Publications

Book chapters

Kather, J.N., Bello-Cerezo, R., Di Maria, F., van Pelt, G.W., Mesker, W.E., Halama, N. and Bianconi, F. Classification of tissue regions in histopathological images: Comparison between pre-trained convolutional neural networks and local binary patterns variants, in Deep Learners and Deep Learner Descriptors for Medical Applications; Nanni, L., Brahnam, S., Brattin, R., Ghidoni, S. and Jain, L.C. eds., vol. 186 of Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer, pp. 95-115, 2020.
Bianconi, F. and Fernández, A. A unifying framework for LBP and related methods, in Local Binary Patterns: New Variants and Applications; Brahnam, S., Jain, L.C., Nanni, L. and Lumini, A. eds., vol. 506 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, pp. 17-46, 20

Journal papers

Bianconi, F., Kather, J.N. and Reyes-Aldasoro C.C., Experimental assessment of color deconvolution and color normalization for automated classification of histology images stained with hematoxylin and eosin (2020). Cancers, 12(11), art. no. 3337.
Palumbo, B., Bianconi, F., Palumbo, I., Fravolini, M.L., Minestrini, M., Nuvoli, S., Stazza M.L., Rondini, M. and Spanu, A., Value of shape and texture features from 18F-FDG PET/CT to discriminate between benign and malignant solitary pulmonary nodules: An experimental evaluation. (2020) Diagnostics, 10(9), art. no. 696.
Chirikhina, E., Chirikhin, A., Xiao, P., Dewsbury-Ennis, S. and Bianconi, F. In vivo assessment of water content, trans-epidermial water loss and thickness in human facial skin. (2020) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (17), art. no. 6139.
Buratti, C., Belloni, E., Merli, F. and Bianconi, F. Experimental characterization of the color rendering properties of transparent monolithic aerogel (2020) Solar Energy, 205, pp. 183-191.
Nuvoli, S., Spanu, A., Fravolini, M.L., Bianconi, F., Cascianelli, S., Madeddu, G. and Palumbo, B.[123I]Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) Cardiac Scintigraphy and Automated Classification Techniques in Parkinsonian Disorders (2020) Molecular Imaging and Biology, 22 (3), pp. 703-710.
Palumbo, B., Capozzi, R., Bianconi, F., Fravolini, M.L., Cascianelli, S., Messina, S.G., Bellezza, G., Sidoni, A., Puma, F. and Ragusa, M. Classification model to estimate MIB-1 (Ki 67) proliferation index in NSCLC patients evaluated with 18F-FDG-PET/CT (2020) Anticancer Research, 40 (6), pp. 3355-3360.
Bianconi, F., Palumbo, I., Spanu, A., Nuvoli, S., Fravolini, M.L., Palumbo, B. PET/CT radiomics in lung cancer: An overview (2020) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (5), art. no. 1718.
Smeraldi, F., Bianconi, F., Fernández, A., González, E. Partial order rank features in colour space (2020) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (2), art. no. 499.
Bianconi, F., Palumbo, I., Fravolini, M.L., Chiari, R., Minestrini, M., Brunese, L., Palumbo, B. Texture Analysis on [18F]FDG PET/CT in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Correlations Between PET Features, CT Features, and Histological Types (2019) Molecular Imaging and Biology, 21 (6), pp. 1200-1209.
Scialpi, M., Bianconi, F., Cantisani, V., Palumbo, B. Radiomic machine learning: Is it really a useful method for the characterization of prostate cancer? (2019) Radiology, 291 (1), pp. 269-270.
Bello-Cerezo, R., Bianconi, F., Di Maria, F., Napoletano, P., Smeraldi, F. Comparative evaluation of hand-crafted image descriptors vs. Off-the-Shelf CNN-Based features for colour texture classification under ideal and realistic conditions (2019) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 9 (4), art. no. 738.
Bianconi, F., González, E. Counting local n-ary patterns (2019) Pattern Recognition Letters, 117, pp. 24-29.
Bianconi, F., Cusano, C., Napoletano, P., Schettini, R. CNN-based refactoring of hand-designed filters for texture analysis: A classic revisited (2019) IEEE Access, 7, art. no. 8918055, pp. 173076-173085.
Bianconi, F., Fravolini, M.L., Bello-Cerezo, R., Minestrini, M., Scialpi, M., Palumbo, B. Evaluation of shape and textural features from CT as prognostic biomarkers in non-small cell lung cancer (2018) Anticancer Research, 38 (4), pp. 2155-2160.
Bianconi, F., Bello-Cerezo, R., Napoletano, P. Improved opponent color local binary patterns: An effective local image descriptor for color texture classification (2018) Journal of Electronic Imaging, 27 (1), art. no. 011002.
Cascianelli, S., Tranfaglia, C., Fravolini, M.L., Bianconi, F., Minestrini, M., Nuvoli, S., Tambasco, N., Dottorini, M.E., Palumbo, B. Right putamen and age are the most discriminant features to diagnose Parkinson's disease by using 123I-FP-CIT brain SPET data by using an artificial neural network classifier, a classification tree (ClT) (2017) Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine, 20, p. 165.
Bianconi, F., Chirikhina, E., Smeraldi, F., Bontozoglou, C., Xiao, P. Personal identification based on skin texture features from the forearm and multi-modal imaging (2017) Skin Research and Technology, 23 (3), pp. 392-398.
Di Maria, F., Barratta, M., Bianconi, F., Placidi, P., Passeri, D. Solid anaerobic digestion batch with liquid digestate recirculation and wet anaerobic digestion of organic waste: Comparison of system performances and identification of microbial guilds (2017) Waste Management, 59, pp. 172-180.
Bello-Cerezo, R., Bianconi, F., Fernández, A., González, E., Di Maria, F. Experimental comparison of color spaces for material classification (2016) Journal of Electronic Imaging, 25 (6), art. no. 061406.
González, E., Bianconi, F., Fernández, A. An investigation on the use of local multi-resolution patterns for image classification (2016) Information Sciences, 361-362, pp. 1-13.
Kather, J.N., Weis, C.-A., Bianconi, F., Melchers, S.M., Schad, L.R., Gaiser, T., Marx, A., Zöllner, F.G. Multi-class texture analysis in colorectal cancer histology (2016) Scientific Reports, 6, art. no. 27988.
Aguilar, M.A., Fernández, A., Aguilar, F.J., Bianconi, F., Lorca, A.G. Classification of urban areas from geoeye-1 imagery through texture features based on histograms of equivalent patterns (2016) European Journal of Remote Sensing, 49, pp. 93-120.
Di Maria, F., Bianconi, F., Micale, C., Baglioni, S., Marionni, M. Quality assessment for recycling aggregates from construction and demolition waste: An image-based approach for particle size estimation (2016) Waste Management, 48, pp. 344-352.
Bianconi, F., Di Maria, F., Micale, C., Fernández, A., Harvey, R.W. Grain-size assessment of fine and coarse aggregates through bipolar area morphology (2015) Machine Vision and Applications, 26 (6), pp. 775-789.
Bianconi, F., González, E., Fernández, A. Dominant local binary patterns for texture classification: Labelled or unlabelled? (2015) Pattern Recognition Letters, 65, pp. 8-14.
Postrioti, L., Brizi, G., Ungaro, C., Mosser, M., Bianconi, F. A methodology to investigate the behaviour of urea-water sprays in high temperature air flow for SCR de-NOx applications (2015) Fuel, 150, pp. 548-557.
Bianconi, F., Álvarez-Larrán, A., Fernández, A. Discrimination between tumour epithelium and stroma via perception-based features (2015) Neurocomputing, 154, pp. 119-126.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A. Rotation invariant co-occurrence features based on digital circles and discrete Fourier transform (2014) Pattern Recognition Letters, 48, pp. 34-41.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A. An appendix to "texture databases - A comprehensive survey" (2014) Pattern Recognition Letters, 45 (1), pp. 33-38.
Bianconi, F., Ceccarelli, L., Fernández, A., Saetta, S.A. A sequential machine vision procedure for assessing paper impurities (2014) Computers in Industry, 65 (2), pp. 325-332.
González, E., Fernández, A., Bianconi, F. General framework for rotation invariant texture classification through co-occurrence of patterns (2014) Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 50 (3), pp. 300-313.
Aguilar, M.A., Bianconi, F., Aguilar, F.J., Fernández, I. Object-based greenhouse classification from GeoEye-1 and WorldView-2 stereo imagery (2014) Remote Sensing, 6 (5), pp. 3554-3582.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A., González, E., Saetta, S.A. Performance analysis of colour descriptors for parquet sorting (2013) Expert Systems with Applications, 40 (5), pp. 1636-1644.
Fernández, A., Álvarez, M.X., Bianconi, F. Texture description through histograms of equivalent patterns (2013) Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 45 (1), pp. 76-102.
Bianconi, F., González, E., Fernández, A., Saetta, S.A. Automatic classification of granite tiles through colour and texture features (2012) Expert Systems with Applications, 39 (12), pp. 11212-11218.
Fernández, A., Ghita, O., González, E., Bianconi, F., Whelan, P.F. Evaluation of robustness against rotation of LBP, CCR and ILBP features in granite texture classification (2011) Machine Vision and Applications, 22 (6), pp. 913-926.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A. On the occurrence probability of local binary patterns: A theoretical study (2011) Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 40 (3), pp. 259-268.
Fernández, A., Álvarez, M.X., Bianconi, F. Image classification with binary gradient contours (2011) Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 49 (9-10), pp. 1177-1184.
Álvarez, M.J., González, E., Bianconi, F., Armesto, J., Fernández, A. Colour and texture features for image retrieval in granite industry [Características de color y textura para recuperación de imágenes en la industria del granito] (2010) DYNA (Colombia), 77 (161), pp. 121-130.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A., González, E., Armesto, J. Robust color texture features based on ranklets and discrete Fourier transform (2009) Journal of Electronic Imaging, 18 (4), art. no. 043012.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A., González, E., Caride, D., Calviño, A. Rotation-invariant colour texture classification through multilayer CCR (2009) Pattern Recognition Letters, 30 (8), pp. 765-773.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A. Evaluation of the effects of Gabor filter parameters on texture classification (2007) Pattern Recognition, 40 (12), pp. 3325-3335.
Bianconi, F., Saetta, S.A., Tiacci, L. A web-based simulation game as a learning tool for the design process of complex systems (2006) Journal of Design Research, 5 (2), pp. 253-272.
Di Stefano, P., Bianconi, F., Di Angelo, L. An approach for feature semantics recognition in geometric models (2004) CAD Computer Aided Design, 36 (10), pp. 993-1009.
Bianconi, F. Bridging the gap between CAD and CAE using STL files (2002) International Journal of CAD/CAM 2(1), pp. 55-67.

Conference papers

Bianconi, F. Experimental analysis of colour constancy and colour augmentation for painting classification by artistic genre: preliminary results (2020) Proceedings of the International Conference Florence Heri-tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, Florence, Italy, 14-16 Oct. 2020; IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 949 (1), art. no. 012065.
Bianconi, F., Kather, J.N., Reyes-Aldasoro, C.C. Evaluation of Colour Pre-processing on Patch-Based Classification of H&E-Stained Images (2019) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11435 LNCS, pp. 56-64.
Bello-Cerezo, R., Fieguth, P., Bianconi, F. LBP-motivated colour texture classification (2019) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11132 LNCS, pp. 517-533.
Abdollahyan, M., Cascianelli, S., Bellocchio, E., Costante, G., Ciarfuglia, T.A., Bianconi, F., Smeraldi, F., Fravolini, M.L. Visual localization in the presence of appearance changes using the partial order kernel (2018) European Signal Processing Conference, 2018-September, art. no. 8553252, pp. 697-701.
Bianconi, F., Bello-Cerezo, R. Evaluation of visual descriptors for painting categorisation (2018) Proceedings of the International Conference Florence Heri-tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, Florence, Italy, May 16-18 2018; IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 364 (1), art. no. 012037.
Bello-Cerezo, R., Bianconi, F., Cascianelli, S., Fravolini, M.L., Di Maria, F., Smeraldi, F. Hand-designed local image descriptors vs. Off-the-shelf CNN-based features for texture classification: An experimental comparison (2018) Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 76, pp. 1-10.
Cascianelli, S., Bello-Cerezo, R., Bianconi, F., Fravolini, M.L., Belal, M., Palumbo, B., Kather, J.N. Dimensionality reduction strategies for CNN-based classification of histopathological images (2018) Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 76, pp. 21-30.
Fernández, A., Lima, D., Bianconi, F., Smeraldi, F. Compact Color Texture Descriptor Based on Rank Transform and Product Ordering in the RGB Color Space (2017) Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCVW 2017, 2018-January, pp. 1032-1040.
Bianconi, F., Smeraldi, F., Abdollahyan, M., Xiao, P. On the use of skin texture features for gender recognition: An experimental evaluation (2017) 6th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2016, art. no. 7821018,
Bianconi, F., Bello-Cerezo, R., Napoletano, P., Di Maria, F. Improved opponent colour local binary patterns for colour texture classification (2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10213 LNCS, pp. 272-281.
Pardo-Balado, J., Fernández, A., Bianconi, F. Texture classification using rotation invariant LBP based on digital polygons (2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9281, pp. 87-94.
Bianconi, F., Bello, R., Fernández, A., González, E. On comparing colour spaces from a performance perspective: Application to automated classification of Polished natural stones (2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9281, pp. 71-78.
Ceccarelli, L., Bianconi, F., Saetta, S.A., Fernández, A., Caldarelli, V. Experimental comparison of image thresholding methods for defect detection in the papermaking process (2013) 25th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium, EMSS 2013, pp. 664-669.
Harrison, R., Bianconi, F., Harvey, R., Wang, W. A texture analysis approach to identifying sabellaria spinulosa colonies in sidescan sonar imagery (2011) Proceedings - 2011 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, IMVIP 2011, art. no. 6167881, pp. 58-63.
Bianconi, F., Conti, P., Pazzaglia, G. Semi-automatic Modeling of Reverse-Engineered Shapes through Design-by-Feature and Genetic Algorithms (2008) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1060, pp. 125-128.
Moroni, S., Bianconi, F., Conti, P. Concurrent evaluation of manufacturing cost in product design and simulation (2007) International Mediterranean Modeling Multiconference, I3M 2007, 6 p.
Bianconi, F., Conti, P., Moroni, S. An approach to multidisciplinary product modeling and simulation through design-by-feature and classification trees (2007) Proceedings of the 16th IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling, ASM 2007, pp. 288-293.
Bianconi, F., Fernández, A., González, E., Ribas, F. Texture classification through combination of sequential colour texture classifiers (2007) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 4756 LNCS, pp. 231-240.
Bianconi, F., Conti, P. On the evaluation of sampling density distribution of a camera (2006) Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, VIIP 2006, pp. 19-24.
Bianconi, F., Conti, P., Di Angelo, L. Interoperability among CAD/CAM/CAE systems: A review of current research trends (2006) Geometric Modeling and Imaging New Trends, 2006, 2006, art. no. 1648749, pp. 83-89.
Bianconi, F., Saetta, S.A., Tiacci, L. Simulation of a competitive product design environment for engineering education (2005) WMSCI 2005 - The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings, 10, pp. 306-311.
Bianconi, F., Saetta, S.A., Tiacci, L., Viazzo, S. A web-based system to simulate a competitive design environment (2005) Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2005, SCSC 2005, Part of the 2005 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2005, pp. 35-40.
Argento, M., Barone, S., Bianconi, F., Conti, P., Rosati, E. Reverse engineering and CFD analysis: A case study (2004) Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling, art. no. 443-130, pp. 323-328.
Bianconi, F., Di Stefano, P. An intermediate level representation scheme for secondary features recognition and B-rep model simplification (2003) Proceedings - SMI 2003: Shape Modeling International 2003, art. no. 1199606, pp. 99-108.
Bianconi, F., Conti, P. Collaborative product modelling in heterogeneous environments: An approach based on XML Schema (2003) Proceedings of the 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Research and Application, Enhanced Interoperable Systems, pp. 303-310.