1. Introduction: ways and means to deal with data from multiple sources 2. Framework for low-level data fusion 3. General framing of low-high-mid level Data Fusion with examples in life science 4. Numerical optimization based algorithms for data fusion 5. Recent advances in High-Level Fusion Methods to classify multiple analytical Chemical Data 6. SO-(N)-PLS: Sequentially Orthogonalized-(N)-PLS in Data Fusion context 7. ComDim methods for the analysis of multi block data in a data fusion perspective 8. Data fusion via multiset analysis 9. Dealing with data heterogeneity in a data fusion perspecitve: models, methodologies, and algorithms 10. Data Fusion strategies in food analysis 11. Data fusion for image analysis 12. Data fusion using window based models: Application to outlier detection, classification, and forensic image analysis
Marina Cocchi currently serves as the Associate Professor in the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia's Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences. She has dedicated nearly two decades of chemometric and data analysis research to the university, exploring topics ranging from data fusion procedures to development and application of multivariates. Cocchi has also contributed to over one hundred scientific publications throughout her career.