fondazione per la Ricerca e

Innovazione dell’Università di

Firenze (FRI)

Laboratorio Europeo di

Spettroscopie non Lineari

Fondazione IBM Italia (FIMB)

Human Connectome

1011 Neurons

1015 Connections

The connectomics challenge

• Build models to simulate and understand the human brain in terms of

• Links• Elements types

Structure

• How the signals propagateFunctionnality

• Capacity to react to an external perturbationPlasticity

302 neuronsC. Elegans

www.wormatlas.org

ICON’s Mission • Use opitcal imaging technologies

and distributed computational intelligence facilities to contribute to the science of “connectomics”

• Apply of the knowledge derived from the connectomics to solve problems in:

• Complex & distributed systems

Non profit foundation

Technology transfer

Applied research

Fundamental research

• Complex & distributed networks

• connectomics

ICON’s activities

Learning from the brain

Current activities

FOUNDATION

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS AI

TO SUPPORT HEART FAILURE TELECARE SERVICES

In collaboration with

DET (Electronics and Telecommunications Dept.) Faculty of Engineering, University of Firenze

&

Cardiology, Hospital Santa Maria Nuova, Firenze

APIAANATOMIC PATHOLOGIST INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT

APIA (Anatomic Pathologist Intelligent Assistant) is a two-years project recently funded by Ente Cassa di Risparmio.

APIA intelligent system aims at performing an automatic pre-screening of high resolution digital images of urine cytology to detect the presence of cancerous cells.

This project is participated by Sardegna Ricerche, IBM competence center Cagliari and Azienda ospedaliera universitaria di Firenze.

BIG DATA ANALYTICS

Data processing, data mining, knowledge extraction/acceleration, stream computing, DeepQA (Watson)

Connectome Project (consorzio connettoma)

Cardiology (Heart Failure Prediction)

Neuro-omics (Besta)

Human Brain Project

Pharmaceutical data (Novartis)

‘S NETWORK

ICON is coordinating a consortium on the connectome reconstruction (CINECA and other universities)

LENS is Co-director of the pillar neuroscience and WP Leader of the Imaging technologies of the Human Brain Project (HBP) (sponsorship of Cineca for supercomputing and repository in the HBP)

LENS is a European facility of EurobioImaging

LENS is a facility of Laserlab Europe and is coordinating the european network of facilities in bio-imaging

ICON’s international nework

Enterprises

• Negentis• Novartis• I+

Organizations /centers

• CINECA• ISTITUTO BESTA• Regione Toscana• Regione Abruzzo• Ospedale Santa Maria

Nuova• Ospedale Careggi

Universities

• Neurobio@UNIFI• DET@UNIFI• DSI@UNIFI• UCBM• UniFe• UniMORE

Poles

• ICT• Life Science• Energia• Polis

ICON’s national nework

International Center of Computational Neurophotonics

Maria Chiara Pettenati, Program Managermc.pettenati@iconfoundation.net

Artimino June 2012