School of Psychology & Neuroscience

Dr Michele Svanera

  • Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (SPN Research)

email: Michele.Svanera@gla.systa-s.com

62 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, Room 624, G12 8QB

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209

Research interests

My research leverages advanced AI techniques, particularly Deep Learning, to develop innovative diagnostic and therapeutic tools for neurological and psychiatric conditions. By integrating state-of-the-art AI methodologies with cutting-edge brain imaging technologies, such as 3T and 7T MRI, I aim to translate this knowledge into impactful clinical solutions that improve patient outcomes and advance neuroscience research.

This work is conducted in collaboration with psychologists, clinicians, neuroscientists, engineers, and physicists, focusing on clinical studies related to ageing and healthcare-assistive technologies, with a strong emphasis on real-world application in clinical settings.

Publications

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2026

Dalby, C., Dibble, Austin, Carvalheiro, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5481, Queirazza, F., Sevegnani, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9481, Harvey, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-1174, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2026) Delineating in-vivo T1-weighted intensity profiles within the human insula cortex using 7-tesla MRI. Human Brain Mapping, 47(4), e70486. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.70486)

2024

Dalby, Connor, Dibble, Austin Jon, Carvalheiro, Joana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5481, Queirazza, Filippo, Sevegnani, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9481, Harvey, Monika ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-1174, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2024) Delineating in-vivo T1-weighted intensity profiles within the human insula cortex using 7-tesla MRI. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.08.05.605123)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Savardi, Mattia, Signoroni, Alberto, Benini, Sergio and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2024) Fighting the scanner effect in brain MRI segmentation with a progressive level-of-detail network trained on multi-site data. Medical Image Analysis, 93, 103090. (doi: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103090) (PMID:38241763)

Moia, S. et al. (2024) Proceedings of the OHBM Brainhack 2022. Aperture Neuro, 2024(4), (doi: 10.52294/001c.92760)

2021

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Benini, Sergio, Bontempi, Dennis and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2021) CEREBRUM-7T: fast and fully volumetric brain segmentation of 7 Tesla MR volumes. Human Brain Mapping, 42(17), pp. 5563-5580. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.25636) (PMID:34598307)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Morgan, Andrew T., Petro, Lucy S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8255-5776 and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2021) A self-supervised deep neural network for image completion resembles early visual cortex fMRI activity patterns for occluded scenes. Journal of Vision, 21(7), 5. (doi: 10.1167/jov.21.7.5) (PMID:34259828)

2020

Bontempi, Dennis, Benini, Sergio, Signoroni, Alberto, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2020) CEREBRUM: a fast and fully-volumetric Convolutional Encoder-decodeR for weakly-supervised sEgmentation of BRain strUctures from out-of-the-scanner MRI. Medical Image Analysis, 62, 101688. (doi: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101688) (PMID:32272345)

2019

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Savardi, Mattia, Benini, Sergio, Signoroni, Alberto, Raz, Gal, Hendler, Talma, Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324, Goebel, Rainer and Valente, Giancarlo (2019) Transfer learning of deep neural network representations for fMRI decoding. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 328, 108319. (doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108319) (PMID:31585315)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Savardi, Mattia, Signoroni, Alberto, Kovács, András Bálint and Benini, Sergio (2019) Who is the director of this movie? Automatic style recognition based on shot features. IEEE MultiMedia, 26(4), pp. 43-54. (doi: 10.1109/mmul.2019.2940004)

2018

Muhammad, Umar Riaz, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Leonardi, Riccardo and Benini, Sergio (2018) Hair detection, segmentation, and hairstyle classification in the wild. Image and Vision Computing, 71, pp. 25-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.imavis.2018.02.001)

2017

Raz, G. et al. (2017) Robust inter-subject audiovisual decoding in functional magnetic resonance imaging using high-dimensional regression. NeuroImage, 163, pp. 244-263. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.032) (PMID:28939433)

2016

Benini, Sergio, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Adami, Nicola, Leonardi, Riccardo and Kovács, András Bálint (2016) Shot scale distribution in art films. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75(23), pp. 16499-16527. (doi: 10.1007/s11042-016-3339-9)

Gordiychuk, Andriy, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Benini, Sergio and Poesio, Pietro (2016) Size distribution and Sauter mean diameter of micro bubbles for a Venturi type bubble generator. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 70, pp. 51-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2015.08.014)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Muhammad, Umar Riaz, Leonardi, Riccardo and Benini, Sergio (2016) Figaro, Hair Detection and Segmentation in the Wild. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 25-28 Sep 2016, pp. 933-937. ISBN 9781467399616 (doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2016.7532494)

2015

Svanera, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Benini, S., Adami, N., Leonardi, R. and Kovács, A.B. (2015) Over-the-Shoulder Shot Detection in Art Films. In: 2015 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Prague, Czech Republic, 10-12 Jun 2015, ISBN 9781467368704 (doi: 10.1109/CBMI.2015.7153627)

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Number of items: 15.

Articles

Dalby, C., Dibble, Austin, Carvalheiro, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5481, Queirazza, F., Sevegnani, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9481, Harvey, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-1174, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2026) Delineating in-vivo T1-weighted intensity profiles within the human insula cortex using 7-tesla MRI. Human Brain Mapping, 47(4), e70486. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.70486)

Dalby, Connor, Dibble, Austin Jon, Carvalheiro, Joana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5481, Queirazza, Filippo, Sevegnani, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9481, Harvey, Monika ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-1174, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Fracasso, Alessio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-112X (2024) Delineating in-vivo T1-weighted intensity profiles within the human insula cortex using 7-tesla MRI. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.1101/2024.08.05.605123)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Savardi, Mattia, Signoroni, Alberto, Benini, Sergio and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2024) Fighting the scanner effect in brain MRI segmentation with a progressive level-of-detail network trained on multi-site data. Medical Image Analysis, 93, 103090. (doi: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103090) (PMID:38241763)

Moia, S. et al. (2024) Proceedings of the OHBM Brainhack 2022. Aperture Neuro, 2024(4), (doi: 10.52294/001c.92760)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Benini, Sergio, Bontempi, Dennis and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2021) CEREBRUM-7T: fast and fully volumetric brain segmentation of 7 Tesla MR volumes. Human Brain Mapping, 42(17), pp. 5563-5580. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.25636) (PMID:34598307)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Morgan, Andrew T., Petro, Lucy S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8255-5776 and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2021) A self-supervised deep neural network for image completion resembles early visual cortex fMRI activity patterns for occluded scenes. Journal of Vision, 21(7), 5. (doi: 10.1167/jov.21.7.5) (PMID:34259828)

Bontempi, Dennis, Benini, Sergio, Signoroni, Alberto, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209 and Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324 (2020) CEREBRUM: a fast and fully-volumetric Convolutional Encoder-decodeR for weakly-supervised sEgmentation of BRain strUctures from out-of-the-scanner MRI. Medical Image Analysis, 62, 101688. (doi: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101688) (PMID:32272345)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Savardi, Mattia, Benini, Sergio, Signoroni, Alberto, Raz, Gal, Hendler, Talma, Muckli, Lars ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-4324, Goebel, Rainer and Valente, Giancarlo (2019) Transfer learning of deep neural network representations for fMRI decoding. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 328, 108319. (doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108319) (PMID:31585315)

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Savardi, Mattia, Signoroni, Alberto, Kovács, András Bálint and Benini, Sergio (2019) Who is the director of this movie? Automatic style recognition based on shot features. IEEE MultiMedia, 26(4), pp. 43-54. (doi: 10.1109/mmul.2019.2940004)

Muhammad, Umar Riaz, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Leonardi, Riccardo and Benini, Sergio (2018) Hair detection, segmentation, and hairstyle classification in the wild. Image and Vision Computing, 71, pp. 25-37. (doi: 10.1016/j.imavis.2018.02.001)

Raz, G. et al. (2017) Robust inter-subject audiovisual decoding in functional magnetic resonance imaging using high-dimensional regression. NeuroImage, 163, pp. 244-263. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.032) (PMID:28939433)

Benini, Sergio, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Adami, Nicola, Leonardi, Riccardo and Kovács, András Bálint (2016) Shot scale distribution in art films. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75(23), pp. 16499-16527. (doi: 10.1007/s11042-016-3339-9)

Gordiychuk, Andriy, Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Benini, Sergio and Poesio, Pietro (2016) Size distribution and Sauter mean diameter of micro bubbles for a Venturi type bubble generator. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 70, pp. 51-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2015.08.014)

Conference Proceedings

Svanera, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Muhammad, Umar Riaz, Leonardi, Riccardo and Benini, Sergio (2016) Figaro, Hair Detection and Segmentation in the Wild. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 25-28 Sep 2016, pp. 933-937. ISBN 9781467399616 (doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2016.7532494)

Svanera, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9209, Benini, S., Adami, N., Leonardi, R. and Kovács, A.B. (2015) Over-the-Shoulder Shot Detection in Art Films. In: 2015 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Prague, Czech Republic, 10-12 Jun 2015, ISBN 9781467368704 (doi: 10.1109/CBMI.2015.7153627)

This list was generated on Sun Apr 5 15:57:41 2026 BST.

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