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      AM-FM texture image analysis in brain white matter lesions in the progression of multiple sclerosis 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      We present the use of multiscale Amplitude Modulation Frequency Modulation (AM-FM) methods for analyzing brain white matter lesions that are associated with disease progression. We analyze lesions and normal appearing white ...
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      AM-FM texture image analysis in multiple sclerosis brain white matter lesions 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      In this study we investigate the use of multiscale Amplitude Modulation-Frequency Modulation (AM-FM) methods for analyzing brain white matter lesions that are associated with multiple sclerosis MRI lesions imaged at 0 and ...
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      AM-FM texture image analysis of the intima and media layers of the carotid artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Christodoulou, C. S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2009)
      The purpose of this paper is to propose the use of amplitude modulation-frequency modulation (AM-FM) features for describing atherosclerotic plaque features that are associated with clinical factors such as intima media ...
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      Atherosclerotic carotid plaque segmentation 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Istepanian, Robert Sh Habib; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2004)
      Atherosclerosis is the major cause of heart attack and stroke in the western world. In this paper we present a computerized method for segmenting the athrerosclerotic carotid plaque from ultrasound images. The method uses ...
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      Atherosclerotic carotid plaque texture variability in ultrasound video 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Springer Verlag, 2015)
      Ultrasound video of the common carotid artery (CCA) combined with texture feature analysis has the potential in differentiating between asymptomatic and symptomatic atherosclerotic carotid plaque and is used widely for the ...
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      Atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound video encoding, wireless transmission, and quality assessment using H.264 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2011)
      We propose a unifying framework for efficient encoding, transmission, and quality assessment of atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound video. The approach is based on a spatially varying encoding scheme, where video-slice ...
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      Brain MR image normalization in texture analysis of multiple sclerosis 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2009)
      A problem that occurs in texture analysis and quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is that the extracted results are not comparable between consecutive or repeated scans or, within the same scan, ...
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      Brain white matter lesion classification in multiple sclerosis subjects for the prognosis of future disability 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Petroudi, Styliani; Karaolis, Minas A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      This study investigates the application of classification methods for the prognosis of future disability on MRI-detectable brain white matter lesions in subjects diagnosed with clinical isolated syndrome (CIS) of multiple ...
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      Brain white matter lesions classification in multiple sclerosis subjects for the prognosis of future disability 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Christodoulou, Chris C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      This study investigates the application of classification methods for the prognosis of future disability on MRI-detectable brain white matter lesions in subjects diagnosed with clinical isolated syndrome (CIS) of multiple ...
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      Click evoked neurogenic vestibular potentials (NVESTEPs): A method of assessing the function of the vestibular system 

      Papathanasiou, Eleftherios Stelios; Zamba-Papanicolaou, Eleni; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Kyriakides, Theodoros; Papacostas, Savvas S.; Myrianthopoulou, Panayiota; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Iliopoulos, Ioannis Komotini; Piperidou, Charitomeni N. (2003)
      Objectives: To obtain neurogenic vestibular evoked potentials (NVESTEPs) with surface scalp recording using high intensity auditory clicks. The same stimulus is used in myogenic vestibular evoked potentials which has been ...
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      Comparative evaluation of despeckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Christodoulou, Christodoulos I.; Istepanian, Robert Sh Habib; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2005)
      It is well-known that speckle is a multiplicative noise that degrades the visual evaluation in ultrasound imaging. The recent advancements in ultrasound instrumentation and portable ultrasound devices necessitate the need ...
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      Completely automated multiresolution edge snapper (CAMES): A new technique for an accurate carotid ultrasound IMT measurement and its validation on a multi-institutional database 

      Molinari, F.; Loizou, Christos P.; Zeng, G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Liboni, W.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Suri, J. S. (2011)
      Since 2005, our research team has been developing automated techniques for carotid artery (CA) wall segmentation and intima-media thickness (IMT) measurement. We developed a snake-based technique (which we named CULEX 1,2), ...
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      De-speckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery 

      Christodoulou, Christodoulos I.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Schizas, Christos N.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2002)
      The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the classification performance of de-speckle filtering on ultrasound imaging of the carotid atherosclerotic plaque. The following procedure was investigated on 230 images ...
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      Despeckle filtering for multiscale amplitude-modulation frequency-modulation (AM-FM) texture analysis of ultrasound images of the intima-media complex 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2014)
      The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is widely used as an early indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Typically, the IMT grows with age and this is used as a sign of increased risk of ...
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      Despeckle filtering in ultrasound video of the common carotid artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kasparis, Takis; Christodoulides, Paul; Theofanous, Charoula; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      Noise reduction is essential for increasing the visual quality or as a preprocessing step for further automated analysis in video sequences and video coding. The objective of this work was to investigate four different ...
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      Dynamic network adaptation for real-time medical video communication 

      Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      The wider adoption of mHealth video communication systems in standard clinical practice requires adequate levels of clinical video quality to support reliable diagnosis. The latter dictates that real-time adaptation to ...
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      An effective ultrasound video communication system using despeckle filtering and HEVC 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2015)
      The recent emergence of the high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard promises to deliver significant bitrate savings over current and prior video compression standards, while also supporting higher resolutions that can ...
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      A fully automated method using active contours for the evaluation of the intima-media thickness in carotid US images 

      Petroudi, Styliani; Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      The thickness of the intima-media complex (IMC) of the common carotid artery (CCA) wall is important in the evaluation of the risk for the development of atherosclerosis. This paper presents a fully automated algorithm for ...
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      A fully automated method using active contours for the evaluation of the intima-media thickness in carotid US images. 

      Petroudi, Styliani; Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      The thickness of the intima-media complex (IMC) of the common carotid artery (CCA) wall is important in the evaluation of the risk for the development of atherosclerosis. This paper presents a fully automated algorithm for ...
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      An integrated system for the assessment of ultrasonic imaging atherosclerotic carotid plaques 

      Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Christodoulou, Christodoulos I.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2001)
      The objective of this work is to develop a system that will facilitate the automated characterization of ultrasonic imaging carotid plaques for the identification of individuals with asymptomatic carotid stenosis at risk ...