Browsing by Subject "Health"

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      Analysis of neuromuscular disorders using statistical and entropy metrics on surface EMG 

      Istenic, R.; Kaplanis, P. A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Zazula, D. (2008)
      This paper introduces the surface electromyogram (EMG) classification system based on statistical and entropy metrics. The system is intended for diagnostic use and enables classification of examined subject as normal, ...
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      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 ...
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      Computational predictions of the tensile properties of electrospun fibre meshes: Effect of fibre diameter and fibre orientation 

      Barocas, V. Η; Stylianopoulos, T.; Bashur, C. A.; Goldstein, A. S.; Guelcher, S. A. (2008)
      The mechanical properties of biomaterial scaffolds are crucial for their efficacy in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. At the microscopic scale, the scaffold must be sufficiently rigid to support cell adhesion, ...
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      Data protection issues of integrated Electronic Health Records (EHR) 

      Schiza, Eirini C.; Fakas, Georgios John; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Petkov, N.; Schizas, Christos N. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      An Electronic Health Record (EHR) of a patient in perspective maintains the medical history of the citizen electronically in medical databanks serviced locally or is cloud based. The ownership and the access control should ...
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      Data-centric privacy protocol for intensive care grids 

      Luna, J.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Marazakis, M.; Kyprianou, T. (2010)
      Modern e-Health systems require advanced computing and storage capabilities, leading to the adoption of technologies like the grid and giving birth to novel health grid systems. In particular, intensive care medicine uses ...
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      Evaluation metrics for ehealth services and applications within smart houses context 

      Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      eHealth services is a continuously growing sector, driving the need for advances in both the network characteristics and infrastructure, as well as in the available mobile devices used. The same need requires the development ...
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      Evaluation of thermal discomfort in Athens territory and its effect on the daily number of recorded patients at hospitals' emergency rooms 

      Pantavou, K. G.; Theoharatos, G.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Katavoutas, G.; Asimakopoulos, D. (2008)
      Previous research has shown that temperature and humidity affect human health. However, only a few studies have examined the association of a biometeorological index, which combines several meteorological parameters and ...
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      Interpersonal Attacks on the Dignity of Members of HIV Key Populations: A Descriptive and Exploratory Study 

      Friedman, Samuel R.; Pouget, E. R.; Sandoval, M.; Rossi, D.; Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Schneider, J. A.; Smyrnov, P.; Stall, R. D. (2017)
      Attacks on peoples’ dignity help to produce and maintain stigmatization and interpersonal hostility. As part of an effort to develop innovative measures of possible pathways between structural interventions or socially-disruptive ...
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      An m-health system for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Jossif, Antonis P.; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios G.; Paraskeva, Loucas; Konstantinides, A.; Kounoudes, A. (2008)
      In this study, we present a mobile health (m-Health) system that will be used for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias. The system is able to do real-time acquisition and transmission of ECG ...
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      The micropulse framework for adaptive waking windows in sensor networks 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2007)
      In this paper we present MicroPulse, a novel framework for adapting the waking window of a sensing device S based on the data workload incurred by a query Q. Assuming a typical tree-based aggregation scenario, the waking ...
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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 ...
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      Quantitative analysis of brain white matter lesions in multiple sclerosis subjects: Preliminary findings 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Eracleous, Eleni A.; Schizas, Christos N.; Pantzaris, Marios C. (2008)
      In this study the value of magnetic resonance image (MRI) shape and texture analysis was assessed in multiple sclerosis (MS) subjects, both in differentiating between normal and abnormal tissue and in assessing disease ...
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      Wireless medical ultrasound video transmission through noisy channels 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2008)
      Recent advances in video compression such as the current state-of-the-art H.264/AVC standard in conjunction with increasingly available bitrate through new technologies like 3G, and WiMax have brought mobile health (m-Health) ...
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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 ...