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[ 0 => '{{Short description|Italian computational neuroscientist and health economist}}', 1 => '{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}}', 2 => '{{Infobox scientist', 3 => '| name = Alessandro Crimi', 4 => '| birth_name = Alessandro Crimi', 5 => '| image = ', 6 => '| image_size = ', 7 => '| caption = ', 8 => '| birth_date = ', 9 => '| birth_place = ', 10 => '| death_date = ', 11 => '| death_place = ', 12 => '| citizenship = Italian', 13 => '| fields = [[ Neuroscience]] and [[Public health]]', 14 => '| alma_mater = {{plainlist|', 15 => '*[[University of Palermo]] (MSc)', 16 => '*[[University of Copenhagen]] (PhD)', 17 => '*[[Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute]] (MBA)', 18 => '}}', 19 => '', 20 => '| known_for = {{cslist|Brain connectivity estimators |digital prenatal care in rural areas}}', 21 => '| workplaces = {{ubl|[[wikt:Sano center for computational medicine]]| [[wikt: African Institute for Mathematical Science]]}}', 22 => '| doctoral_advisor = Mads Nielsen', 23 => '| thesis_title = ', 24 => '| thesis_year = 2011', 25 => '| thesis_url = ', 26 => '| awards = ', 27 => '| footnotes = ', 28 => '| spouse = ', 29 => '| children = ', 30 => '}}', 31 => ''''Alessandro Crimi''' is a computational neuroscientist and health economist who alternated his career between neuroimaging and healthcare management in low-income countries. He is currently the director of the neuroimaging and computer vision lab at Sano center for computational medicine<ref name="Brain&More lab Director">{{cite web|url=https://sano.science/news/dr-alessandro-crimi-joins-sano/ |title=Research lab Director SanoScience| access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>, and lecturer at the [[African Institute for Mathematical Sciences]]<ref name="Dr. Crimi at AIMS">{{cite web|url= https://aims.ac.za/researcher/alessandro-crimi/ |title=Dr. Crimi AIMS page|access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>, where he also conducted several public health projects involving novel technologies <ref name="Domeup on HuffingtonPost">{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/audrey-henkels/piloting-portable-ultraso_b_11321560.html |title= Domeup on HuffingtonPost |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>. ', 32 => '', 33 => '==Education and early life==', 34 => 'Crimi was educated at schools in Italy. He studied at the [[University of Palermo]]. He then moved to Denmark pursuing his PhD at the Datalogisk Institut of the [[University of Copenhagen]]<ref name=" Datalogisk Institut ">{{cite web|url= https://di.ku.dk|title= Datalogisk institute Copenhagen University}}</ref> and was awarded a PhD in 2011 for research on shape analysis and machine learning for medical imaging, supervised by Professor Mads Nielsen. Later he obtained the MBA in healthcare management at the [[Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute]] <ref name=" Swiss tropical and public health institute ">{{cite web|url= https://www.swisstph.ch/en/| title= Swiss TPH }}</ref>.', 35 => '', 36 => '==Career and research==', 37 => 'After his PhD, Crimi pursued postdoctoral research in France at the [[French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation]] where he worked also at the multiple sclerosis unit under Prof. Giles Edan from [[Rennes University Hospital]] <ref name=" INRIA Alumni ">{{cite web|url= https://team.inria.fr/empenn/team-members/team-alumni/| title= INRIA EMPENN alumni page}}</ref>. Afterwards he pursued post-doctoral research in Italy at the [[ Italian Institute of Technology]], and later in in Switzerland at [[ETH Zurich]] and [[University Hospital of Zürich]]<ref name=" IEEE Crimi profile ">{{cite web|url= https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37857186300|title= Dr. Crimi IEEE profile}}</ref>. ', 38 => 'In 2021, Crimi became the research group leader for medical imaging at Sano Center for computational neuroscience<ref name="Brain&More lab Director"/>. ', 39 => 'Moreover, since 2012 he is vising lecturer at the African Institute for Mathematical Science in Ghana, where he teaches the course of introduction of machine learning to medicine. While in Ghana, Dr. Crimi has conducted several public health projects, the most popular of which is the DocmUP prental project <ref name="Docmeup scientific article">{{cite journal|last1=Amoah|first1=Benjamin|last2=Anto|first2=Evelyn| last3=Osei|first3=Prince|last4=Pieterson|first4=Kojo|', 40 => 'last5=Crimi|first5=Alessandro|title=Boosting antenatal care attendance and number of hospital deliveries among pregnant women in rural communities: a community initiative in Ghana based on mobile phones applications and portable ultrasound scans|journal=BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth|volume=16|issue=1|year=2016|pages=1–10|doi=10.1186/s12884-016-0888-x|pmid= 27301244|pmc=4906986}}</ref>, <ref name="Domeup on HuffingtonPost" />. ', 41 => '', 42 => 'Dr. Crimi is more known for contribution to neuroimaging, with particular interest to clinical neuroscience and its computational approaches to multiple sclerosis <ref name="Crimi MS">{{cite journal|last1=Crimi|first1=Alessandro|last2=Commowick|first2=Olivier|last3=Maarouf|first3=Adil|last4=Barillot|first4=Christian |title=Predictive value of imaging markers at multiple sclerosis disease onset based on gadolinium-and USPIO-enhanced MRI and machine learning|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=9|issue=4|year=2014|pages=e93024 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0093024|pmid=24691080|pmc=3972197 |doi-access=free}}</ref>, Alzheimer's disease, Autism<ref name="crimi giancardo">{{cite journal|last1=Crimi|first1=Alessandro|last2=Giancardo|first2=Luca|last3=Sambataro|first3=Fabio|last4=Diego|first4=Sona|year=2019|title=MultiLink analysis: brain network comparison via sparse connectivity analysis|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=9|issue=1|pages=1–13 |doi=10.1038/s41598-018-37300-4|pmc=6329758|pmid=30635604}}</ref> . In the context of brain connectivity, he introduced the structurally constrained effective connectivity <ref name=effectiveconn>{{cite journal|title=Structurally constrained brain connectivity |last1=Crimi|first1=Alessandro|last2=Sambataro |first2=Fabio |last3=Murino|first3=Vittorio|last4=Diego|first4=Sona|journal=NeuroImage|volume=289|year=2021|doi=10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118288| issue=1|page=118288|pmid=34147631|s2cid=235468119|doi-access=free}}</ref>, and the multi-link analysis together with Prof. Luca Giancardo<ref name="crimi giancardo"/>, which was also presented at the [[TEDx]] Muenster 2019 edition. <ref>{{cite web |author1-link=Alessandro Crimi TEDx |title= Networks, From the Brain to the Internet and Back , Alessandro Crimi , TEDxMünster |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7anuqRhU0|website=TEDxMuenster |publisher=[[TED]] |language=en |format=video |date=March 12, 2023}} </ref>', 43 => 'He has also been among the founders and main organizers of the BrainLesion workshop within the annual meeting of the [[The MICCAI Society]]. This workshop has been also often related to the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge <ref name="BRATS challenge ">{{cite web|url=http://braintumorsegmentation.org/|title= the Brain Tumor Segmentation challenge |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>, which is now acclaimed event worldwide merging interest from radiologists and engineers working on brain tumor. <ref name="BRATS on DailyScanner ">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyscanner.com/how-two-scientists-are-putting-together-artificial-intelligence-and-radiology-creating-a-multidisciplinary-community-to-fight-brain-cancer-2/|title=how two scientists are putting together artificial intelligence and radiology-creating a multidisciplinary community-to fight brain cancer; on DailyScanner magazine |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>. The initiative has been now even expanding to the African continent with the goal of scientific capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa through the Spark Academy. <ref name="Spark Academy ">{{cite web|url=https://event.fourwaves.com/spark/pages|title= the Spark Academy |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>. More recently, Dr.Crimi’s lab has investigated the use of [[quantum computing]] to optimize the computational aspects of the brain connectome analysis. ', 44 => '<ref name="quantum brain connectivity">{{cite journal |last1=Wierzbiński|first1=M.|last2=Falo-Roget|first2=J. |last3=Crimi |first3=A. |year=2023 |title=Community detection in brain connectomes with hybrid quantum computing |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30579-y |journal=Scientific Reports|volume=13 |doi=10.1038/s41598-023-30579-y|pmid=36859591 |s2cid=257236235 }}</ref>,<ref name=" Quantum Brain connectivity on DisruptMagazine">{{cite web|url= https://disruptmagazine.com/the-sano-center-makes-advancements-in-neuroimaging-through-quantum-computing/?fbclid=IwAR0ljfU3qnuSO5lbg2Wbb2sdFpanheGgzVIm9KIEo0KOeoEya0DVxaDK01w |title= the Sano Center Makes Advancements in Neuroimaging through Quantum Computing ; on Disrupt Magazine |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>,<ref name="Better Neuroscience with Quantum Computing; on Sciencetimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/43040/20230329/better-neuroscience-with-quantum-computing.htm|title=Brain connectivity analysis using Quantum computing on Sciencetimes |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>', 45 => '', 46 => 'Additionally, Dr. Crimi work has been focused on public health, more specifically in novel technologies as smart phones and machine learning and social engineering addressing health care issues in rural areas of low-income countries. The Docmeup project aimed at increasing [[prenatal care]] in rural [[Ghana]] by a combination of social policy with community health workers living in rural community using mobile phone app, and portable ultrasound <ref name="Docmeup scientific article"/><ref name="Domeup on HuffingtonPost" />. The approach also included now old-fashioned machine learning analysis to predict gestational age form those scans in rural Ghana <ref name="docmeup machine learning">{{cite journal |last1=Anto|first1=Evelyn|last2=Amoah|first2=Benjamin |last3=Crimi |first3=Alessandro |year=2023 |title=Automatic fetal measurements for low-cost settings by using local phase bone detection |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7318325 |journal=IEEE EMBC |doi=10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318325|pmid= 26736225|year=2015 }}</ref>, embedded in the ultrasound machines in rural Ghana. ', 47 => '', 48 => '==Awards and honours==', 49 => '*2004 [[Afrinic]] Mobile innovation FIRE awards <ref name="Fire Award">{{cite web|url=https://fireafrica.org/awards|title=Fire Award |access-date=30 Mar 2023}}</ref> ', 50 => '*2012 Mindtrek Numa Social Innovation Competition <ref name="Mindtrek">{{cite web|url=https://www.mindtrek.org/|title=Mindtrek |access-date=26 Mar 2023}}</ref>', 51 => '', 52 => '== References ==', 53 => '<!-- Inline citations added to your article will automatically display here. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REFB for instructions on how to add citations. -->', 54 => '{{reflist}}', 55 => '', 56 => '{{DEFAULTSORT:Crimi, Alessandro}}', 57 => '[[Category:Italian Neuroscientist]]', 58 => '[[Category:University of Palermo alumni]]', 59 => '[[Category:Living people]]', 60 => '[[Category:University of Copenhagen alumni]]', 61 => '[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]' ]