Gabriella Balestra received the Italian Laurea in computer science from the Università di Torino and a Ph.D. degree from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Since 1993, she has been on the maculty of Politecnico di Torino, where she teaches biomedical informatics. Her research interests include artificial intelligence applied to analysis and interpretation of biomedical images, data, and signals, medical informatics, and telemedicine. She is a member of SIBIM and IEEE EMBS.