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    • Book Chapter  

      An e-healthcare mobile application: A stakeholders' analysis experience of reading 

      Panteli, N.; Pitsillides, B.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Samaras, George S. (IGI Global, 2007)
      This chapter presents a longitudinal study on the implementation of an e-health mobile application, DITIS, which supports network collaboration for home healthcare. By adopting the stakeholders' analysis, the study explores ...
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      Integrated platform for autonomic computing 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Fytros, E.; Tsetsos, V.; Samaras, George S.; Hadjiefthymiades, S.; Piquet, D. (2009)
      IPAC (Integrated Platform for Autonomic Computing) aims at delivering a middleware and service creation environment for developing embedded, intelligent, collaborative, context-aware services in mobile nodes. IPAC relies ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Conference Object  

      An overview of recent end-to-end wireless medical video telemedicine systems using 3G 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Schizas, Christos N.; Spanias, Andreas S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C. (2010)
      Advances in video compression, network technologies, and computer technologies have contributed to the rapid growth of mobile health (m-health) systems and services. Wide deployment of such systems and services is expected ...
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      Time based personalization for the moving user 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Andreou, Maria I.; Samaras, George S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2005)
      Unlike desktop users, mobile users are a new and more demanding breed. Technology provided for the first group is often found lacking for the later. Personalization is such an example. The moving user differs from the ...
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      Using time and activity in personalization for the mobile user 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Andreou, Maria I.; Samaras, George S. (2006)
      Mobile clients present a new and more demanding breed of users. Solutions provided for the desktop users are often found inadequate to support this new breed of users. Personalization is such a solution. The moving user ...
    • Article  

      Mobile user personalization with dynamic profiles: Time and activity 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S. (2006)
      Mobile clients present a new and more demanding breed of users. Solutions provided for the desktop users are often found inadequate to support this new breed of users. Personalization is such a solution. The moving user ...
    • Article  

      mPERSONA: Personalized portals for the wireless user: An agent approach 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      The needs of the wireless and mobile user regarding information access and services are quite different than those of the desktop user. This need is not about browsing the Web but about receiving personalized services that ...
    • Conference Object  

      Personalized portals for the wireless and mobile user 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S. (2003)
      The Wireless environment requires new type of services and new ways for structuring the needed content. Personalization comes into aid via the creation of personalized portals that directly tones down factors that break ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Conference Object  

      M-health medical video communication systems: An overview of design approaches and recent advances 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Constantinides, Anthony G.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      The emergence of the new, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, combined with wide deployment of 4G wireless networks, will provide significant support toward the adoption of mobile-health (m-health) medical video ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Conference Object  

      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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      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) ...
    • Article  

      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 ...
    • Conference Object  

      HEVC encoding for reproducible medical ultrasound video diagnosis 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)
      In this study, we investigate how the recently introduced high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard can be used in the design of reproducible medical ultrasound video diagnosis systems. We introduce a set of clinical ...
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      Ultrasound video despeckle filtering for High Efficiency Video Coding in m-health systems 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Shizas, C. N.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      Mobile-Health (m-health) medical video communication systems need to communicate ultrasound video of adequate diagnostic quality for remote diagnosis and care. In this study, we demonstrate how ultrasound video noise ...
    • Conference Object  

      The use of H.264/AVC and the emerging high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard for developing wireless ultrasound video telemedicine systems 

      Panayides, Andreas S.; Antoniou, Zinonas C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2012)
      For wireless medical video communications, the emerging high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard and network standards support low-delay and high-resolution video transmission, at the clinically acquired resolution and ...
    • Article  

      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 ...