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Current Position: Full Professor (MED/36) and Chairman of Radiology, Dept. of Medical Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome

Scientific Profile: Prof. Laghi has specific expertise in clinical research in diagnostic imaging. Most of his activity has been devoted to implementation and evaluation of new techniques in Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, in the field of body imaging. Particularly relevant were his first studies on MR of the bile ducts and in CT diagnosis of HCC. He was a pioneer in the development, technique optimization and validation of CT colonography, working also at political level to propose as colorectal cancer screening technique. In the last years, he focused his research on oncologic imaging and on quantitative approach to imaging data. His research group has several publications in radiomics, particularly in the field of tumor segmentation analysis and integration with Radiomic data of first and second order and Genomic data. He has also worked on AI-based decision-support models for the treatment of rectal cancer.