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Silvia Farcito

PhD, Scientific Assistant

Virtual Population Models

Silvia was born in Ivrea, Italy. She received her degree in Biology from the University of Torino, Italy, in 2007.

In 2008, Silvia started work towards her PhD in Neuroscience, which she completed in March 2012. During her PhD studies, she worked both at the University of Torino and Zurich, investigating the role of neurotrophic factors during neuronal development.

Silvia joined the IT’IS Foundation in May 2012 and is currently working on the Virtual Population, IT'IS portfolio of high-resolution anatomical models for computational life science. Her expertise includes image segmentation and quality control of the anatomical models. She is also involved in functionalizing the models with posing capabilities, as well as in placing active and passive implants within the models.

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Peer-reviewed articles

Karimi, F., Steiner, M., Newton, T., Lloyd, B.A.A., Cassarà, A.M., De Fontenay, P., Farcito, S., Triebkorn, J.P., Beanato, E., Wang, H., Iavarone, E., Hummel, F.C., Kuster, N., Jirsa, V. & Neufeld, E. Precision non-invasive brain stimulation: An in silico pipeline for personalized control of brain dynamics. Journal of Neural Engineering, 22(2):026061, 2025, doi:10.1088/1741-2552/adb88f

Tharayil, J., Zinno, C., Agnesi, F., Lloyd, B., Farcito, S., Cassarà, A.M., Kuster, N., Reimann, M., Micera, S. & Neufeld, E. Simulation insights on the compound action potential in multifascicular nerves. PLOS Computational Biology, 21(9):e1013452, 2025, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013452

Tharayil, J.J., Blanco Alonso, J., Farcito, S., Lloyd, B., Romani, A., Boci, E., Cassarà, A., Schürmann, F., Neufeld, E., Kuster, N. & Reimann, M. BlueRecording: A pipeline for the efficient calculation of extracellular recordings in large-scale neural circuit models. PLOS Computational Biology, 21(5):e1013023, 2025, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013023

Yao, A., Goren, T., Lloyd, B., Johanna Fuss, C., Farcito, S., Wang, J., Yang, P. & Kuster, N. Breast MRI in the prone position: Impact on RF-induced heating of active implantable medical devices. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 70(17):175003, 2025, doi:10.1088/1361-6560/adf58d

Goren, T., Reboux, S., Farcito, S., Lloyd, B. & Kuster, N. Influence of patient head definition on induced E‐fields during MR examination. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 91(2):735-740, 2024, doi:10.1002/mrm.29894

Gosselin, M.C., Neufeld, E., Moser, H., Huber, E., Farcito, S., Gerber, L., Jedensjoe, M., Hilber, I., Di Gennaro, F., Lloyd, B., Cherubini, E., Szczerba, D., Kainz, W. & Kuster, N. Development of a New Generation of High-Resolution Anatomical Models for Medical Device Evaluation: The Virtual Population 3.0. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 59(18):5287-5303, 2014

Conference proceedings

Neufeld, E., Maiz, O., Kaiser, D., Lloyd, B. & Farcito, S. ID\# 1906835 Planning Tool for Personalized Temporal Interference Stimulation Optimization. In Proceedings of the North American Neuromodulation Society 28th Annual Meeting (NANS 2025), Orlando, Florida, USA, January 30–February 01, 2025, 28:S171, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, doi:10.1016/j.neurom.2025.08.324

Gao, M., Capstick, M.H., Ofli, E., Farcito, S., Lloyd, B., Liao, R. & Kuster, N. Link budget assessment for ingestible RF devices navigating through the digestive tract. In Abstract Collection of the 4th Annual Meeting of the BioEM Society (BioEM 2025), Rennes, France, June 22–27, 2025, pages 49-50

Steiner, M., Neufeld, E., Bujard, C., Lloyd, B.A., Farcito, S. & Kuster, N. Personalized temporal interference stimulation planning leveraging surrogate-based optimization. In Abstract Collection of the Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Symposium 2025 (ZNZ Symposium 2025), Zurich, Switzerland, September 11, 2025

Tharayil, J.J., Cassarà, A.M., Lloyd, B., Farcito, S., Kuster, N., Neufeld, E., Reimann, M. & Van Geit, W. Insights on neural sensing from biophysically-detailed models of neural circuits. In Proceedings of the 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference, Kobe, Japan, February 23–26, 2025, 18:296, Brain Stimulation, doi:10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.245

Yao, A., Fuss, C., Goren, T., Farcito, S., Lloyd, B.A., Wang, J., Yang, P. & Kuster, N. Breast MRI in the Prone Position: Impact on RF-induced Heating of Active Implantable Medical Devices. In Abstract Collection of the ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety: From Science to Clinical Practice, Berlin, Germany, September 24–26, 2025

Yao, A., Goren, T., Lloyd, B., Fuss, C., Farcito, S., Wang, J., Yang, P. & Kuster, N. Impact of face-down MR examination on RF heating of medical implants. In Abstract Collection of the 4th Annual Meeting of the BioEM Society (BioEM 2025), Rennes, France, June 22–27, 2025, pages 24

Karimi, F., Newton, T.H., Steiner, M., Farokhniaee, A., García Ordóñez, J., Beanato, E., family=Fontenay, g., Lloyd, B.A., Farcito, S., Hummel, F.C., Kuster, N. & Neufeld, E. A computational pipeline for personalized modeling of neuromodulation in brain networks. In Proceedings of the 2024 NYC Neuromodulation Conference, New York City, NY, USA, July 31–August 04, 2024, 4(2), Neuromodec Journal, doi:10.31641/nmj-pgle8548

Ordóñez, J.G., Cassarà, A.M., Farcito, S., Neufeld, E., Kuster, N. & Newton, T.H. ID: 316629 In-silico methodology to produce innovative designs for a cranial nerve stimulator to treat cluster headache. In Proceedings of the North American Neuromodulation Society 27th Annual Meeting (NANS 2024), Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 18–21, 2024, 27:S214, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, doi:10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.379

Tharayil, J., Farcito, S., Lloyd, B., Newton, T.H., Zinno, C., Agnesi, F., Cassarà, A.M., Neufeld, E., Kuster, N. & Micera, S. ID: 337509 A computational model of porcine vagus nerve stimulation and compound action potential sensing. In Proceedings of the North American Neuromodulation Society 27th Annual Meeting (NANS 2024), Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 18–21, 2024, 27:S226, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, doi:10.1016/j.neurom.2024.06.403

Lloyd, B., Farcito, S., Cassarà, A.M., Zhuang, K., Neufeld, E. & Kuster, N. SPARC: Development of human and rodent neuro‐functionalized computational anatomical models with detailed mapping of peripheral nervous system. In The FASEB Journal, Proceedings of the Experimental Biology 2020 Meeting (EB2020), San Diego CA, USA, April 4–7, 2020, 34(S1):1-1, The FASEB Journal, doi:10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.07492

Lloyd, B., Cassarà, A.M., Farcito, S., Neufeld, E., Chung, B.S., Park, J.S., Chung, M.S. & Kuster, N. NEUROMAN: Reference Computational Human Phantoms for Evaluation of Safety Thresholds for Peripheral Nerve Stimulation . In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 26

Farcito, S., Lloyd, B., Neufeld, E. & Kuster, N. Quality Assurance and Validation of Human Anatomical Models: Anatomy, Tissue Parameters and Model Processing. In Proceedings of the ASME Verification and Validation Symposium 2017, Las Vegas, USA, May 3 - 5, 2017

Murbach, M., Lloyd, B., Farcito, S., Schroeter, A., Samaras, T. & Kuster, N. Organ-Specific Electrothermal Dosimetry in Various Numerical Mouse-Models Exposed to 1.97 GHz Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields. In Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (EBEA), Hangzhou, China, June 5- 9, 2017

Lloyd, B., Cherubini, E., Farcito, S., Neufeld, E., Baumgartner, C. & Kuster, N. Covering Population Variability: Morphing of Computation Anatomical Models. In [1] Tsaftaris S., Gooya A., Frangi A., Prince J. (eds) Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging. SASHIMI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9968. Springer, Cham

Gosselin, M.C., Christ, A., Farcito, S., Neufeld, E., Samaras, T. & Kuster, N. Validation of Human Models: Anatomy, Tissue Parameters and Tissue Models. In Proceedings of the the ASME 2014 Verification and Validation Symposium, Las Vegas, USA, May 7-9, 2014

Gosselin, M.C., Neufeld, E., Moser, H., Huber, E., Farcito, S., Gerber, L., Jedensjoe, M., Hilber, I., Di Gennaro, F., Lloyd, B., Cherubini, E., Szczerba, D., Kainz, W. & Kuster, N. Development of a New Generation of High-Resolution Anatomical Models for Medical Device Evaluation: The Virtual Population 3.0. In Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (EBEA), Cape Town, South Africa, June 08-13, 2014, pages 374-377

Gerber, L., Huber, E., Moser, H., Di Gennaro, F., Farcito, S., Hilber, I., Neufeld, E., Gosselin, M.C. & Kuster, N. The Making of the Virtual Population 3.0: Image Segmentation and Surface Reconstruction. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Phantoms for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy, Zurich, Switzerland, May 20-22, 2013, pages 82

Gosselin, M.C., Neufeld, E., Moser, H., Di Gennaro, F., Huber, E., Farcito, S., Hilber, I., Gerber, L., Kainz, W. & Kuster, N. Development of the Next Generation of High-Resolution Anatomical Models: The Virtual Population 3.0. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Phantoms for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy, Zurich, Switzerland, May 20-22, 2013, pages 10-11

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