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      Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm medical video transmission 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Barberis, Vassilis I. I.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C. (2012)
      Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is responsible for approximately 1.3% of all deaths among men over the age of 65. Given the fact that once an aortic rupture occurs mortality rates are estimated between 80%-90%, national ...
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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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      Biologically inspired region of interest selection for low bit-rate video coding 

      Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Rapantzikos, K. (2006)
      A variety of approaches have been proposed in the literature for Region-Of-Interest (ROI) estimation. In most of them the ROI definition is highly subjective, i.e., lacks scientific evidence in supporting the claim that ...
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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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      High efficiency video coding for ultrasound video communication in m-health systems 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Constantinides, Anthony G. (2012)
      Emerging high efficiency video compression methods and wider availability of wireless network infrastructure will significantly advance existing m-health applications. For medical video communications, the emerging video ...
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      High-resolution, low-delay, and error-resilient medical ultrasound video communication using H.264/AVC over mobile WiMAX networks 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Mylonas, Yiannos; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      In this study, we describe an effective video communication framework for the wireless transmission of H.264/AVC medical ultrasound video over mobile WiMAX networks. Medical ultrasound video is encoded using diagnostically ...
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      A Java-DSP interface for analysis of the MP3 algorithm 

      Huang, C. -W; Thiagarajan, J. J.; Spanias, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      Java-DSP is a freely accessible web-based software, primarily used in signal processing education and research. In this paper, we present Java-DSP modules that have been developed for the study and analysis of the MPEG-1 ...
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      Mobile computing with MPEG-21 

      Angelides, Marios C.; Sofokleous, Anastasis A.; Schizas, Christos N. (2005)
      In the field of multimedia content provision, many researchers investigate numerous techniques for adapting the content based on device, network, environment and user characteristics. In this paper, we present an MPEG-21 ...
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      An MPEG-7 image retrieval system of atherosclerotic carotid plaque images 

      Ioakim, Gianna; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Sofokleous, Anastasis A.; Chistodoulou, C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      This paper proposes an MPEG-7-based ultrasound image retrieval system which can assist in studying and analyzing images from atherosclerotic carotid plaques. The proposed system is able to retrieve and sort ultrasound ...
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      A tutorial for emerging wireless medical video transmission systems [Wireless Corner] 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2011)
      The wireless transmission of medical video is expected to see significant growth in the coming years. This is primarily due to the expected availability of significant bandwidth in the next-generation of wireless communications ...
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      Ultrasound video despeckle filtering for High Efficiency Video Coding in m-health systems 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Shizas, C. N.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      Mobile-Health (m-health) medical video communication systems need to communicate ultrasound video of adequate diagnostic quality for remote diagnosis and care. In this study, we demonstrate how ultrasound video noise ...
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      The use of H.264/AVC and the emerging high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard for developing wireless ultrasound video telemedicine systems 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      For wireless medical video communications, the emerging high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard and network standards support low-delay and high-resolution video transmission, at the clinically acquired resolution and ...
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      Wireless medical ultrasound video transmission through noisy channels 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2008)
      Recent advances in video compression such as the current state-of-the-art H.264/AVC standard in conjunction with increasingly available bitrate through new technologies like 3G, and WiMax have brought mobile health (m-Health) ...