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Hi 👋, we are the PRAISE Research Group

Predictive Analytics for Understanding Big Multimedia Data @ University of Naples Federico II

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--- ## 🧠 About Us The **PRAISE (PRedictive AnalytIcs for underStanding big multimEdia data)** research group is part of the **PICUS Lab** at the **Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (DIETI)**, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. We are a team of researchers with a strong background in **AI**, **multimodal data understanding**, and **predictive analytics** across multiple domains including **eHealth**, **Social Network Analysis**, and **Multimedia Data Analysis**. Our goal is to develop intelligent systems that can **understand**, **predict**, and **interact** with complex multimedia information—especially focusing on language, vision, and their integration. --- ## 🔬 Research Topics - **Multimodal AI for Healthcare** - Multilingual and multimodal language models - Diagnostic and therapeutic AI assistance - Automatic EHR generation from speech and unstructured text (Italian) - Medical image understanding (CT, MRI, X-ray, etc.) - **Social Network Modeling & Simulation** - Generative Agent-Based Frameworks - LLM-driven simulation of social phenomena: stance change, information diffusion - Tools for crowd fact-checking, fake news and harmful content detection - **Lie Detection from Multimedia Streams** - AI for behavioral analysis and deception detection - Collaborative project with US-based Courtscribes Company - **Big Scholarly Data Analytics** - Automated knowledge extraction and semantic enrichment - Development of analytics platforms for scientific literature --- ## 🤖 Models We are currently developing **fine-tuned multimodal language models** for the **Italian medical domain**, in collaboration with national (e.g., Accenture, Almaviva) and international partners (e.g., King’s College London). Our models integrate **textual** and **visual** medical data to support clinical tasks in real-world applications. --- ## 📄 View our papers

--- ## 📫 Contact Us - 🌐 **GitHub Page:** [PRAISELab@PICUSLab](https://github.com/PRAISELab-PicusLab)

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--- ## ⭐ Members

_{Giuseppe Riccio}

_{Antonio Romano}

_{Gian Marco Orlando}

_{Diego Russo}

_{Mariano Barone}