SPRING SCHOOL
multI-discipliNary,
multi-Sectoral and multi-national trainIng network on Digital biomarkErs for supraventricular arrHythmia charactErizAtion and Risk assessment
March 23-26, 2026 - Centro Residenziale Universitario, Bertinoro (Italy)
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Number
101119941
Start date
01/11/2023
Duration
48 months
Coordinator
Valentina Corino
Schedule
Check-in at CeUB in Bertinoro (if you plan to arrive later please contact the organizers)
Welcome buffet
DC10: Assessment of ventricular repolarization during AF and risk prediction from clinical and wearable ECG
UMIL – Joachim Kröner
DC9: AI-based outcome prediction of arrhythmia progression in elderly cardiac patients
LU – Livia Colucci
DC8: Characterization of thermal and non-thermal AF ablation effects on cardiac and neural structures
UNIZAR – Andrea Rucco
Coffee break
DC7: Digital biomarkers and deep learning for cardiovascular risk prediction in patients with SVAs from continuous long term ECG recordings
TECH – Lisa Attali
DC6: AI-based predictors of SVA development in patients with comorbidities and suspected SVAs
NU – Paul Kapust
DC5: AI-based monitoring platform from ECG waveform data acquired from off-the-shelf wearable devices
CC – Beatriz Cosculluela
Lunch
DC4: Digital biomarkers identification and AI-based analysis for early diagnosis of SVAs in the young and adult population
CCM – Stefana Bogojevic
DC3: AI biomarker identification to assess SVA evolution as comorbidity of respiration diseases through continuous monitoring with innovative sensors
BRC – Lucia Vavassori
DC2: IoT-based system to detect and monitor the progress of infant’s SVAs
UTU – Ajdar Ullah
DC1: Integration of novel contact and non-contact digital biomarkers for SVAs screening
POLIMI – Jakob Botvidsson
Coffee break
Supervisory board meeting
For PhD students only: visit to the winery "Cantina Celli" (Viale Carducci 5, Bertinoro; 5 minutes walk from CeUB), wine tasting and piadina
Dinner at Ristorante Ca' de Be' (Piazza della Libertà 10, Bertinoro)
Dinner at Ristorante La Grotta (Via Roma 37, Bertinoro)
AI pipeline: from the raw data to the final decision
Joachim Behar
How to pitch an idea effectively
Maurizio La Cava
Coffee break
Basics of computational models of cardiac cell electrophysiology
Chiara Bartolucci
Lunch
Computational models in action!
Stefano Severi
Social event. Visit to Ravenna. Dinner in the Ravenna city center at 19:30 at Ristorante Mercato Coperto, Piazza Andrea Costa, 6. The bus to Bertinoro will depart from Ravenna at 22:00 (it is 45 minutes drive).
Fundamentals of Statistical Learning Theory
Matteo Papini
AI perspective from the industrial point of view
Borja Gonzalvez
Coffee break
Avoiding bias in data collection and performance evaluation
Javier Saiz Vivo
Causal and Generative AI for the identification of bias in ECG-based classifiers
Massimo W. Rivolta
An Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Roberto Redaelli
Venue
Spring School venue location info and gallery
Fondazione Centro Universitario di Bertinoro (CeUB)
The spring school will take place at Fondazione CeUB. in Bertinoro, Italy. The CeUB has been operating in the field of higher education and conference activities since 1994. CeUB. is located within the monumental area consisting of the Rocca Vescovile, the Rivellino, and the former Seminary, which dominate the nearby medieval village of Bertinoro.
CeUB website: https://www.ceub.it/
CeUB address: Via Frangipane 6, 47032 Bertinoro (FC), Italy.
Organisers
Registration
How to arrive
TO Bertinoro
From Milan
Landing at any airport in Milan:
First go to Milano Centrale Train Station:
- Linate LIN: from the arrival area follow the signs to the metro line M4 “blue line”. Get off at “San Babila” (seven stops from Linate) and transfer to M1 “red line” (direction: “Sesto”) and get off at “Loreto” (four stops). Finally, board the M2 “green line” (direction: Assago/Abbiategrasso) and get off at “Centrale FS” (two stops). It seems complicated but it is in fact fast and simple.
- Orio al Serio BGY: outside the arrival area board a bus to Milano Centrale.
- Malpensa MXP: from the airport arrival area follow the sign to the train station located underground and take the train (Malpensa Express) to Milano Centrale (some trains go to Milano Cadorna, which is in a different part of the city; if you take one of these, get off at Milano Garibaldi and then from there take the metro line M2 “green line” to Milano Centrale, which is only two stops away).
From Milano Centrale Train Station: Buy a train ticket to Forlì or Cesena. Usually a highspeed train to Bologna (1 h from Milan) and then transfer to a regular train. Forlimpopoli-Bertinoro is also a train station. You can consider it, but it is not recommended as it is a small station and trains are infrequent. From Forlì or Cesena, to reach CeUB take a taxi in front of train stations (about € 30; Ph: +39 0543 31111 from Forlì – +39 0547 610710 from Cesena). Otherwise, take the bus line #92 connecting Forlì and Cesena from outside the train station in Forlì. Get off in Forlimpopoli and catch a second bus, line #121 to Bertinoro. Links to the timetables:
- line 92: timetable here
- line 121: timetable here
Train tickets are available at: https://www.trenitalia.com/
From Bologna
Landing at Bologna Airport (BLQ): take the “Marconi Express” train to Bologna Centrale train station from the airport (follow the signs from the arrival area), a 15 minutes trip. Then From Bologna Centrale Station: Buy a train ticket to Forlì or Cesena. Forlimpopoli-Bertinoro is also a train station. You can consider it, but it is not recommended as it is a small station and trains are infrequent. From Forlì or Cesena, to reach CeUB take a taxi in front of train stations (about € 30; Ph: +39 0543 31111 from Forlì – +39 0547 610710 from Cesena). Otherwise, take the bus line #92 connecting Forlì and Cesena from outside the train station in Forlì. Get off in Forlimpopoli and catch a second bus, line #121 to Bertinoro. Links to the timetables:
- line 92: timetable here
- line 121: timetable here
Train tickets are available at: https://www.trenitalia.com/
By CAR
- from Bologna: take Forlì exit on A-14 highway and follow the signs for Cesena-Forlimpopoli-Bertinoro.
- from Rimini: take Cesena “Nord” (North) exit on A-14 highway and then follow signs for EU route E45 to Rome. Then exit at Cesena “Ovest” (West). Turn right on SS9 (Via Emilia), direction Forlì-Bologna. Finally follow the signs for Bertinoro.
Contact
BiSP Lab: Biomedical image and Signal Processing Lab at UNIMI
Massimo W. Rivolta
massimo.rivolta at unimi.it
Roberto Sassi
roberto.sassi at unimi.it
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under the Marie Skłodowska‐Curie grant agreement No 101119941.
