Federico Bolelli

Journal Articles

2025

Taming Mambas for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
L. Lumetti, K. Marchesini, V. Pipoli, E. Ficarra, C. Grana, F. Bolelli
IEEE Access.
State-of-the-art review and benchmarking of barcode localization methods
E. Vezzali, F. Bolelli, S. Santi, C. Grana
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

2024

Segmenting the Inferior Alveolar Canal in CBCTs Volumes: the ToothFairy Challenge
F. Bolelli, L. Lumetti, S. Vinayahalingam, [...], A. Anesi, C. Grana
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
MedShapeNet – a large-scale dataset of 3D medical shapes for computer vision
J. Li, [...], F. Bolelli, C. Grana, L. Lumetti, [...], J. Egger
Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizinische Technik.
Enhancing Patch-Based Learning for the Segmentation of the Mandibular Canal
L. Lumetti, V. Pipoli, F. Bolelli, E. Ficarra, C. Grana
IEEE Access.
A State-of-the-Art Review with Code about Connected Components Labeling on GPUs
F. Bolelli, S. Allegretti, L. Lumetti, C. Grana
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

2023

Inferior Alveolar Canal Automatic Detection with Deep Learning CNNs on CBCTs: Development of a Novel Model and Release of Open-Source Dataset and Algorithm
M. Di Bartolomeo, A. Pellacani, F. Bolelli, [...], C. Grana, A. Anesi
Applied Sciences.
A Graph-Based Multi-Scale Approach with Knowledge Distillation for WSI Classification
G. Bontempo, F. Bolelli, A. Porrello, S. Calderara, E. Ficarra
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Artificial intelligence evaluation of confocal microscope prostate images: our preliminary experience
G. Bianchi, S. Puliatti, N. Rodriguez, S. Micali, L. Bertoni, L. Reggiani Bonetti, S. Caramaschi, F. Bolelli, M. Pinamonti, D. Rozze, C. Grana
Minerva Urology and Nephrology.

2022

Automated Prediction of Kidney Failure in IgA Nephropathy with Deep Learning from Biopsy Images
F. Testa, F. Fontana, F. Pollastri, [...], F. Bolelli, [...], C. Grana, R. Magistroni
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Deep Segmentation of the Mandibular Canal: a New 3D Annotated Dataset of CBCT Volumes
M. Cipriano, S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, [...], A. Anesi, C. Grana
IEEE Access.

2021

A Deep Analysis on High Resolution Dermoscopic Image Classification
F. Pollastri, M. Parreño, J. Maroñas, F. Bolelli, R. Paredes, D. Ramos, C. Grana
IET Computer Vision.
One DAG to Rule Them All
F. Bolelli, S. Allegretti, C. Grana
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

2020

Evaluation of the Classification Accuracy of the Kidney Biopsy Direct Immunofluorescence through Convolutional Neural Networks
G. Ligabue, F. Pollastri, [...], F. Bolelli, C. Grana, R. Magistroni
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

2019

Spaghetti Labeling: Directed Acyclic Graphs for Block-Based Connected Components Labeling
F. Bolelli, S. Allegretti, L. Baraldi, C. Grana
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Optimized Block-Based Algorithms to Label Connected Components on GPUs
S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
Augmenting Data with GANs to Segment Melanoma Skin Lesions
F. Pollastri, F. Bolelli, R. Paredes, C. Grana
Multimedia Tools and Applications.

2018

M-VAD Names: a Dataset for Video Captioning with Naming
S. Pini, M. Cornia, F. Bolelli, L. Baraldi, R. Cucchiara
Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal.
Towards reliable experiments on the performance of Connected Components Labeling algorithms
F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, L. Baraldi, C. Grana
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing.

Conference Papers

2025

MISSRAG: Addressing the Missing Modality Challenge in Multimodal Large Language Models
V. Pipoli, A. Saporita, F. Bolelli, M. Cornia, L. Baraldi, C. Grana, R. Cucchiara, E. Ficarra
ICCV - Honolulu, Hawaii.
Enhancing Testicular Ultrasound Image Classification through Synthetic Data and Pretraining Strategies
N. Morelli, K. Marchesini, L. Lumetti, C. Grana, F. Bolelli
ICIAP - Rome, Italy.
Update Your Transformer to the Latest Release: Re-Basin of Task Vectors
F. Rinaldi, G. Capitani, L. Bonicelli, A. Porrello, D. Crisostomi, F. Bolelli, E. Rodolà, E. Ficarra, S. Calderara
ICML - Vancouver, Canada.
IM-Fuse: A Mamba-based Fusion Block for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Incomplete Modalities
V. Pipoli, A. Saporita, K. Marchesini, C. Grana, E. Ficarra, F. Bolelli
MICCAI - Daejeon, South Korea.
Mosaic-SR: An Adaptive Multi-step Super-Resolution Method for Low-Resolution 2D Barcodes
E. Vezzali, L. Vorabbi, C. Grana, F. Bolelli
ICIP - Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
U-Net Transplant: The Role of Pre-training for Model Merging in 3D Medical Segmentation
L. Lumetti, G. Capitani, E. Ficarra, C. Grana, S. Calderara, A. Porrello, F. Bolelli
MICCAI - Daejeon, South Korea.
Segmenting Maxillofacial Structures in CBCT Volumes
F. Bolelli, K. Marchesini, N. van Nistelrooij, L. Lumetti, V. Pipoli, E. Ficarra, S. Vinayahalingam, C. Grana
CVPR - Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Emergency Department Prolonged Length of Stay: A Case Study from Italy
P. Perliti, A. Giovanetti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
IHSI - Rome, Italy. (Oral)
Semantically Conditioned Prompts for Visual Recognition under Missing Modality Scenarios
V. Pipoli, F. Bolelli, S. Sarto, M. Cornia, L. Baraldi, C. Grana, R. Cucchiara, E. Ficarra
WACV - Tucson, Arizona.
Towards Unbiased Continual Learning: Avoiding Forgetting in the Presence of Spurious Correlations
G. Capitani, L. Bonicelli, A. Porrello, F. Bolelli, S. Calderara, E. Ficarra
WACV - Tucson, Arizona.
Accurate 3D Medical Image Segmentation with Mambas
L. Lumetti, V. Pipoli, K. Marchesini, E. Ficarra, C. Grana, F. Bolelli
ISBI - Huouston, Texas, USA.

2024

BarBeR: A Barcode Benchmarking Repository
E. Vezzali, F. Bolelli, S. Santi, C. Grana
ICPR - Kolkata, India.
Investigating the ABCDE Rule in Convolutional Neural Networks
F. Bolelli, L. Lumetti, K. Marchesini, E. Candeloro, C. Grana
ICPR - Kolkata, India.
Identifying Impurities in Liquids of Pharmaceutical Vials
G. Rosati, K. Marchesini, L. Lumetti, F. Sartori, B. Balboni, F. Begarani, L. Vescovi, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
ICPR - Kolkata, India.
Location Matters: Harnessing Spatial Information to Enhance the Segmentation of the Inferior Alveolar Canal in CBCTs
L. Lumetti, V. Pipoli, F. Bolelli, E. Ficarra, C. Grana
ICPR - Kolkata, India.
ClusterFix: A Cluster-Based Debiasing Approach without Protected-Group Supervision
G. Capitani, F. Bolelli, A. Porrello, S. Calderara, E. Ficarra
WACV - Hawaii, USA.

2023

DAS-MIL: Distilling Across Scales for MIL Classification of Histological WSIs
G. Bontempo, A. Porrello, F. Bolelli, S. Calderara, E. Ficarra
MICCAI - Vancouver, Canada. (Oral)
Buffer-MIL: Robust Multi-instance Learning with a Buffer-based Approach
G. Bontempo, L. Lumetti, A. Porrello, F. Bolelli, S. Calderara, E. Ficarra
ICIAP - Udine, Italy.
Annotating the Inferior Alveolar Canal: the Ultimate Tool
L. Lumetti, V. Pipoli, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
ICIAP - Udine, Italy.
Enhancing PFI Prediction with GDS-MIL: A Graph-based Dual Stream MIL Approach
G. Bontempo, N. Bartolini, M. Lovino, F. Bolelli, A. Virtanen, E. Ficarra
ICIAP - Udine, Italy.

2022

Improving Segmentation of the Inferior Alveolar Nerve through Deep Label Propagation
M. Cipriano, S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, F. Pollastri, C. Grana
CVPR - New Orleans, USA.
Connected Components Labeling on Bitonal Images
F. Bolelli, S. Allegretti, C. Grana
ICIAP - Lecce, Italy.

2021

Fast Run-Based Connected Components Labeling for Bitonal Images
W. Lee, S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
IVPR - Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. (Oral)
Long-Range 3D Self-Attention for MRI Prostate Segmentation
F. Pollastri, M. Cipriano, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
ISBI - Kolkata, India.
A Cone Beam Computed Tomography Annotation Tool for Automatic Detection of the Inferior Alveolar Nerve Canal
C. Mercadante, M. Cipriano, F. Bolelli, F. Pollastri, M. Di Bartolomeo, A. Anesi, C. Grana
VISAPP - Vienna, Austria.
The DeepHealth Toolkit: A Unified Framework to Boost Biomedical Applications
M. Cancilla, L. Canalini, F. Bolelli, [...], J.A. Gómez, S. Leo, M.E. Piras, L. Pireddu, A. Badouh, S. Marco-Sola, L. Alvarez, M. Moreto, C. Grana
ICPR - Milan, Italy.
A Heuristic-Based Decision Tree for Connected Components Labeling of 3D Volumes
M. Söchting, S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
ICPR - Milan, Italy.
Supporting Skin Lesion Diagnosis with Content-Based Image Retrieval
S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, F. Pollastri, S. Longhitano, G. Pellacani, C. Grana
ICPR - Milan, Italy.
Confidence Calibration for Deep Renal Biopsy Immunofluorescence Image Classification
F. Pollastri, J. Maroñas, F. Bolelli, G. Ligabue, R. Paredes, R. Magistroni, C. Grana
ICPR - Milan, Italy.

2020

A Warp Speed Chain-Code Algorithm Based on Binary Decision Trees
S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
IVPR - Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. (Oral)

2019

Skin Lesion Segmentation Ensemble with Diverse Training Strategies
L. Canalini, F. Pollastri, F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, S. Allegretti, C. Grana
CAIP - Salerno, Italy. (Oral)
How does Connected Components Labeling with Decision Trees perform on GPUs?
S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, F. Pollastri, L. Canalini, C. Grana
CAIP - Salerno, Italy. (Oral, Best Paper Award!)
A Block-Based Union-Find Algorithm to Label Connected Components on GPUs
S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, C. Grana
ICIAP - Trento, Italy.
Improving the Performance of Thinning Algorithms with Directed Rooted Acyclic Graphs
F. Bolelli, C. Grana
ICIAP - Trento, Italy. (Spotlight)

2018

Optimizing GPU-Based Connected Components Labeling Algorithms
S. Allegretti, F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, C. Grana
IPAS - Inria Sophia Antipolis, France. (Oral)
A Hierarchical Quasi-Recurrent approach to Video Captioning
F. Bolelli, L. Baraldi, C. Grana
IPAS - Inria Sophia Antipolis, France. (Oral)
Connected Components Labeling on DRAGs
F. Bolelli, L. Baraldi, M. Cancilla, C. Grana
ICPR - Beijing, China. (Oral)
Improving Skin Lesion Segmentation with Generative Adversarial Networks
F. Pollastri, F. Bolelli, R. Paredes, C. Grana
CBMS - Karlstad, Sweden.
XDOCS: an Application to Index Historical Documents
F. Bolelli, G. Borghi, C. Grana
IRCDL - Udine, Italy. (Oral)

2017

Historical Handwritten Text Images Word Spotting through Sliding Window HOG Features
F. Bolelli, G. Borghi, C. Grana
ICIAP - Catania, Italy.
Two More Strategies to Speed Up Connected Components Labeling Algorithms
F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, C. Grana
ICIAP - Catania, Italy.
Indexing of Historical Document Images: Ad Hoc Dewarping Technique for Handwritten Text
F. Bolelli
IRCDL - Modena, Italy.

2016

YACCLAB - Yet Another Connected Components Labeling Benchmark
C. Grana, F. Bolelli, L. Baraldi, R. Vezzani
ICPR - Cancun, Mexico.
Optimized Connected Components Labeling with Pixel Prediction
C. Grana, L. Baraldi, F. Bolelli
ACIVS - Lecce, Italy. (Oral)

Workshop Papers

2024

Optimizing Resource Allocation in Public Healthcare: A Machine Learning Approach for Length-of-Stay Prediction
P. Perliti, A. Giovanetti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
AIHA - Kolkata, India. (Oral)
BarBeR - Barcode Benchmark Repository: Implementation and Reproducibility Notes
E. Vezzali, F. Bolelli, S. Santi, C. Grana
RRPR - Kolkata, India. (Oral)
Beyond the Surface: Comprehensive Analysis of Implicit Bias in Vision-Language Models
G. Capitani, L. Bonicelli, F. Bolelli, S. Calderara, E. Ficarra
FAILED - Milan, Italy.

2022

Quest for Speed: The Epic Saga of Record-Breaking on OpenCV Connected Components Extraction
F. Bolelli, S. Allegretti, C. Grana
BNBW - Lecce, Italy. (Oral)

2021

A Heuristic-Based Decision Tree for Connected Components Labeling of 3D Volumes: Implementation and Reproducibility Notes
F. Bolelli, S. Allegretti, C. Grana
RRPR - Milan, Italy. (Oral)

2019

Connected Components Labeling on DRAGs: Implementation and Reproducibility Notes
F. Bolelli, M. Cancilla, L. Baraldi, C. Grana
RRPR - Beijing, China. (Oral)

Challenges

2024

ToothFairy2: Multi-Structure Segmentation in CBCT Volumes
F. Bolelli, L. Lumetti, S. Vinayahalingam, M. Di Bartolomeo, N. van Nistelrooij, K. Marchesini, A. Anesi, C. Grana
MICCAI - Marrakech, Morocco.

2023

Tooth Fairy: A Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Segmentation Challenge
F. Bolelli, L. Lumetti, M. Di Bartolomeo, S. Vinayahalingam, A. Anesi, B. van Ginneken, C. Grana
MICCAI - Vancouver, Canada.

Abstracts

2024

Sustainable Use of Resources in Hospitals: A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Predict Prolonged Length of Stay at the Time of Admission
P. Perliti, A. Giovanetti, F. Bolelli, C. Grana
IHIET. (Oral)
High-level Biomedical Data Integration in a Semantic Knowledge Graph with OncodashKB for finding Personalized Actionable Drugs in Ovarian Cancer
J. Dreo, S. Lobentanzer, E. Gaydukova, M. Baric, I. Maarala, T. Muranen, J. Oikkonen, F. Bolelli, V. Pipoli, V. Isoviita, J. Hynninen, B. Schwikowski
EACR. (Oral)

Book Chapters

2022

Applications of AI and HPC in the Health Domain
D. Oniga, B. Cantalupo, E. Tartaglione, D. Perlo, M. Grangetto, M. Aldinucci, F. Bolelli, [...], M. Florea
HPC, Big Data, and AI Convergence Towards Exascale: Challenge and Vision.

2021

The DeepHealth Toolkit: A Key European Free and Open-Source Software for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Ready to Exploit Heterogeneous HPC and Cloud Architectures
M. Aldinucci, D. Atienza, F. Bolelli, M. Caballero, [...], M. Zapater
Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value.

Publications

Contact

Federico Bolelli, PhD
Chair of the IAPR TC 22
Tenure Track Assistant Professor (RTT)
University of Modena & Reggio Emilia
Engineering Department "Enzo Ferrari"


Via P. Vivarelli 10
41125 Modena (MO), Italy
Office: Building 27, Second Floor
Lab: Building 27, Ground Floor, "Zero"
Tel. +39 059 205 8787
federico.bolelli _AT_ unimore.it