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PERSONAL INFORMATION Vito Cantisani
vito.cantisani@uniroma1.it ORCID 0000-0003-1525-214X

Sex Male | Date of birth 20/08/1974 | Nationality Italian
CURRENT POSITION
SSD (if applicable) Associate Professor of Radiology (MED 36) at University Sapienza, Rome
Vice-Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, Univ. Sapienza, Rome
Chairman of Diagnostic Ultrasound Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Univ. Sapienza
RESEARCH TOPICS / EXPERIENCES Ultrasound, CEUS and Elastography, MPUS
CT, Conventional Radiography
MRI of chest and abdomen, Artificial Intelligence, Radiomics
SCIENTIFIC / TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION
(source: Scopus) H-index: 46
No. publications: 238
No. citations: 8110
THEMATIC AREA KEYWORDS
(it is possibile to select one or more than one thematic area) US
Radiology
Artificial Intelligence

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1993 - 1999 Medical Degree (21.07.1999), Sapienza, University of Rome 110 Cum Laude
05.2000 Licence to Practice as Physician and Surgeon
1999 - 2003 Residency school of Radiology /Radiologist (22.10.2003), Sapienza, University of Rome, cum Laude
2001 Visiting Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
2002 Fellowship Research in Abdominal Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Boston, Harvard Medical School
2003 Attended Radiologic Pathology Course, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Walter Reed in Washington
2010 Ph.D in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Imaging, Sapienza, University of Rome
2014
2020 Master in Health Management, Sapienza, University of Rome
Update of Master in Health Management
2014 Licenced as Assoc. Professors in Radiology (MED-36) in 2012 at National Scientific Licence (competition held in 2012)
2017 Licenced as Full Professor in Radiology (MED-36) in 2012 atNational ScientificLicence (competition held in 2016).

WORK EXPERIENCE

From 06.2004 current occupation or position held
Staff Specialist in Radiology in Department of Oncologic, Pathologic and Radiological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I, University Sapienza of Rome
2016-current

14 Feb 2019-15 Feb 2022
15 Febr 2022 occupation or position held
Chairman of US Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Roma RM
Ass. Prof of Radiology
Associate Prof of Radiology
2020-current occupation or position held
Member of Ethic Committee Policlinico Umberto I-San Andrea Univ.Sapienza
2021-current PRIN Evaluator
2021-current Italian Navy Seals Scientific Committee Member
2019-2020 Research evaluation Committee member. Sapienza university

MAIN ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Editor of
- Editor of Ultrasound International Open since 2014 to date
- Editor of Journal of Ultrasound from 2014 to 2016
- Editor of Ultraschall EJU (6.6of IF) since 2017 to date
- Editorial Board Member of Eur Radiology from 2014-2019
- Editorial Board Member of Med Unltrasonography from 2016 to date
- Editorial Board Member of Radiologia Medica (3.4 of IF) from 2021
Reviewer for:
- European Journal of Radiology
- European Journal of Ultrasound
- Endocrine
European Journal of Radiology Open
- Acta Radiologica
- Scientific World Journal
- Medical Ultrasonography
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
PLoS One
Guest Leading Editor of the EJR Special Issue about Ultrasound Elastography
. Guest Leading Editor of the EJR Special Issue about Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
Guest Leadinf Editor of JCM speoial issue
Member of the EFSUMB Editorial Board which published the EFSUMB Guidelines about US-Elastography, liver and non-liver CEUS and Interventional Ultrasound
Co-Leading Author of EFSUMB Position Paper about Pediatric Applications of CEUS
Leading Author of EFSUMB Position Paper on CEUS Bosniak Classification
MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD WHICH PUBLISHED THE WFUMB GUIDELINES ON THYROID AND PROSTATE ELASTOSONOGRAPHY (2016)
MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE NEW GUIDELINES FOR LIVER AND MPUS SUPERFICIAL ORGANS ELASTOGRAPHY
CO-INVESTIGATOR IN SEVERAL DEPARTMENT PROJECTS
Member of the commission who produced the Italian Guidelines of Liver Imaging published with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità with the support of the Ministry of Health (2008)
Member of University Sapienza Research Committee
MEMBER OF POLICLINICO UMBERTO I, SAN ANDREA, UNIV. SAPIENZA, ETHIC COMMITTEE
MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF MASTER IN CLINICAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY HELD IN UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA (ITALY) IN 2011-2012
MEMBER OF THE EFSUMB EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE

SERVICE TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

From October 2021
Elected SIRM US Chapter Chairman
From January 2021- current Vice-Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, Univ. Sapienza, Rome
From January 2021- current EFSUMB Honorary Treasurer
From June 2020 current Vice-President of TSRM Course at Sapienza University, Polo Santo Spirito
From March 2020- current SIUMB President
From January 2020- current Policlinico Umberto I,Sapienza University Ethics Committee Member
From June 2019 2021 Elected Member of the University Research Committee of the Sapienza University
From March 2019 current Member of the Research Commission of the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences
From 2019 2021 EFSUMB Honorary Secretary
2017- March 2020 Elected SIUMB President
From 2017 to 2019 EFSUMB Publication Committee Chairman
from 2014 to 2018 Member of the council of SIRM Ultrasound Chapter;
From 2013 to 2017 EFSUMB EPSC Chairman
From 2013 - to 2015 SIUMB Distance Learning Responsible
From 2012 to 2013 Regional Section of SIUMB (Lazio) Responsible
From 2011 to 2013 SIRM Contrast Media Section Chairman
From 2011 to 2013 EFSUMB EPSC Co-opted Member
From 2008 to 2012 SIUMB Contrast Media President
2011 SIUMB Technical Chairman
From 2011 Webmaster EFSUMB
From 2008 to 2011 SIRM Contrast Media Section Secretary
2010 FAS entitled "Imaging of the neck and abdomen" at the Policlinico Umberto I in July 2010
From 2006 to 2008 SIUMB Contrast Media Chapter Secretary

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2021-current Prof. at Residency School in Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain, Univ. Sapienza, Rome
Prof. at Residency School in Nuclear Medicine, Univ. Sapienza, Rome
From 2020- current
Prof. at PhD in Innovative Biomedical Technologies in Clinical Medicine, Univ. Sapienza, Rome

From 2018-current Prof. of Medicine and Surgery II Course at Channel 'D' University Sapienza of Rome
From 2019-current
Prof. of Diagnostic Imaging Course at Channel 'D' University Sapienza of Rome
Prof. of US, Head and Neck at School of Residency in Radiology,

From 2019- current Prof. of IMAGING DIAGNOSIS 2 at Techniques of medical radiology, and radiotherapist ROME Course- Degree course A - Rome Azienda Policlinico Umberto I
From 2019- current Prof. of IMAGING DIAGNOSIS I at Techniques of medical radiology and Radiotherapist course, radiotherapist ROME - Degree course G - Rome Ospedale Santo Spirito
2018-2019 Prof. of EQUIPMENT OF THE RADIOLOGICAL AREA at the Techniques of medical Radiology for images and radiotherapy ROME - Degree course G - Rome S. Spirito Hospital of the Sapienza University of Rome

From 2004 - 2019 Member of the Teaching Staff of Scientific English course in the 1st and 2nd Graduate Courses of Medical Radiology Techniques for Images Medical Radiology and Radiation Therapy in Sapienza, University of Rome
From 2011 to 2015 Member of the Teaching Staff on Scientific English at Graduation Perfusion Technicians Course, University of Rome
From 2015 Member of the Teaching Staff in Diagnostic Imaging, Channel A, Univ. Sapienza of Rome.
from 2014 Member of the Teaching Staff of the Diagnostic Imaging course, at Dentistry Graduation Course of Sapienza, University of Rome
From 2009 to 2013 Member of the Teaching Staff of the Diagnostic Imaging course at General Surgery Residency School, Sapienza, University of Rome;
2013 Member of the Teaching Staff of the Diagnostic Imaging course, at A-Channel of the Graduation Course in Medicine of Sapienza, University of Rome
From 2005 to 2012 Member of the Teaching Staff of the course entitled Techniques and Clinical Applications of Color-Doppler Ultrasound at the Radiodiagnostic Residency school, Sapienza, University of Rome
From 2009 to 2012 Member of the Teaching Staff of the Diagnostic Imaging course, in the B-section of the Graduation Course in Medicine of Sapienza, University of Rome
2012 Member of the Teaching Staff on Head and Neck Pathology, Abdominal Pathology and Ultrasound in the Diagnostic Imaging Residency School of Sapienza, University of Rome

MAIN RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2021 New strategies in the diagnosis of thyroid nodule: TI-RADS risk stratification systems and Elastography versus Computer Aided Diagnosis software. The TECAD (TIRADS Elastography and Computer Assisted Diagnosis) Study under evaluation for Sapienza Grant
Total fiannciang: 15000 plus University Research Grant assigned
2021 Artificial intelligence assisted diagnosis, screening, and sampling of digestive and biliopancreatic diseases: an advanced endoscopic workstation. The AID project.
Financing institution: Univ. Sapienza
Total financing: 375.100
2021 SPHeaD Smart Personal Health-care Devices 118000 euro
Fiancing Institution: Regione Lazio
2016 Valutazione prospettica della steatosis epatica in pazienti con obesità patologica candidati a chirurgia bariatrica mediante ecografia e nuovi software di quantificazione ecostrutturale
Financing institution: Univ. Sapienza
Total financing: 3.850,00

HONOURS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS, OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

2021 2021 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project "SRE and SWE for the evaluation of indeterminate thyroid nodule winner of the best oral presentation presented at the US SIRM Section Meeting in Campobasso
2020 2020 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project "A clinical case of bilateral paraganglioma discovered incidentally: multiparametric ultrasound evaluation" winner of the MAURIZIO PINTO award as best clinical case presented at the SIUMB 2020 Bologna congress - virtual meeting
2020 2020 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project Computer-aided diagnostic system for thyroid nodule sonographic evaluation outperforms the specificity of less experienced examiner winner of the BEST JUS PAPER PRIZE 2020 award - Giovanni Serafini at the SIUMB 2020 Bologna congress - virtual meeting.
2020 2020 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project "Role of elastosonography in the stratification of the risk of malignancy of the thyroid nodule with indeterminate cytology" awarded as one of the best oral communications at the SIUMB 2020 Bologna congress - virtual meeting

2019 2019 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project Multiparametric ultrasound evaluation of parotid lesions: Eco-color-Doppler in comparison and in combination with CEUS and Elastosonography "awarded as one of the best clinical cases presented at the XXVII SIUMB national congress
2019 2019 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project "Multiparametric ultrasound (Eco color Doppler, CEUS and 3-D Arterial Analysis) in the assessment of stenosis and vulnerability of carotid atherosclerotic plaque" awarded as one of the best oral communications at the XXVII national congress SIUMB 2019
2017 2017 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project Multiparametric ultrasound evaluation of the carotid plaque through CEUS and SWE elastosonography in comparison with CT angiography and histology awarded as best oral communication at the 26th SIUMB 2017 National Congress
2017 2017 Coordinator, Responsible and Co-Author of the research project "Automated classification of breast lesions in ultrasound using the S-detect program: validation and its use as a teaching tool" awarded as best poster at the 26th SIUMB 2017 national congress
2016 2016 co-author of the best poster awarded in the Congress of the Italian Endocrinologists
2016 2016 Co-author of a paper published on Ultrasound and selected among the best papers by the British Society of Ultrasound
2016 2016 Mentor of Resident who was awarded $ 500 student travel award with the abstract BR245-SD-TUB1: Strain Elastography and Shear-wave Elastography for the Differentiation of Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions presented at RSNA 2016
2015 2015 Coordinator, Responsible and co-author of the three abstracts awarded as best oral presentation and as best poster at SIUMB 2015
2015 2015 Thesis advisor of a thesis awardered as best contributor to the 2015 otolaryngologist congress.
2014 2014 awarded as best presenter in the Head and Neck Session on ECR 2014
2014 2014 awarded as one of the best investigators in Sapienza;
2011 2011 co-author of a presentation awarded with the Young Investigator Award
2009 2009 second prize at EUROSON 2009
2008 2008 awarded with a certificate of merit at RSNA 2008
2007 2007 Winner of Young Investigator Award in EUROSON 2007 in Leipzig
2004 2004 Candidate to Young Investigator Award in EUROSON 2004 in Zaghreb
2003 Among the top 50 presenters at ESGAR 2003 (Budapest, Hungary)
2003 2003 EURORAD prize
2002 2002 EURORAD prize

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Publications
List of the most relevant publications (up to 5) (last 3 yrs)
US-Elastography for Breast Lesion Characterization: Prospective Comparison of US BIRADS, Strain Elastography and Shear wave Elastography | US-Elastografie zur Charakterisierung von Brustläsionen: Prospektiver Vergleich von US-BI-RADS, Strain-Elastografie und Scherwellen-Elastografie
Cantisani, V., David, E., Barr, R.G., ...Ballesio, L., D'Ambrosio, F.
Ultraschall in der Medizin, 2021, 42(5), pp. 533 540

EFSUMB 2020 Proposal for a Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound-Adapted Bosniak Cyst Categorization - Position Statement | EFSUMB 2020 Vorschlag für eine an den kontrastverstärkten Ultraschall adaptierte Bosniak-Klassifikation von Zysten Eine Stellungnahme
Cantisani, V., Bertolotto, M., Clevert, D.-A., ...Webb, J., Sidhu, P.S.
Ultraschall in der Medizin, 2021, 42(2), pp. 154 166

Artificial intelligence: What is it and how can it expand the ultrasound potential in the future? | Künstliche Intelligenz: Was ist das und welche zukünftige Möglichkeiten bieten sich dadurch?
Cantisani, V., Grani, G., Tovoli, F., Piscaglia, F., Catalano, C.
Ultraschall in der Medizin, 2020, 41(4), pp. 356 360

Prospective Evaluation of Semiquantitative Strain Ratio and Quantitative 2D Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) in Association with TIRADS Classification for Thyroid Nodule Characterization
Cantisani, V., David, E., Grazhdani, H., ...Giacomelli, L., Catalano, C.
Ultraschall in der Medizin, 2019, 40(4), pp. 495 503

The EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations for the clinical practice of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in Non-Hepatic Applications: Update 2017 (Long Version) | Die EFSUMB-Leitlinien und Empfehlungen fülr den klinischen Einsatz des kontrastverstärkten Ultraschalls (CEUS) bei nicht-hepatischen Anwendungen: Update 2017 (Langversion)
Sidhu, P.S., Cantisani, V., Dietrich, C.F., ...Weskott, H.-P., Wijkstra, H.
Ultraschall in der Medizin, 2018, 39(2), pp. e2 e44

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Date 27.3.2022