Paolo Zaffino
Associate Professor
Calabria, Italy
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Top SchoolPaolo Zaffino is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering with 13 years of experience developing medical image processing algorithms for image-guided surgery, radiotherapy, and proton therapy. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from Magna Graecia University and completed visiting research at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, contributing to automatic medical image segmentation. Paolo has authored deformable image registration, multi-atlas segmentation, image translation, radiomics, and AI methods and helped advance open-source tools such as Plastimatch, 3D Slicer, ITK and SimpleITK. His international footprint includes roles as visiting professor or research partner at UCL, KIT, UMCG and DKFZ, reflecting a strong collaborative network across leading cancer and imaging centers. He combines academic leadership with hands-on software development and grant success (including EU Next Generation and industry cloud grants), and notably bridges clinical radiotherapy needs with practical open-source implementations.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma Electronics and telecommunications, High school diploma Electronics and telecommunications at ITIS High School of Lamezia TermeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioingegneria e ingegneria biomedica, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioingegneria e ingegneria biomedica at University Magna Graecia of CatanzaroMaster degree in Biomedical Engineering Ingegneria biomedica, Master degree in Biomedical Engineering Ingegneria biomedica at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro
Italian, English
Github Skills (60)
reproducible-research10
qt10
image-processing10
open-source10
segmentation10
optical-flow10
neuroimaging10
medical-imaging10
vtk10
simpleitk9
cross-platform9
imaging9
python9
classification9
slicer9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pzaffino/PlastimatchSlicerPy
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 2 months
pzaffino/SlicerArduinoController
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Extension for 3D Slicer that allows connecting and receiving/sending data from/to Arduino boards
Contributions:142 commits, 3 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 years 3 months
rc3d-slicerarduinosending3d-printing
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