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Efthyvoulos Kyriacou

Efthyvoulos Kyriacou

Assis. Professor
Efthyvoulos Kyriacou is an Assist. Professor at the Dept. of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Informatics, at CUT and Head of the University’s eHealth Laboratory. He received diploma and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens Greece, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He has more than 20 years of experience in ehealth systems, emergency telemedicine systems, medical imaging systems and intelligent systems applications in medicine. He has published 45 refereed journal, 105 conference papers, 24 invited book chapters and has one patent in these areas (Citation: 4253, h-index: 31 at Google Scholar, Citations: 2430, h-index: 22 at Scopus Nov. 2021). He has been involved in numerous projects in these areas funded by EU, the National Research Foundation of Cyprus, the INTERREG and other bodies. He was Guest Co-Editor of 7 Special Issues. He is a co-editor of the book Ultrasound and Carotid Bifurcation Atherosclerosis, Springer, UK 2012 (66K downloads Bookmetrix Sept. 2021). Moreover, he serves as an Associate Editor of Elsevier-Journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine from 2007 to 2010, he serves as a reviewer in many journals related to his research fields. He was the Program Co-chair of ITAB 2009, BIBE 2012, Medicon 2016, Melecon 2016 and was in the program committee of several other scientific conferences. He is an IEEE Senior Member and one of the main founders and first chairman (8/2008-1/2019) of the IEEE Cyprus Engineering in Medicine and Biology/Signal Processing chapter.
Christos Loizou

Christos Loizou

Adjunct Professor
Christos P. Loizou (Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc.) is an adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics of the Cyprus University of Technology. He has more than 25 years of experience in medical imaging and video analysis and processing. He has been involved in different projects in the above area funded by the research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus the EU and the National Institutes of Health (NIH-USA), with a total funding in the range of 9,5 million Euros. He has published 27 journal publications, 61 conference papers, 5 books, and 11 chapters in books in these areas (number of citations more than 1700, h-index 21, i-10 index 42, and RG score 43.73). He was a supervisor of a number of Ph.D. (5), M.Sc. (19) and B.Sc. (65) students in computer image, video analysis and telemedicine. His research interests include medical imaging, video analysis and processing; motion analysis; signal processing; pattern recognition; voice stress signal analysis; biosignal analysis in ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging and video and computer applications in medicine. He has extensive experience in image/video pre-processing, despeckling, segmentation and texture analysis. Dr. Loizou is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and serves as a reviewer in many IEEE Transactions journals and as a chair or co-chair in many IEEE conferences. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus and a co-founder and member of the e-Health Laboratory of the University of Cyprus.

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Michalis Gemenaris

Michalis Gemenaris

Research Associate
Michalis is currently a Research Associate for our AtheroRisk Project, in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and Informatics (CUT) and is supervised by the Assis. Professor Efthyvoulos Kyriacou. Michalis holds a BSc in Computer Engineering, from the Frederick University (Cyprus). In his Senior Project, he presented an innovative idea for Hardware Optimization of ANN Sigmoid Activation Functions on FPGAs. His scientific paper “High-Performance and Low-Cost Approximation of ANN Sigmoid Activation Functions on FPGAs” was submitted to the 12th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST 2023) on Electronics and Communications that will take place in June 2023 (Athens, Greece). Michalis is highly skilled in mobile and computer application development, using different programming languages, and has experience in both front-end and back-end solutions.
Christodoulos C. Yiannakou

Christodoulos C. Yiannakou

PhD Candidate
Christodoulos is a first-year PhD student at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, at CUT. He works as a Computer Engineering instructor in the department of secondary technical, vocational education and training, Cyprus ministry of Education and Youth. Due to his involvement with adolescents and children, his PhD will investigate the possibility of developing an automated system for the prediction of developmental language disorders (DLD) in adolescents and children. DLD is a language problem in children which causes difficulties in speaking and comprehending spoken words. Christodoulos holds a diploma in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in Chania, Greece. In his thesis he designed and simulated the main datapath of five stages pipelined RISC microprocessor (DLX), in SystemC, which is a super class of C++ language, as a hardware description language. The SystemC design is then translated into RTL VHDL, using a compiler named SystemCrafter 2.0. Then using Xilinx place and route tools, the design is downloaded into a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA. Finally, using the design functionality it is verified by using MEMEC development board (supervised by Dionysios Pnevmatikatos, Assist. Prof. at the Electronics and Computer Engineering Department). Christodoulos is highly skilled in web and computer application development and has previous working experience in front-end and back-end solutions. He also holds many professional certifications like ISACA CISA, CISCO CCNA, AVAYA ACS, AVAYA ACIS, TIA CTP 2007, Digium DCAA.
Dimitrios L. Kaolis

Dimitrios L. Kaolis

PhD Candidate
Georgia D. Liapi

Georgia D. Liapi

PhD Student
Georgia is a third-year PhD student at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, at CUT. She has a keen interest in DL for medical imaging, as well as in digital pathology and molecular biology. During her PhD, she is developing a computational pipeline to preprocess and analyze atherosclerotic plaques and carotid ultrasound videos, for stroke risk stratification. She has been Special Research Scientist for University of Cyprus (2021-2022), for the X-eHealth EU Project. She holds a Master’s Degree in Systems Biology (Maastricht University, the Netherlands), during which she worked as an intern, in the team of Prof. Dr. Med. Jakob N. Kather, at RWTH University Hospital (Aachen, Germany), where she was trained to annotate tumors in ovarian cancer H&E-stained Whole Slide Images, which she utilized with DL models for supervised image-based histological and molecular ovarian cancer subtyping. She also holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry (specializations: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) from University of Patras, where obtaining experience in Western Blotting and Immunofluorescence Microscopy. In her B.Sc. thesis, she investigated the role of two Breast Cancer cell cytoskeleton-related proteins, involved in epithelial to mesenchymal transition, a critical process in cancer cell migration/metastasis (supervised by Skandalis S. Spyridon, Assist. Prof. at the Dept. of Chemistry).

Undergraduate Bachelor Students

Despoina joined the lab in 2023, to work on her bachelor thesis, developing a computational workflow for the identification of unstable carotid plaques, based on shear stress and strain analysis in ultrasound videos.  

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