Our research publications

While conducting Company’s research and innovation activities, MultiMed Engineers‘ partners have co-authored several research articles and papers published in scientific journals and conference proceedings, and scientific datasets deposited in open-access repositories, as listed below:

  1. Piaggio D, de Batlle J, Gallego Montejo AM, Cea Sánchez G, Checa Rifá P, Maccaro A, Angles Barbastro R, Teresa Hurtado M, Idoyaga Uribarrena JE, Erreguerena Redondo I, Krini M, Matsangidou M, Drympeta I, Votis K, Antonini A, Kardas P, Lewek P, Schellong J, Giuliani F, Mercalli F, Fico G, Pecchia L, the GATEKEEPER Consortium, Best practices and challenges in executing large scale pilots for eHealth deployment and managing innovation: the GATEKEEPER experience, Front Digit Health 2026;8:1730232 doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1730232.
  2. Farina E, Licitra L, Mercalli F, Massari S, Marinaccio A, Gariazzo C, Taiano L, Foggetti R, Zengarini N, Trama A; BD4QoL working group. Risk of employment separation among workers with head and neck cancer: a longitudinal cohort study in Turin. Support Care Cancer. 2026 Jul 24;34(8):797. doi: 10.1007/s00520-026-11011-3. PMID: 42496735.
  3. Erreguerena I, González N, Larrañaga I, Mercalli F, Karaglani E, Manios Y, Androutsos O, Schellong J, Gand K, Angles Barbastro R, Hurtado MT, Cea G, Gallego A, Fico G, Pecchia L, de Batlle J, Piaggio D and Fullaondo A (2026) Implementation process of community-based lifestyle interventions supported by technology for elderly population: qualitative evaluation of six European regions case studies. Front. Digit. Health 8:1905643. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1905643
  4. Giuliani F, Lopez-Perez L, Mercalli F, Fulton-Lieuw T, Vener C, Ricciardi F, Falcone M, Mangiacotti A, Cavalieri S, Manocchio A, Martinelli E, Lacerenza LM, Copelli C, Filippidou DE, Bilbao A, Almeida A, Mehanna H, Fico G, Licitra L, Designing and conducting interventional trials with passive-sensing applications on patient-owned smartphones: challenges and recommendations from the BD4QoL study, Front Digit Health 2026;8:1831734 doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1831734.
  5. Fernández de Retana M, Bilbao Jayo A, López-Pérez L, Fico G, Singer S, Taylor K, Giuliani F, Falcone M, Mehanna H, Copelli C, Mercalli F, Martinelli E, Cavalieri S, Licitra L, Almeida A, BD4QoL-Competing-Risks-Analysis: Competing Risks Analysis of QoL Outcomes, Zenodo 2026;v1 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.21102052.
  6. Cavalieri S, Airoldi C, Manocchio A, Lacerenza L, Ottini A, Colombo E, Nuzzolese I, Copelli C, Manfuso A, Abou-Foul A, Nankivell P, De M, Mehanna H, Falcone M, Giuliani F, Vener C, Miceli R, Cristofaro V, Resteghini C, Singer S, Taylor K, Mercalli F, Martinelli E, Licitra L, 367 Secondary endpoint analysis of the BD4QoL randomized trial (NCT05315570): domain-specific quality of life changes in head and neck cancer survivors, Radiother Oncol 2026;216(Suppl 1):S98-S99 doi: 10.1016/S0167-8140(26)00256-2.
  7. Lopez-Perez L, Gaeta E, Alonso I, Esteban A, Dominguez VG, Mercalli F, Martinelli E, Trama A, Cabrera MF, Arredondo MT, Fico G. Clinical natural language processing and health interoperability to support knowledge management and governance in rare cancers. In: Badnjević A, Gurbeta Pokvić L, editors. MEDICON’23 and CMBEBIH’23. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2024. p. 546-552. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49062-0_58.
  8. Gazzarata R, Chronaki C, Gallego A, Gaeta E, Fico G, Zampognaro P, Mercalli F, Giuliani F, Allocca C, Cangioli G. The Role of HL7 FHIR in the European Project GATEKEEPER. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25;310:1337-1338. doi: 10.3233/SHTI231183. PMID: 38270032.
  9. Cavalieri S, Vener C, LeBlanc M, Lopez-Perez L, Fico G, Resteghini C, Monzani D, Marton G, Pravettoni G, Moreira-Soares M, Filippidou DE, Almeida A, Bilbao A, Mehanna H, Singer S, Thomas S, Lacerenza L, Manfuso A, Copelli C, Mercalli F, Frigessi A, Martinelli E, Licitra L and BD4QoL Consortium (2023) A multicenter randomized trial for quality of life evaluation by non-invasive intelligent tools during post-curative treatment follow-up for head and neck cancer: Clinical study protocol. Front. Oncol. 13:1048593. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1048593.
  10. Lopez-Perez L, Alonso I, Filippodou E, Mercalli F, Cavalieri S, Martinelli E, Licitra L, Manos A, Cabrera-Umpierrez MF, Fico G. Smartphone-based strategy for quality-of-life monitoring in head and neck cancer survivors. In: Tsanas A, Triantafyllidis A, editors. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2023. p. 149-158. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_12.
  11. Gazzarata R, Chronaki C, Ricciardi F, Giuliani F, Zampognaro P, Mercalli F, Allocca C, Gaeta E, Fico G, Cangioli G. Design and Adoption of a FHIR IG to Support a Telemonitoring Environment in Gatekeeper Project. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Oct 20;309:106-110. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230751. PMID: 37869817.
  12. Gazzarata R, Chronaki C, Gallego A, Gaeta E, Fico G, Zampognaro P, Mercalli F, Giuliani F, Allocca C, Cangioli G. Experience from the Development of HL7 FHIR IG for Gatekeeper Project. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Jun 29;305:106-109. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230435. PMID: 37386969.
  13. de Batlle J, Benítez ID, Moncusí-Moix A, Androutsos O, Angles Barbastro R, Antonini A, Arana E, Cabrera-Umpierrez MF, Cea G, Dafoulas GΕ, Folkvord F, Fullaondo A, Giuliani F, Huang H, Innominato PF, Kardas P, Lou VWQ, Manios Y, Matsangidou M, Mercalli F, Mokhtari M, Pagliara S, Schellong J, Stieler L, Votis K, Currás P, Arredondo MT, Posada J, Guillén S, Pecchia L, Barbé F, Torres G, Fico G, the GATEKEEPER project, GATEKEEPER’s Strategy for the Multinational Large-Scale Piloting of an eHealth Platform: Tutorial on How to Identify Relevant Settings and Use Cases, J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e42187 doi: 10.2196/42187.
  14. Almeida A, Bilbao-Jayo A, Hernandez L, Lopez-Perez L, Estùvez-Priego E, Fico G, Taylor K, Singer S, Mercalli F, Filippidou DE, Martinelli E, Cavalieri S, Licitra L. An ontology for quality of life modeling in head and neck cancer. In: 2022 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech); 2022. p. 1-5. doi:10.23919/SpliTech55088.2022.9854379.
  15. Cavalieri S, Vener C, LeBlanc M, Lopez Perez L, Fico G, Resteghini C, Monzani D, Marton G, Moreira-Soares M, Filippidou DE, Almeida A, Bilbao A, Mehanna H, Singer S, Thomas S, Lacerenza L, Manfuso A, Mercalli F, Martinelli E, Licitra LF. 708TiP BD4QoL: a multicenter randomized trial for monitoring quality of life (QoL) by intelligent tools in head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors after curative treatment. Ann Oncol. 2022;33(Suppl 7):S866. doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.07.832.
  16. Cavalieri S, De Cecco L, Brakenhoff RH, Serafini MS, Canevari S, Rossi S, Lanfranco D, Hoebers FJP, Wesseling FWR, Keek S, Scheckenbach K, Mattavelli D, Hoffmann T, López Pérez L, Fico G, Bologna M, Nauta I, Leemans CR, Trama A, Klausch T, Berkhof JH, Tountopoulos V, Shefi R, Mainardi L, Mercalli F, Poli T, Licitra L; BD2Decide Consortium. Development of a multiomics database for personalized prognostic forecasting in head and neck cancer: The Big Data to Decide EU Project. Head Neck. 2021 Feb;43(2):601-612. doi: 10.1002/hed.26515. Epub 2020 Oct 27. PMID: 33107152; PMCID: PMC7820974.
  17. Abril-Jimenez Patricia, Montalva-Colomer Juan Bautista, Cabrera-Umpierrez Maria Fernanda, Lombroni Ivana, Serafin Patrick, Mockallo Zofia, Mercalli Franco, Tsagaraki Evangelia, & Dubielzig Markus. (2020). Ageing@Work supportive, motivating and persuasive approaches, tools & metrics. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6322534
  18. Patricia Abril-Jiménez, Aitor Almeida, Marina Andrić, María Teresa Arredondo Waldmeyer, Gorka Azkune, Nicola Bryant, David Buján, Javier Chamorro, Ilia Christantoni, Sergio Copelli, Silvia de los Ríos Pérez, Nicoletta Di Blas, Francesca Fasano, Luca Laghi, Luca Mainetti, Franco Mercalli, Juan Bautista Montalvá Colomer, Rubén Mulero, Paolo Paolini, … Vladimir Urošević. (2019). City4Age Behaviour Dataset (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2602652
  19. G. Ricevuti, L. Venturini, S. Copelli, F. Mercalli and G. Nicolardi, “Data driven MCI and frailty prevention: Geriatric modelling in the City4Age project,” 2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI), Modena, Italy, 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065932.
  20. P. Paolini, N. Di Blas, S. Copelli and F. Mercalli, “Health prevention for the aging population in smart cities: The City4Age project,” 2017 IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI), Modena, Italy, 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065919.
  21. P. Paolini, N. Di Blas, S. Copelli and F. Mercalli, “City4Age: Smart cities for health prevention,” 2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Trento, Italy, 2016, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580804.