Browsing by Subject "Endoscopy"

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      An adaptive multiscale AM-FM texture analysis system with application to hysteroscopy imaging 

      Constantinou, Ioannis P.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Neofytou, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      The use of multiscale AM-FM analysis systems has been recently demonstrated in a variety of applications in medical image analysis. In all of these applications, a fixed filter-bank is used as a preprocessing step for ...
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      Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fizazi, K. (2005)
      Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is one of the 10 most frequent cancers worldwide. It constitutes 3-5% of all human malignancies. Patients with CUP present with metastases without an established primary site. CUP manifests ...
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      Cancer of unknown primary origin 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1997)
      About 3 % of all cancer patients suffer from cancer of unknown primary origin. These patients present with metastatic disease for which a primary site cannot be detected at the time of diagnosis. Sophisticated diagnostic ...
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      Cancer of unknown primary site 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2012)
      Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a well recognised clinical disorder, accounting for 3-5 of all malignant epithelial tumours. CUP is clinically characterised as an aggressive disease with early dissemination. ...
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      Cancer of unknown primary site: 20 questions to be answered 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Pentheroudakis, George (2010)
      Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a common, well-recognized and heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Patients with CUP present with metastatic disease in the absence of an identifiable primary tumour despite a diagnostic ...
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      Cancers of unknown primary site: ESMO clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pentheroudakis, George (2010)
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      Cancers of unknown primary site: ESMO clinical recommendation for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Felip, E. (2008)
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      Cancers of unknown primary site: ESMO clinical recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Felip, E. (2009)
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      Cancers of unknown primary site: ESMO Clinical Recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2007)
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      Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fizazi, K. (2009)
      Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is one of the 10 most frequent cancers worldwide. It constitutes 3-5% of all human malignancies. Patients with CUP present with metastases without an established primary site. CUP manifests ...
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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 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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      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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      Diagnostic and therapeutic management of cancer of an unknown primary 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Hainsworth, J.; Greco, F. A. (2003)
      Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary Site (CUP) accounts for approximately 3% of all malignant neoplasms and is therefore one of the 10 most frequent cancer diagnoses in man. Patients with CUP present with metastatic disease ...
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      The effect of color correction of endoscopy images for quantitative analysis in endometrium 

      Neophytou, Michael S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Pattichis, Marios S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Koutsouris, Demetrios Dionysios (2005)
      The objective of this study was to develop a standardized protocol for the capturing and analysis of endoscopy digital images for subsequent use in a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system in gynaecological cancer. Images ...
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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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      Rectal metastases from lobular carcinoma of the breast: Report of a case and literature review 

      Bamias, A. T.; Baltayiannis, G.; Kamina, S.; Fatouros, M.; Lymperopoulos, E.; Agnantis, Niki J.; Tsianos, Epameinondas; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2001)
      Metastatic involvement of the gastrointestinal (G1) tract secondary to breast cancer is rare. Reported herein is the case of a 74-year-old woman with metastatic lobular breast carcinoma to the rectum presenting with ...
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      Reliable hysteroscopy color imaging 

      Constantinou, Ioannis P.; Tanos, Vasilios; Neofytou, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability of two hysteroscopy cameras, the Circon IP 4 and Karl Storz HD, in relation to white balance, camera response over time, and color correction. Experimental results, ...
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      A simplified 2D real time navigation system for hysteroscopy imaging 

      Herakleous, I.; Constantinos, I. P.; Michael, E.; Neofytou, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Tanos, Vasilios (2011)
      In this paper, a simplified 2D navigation system for hysteroscopy imaging was introduced. This system was evaluated in virtual endometrium models, and the position sensor measurement errors were very small and acceptable ...
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      Texture analysis of the endometrium during hysteroscopy: Preliminary results 

      Neophytou, Michael S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pavlopoulos, Sotirios A.; Koutsouris, Demetrios Dionysios (2004)
      The objective of this study is to investigate the usefulness of texture analysis in the endometrium during hysteroscopy in endoscopic imaging of the uterine cavity. Endoscopy images from the endometrium from three subjects, ...