Browsing by Subject "telemedicine"

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      Adaptive emergency scenery video communications using HEVC for responsive decision support in disaster incidents 

      Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Stavrou, S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Spanias, Andreas S.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      This study proposes a unifying framework for m-Health video communication systems that provides for the joint optimization of video quality, bitrate demands, and encoding time. The framework is video modality and infrastructure ...
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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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      An effective ultrasound video communication system using despeckle filtering and HEVC 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2015)
      The recent emergence of the high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard promises to deliver significant bitrate savings over current and prior video compression standards, while also supporting higher resolutions that can ...
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      Guest editorial introduction to the special issue on citizen centered e-health systems in a global healthcare environment: Selected papers from ITAB 2009 

      Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Schizas, Christos N.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Fotiadis, Dimitrios Ioannis; Pattichis, Marios S.; Bamidis, Panagiotis D. (2011)
      The January 2011 Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine includes selected papers from Information Technology in Biomedicine (ITAB 2009), held in the month of October in Cyprus. The ...
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      Health telematics training network (HEALTHNET) 

      Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2000)
      This paper describes the work in progress of the European Commission DG XXII Education, Training and Youth Leonardo da Vinci programme Health Telematics Training Network (HEALTHNET) (Project No: CY/97/2/00988/PI/II.l.l.c/CONT). ...
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      High efficiency video coding for ultrasound video communication in m-health systems. 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Constantinides, Anthony G. (2012)
      Emerging high efficiency video compression methods and wider availability of wireless network infrastructure will significantly advance existing m-health applications. For medical video communications, the emerging video ...
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      Intensive care window: Real-time monitoring and analysis in the intensive care environment 

      Stylianides, N.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Gjermundrød, H.; Panayi, G.; Kyprianou, T. (2011)
      This paper introduces a novel, open-source middleware framework for communication with medical devices and an application using the middleware named intensive care window (ICW). The middleware enables communication with ...
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      An overview of recent health care support systems for eEmergency and mHealth applications. 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S. (2009)
      Advances in mobile communications and medical technologies facilitate the development of emerging mobile systems and applications for healthcare. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview and the current status ...
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      A patient centered electronic health: EHealth system development 

      Schiza, Eirini C.; Neokleous,Kleanthis C.; Petkov, N.; Schizas, Christos N. (2015)
      Background: Medical practice and patient-doctor relationship will continue improving while technology is integrated in our everyday life. In recent years the term eHealth landmarked a new era with improved health provider's ...
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      A post cardiac surgery home-monitoring system 

      Matheou, George; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Chimonidou, Panayiota; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Lambrinou, Ekaterini; Barberis, Vassilis I. I.; Georghiou, Georgios P. (2011)
      The aim of this work was to develop a system that will be used for remote monitoring of patients at home after a cardiac surgery so as to keep their rehabilitation period as smooth as possible and avoid unnecessary visits ...
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      Privacy and data protection in healthcare: EHealth for all-keynote address 

      Schizas, Christos N. (2015)
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      Real-Time Adaptation to Time-Varying Constraints for Medical Video Communications 

      Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S. (2017)
      The wider adoption of mobile Health (mHealth) video communication systems in standard clinical practice requires real-time control to provide for adequate levels of clinical video quality to support reliable diagnosis. The ...
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      Region of interest video coding for low bit-rate transmission of carotid ultrasound videos over 3G wireless networks. 

      Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas; Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2007)
      Efficient medical video transmission over 3G wireless is of great importance for fast diagnosis and on site medical staff training purposes. In this paper we present a region of interest based ultrasound video compression ...
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      A Review of Decision Support Systems in Telecare 

      Falas, Tasos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos; Stafylopatis, Andreas N. (2003)
      This paper presents an overview of the state-of-the-art on decision support systems (DSS) in telecare. The main aspect examined is the use of smaller subsystems -components in an integrated DSS, with emphasis on two ...
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      Selected eHealth applications in Cyprus from the training perspective 

      Jossif, Antonis P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriakides, M.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2007)
      Objectives: In this paper a review of selected eHealth applications in Cyprus is presented linked with their success or failure based on their training activities. Methods: The eHealth systems presented and their training ...
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      A tutorial for emerging wireless medical video transmission systems [Wireless Corner] 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2011)
      The wireless transmission of medical video is expected to see significant growth in the coming years. This is primarily due to the expected availability of significant bandwidth in the next-generation of wireless communications ...
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      User perspective of DITIS: Virtual collaborative teams for home-healthcare 

      Pitsillides, B.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Samaras, George S.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Christodoulou, Eleni; Panteli, N. (2004)
      DITIS supports home-care by offering wireless health care services for chronic illnesses. The main service is the dynamic creation, management and co-ordination of virtual collaborative healthcare teams for the continuous ...
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      A Web services-based exergaming platform for senior citizens: the Long Lasting Memories project approach to e-health care. 

      Bamidis, Panagiotis D.; Konstantinidis, E. I.; Billis, A.; Frantzidis, C.; Tsolaki, M.; Hlauschek, W.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Neofytou, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      This piece of research describes an innovative e-health service that supports the cognitive and physical training of senior citizens and promotes their active ageing. The approach is adopted by the Long Lasting Memories ...