You are warmly invited to attend a talk titled “Medical image analysis for virtual biopsy and personalized prognostic profiling in clinical pathway” by Lara Cavinato. The event will take place at IDSIA, Manno, Galleria 1 building, 2nd floor in a room to be announced at 15h00. *Abstract*Clinical decision support systems, or CDSSs, represent a paradigm shift in healthcare today as they are expected to aid clinicians in their complex decision-making processes, encompassing data of different type and source. In oncology, most of the information used for devising optimal and personalized prognostic profiling is biological, which is time- and resource-demanding to retrive, thus unfeasible to enter a CDSS workflow. Here comes the hypothesis that imaging-derived information, namely radiomics, can be a surrogate for biological characterization of tissues, performing the so-called "virtual biopsy" and informing the entire treatment planning. Given this rationale, some example of application as well as open issues and future directions will be further discussed. *The speaker* Lara Cavinato is a PhD student in Data Analytics and Decision Science at Politecnico di Milano; she spent visiting periods at the Sinha Lab (MIT) and at the Humanitas Research Hospital. -- This message was scanned by SUPSI mail-scanner and is believed to be clean.