Browsing by Subject "Medical computing"

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      Abduction and induction for learning models of inhibition in metabolic networks 

      Tamaddoni-Nezhad, A.; Chaleil, R.; Kakas, Antonis C.; Muggleton, S. (2005)
      This paper describes the use of a mixture of abduction and induction for the temporal modelling of the effects of toxins in metabolic networks. Background knowledge is used which describes network topology and functional ...
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      AM-FM texture image analysis in multiple sclerosis brain white matter lesions 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      In this study we investigate the use of multiscale Amplitude Modulation-Frequency Modulation (AM-FM) methods for analyzing brain white matter lesions that are associated with multiple sclerosis MRI lesions imaged at 0 and ...
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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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      Classification capacity of a modular neural network implementing neurally inspired architecture and training rules 

      Poirazi, Panayiota; Neocleous, Costas K.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2004)
      A three-layer neural network (NN) with novel adaptive architecture has been developed. The hidden layer of the network consists of slabs of single neuron models, where neurons within a slab-but not between slabs- have the ...
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      Comparison of AM-FM features with standard features for the classification of surface electromyographic signals 

      Christodoulou, Christodoulos I.; Kaplanis, P. A.; Murray, V.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      In this work AM-FM features extracted from surface electromyographic (SEMG) signals were compared with standard time and frequency domain features, for the classification of neuromuscular disorders at different force levels. ...
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      Continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Kounoudes, A.; Paraskeva, Loucas; Konstantinides, A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Jossif, Antonis P.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Vogiatzis, Dimitrios G. (2009)
      Advances in wireless communications and networking technologies as well as computer and medical technologies, enable the development of small size, power efficient and more reliable medical multi-parameter recording systems, ...
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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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      Detection of cell nuclei in breast biopsies using receptive fields 

      Schnorrenberg, F.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Schizas, Christos N. (IEEE, 1994)
      A biopsy analysis support system, called BASS, is introduced. The system uses an unsupervised object detection loop involving center-surround receptive fields, and a nonlinearity to mark the location of cell nuclei in an ...
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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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      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 ...
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      Effect of links’ center of gravity position on the performance of a four-bar linkage as an upper limb rehabilitation mechanism: A parametric study 

      Xydas, E.; Herodotou, P.; Louca, Loucas S.; Mueller, A. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      It has been shown that mechanisms based on closed kinematic chains, with integrated passive elements (springs) can generate motions that replicate the natural hand motion and therefore they can be potentially useful in ...
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      First trimester diagnosis of trisomy-21 using artificial neural networks 

      Neocleous, Andreas C.; Nikolaides, Kypros H.; Neokleous, Kleanthis C.; Schizas, Christos N. (2010)
      Langdon Down in 1866 reported on a syndrome in which individuals have skin appearing to be too large for the body, a nose small and a flat face. This is a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an ...
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      Haemostasis in minimal invasive gynaecological surgery energies: Technical aspects, safety and efficacy 

      Tanos, Vasilios; Neofytou, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      The objective of this article is to examine the options, the effectiveness and the safety of the energies used in gynaecological minimal invasive surgery (MIGS), laparoscopic surgery developed in the end of 20th century. ...
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      ICT systems and services for Ageing Well: Identification and assessment of an important set (package) of ICT services for active ageing and independent living 

      Christophorou, C.; Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Kleanthous, Styliani; Cereghetti, D. M.; Meijers, J.; Christodoulou, Eleni; Samaras, George S. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      Currently, the main care model for supporting elderly people living alone at home is based on informal and formal caregivers assistance. Considering the demographic changes of older population, which increases rapidly, ...
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      Intensive Care Cloud: Exploiting cloud infrastructures for near real-time vital sign analysis in intensive care medicine 

      Stylianides, N.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Gjermundrod, H.; Kyprianou, T. (2012)
      This paper introduces a novel, open architecture cloud oriented framework named Intensive Care Cloud, ICCloud. ICCloud main objective is to provide a) a common repository to store anonymized vital sign parameters retrieved ...
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      Mechanical stress regulates tissue oxygenation, cancer cell proliferation and drug delivery during progression of solid tumors 

      Mpekris, F.; Angeli, S.; Pirentis, A. P.; Stylianopoulos, T. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      Oxygen supply plays a central role in cancer cell proliferation. While vascular density increases at the early stages of carcinogenesis, mechanical solid stresses developed during growth compress tumor blood vessels and, ...
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      Mobile health systems: A brief overview 

      Voskarides, Sotos Ch; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Istepanian, Robert Sh Habib; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2002)
      Rapid advances in information technology and telecommunications, and more specifically wireless and mobile communications, and their convergence (telematics) are leading to the emergence of a new type of information ...
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      Modelling inhibition in metabolic pathways through abduction and induction 

      Tamaddoni-Nezhad, A.; Kakas, Antonis C.; Muggleton, S.; Pazos, F. (2004)
      In this paper, we study how a logical form of scientific modelling that integrates together abduction and induction can be used to understand the functional class of unknown enzymes or inhibitors. We show how we can model, ...
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      A national Electronic Health Record System for Cyprus 

      Neokleous,Kleanthis C.; Schiza, Eirini C.; Salameh, E.; Palazis, K.; Schizas, Christos N. (Springer Verlag, 2014)
      This paper presents part of the work done for the "Electronic Health Record (EHR) at National Level project" under the Framework Program for Research, Technological Development and Innovation 2009-2010 of the Research ...