Browsing by Subject "Cardiology"

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      Assessment of the risk factors of coronary heart events based on data mining with decision trees 

      Karaolis, Minas A.; Moutiris, Joseph Antoniou; Hadjipanayi, Demetra; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the major causes of disability in adults as well as one of the main causes of death in the developed countries. Although significant progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment ...
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      Assessment of the risk of coronary heart event based on data mining 

      Karaolis, Minas A.; Moutiris, Joseph Antoniou; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2008)
      Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world. Although significant progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of CHD, further investigation is still needed. The ...
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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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      A Comparison of Ultrasound Intima-Media Thickness Measurements of the Left and Right Common Carotid Artery 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Georghiou, N.; Griffin, Maura B.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2015)
      The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is an established indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD). There have been reports about the difference between the left and the right sides of the CCA ...
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      Laboratory Assessment of the Anticoagulant Activity of Dabigatran 

      Kyriakou, Elias; Ikonomidis, Ignatios; Stylos, D.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Papadakis, I.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kokoris, Styliani; Kalantzis, Dimitrios; Economopoulou, Christine; Kopterides, Petros; Lekakis, John; Tsantes, Argirio E. (2015)
      Background: Our aim was to identify laboratory assays in order to assess the anticoagulant effects of dabigatran etexilate (DE). Methods: Twenty patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation treated on DE (110 mg per os ...
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      Multiscale, structure-based modeling for the elastic mechanical behavior of arterial walls 

      Barocas, V. Η; Stylianopoulos, T. (2007)
      Passive elastic behavior of arterial wall remains difficult to model. Although phenomenological and structural models exist, the question of how the three-dimensional network structure of the collagen in the artery determines ...
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      Texture-based classification of atherosclerotic carotid plaques 

      Christodoulou, Christodoulos I.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2003)
      There are indications that the morphology of atherosclerotic carotid plaques, obtained by high-resolution ultrasound imaging, has prognostic implications. The objective of this study was to develop a computer-aided system ...
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      Variogram methods for texture classification of atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound images 

      Jeromin, O. M.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2006)
      Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the western world and the major cause of disability in adults. The type and stenosis of extracranial carotid artery disease is often responsible for ischemic strokes, transient ...
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      A wireless system for monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Anastasis, Kounoudes; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Paraskeva, Loucas; Jossif, Antonis P.; Hoplaros, Demetris; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios G. (2009)
      Arrhythmia is one of the most difficult problems in Cardiology and especially in Pediatric Cardiology. In this study, we present a mobile health (m-Health) system that will be used for continuous monitoring of children ...