Anna Maria Massone
Publications
International journals
- F. Sciacchitano, A. Sorrentino, A.G. Emslie, A.M. Massone and M. Piana. Identification of Multiple Hard X-Ray Sources in Solar Flares: A Bayesian Analysis of the 2002 February 20 Event. Astrophysical Journal, 862 (1): 68, 2018
- M.A. Duval-Poo, M. Piana, A.M. Massone. Solar hard X-ray imaging by means of compressed sensing and finite isotropic wavelet transform. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 615, A59, 2018
- C. Marini, S. Morbelli, A. Cistaro, C. Campi, C. Caponnetto, M. Bauckneht, A. Bellini, A. Buschiazzo, I. Calamia, M.C. Beltrametti, S. Margotti, P. Fania, I. Poggi, C. Cabona, S. Capitanio, R. Piva, A. Calvo, C. Moglia, A. Canosa, A.M. Massone, F. Nobili, G. Mancardi, A. Chio`, M. Piana and G. Sambuceti. Interplay between spinal cord and cerebral cortex metabolism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brain, awy152, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy152
- F. Benvenuto, M. Piana, C. Campi, A.M. Massone. A Hybrid Supervised/Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Solar Flare Prediction. Astrophysical Journal, 853 (1): 90, 2018
- C. Marini, S. Bruno, F. Fiz, C. Campi, R. Piva, G. Cutrona , S. Matis, A. Nieri, M. Miglino, A. Ibatici, A.M. Orengo, A. M. Massone, C.E. Neumaier, D. de Totero, P. Giannoni, M. Bauckneht, M. Pennone, C. Tenca, E. Gugiatti, A. Bellini, A. Borra, E. Tedone, H. Efetürk, F. Rosa, L. Emionite, M. Cilli, D. Bagnara, V. Brucato, P. Bruzzi, M. Piana, F. Fais and G. Sambuceti. Functional Activation of Osteoclast Commitment in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia: a Possible Role for RANK/RANKL Pathway. Scientific Reports, 7: 14159, 2017
- S. Garbarino, A. Sorrentino, A.M. Massone, A. Sannino, A. Boselli, X Wang, N. Spinelli N, and M. Piana. Expectation maximization and the retrieval of the atmospheric extinction coefficients by inversion of Raman lidar data. Optics Express vol. 24 pp. 21497-21511, 2016.
- C. Marini, A. Cistaro, C. Campi, A. Calvo, C. Caponnetto, F.V. Nobili, P. Fania, M.C. Beltrametti, C. Moglia, G. Novi, A. Buschiazzo, A. Perasso, A. Canosa, C. Scialò, E. Pomposelli, A.M. Massone, M.C. Bagnara, S. Cammarosano, P. Bruzzi, S. Morbelli, G. Sambuceti, G. Mancardi, M. Piana and A. Chiò A. A PET/CT approach to spinal cord metabolism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 43, pp. 2061-2071, 2016.
- G. Ricca, M.C. Beltrametti, and A.M. Massone. Detecting Curves of Symmetry in Images Via Hough Transform. Mathematics in Computer Science. Vol. 10, pp. 179-205, 2016.
- R.A. Schwartz, G. Torre, A. M. Massone, and M. Piana. DESAT: A Solar SoftWare tool for image de-saturation in the Atmospheric Image Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Astronomy and Computing. Vol. 13, pp. 117-123, 2015.
- A. Perasso, C.Toraci, A.M. Massone, M.Piana, A.Gerbi, R.Buzio, S. Kawale, E. Bellingeri, and C. Ferdeghini. An automatic method for atom identification in scanning tunnelling microscopy images of Fe-chalcogenide superconductors. Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 260, Issue 3, pp. 302–311, 2015.
- G. Torre, R.A. Schwartz, F. Benvenuto, A. M. Massone, and M. Piana. Inverse diffraction for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly in the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Inverse Problems. Vol. 31. No. 9, 095006, 2015
- F. Fiz, C. Marini, C. Campi, A. M. Massone, M. Podestà, G. Bottoni, R. Piva, F. Bongioanni, A. Bacigalupo, M. Piana, G. Sambuceti, and F. Frassoni. Allogeneic cell transplant expands bone marrow distribution by colonizing previously abandoned areas: an FDG PET/CT analysis. Blood. Vol. 125 No. 26 pp. 4095-4102, 2015.
- S. Giordano, N. Pinamonti, M. Piana, and A.M. Massone. The process of data formation for the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) in Solar Orbiter. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1315–1331, 2015.
- A. Perasso, C. Campi C, C. Toraci, F. Benvenuto, M. Piana, and A.M. Massone. Application of Possibilistic C-Means for Fault Detection in Nuclear Power Plant Data. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 137(6): 062901-062901-7, 2015.
- A.M. Massone, A. Perasso, C. Campi and M.C. Beltrametti, Profile Detection in Medical and Astronomical Images by Means
of the Hough Transform of Special Classes of Curves. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 51, 2, pp. 296-310, 2015.
- F. Benvenuto, R. Schwartz, M. Piana and A.M. Massone, Expectation maximization for hard X-ray count modulation profiles. Astronomy &Astrophysics 555, A61, 2013.
- M.C. Beltrametti, A.M. Massone and M.Piana, Hough transform of special classes of curves. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp 391-412, 2013.
- Massone A.M. and Piana M. The Use of Electron Maps to Constrain Some Physical Properties of Solar Flares. Solar Physics, 283, 177:186, 2013.
- A.G. Emslie and A.M. Massone, Bayesian confidence limits of electron spectra obtained through regularized inversion of solar hard X-ray spectra, The Astrophysical Journal 759:122, 2012.
- J. Guo, A.G. Emslie, A.M. Massone and M. Piana, Properties of the Acceleration Regions in Several Loop-structured Solar Flares, The Astrophysical Journal, 755, 32, 2012.
- G. Torre, N. Pinamonti, A.G. Emslie, J. Guo, A.M. Massone and M. Piana, Empirical determination of the energy loss rate of accelerated electrons in a well-observed solar flare, The Astrophysical Journal 751:129, 2012.
- J. Guo, A.G. Emslie, E.P. Kontar, F.Benvenuto, A.M. Massone and M. Piana, Determination of the acceleration region size in a loop-structured solar flare, Astronomy &Astrophysics 543, A53, 2012.
- G. Sambuceti, M. Brignone, C. Marini, M. Massoll, F. Fiz, S. Morbelli, A. Buschiazzo, C. Campi, R. Piva, A.M. Massone, M. Piana and F. Frassoni, Estimating the whole bone marrow asset in humans by a computational approach to integrated pet/ct imaging, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 39 1326-1338, 2012.
- S. Allavena, M. Piana, F. Benvenuto and A.M. Massone, An interpolation/extrapolation approach to x-ray imaging of solar flares, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 6, 2, 147-162, 2012.
- E.P. Kontar, J.C. Brown, A.G. Emslie,W. Hajdas, G.D. Holman, G.J. Hurford, J. Kašparová, P.C.V. Mallik, A.M. Massone, M.L. McConnell, M. Piana, M. Prato, E.J. Schmahl, E. Suarez-Garcia. Deducing Electron Properties from Hard X-ray Observations. Space Sci Rev (2011) 159:301–355.
- A.M.Massone, A.G. Emslie, G.J. Hurford, M. Prato, E.P. Kontar and M. Piana. Hard X-ray Imaging of Solar Flares using Interpolated Visibilities. The Astrophysical Journal 703 (2009) 2004-2016.
- M. Prato, M. Piana, A. G. Emslie, G. J. Hurford, E. P. Kontar, and A. M. Massone. A Regularized Visibility-Based Approach to Astronomical Imaging Spectroscopy. SIAM J. Imaging Sci. Volume 2, Issue 3, pp. 910-930 (2009).
- M. Prato, A.G. Emslie, E.P. Kontar, A.M. Massone and M. Piana. The location of centroids in photon and electrons maps of solar flares. Astrophysical Journal 706 (2009) 917-922.
- A.M.Massone, M. Piana and M. Prato. Regularized solution of the solar Bremsstrahlung inverse problem: model dependence and implementation issues. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering. Vol. 16, No. 4, June 2008, 523-545.
- J.C.Brown, J.Kašparová, A.M.Massone and M.Piana. Fast spectral fitting of hard X-ray bremsstrahlung from truncated power-law electron spectra. Astronomy & Astrophysics 486, 1023-1029 (2008).
- M.Piana, A.M.Massone, G.J.Hurford, M.Prato, A.Gordon Emslie, E.P.Kontar and Richard A.Schwartz. Electron Flux Spectral Imaging of Solar Flares through Regularized Analysis of Hard X-Ray Source Visibilities. The Astrophysical Journal. 665 (2007) 846-855.
- E.P.Kontar, A.G.Emslie, A.M.Massone, M.Piana, J.C.Brown and M.Prato. Electron-Electron Bremsstrahlung Emission and the Inference of Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares. The Astrophysical Journal. 670 (2007) 857.
- A.M.Massone, L.Studer and F.Masulli. Possibilistic clustering approach to trackless ring Pattern Recognition in RICH counters. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 41 (2006) 96-109.
- A.M.Massone, M.Miyakawa, M.Piana, F.Conte and M.Bertero. A linear model for chirp-pulse microwave computerized tomography: applicability conditions. Inverse Problems, 22 (2006) 2209-2222.
- P.Calvini, A.M.Massone, F.M.Nobili and G.Rodriguez. Fusion of the MR Image to SPECT with Possible Correction for Partial Volume Effects. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 53 (2006) 189-197.
- A.Sorrentino, L.Parkkonen, M.Piana, A.M.Massone, L.Narici, S.Carozzo, M.Riani and W.G.Sannita. Modulation of brain and behavioural responses to cognitive visual stimuli with varying signal-to-noise ratios. Clinical Neurophysiology, 117 (2006) 1098-1105.
- F.Mazzone, J.Coyle, A.M.Massone and M.Piana. FIST: A fast visualizer for fixed-frequency acoustic and electromagnetic inverse scattering problems. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 14 (2006) 177-187.
- J.C.Brown, A.G.Emslie, G.D.Holman, C.M.Johns-Krull, E.P.Kontar, R.P.Lin, A.M.Massone and M.Piana. Evaluation of algorithms for reconstructing electron spectra from their bremsstrahlung hard X-ray spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, 643 (2006) 523-531.
- M.Prato, M.Piana, J.C.Brown, A.G.Emslie, E.P.Kontar and A.M.Massone. Regularized reconstruction of the differential emission measure from solar flare hard X-ray spectra. Solar Physics, 237 (2006) 61-83.
- E.P.Kontar, A.G.Emslie, M.Piana, A.M.Massone and J.C.Brown. Determination of Electron Flux Spectra in a Solar Flare with an Augmented Regularization Method: Application to RHESSI Data. Solar Physics, 226 (2005) 317 - 325.
- A.M.Massone, A.G.Emslie, E.P.Kontar, M.Piana, M.Prato and J.C.Brown. Anisotropic Bremsstrahlung Emission and the Form of Regularized Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares. The Astrophysical Journal, 613 (2004) 1233-1240.
- E.P.Kontar, M.Piana, A.M.Massone, A.G.Emslie J.C.Brown. Generalized regularization techniques with constraints for the analysis of solar bremsstrahlung X-ray spectra. Solar Physics, 225 (2004) 293-309.
- A.M.Massone, M.Piana, A.Conway and B.Eves. A regularization approach for the analysis of RHESSI X-ray spectra. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 405 (2003) 325-330.
- M.Piana, A.M.Massone, E.P.Kontar, A.G.Emslie, J.C.Brown and R.Schwartz. Regularized Electron Flux Spectra in the July 23, 2002 Solar Flare. The Astrophysical Journal, 595 (2003) L127-L130.
- G.Galler et al. Compton scattering by the proton. Physics Letters B 503 (2001) 245-255.
- S. Wolf et al. Compton scattering by the proton using a large-acceptance arrangement. Eur. Phys. J. A 12 (2001) 231-252.
- S. Wolf et al. Structure of the nucleon investigated by Compton scattering. Nuclear Physics A. 690 (1-3) (2001) 310C-313C.
- F. Wissmann et al. Compton scattering from the free and bound proton above π-threshold. Nuclear Physics A663&664 (2000) 397c-400c.
- A.Zucchiatti et al. Optimisation of clustering algorithms for the reconstruction of events started by a 1Gev photon beam in a segmented BGO calorimeter. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, 425 (1999) 536-548.
- P.Boguś, A.M.Massone, F.Masulli, A.Schenone. Interactive graphical system for the segmentation of multimodal medical volumes using fuzzy clustering. Machine Graphics & Vision, 7 (1998) 781-791.
- G.P.Capitani, S.Luxardo, A.M.Massone, P.Ottonello, A.R.Reolon, M.Sanzone, A.Zucchiatti. The gain control system for the COPP (coincidence photon-proton) apparatus. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, 413 (1998) 166-174.
Conference proceedings
- C. Campi, A. Perasso, Mauro C. Beltrametti, M. Piana, G. Sambuceti and A. M. Massone. HT-BONE: A graphical user interface for the identifcation of bone profiles in CT images via extended Hough transform. Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing, edited by Martin A. Styner, Elsa D. Angelini, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 9784, 978423. 2016.
- M.A. Duval-Poo, A.M. Massone, M. Piana, Compressed Sensing and Finite Isotropic Wavelets for the STIX Reconstruction Problem, 12th International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA 2017), Tallinn, Estonia, Jul 03-07, 2017, Article number 8024408, pp. 677-681
- A.M. Massone, C. Campi, M.C. Beltrametti, C. Marini, FDG-PET and the assessment of spinal cord metabolism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop, NSS/MIC/RTSD 2016, Volume 2017-January, 16 October 2017, Article number 8069573
- A. Perasso, C. Campi, A.M. Massone, and M.C. Beltrametti. Spinal canal and spinal marrow segmentation by means of the Hough transform of special classes of curves. V. Murino and E. Puppo (eds.): ICIAP 2015, Part I, LNCS 9279, pp. 590-600. 2015.
- G. Ricca, M.C. Beltrametti, A.M. Massone. Piecewise recognition of bone skeleton profiles via an iterative Hough transform approach without re-voting. Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing, edited by Sébastien Ourselin, Martin A. Styner, Proc. of SPIE. Vol. 9413, 94132M. 2015.
- C. Campi, A. Perasso, M.C. Beltrametti, A.M. Massone, G. Sambuceti, and M. Piana. Pattern recognition in medical imaging by Means of the Hough transform of curves. In Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), 2013 8th International Symposium on, pp. 280-283, 4-6 Sept. 2013.
- Podgorski P. et al. Hardware simulator of Caliste-SO detectors for STIX instrument.Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments, Volume 8903, Article number 89031V, 2013. doi: 10.1117/12.2035285.
- Benz A.O. et al. The Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board the Solar Orbiter mission. Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012 - Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Volume 8443, Article number 84433L, 2012. doi: 10.1117/12.927793.
- A.M. Massone, M Piana and M. Prato Imaging spectroscopy of hard x-ray sources in solar flares using regularized analysis of source visibilities. (2008) J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 124 012034 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/124/1/012034
- Emslie A.G., Hurford G.J., Kontar E.P., Massone A.M., Piana M., Prato M. and Xu Y. Determining the Spatial Variation of Accelerated Electron Spectra in Solar Flares. (2008) In: Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Heliosphere and Beyond. Kauai, HI, 7-13 March 2008, vol. 1039, p. 3-10, Melville, New York (USA): AIP Conference Proceedings, ISBN: 978-0-7354-0566-0, doi: 10.1063/1.2982478
- Prato M, Massone A.M., Piana M., Emslie A.G., Hurford G.J., Kontar E.P. and Schwartz R.A. (2008). A visibility-based approach using regularization for imaging-spectroscopy in solar X-ray astronomy. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Dourdan (Paris), France, 1519 June 2008, vol. 135, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/135/1/012084
- A.M. Massone A M, Piana M, Prato M, Emslie A G, Hurford G J, Kontar E P and Schwartz R A. Electron flux maps of solar flares: a regularization approach to RHESSI imaging spectroscopy. In Modelling and Simulation in Science. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy Livio Scarsi. Erice, Italy 15 - 22 April 2007. Eds. Di Gesù V, Lo Bosco G and Maccarone C. pp. 48-54. ISBN 978-981-277-944-1. 2007
- Calvini P, Massone A.M., Nobili F.M., Rodriguez G (2004). Compensation of partial volume effects in SPECT by means of MR data. In: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. Rome, 16 October 2004 - 22 October 2004, vol. 6, p. 3501-3504, doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1466641
- A.M.Massone, L.Studer and F.Masulli. Possibilistic Rings Detection for RICH Pattern Recognition. Proceedings of the Eusflat 2001 International Conference in Fuzzy Logic and Technology. pp. 63-66. 2001.
- A.M.Massone, F.Masulli, A.Petrosino. Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms on Landsat Images for Detection of waste areas: a Comparison. Proceedings of the WILF'99 Italian Workshop on Fuzzy Logic 1999. pp.165-175. Shaker Publishing, Maastricht. 2000
- A.M.Massone, L.Studer and F.Masulli. Pattern Recognition in RICH Counters using the Possibilistic C-Spherical Shell Algorithm. (2000) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (KES'2000) Brighton, UK. Volume 2, pp. 792-795. IEEE Piscataway, NJ, United States, ISBN: 0-7803-6400-7, doi: 10.1109/KES.2000.884165.
Book contributions
- A.M. Massone, M. Piana and the Flarecast Consortium. Machine learning for Flare Forecasting. In Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather, eds, E. Camporeale, J. Johnson, and S. Wing. pp. 355-364 (Elsevier) 2018.
- F.Masulli, A.Schenone, A.M.Massone. Fuzzy Clustering Methods for the Segmentation of Multimodal Medical Images. In Fuzzy Systems in Medicine, eds. P.S. Szczepaniak, P.J.G. Lisboa, J. Kacprzyk, series Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. pp.335-350. (Physica-Verlag Heidelberg) 2000.
- F.Masulli F, A.M. Massone and A. Schenone. Segmentation of multimodal medical volumes using evolutionary clustering. In Soft Computing, Multimedia, and Image Processing, eds. Mo Jamshidi, Madjid Fathi, Takeshi Furuhashi, series World Automation Congress proceedings. Vol. 11, pp.215-220. (TSI Press, Albuquerque USA) 2000.