Stefano Bonacina is a lecturer in Medical Informatics and a Research Assistant at Biomedical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. He received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in the year 2000. He received Ph.D. Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in the year 2004. Since may 2004, he is a Research Assistant and his research interests are Health Information System for Clinical and Bio-Medical Research, Medical Informatics, Telemedicine, and Digital Human Anatomy. His PhD research area focused on the Visible Human Dataset. Title of his dissertation is "VHD/HistoColor. A web accessible Visible Human Dataset meta-database as an intermediate interactive manageable tool for a deeper understanding of anatomical structure detection algorithm performances".
His research activities focus is in the field of medical data bases, repositories of bio-images and bio-signals, integration of clinical examination texts with their images, the distributed electronic patient record and its users, infrastructures for clinical guidelines set-up and delivery.
He is the main author or co-author of some scientific publications such as chapters in books and conference proceeding contributes and gave oral presentations of his work in the most important international and national meetings concerning the Bio-Medical Informatics and Telemedicine fields.
He is also the coauthor, of the textbook "Elementi di Informatica Biomedica" targeted for bioengineering and medicine students, under the supervision of professors Francesco Pinciroli and Marco Masseroli.