Synthesis Lectures on Algorithms and Software in Engineering: Despeckle Filtering for Ultrasound Imaging and Video (PDF)

Institute in Cyprus in 1979, a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 1983, the M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 1984, an M.Sc. in neurology from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, in 1991, and his Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of London, UK, in 1992. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. His research interests include ehealth and mhealth, medical imaging, biosignal analysis, life sciences informatics, and intelligent systems. He has been involved in numerous projects in these areas funded by EU, the National Research Foundation of Cyprus, the INTERREG and other bodies, like the FISTAR, GRANATUM, LINKED2SAFETY, MEDUCATOR, LONG LASTING MEMORIES, INTRAMEDNET, INTERMED, FUTURE HEALTH, AMBULANCE, EMERGENCY, ACSRS, TELEGYN, HEALTHNET, IASIS, IPPOKRATIS, and others with a total funding managed of more than 6 million Euros. He has published 90 refereed journal and 200 conference papers, and 27 chapters in books in these areas. He is Co-Editor of the books M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems, and Ultrasound and Carotid Bifurcation Atherosclerosis published by Springer in 2006 and 2012, respectively. He is co-author of the book Despeckle Filtering Algorithms and Software for Ultrasound Imaging, published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers in 2008 and the revised second edition to be published in 2015. He was Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issues on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Health Informatics, Emerging Health Telematics Applications in Europe, Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, Computational Intelligence in Medical Systems, and Citizen Centered e-Health Systems in a Global Health-care Environment of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He is General Chairman of the forthcoming Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing Conference (MEDICON'2016) and the IEEE Region 8 Mediterranean Conference on Information Technology and Electrotechnology (MELECON'2016). He was General Co-Chairman of the IEEE 12th International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE2012), IEEE Information Technology in Biomedicine (ITAB09), MEDICON'98, MELECON'2000, and Program Co-Chair of ITAB06 and the 4th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 20010). Moreover, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, and as member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Information Technology for Health (since 2011). He served as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EMBS (2013–2014), and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2000–2012) and the IEEE Transactions on Neural (2005–2007). He served as Chairperson of the Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (1996–1998), and the IEEE Cyprus Section (1998-2000). He is a Fellow of IET and a Senior Member of IEEE.