• Conference Object  

      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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      Adaptive emergency scenery video communications using HEVC for responsive decision support in disaster incidents 

      Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Stavrou, S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Spanias, Andreas S.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      This study proposes a unifying framework for m-Health video communication systems that provides for the joint optimization of video quality, bitrate demands, and encoding time. The framework is video modality and infrastructure ...
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      Adaptive real-time HEVC encoding of emergency scenery video 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      This paper proposes the use of an adaptive HEVC encoding framework for the wireless transmission of real-time emergency scenery video. The goal of the proposed approach is to adapt HEVC encoding methods and parameters so ...
    • Article  

      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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      A brief overview of m-health e-emergency systems 

      Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Mougiakakou, Stavroula Gr; Pitsillides, Andreas; Schizas, Christos N. (2008)
      Rapid advances in wireless communications and networking technologies, linked with advances in computing and medical technologies facilitate the development and offering of emerging mobile systems and services in the ...
    • Article  

      Connected Health 

      Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Panayides, Andreas S. (2019)
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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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      Educational Robotics Competitions and Involved Methodological Aspects 

      Christoforou, Eftychios G.; Masouras, Panicos; Cheng, Pericles; Avgousti, Sotiris; Tsekos, Nikolaos V.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Georgiou, George K. (Springer International Publishing, 2020)
      The present article provides perspectives on educational robotics competitions based on teaching experiences with university students as well as the organization of “Robotex Cyprus”, a widely-attended annual event. The ...
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      EEmergency health care information systems 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Constantinides, P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Panayides, Andreas S. (2011)
      In this paper we provide an overview of the way that information and communication technologies have been used for emergency healthcare support. The paper provides a literature review of case studies exploring information ...
    • Article  

      eEmergency health care information systems. 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Constantinides, P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Panayides, Andreas S. (2011)
      In this paper we provide an overview of the way that information and communication technologies have been used for emergency healthcare support. The paper provides a literature review of case studies exploring information ...
    • Article  

      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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      HEVC encoding for reproducible medical ultrasound video diagnosis 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)
      In this study, we investigate how the recently introduced high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard can be used in the design of reproducible medical ultrasound video diagnosis systems. We introduce a set of clinical ...
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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 ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      m-health e-emergency systems: Current status and future directions 

      Herscovici, N.; Christodoulou, Chris C.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2007)
      Rapid advances in wireless communications and networking technologies, linked with advances in computing and medical technologies, facilitate the development and offering of emerging mobile systems and services in the ...
    • Conference Object  

      M-health medical video communication systems: An overview of design approaches and recent advances 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      The emergence of the new, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, combined with wide deployment of 4G wireless networks, will provide significant support toward the adoption of mobile-health (m-health) medical video ...
    • Article  

      Medical telerobotic systems: Current status and future trends 

      Avgousti, Sotiris; Christoforou, Eftychios G.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Voskarides, Sotos Ch; Novales, Cyril; Nouaille, Laurence; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Vieyres, Pierre P. (2016)
      Teleoperated medical robotic systems allow procedures such as surgeries, treatments, and diagnoses to be conducted across short or long distances while utilizing wired and/or wireless communication networks. This study ...
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      Medical Telerobotics and the Remote Ultrasonography Paradigm Over 4G Wireless Networks 

      Avgousti, Sotiris; Panayides, Andreas S.; Christoforou, Eftychios G.; Argyrou, Argyris; Jossif, Antonis; Masouras, Panicos; Novales, Cyril; Vieyres, Pierre (2018)
      Medical telerobotic systems provide a framework for performing interventional and diagnostic procedures remotely utilizing communication networks. Over the past decade, various systems have demonstrated the feasibility and ...
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      Mobile-health systems use diagnostically driven medical video technologies 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      Mobile-health (m-health) systems and services are expected to undergo significant growth in the near future [1]?[4]. Based on recent advances in signal and video processing and communications technologies' m-health systems ...