• Conference Object  

      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 ...
    • Conference Object  

      Speckle reduction in ultrasound images of atherosclerotic carotid plaque 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Christodoulou, Chris C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Istepanian, Robert Sh Habib; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2002)
      The objective of this work was to develop six speckle reduction-filtering techniques and evaluate them together with texture analysis in the assessment of 240 ultrasound images of the carotid artery. The de- speckled filters ...
    • Article  

      Training bidirectional recurrent neural network architectures with the scaled conjugate gradient algorithm 

      Agathocleous, Michalis; Christodoulou, Chris C.; Promponas, Vasilis J.; Kountouris, P.; Vassiliades, Vassilis (2016)
      Predictions on sequential data, when both the upstream and downstream information is important, is a difficult and challenging task. The Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network (BRNN) architecture has been designed to deal ...