• Conference Object  

      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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      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 ...
    • Article  

      An embedded saliency map estimator scheme: Application to video encoding 

      Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas; Rapantzikos, K.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2007)
      In this paper we propose a novel saliency-based computational model for visual attention. This model processes both top-down (goal directed) and bottom-up information. Processing in the top-down channel creates the so ...
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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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      High-resolution, low-delay, and error-resilient medical ultrasound video communication using H.264/AVC over mobile WiMAX networks 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Mylonas, Yiannos; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      In this study, we describe an effective video communication framework for the wireless transmission of H.264/AVC medical ultrasound video over mobile WiMAX networks. Medical ultrasound video is encoded using diagnostically ...
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      An integrated system for the segmentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque ultrasound video 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Petroudi, Styliani; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2014)
      The robust border identification of atherosclerotic carotid plaque, the corresponding degree of stenosis of the common carotid artery (CCA), and also the characteristics of the arterial wall, including plaque size, ...
    • Conference Object  

      Measurement of ultrasonic diaphragmatic motion 

      Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Loizou, Christos P.; Minas, G.; Delibasis, Konstantinos K.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      The motion characteristics of the diaphragmatic muscle may provide useful information about normal and abnormal diaphragmatic function and indicate diaphragmatic weakness. The objective of this paper was to introduce a ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      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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      Robust and efficient ultrasound video coding in noisy channels using H.264. 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2009)
      In this paper we define diagnostic Regions of Interest (ROIs) for carotid ultrasound medical video, which we then use as input for Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) slice encoding. We extend the FMO concept by enabling ...
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      A scale-up field experiment for the monitoring of a burning process using chemical, audio, and video sensors 

      Stavrakakis, P.; Agapiou, Agapios; Mikedi, Katerina; Karma, Sofia; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Pallis, George C.; Pappa, Athina A. (2014)
      Fires are becoming more violent and frequent resulting in major economic losses and long-lasting effects on communities and ecosystems
    • Article  

      A standardised protocol for texture feature analysis of endoscopic images in gynaecological cancer 

      Neofytou, Marios S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Koutsouris, Demetrios Dionysios (2007)
      Background: In the development of tissue classification methods, classifiers rely on significant differences between texture features extracted from normal and abnormal regions. Yet, significant differences can arise due ...
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      Texture-based classification of hysteroscopy images of the endometrium. 

      Neofytou, Marios S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Tanos, Vasilios; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Koutsouris, Demetrios Dionysios (2006)
      The objective of this study was to classify hysteroscopy images of the endometrium based on texture analysis for the early detection of gynaecological cancer. A total of 418 regions of interest (ROIs) were extracted (209 ...