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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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      AM-FM texture segmentation in electron microscopic muscle imaging 

      Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Avraam, Maria; Bovik, Alan Conrad; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C. (2000)
      This paper describes the application of an amplitude modulation-frequency modulation (AM-FM) image representation in segmenting electron micrographs of skeletal muscle for the recognition of: 1) normal sarcomere ultrastructural ...
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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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      Classification and data mining for hysteroscopy imaging in gynaecology 

      Neofytou, Marios S.; Loizou, A.; Tanos, Vasilios; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2008)
      The objective of this study was to develop a CAD system for the classification of hysteroscopy images of the endometrium (with suspicious areas of cancer), based on two data mining procedures, the C4.5 and the Hybrid ...
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      Color based texture - Classification of hysteroscopy images of the endometrium 

      Neofytou, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pavlopoulos, Sotirios A. (2007)
      The objective of this study was to develop a CAD system for the classification of hysteroscopy images of the endometrium based on color texture analysis for the early detection of gynaecological cancer. A total of 416 ...
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      Color multiscale texture classification of hysteroscopy images of the endometrium 

      Neofytou, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Pattichis, Marios S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2008)
      The objective of this study was to investigate the diagnostic performance of a Computer Aided Diagnostic (CAD) system based on color multiscale texture analysis for the classification of hysteroscopy images of the endometrium, ...
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      Combination of different texture features for mammographic breast density classification 

      Liasis, G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Petroudi, Styliani (2012)
      Mammographic breast density refers to the prevalence of fibroglandular tissue as it appears on a mammogram. Breast density is not only an important risk for developing breast cancer but can also mask abnormalities. Breast ...
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      Computer-aided diagnosis in hysteroscopic imaging 

      Neofytou, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Constantinou, Ioannis P.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2015)
      The paper presents the development of a computeraided diagnostic (CAD) system for the early detection of endometrial cancer. The proposed CAD system supports reproducibility through texture feature standardization, ...
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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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      The effect of sorbed toluene on the surface properties of calcium hydroxide 

      Pashalidis, Ioannis; Theocharis, Charis R. (1998)
      The surface properties of commercial grade calcium hydroxide were studied by nitrogen adsorption isotherm analysis, FTIR spectroscopy (KBr transmission and reflectance) and TGA analysis before and after toluene adsorption. ...
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      Evaluation of spatial dependence matrices on multiscale instantaneous amplitude for mammogram classification 

      Petroudi, Styliani; Constantinou, Ioannis P.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Tziakouri, Chrysa H.; Tziakouri, Chrysa H.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Springer Verlag, 2015)
      Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Mammography is the only breast cancer screening method that has proven to be effective. Mammographic breast density is increasingly assessed towards the development of more ...
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      First and second order statistical texture features in carotid plaque image analysis: Preliminary results from ongoing research 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Petroudi, Styliani; Pattichis, Marios S.; Griffin, Maura B.; Kakkos, Stavros K.; Makris, Gregory C. (2011)
      Carotid plaques have been associated with ipsilateral neurological symptoms. High-resolution ultrasound can provide information not only on the degree of carotid artery stenosis but also on the characteristics of the ...
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      An integrated CAD system facilitating the endometrial cancer diagnosis 

      Constantinou, Ioannis P.; Koumourou, C. A.; Neofytou, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C. (2009)
      In this study we present an integrated system for supporting the diagnosis of endometrial cancer. The system consists of an electronic patient record that incoporates a hysteroscopy imaging CAD system for the early detection ...
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      Manual and automated media and intima thickness measurements of the common carotid artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pantzaris, Marios C. (2009)
      The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is widely used as an early indicator of the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It was proposed but not thoroughly investigated that the media ...
    • Article  

      Multiscale amplitude-modulation frequency-modulation (AM-FM) texture analysis of ultrasound images of the intima and media layers of the carotid artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is widely used as an early indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Clinically, there is strong interest in identifying how the composition and texture ...
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      Multiscale amplitude-modulation frequency-modulation (AMFM) texture analysis of multiple sclerosis in brain MRI images 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      This study introduces the use of multiscale amplitude modulation-frequency modulation (AM-FM) texture analysis of multiple sclerosis (MS) using magnetic resonance (MR) images from brain. Clinically, there is interest in ...
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      Multiscale morphological analysis of the atherosclerotic carotid plaque 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Christodoulou, Christodoulos I.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kakkos, Stavros K.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2005)
      The aim of this paper was to investigate the usefulness of multiscale morphological analysis in the assessment of atherosclerotic carotid plagues. Ultrasound images were recorded from 137 asymptomatic and 137 symptomatic ...