On Thursday 27/09/2018 at 11:00 , master thesis of the postgraduate student of the program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" Xenaki Marianna-Kanella, will be presented, at University of West Attica, Campus 1, building K11.105.
Thesis Title: "Study of scattered radiation in imaging systems."
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Nektarios Kalyvas, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica
Ioannis Kandarakis, Professor at University of West Attica
Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica

On Friday 07/09/2018 at 13:00, master thesis of the postgraduate student of the program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" Melοιvia Rapti, will be presented, in Room A56 of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Thesis Title: "Structure tensor analysis on proteins: efficient feature extraction for heteromultimeric assembly prediction"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Ioannis Emiris, Professor Level, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (DIT)
Dr. Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Professor Level, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (DIT)
Matteo Dal Peraro Professor, EPFL Lausanne

Pursuant to the provisions of Law 4485/2017 (Government Gazette 114A), the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications is planning to establish / re-establish the Postgraduate Studies Programs as well as the Interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies Programs in which the Department is the leading institution. The programs have been approved by the University Senate and will be operational from the next academic year 2018-19 (the relevant student admissions are expected to be posted on the Department's website by the end of May 2018, after their pending approval by the Ministry of Education): See more details here (in greek)here
As part of this reform we are planning to establish the following English-taught graduate program (pending Ministry of Education approval):
Data Science and Information Technologies (DSIT) with two specializations:
1. Big data and Artificial Intelligence
2. Bioinformatics – Biomedical Data Science
Rules and regulations of the new DSIT program (in greek) here

On Wednesday 18/07/2018 at 11:00, master thesis of the postgraduate student of the program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" Boci Nada, will be presented, at University of West Attica, Campus 1, building K11, Κ11.132 office.
Thesis Title: "Computational Analysis of Knee Pathologies Using MRI Images"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Pantelis Asvestas, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica
Ioannis Kalatzis, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica
Nektarios Kalyvas, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica

On Wednesday 11/07/2018 at 10:00, master thesis of the postgraduate student of the program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" S. Zavitsanou will be presented at Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens Room IS2.
Thesis Title: "Automating free energy perturbation calculations for drug design"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Zoe Cournia, Researcher - Assistant Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Dr. Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”
Dr. Ioannis Emiris, Professor Level, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (DIT)

On Thursday 17/05/2018 at 19:30, master thesis of the postgraduate student of the program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" Chatziapostolou Eleni, will be presented, at University of West Attica, Campus 1, building K10, Radlab workshop.
Thesis Title: "Reception and web presentation of biosignals from a portable recording device"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Erricos Ventouras, Professor at University of West Attica
Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica
Nektarios Kalyvas, Assistant Professor at University of West Attica

The graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" is organizing a six-hour short course on the very timely topic of Deep learning for computer vision and is inviting all its students to attend it on Thursday and Friday the 10th and 11th of May 2018, 12-3pm in room A1 Amphithetron of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens. The short course will be taught by Dr. Yannis Avrithis who is currently a research scientist in LinkMedia team of Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, France. For more details click here

The Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2004) Professor Aaron Ciechanover responding to the invitation of Panayiotis Vlamos, Professor and Director of the BiHELab Laboratory will be in Athens. Professor Ciechanover give for the first time an open lecture to the public titled: "The Personalized Medicine Revolution: Are We Going to Cure All Diseases and at What Price?, on February 23 at the Eugenides Foundation at 19:00 (entrance from Planetarium , Pentelis 11)
Download the press release in Greek Here.
Information:
Eugenides Foundation Siggrou Avenue 387 tel. 210 9469600
https://www.ionio.gr/central/gr/news/10283/
http://bihelab.di.ionio.gr/

In the context of a collaboration with a researchers from USA . Prof. Manolakos is seeking a qualified graduate student interested to start in the immediate future a Thesis related to Algorithms and system for the analysis of calcium imaging videos. Interested graduate students  are advised to send their resume' to Prof. E. Manolakos, eliasm@di.uoa.gr Description:

Algorithms and system for the analysis of calcium imaging videos
Calcium imaging is a common technique that takes advantage of intracellular calcium flux to directly visualize calcium signaling and assess the state of living cells. In particular calcium ions play an integral role in neuronal function: They act as intracellular signals that can elicit responses such as altered gene expression and neurotransmitter release from synaptic vesicles. However, quantitative analysis of Ca2+ imaging data is time consuming and subject to bias. In this study, we will analyze time-series calcium imaging data of different neuronal populations in terms of peak frequency, duration and amplitude, aiming to identify calcium signaling differences upon various biological conditions. The goal of this study is to develop an analysis protocol that will lead to a more complete and unbiased characterization of physiologic Ca2+ signaling. The student who will get involved in this study should be proficient in image processing, image analysis and machine learning. Very good knowledge of Matlab is required. Knowledge of Python and R programming is a plus.  Image analysis will include tasks as image denoising cell segmentation, edge detection and measuring region and image properties of a cell population. The project is part of a collaboration of Prof. Manolakos with researchers in the US  who will participate in the study and provide the data.
Ref: Imaging Calcium in Neurons. Grienberger, Christine et al. Neuron , Volume 73 , Issue 5 , 862 – 885

12th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics HSCBB17 will take place from October 11th to 13th at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens. HSCCB17 will host 12 talks, 43 posters, 5 keynote talks and 2 invited talks.
Two major events will find place during the meeting:
-HSCBB Student Council will be initiated as part of ISCB student council
-The first meeting of the scientific committee for ECCB2018, which will be hosted in Athens coming year. ECCB is the biggest bioinformatics event in Europe and one of the two biggest international bioinformatics meetings (together with ISMB) counting more than 1000 participants.
More Info at HSCBB17 site HSCBB17 site

On Tuesday 21/09/2017 at 14:15 Conference Room A56 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications Dalamara Katerina will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Current state-of-the-art of the research conducted in mapping protein cavities – binding sites of bioactive compounds, peptides or other proteins"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Elias S. Manolakos, Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (UoA
Dr. Ioannis Z. Emiris, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunication
Dr. Chrysina Evangelia, Scientific Personnel of Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)

On Thursday 13/07/2017 at 13:00 in Laboratory of Medical Image and Signal Processing, TEI Athinon, postgraduate student Stavros Milouris will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computerized cognitive training in MATLAB using electroencephalography for face-name memory improvement"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Errikos Ventouras, Professor, TEI of Athens
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, BRFAA
Phd. George Matsopoulos, Associate Professor, NTUA

On Thursday 13/07/2017 at 15:00 in Laboratory of Medical Image and Signal Processing, TEI Athinon, postgraduate students Andreas Georganis and Niki Doulgeraki will present their Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: " A real time ECG signal processing application for arrhythmia detection on portable devices"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisios Cavouras, Professor, TEI of Athens
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, BRFAA
Phd. George Matsopoulos, Associate Professor, NTUA

On Tuesday 04/07/2017 at 11:00 in the Aigaio Room NCSR, postgraduate student Eirini Mathe will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: " Heart Rate Measurement from Video Sequences"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR Demokritos
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, BRFAA
Phd. Evangelos Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist, NCSR Demokritos

The recent publication of PhD candidate A. Balomenos et. al. (Manolakos group) is the Featured article this month at BMC Systems Biology
Featured article: Image analysis driven single-cell analytics for systems microbiology
Balomenos et al present BaSCA, a novel Bacterial image analysis driven single-cell analytics pipeline, which enables the high throughput analysis, down to the single-cell level, of complex time lapse cell movies with many colonies and potentially thousands of cells in the field of view. The results presented demonstrate its robustness and universality.

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2017-2018.

The Application submitions have been extended to May 26 2017
Attachment: Admissions 2017-2018 - In Greek only (pdf file)

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2017-2018.

Applications will be accepted from April 24th to May 15th 2017 by the Registrar's Office of the Department of Telecommunications and Informatics (University of Athens, Ilisia, tel.210-7275198) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 to 14:00.

Attachment: Admissions 2017-2018 - In Greek only (pdf file)

On Monday 13/02/2017 at 11:00 in the Computer Room (Library) of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student Nikos Perdikopanis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "A computational method of Transcription Start Site (TSS) identification using CAGE data"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher
Martin Reczko, Head of Bioinformatics Department, Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming"
Phd. Maria Paraskevopoulou, Researcher

The Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2017 is now available. Courses start on 20/02/2017.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2017 (pdf file)

It is with great pleasure that we announce that our alumnus Dr. Minas Liariokapis (class of 2010) has been appointed as Lecturer and Director of the New Drexity Lab at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. You can find more details on the following link: www.newdexterity.org

On Friday 27/01/2017 at 15:30 in the Computer Room (Library) of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student Panagiotis Kakoulidis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development of a pipeline for secondary and tertiary structural analysis of human miRNA targeting"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
Phd. Vlachos Ioannis, Researcher of the Medical School of the Harvard University
Phd. Maria Paraskevopoulou, Researcher

On Thursday 19/01/2017 at 18:30 in the Computer Room (Library) of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student George Skoufos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Rapid and accurate identification of organisms at strain level in complex Microbiomic, Metagenomic, and Metatranscriptomic NGS samples with quasi-mapping"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
Phd. Vlachos Ioannis, Researcher of the Medical School of the Harvard University
Phd. Maria Paraskevopoulou, Researcher

The Exams Schedule of the Winter semester 2017 has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Exams Schedule of the Winter semester 2017 (pdf file)

On Tuesday 20/12/2016 at 13:00 in Room ΙΣ2 of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), postgraduate student Konstantina Karathanou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Modeling and simulations of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles as drug delivery systems"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Zoe Cournia, Researcher - Assistant Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Dr. George Spyrou, Head of the Bioinformatics Group, Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
Dr. Chrysina Evangelia, Scientific Personnel of Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)

On Friday 16/12/2016 at 14:00 in the Computer Room (Library) of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student Joanna-Elzbieta Handzlik will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Analysis of small RNAs from deep sequencing data using spipeRNA"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Vlachos Ioannis, Researcher of the Medical School of the Harvard University

On Friday 16/12/2016 at 13:00 in the Computer Room (Library) of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student Sofia Maniou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Analysis of low and high throughput experimental techniques for the collection of validated genes that are miRNA targets"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Maria Paraskevopoulou, researcher

On Friday 04/11/2016 at 15:00 in the Teleconferencing Room of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, postgraduate student Dimitrianos Sava will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computational methods for random walk optimization on gene networks"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Evanthia Anastasiadou, Investigator – Lecturer Level, BRFAA
Phd. Marilena Bourdakou, Postdoc researcher, BRFAA

On Wednesday 28/09/2016 at 11:00 in the Conference Room A56 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Panagiotis Giannopoulos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Evaluation of upper limb motor skills using IDEA (Input Device Evaluation Application) in children with: a) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder b) Autism Spectrum Disorder c) Learning Disabilities"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Kouroupetroglou, Associate Professor, NKUA (advisor)
Phd. Serafeim Karampogias, Assistant Professor, NKUA
Phd. Maria Roussou, Assistant Professor, NKUA

The research group of Prof. Elias Manolakos has developed a unique internet service for efficient parallel stochastic simulation of biological large scale networks, with thousands of nodes and interactions of biomolecules. The web service (stochsocs.di.uoa.gr) allows remote users to send kinetic models (for metabolic, signaling, regulatory networks) in the form οφ SBML files to be simulated stochasticaly and automatically in the service's back end. Parallel simulations are performed using the algorithms of Gillespie and Gibson & Brucks in application specific Systems on Chip accelerators implemented by FPGAs.
This is the most efficient FPGA implementation of high performance stochastic simulation for large scale biomolecular reaction networks, used in system biology for rational drug design.
The service is available for research purposes after registration.
More information: stochsocs.di.uoa.gr, or contact eliasm [at]di.uoa.gr

The final list of admitted students for the ITMB program 2016-17 has been announced.
Attachments:List, Greek only (pdf file)

The Oath ceremony for the graduates of the winter examination period 2015-16 will take place on Thursday July 07 2016 at 11:30 a.m in the Ceremony Room of the main building of the Athens University (30 Panepistimou str., Athens).
The graduates must have on them their identity card and be present half an hour prior to the opening of the ceremony in order to prepare (11:00 a.m).
In order to participate to the ceremony the graduates must consult the Registrar's Office.

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2016-2017.

The Application submitions have been extended to May 09 2016
Attachment: Admissions 2016-2017 - In Greek only (pdf file)

On Monday 15/04/2016 at 17:30 in Room Κ.16.102, Building Κ.16, 1st floor, of Τ.Ε.Ι. Athens, postgraduate student Mariola Thanai will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "EEG processing of patients with cortical dementia"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, BRFAA
Phd. Spyridon Kostopoulos, postdoctoral researcher, TEI-A.

On Monday 21/03/2016 at 13:00 in the Conference Room, Building 1, 1st floor of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student Ioannis-Laertis Anastasopoulos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Training a text mining algorithm for automated identification of publications that contain putative microRNA-gene interactions"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Vlachos Ioannis, Researcher/Research Associate, NKUA, NCSR "Demοkritos

On Wednesday 16/03/2016 at 15:00 at the Lecture Room of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications- NCSR Demokritos, postgraduate student Simos Kazantzidis of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Splice Site Prediction Using Transfer Learning".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR Demokritos
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (UoA)
Anastasia Krithara, Associate researcher, NCSR Demokritos

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2016-2017.

Applications will be accepted from March 28th to April 25th 2016 by the Registrar's Office of the Department of Telecommunications and Informatics (University of Athens, Ilisia, tel.210-7275338) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 to 14:00.

Attachment: Admissions 2016-2017 - In Greek only (pdf file)

Mr. Anuj Sharma, PhD Candidate (Manolakos research group) and ITMB alumni won the 3rd place in the machine learning contest of the international conference 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (PAKDD) 2016
http://pakdd16.wordpress.fos.auckland.ac.nz/technical-program/contests/

On Wednesday 24/02/2016 at 12:00 in the Conference Room A56 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Anna Gogolou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Data Exploration and Cleaning in Biomedical Databases".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Yannis Ioannidis, Professor, NKUA
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming"
Phd. Zoe Cournia, Researcher, BRFAA

The Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2016 is now available. Courses start on 22/02/2016.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2016 (pdf file)

On Thursday 18/02/2016 at 18:00 in the Conference Room, Building 1, 1st floor of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, postgraduate student Dimitris Konstantopoulos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computational methods for predicting microRNAs in new genomes.
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
PhD. George Vernikos, Researcher
Phd. Vlachos Ioannis, Researcher/Research Associate, NKUA, NCSR "Demοkritos

Workshop ον "Dilemmas in structural biology: selection and integration of methods" The National Hellenic Research Foundation Athens, 14–17 February 2016.
Information: https://www.structuralbiology.eu --> upcoming events
http://www.biostruct-x.eu
More information will be available on NHRF website: http://www.eie.gr/index-en.html
Attachments: Invitation (pdf file)
Programme (pdf file)

On Friday 29/1/2016 at 13:00 in the Medical Image and Signal Laboratory, Building K11, Office K11.132 of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, postgraduate student Evripidis Mikos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer Decision Support System for the Parkinson Disease using Voice Data.
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisios Cavouras, Professor, TEI of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Sangriotis, Professor, University of Athens
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, BRFAA

On Tuesday 22/12/2015 at 15:00 in the Lecture Room in the ground floor of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), postgraduate student Marina Adamou-Tzani will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Characterization of the molecular networks that control pathogenic T-cell driven responses in Multiple Sclerosis using RNA-seq analysis software".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Georgina Xanthou, Researcher, Assistant Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA) (Supervisor)
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (UoA)
Evanthia Anastasiadou, Researcher, Lecturer Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)

The Oath ceremony for the graduates of the Spring and September examination period 2014-15 will take place on Tuesday 12/01/16 at 11:30 a.m in the Ceremony Room of the main building of the Athens University (30 Panepistimou str., Athens).
The graduates must have on them their identity card and be present half an hour prior to the opening of the ceremony in order to prepare (11:00 a.m).
In order to participate to the ceremony the graduates must consult the Registrar's Office.

The enrolment of the new students of the Postgraduate Program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology", will be held on Monday, 02/11/2015, at 11.00 - 14.00 at the Registra's Office of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.
For the enrolment it is necessary to have an exact photocopy of the identity and an exact photocopy of the degree and of the detailed academic scores (for those who have provided a simple photocopy).

On Monday 26/10/2015 at 15:00 at the Lecture Hall of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications NCSR Demokritos, postgraduate student Despoina Kalfakakou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Splice site recognition between different organisms".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR Demokritos
George Paliouras, Research Director, NCSR Demokritos
Anastasia Krithara, Post-Doctoral Researcher, NCSR Demokritos

On Tuesday 20/10/2015 at 14:00 at the Laboratory of Radiation Physics, Materials Technology and Biomedical Imaging, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, postgraduate student Panagiota Konstantinou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Evaluation of absorbed X-rays’ energy within fluorescent materials that are used in medical imaging with the software simulation package PENELOPE".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Ioannis Kandarakis, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ of Αthens (thesis advisor)
George Fountos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ of Αthens
Panagiotis Liaparinos, Application Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ of Αthens

Orientation/Welcome Meeting of newly admitted students
All students admitted to the graduate program for the academic year 2015-16 are invited to attend an orientation/welcome meeting on Wednesday 07/10/15, at 11:00, Room B25 (2nd floor), Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens.

On Tuesday 13/10/2015 at 12:00 in the Teleconferencing Room of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, postgraduate student Evangelos Karatzas will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Bioinformatics methods for drug repurposing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Evanthia Anastasiadou, Investigator – Lecturer Level, BRFAA
Phd. Evangelos Andreakos, Investigator - Associate Professor Level, BRFAA

The Courses Schedule for the Winter semester 2015-16 is now available. The courses will start on 05/10.
The lecture of the course "Computer Modeling of Biomolecules" (Cournia) that was schedule for 14/10 will take place on 12/10/2015.
The lectures of the course "Contemporary Hospital and Health-Care Services: Organization and Operation" (Spyropoulos) might change after teacher-students consultation.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the Winter semester 2015-16 (pdf file)

The courses of the Winter semester will start on: Monday 05/10. The schedule will be announced soon.

On Thursday 17/09/2015 at 13:00 in the lecture hall of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (building 8) NCSR Demokritos, postgraduate student John Sioulas will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Anisotropy characterization of surfaces and images: Classification, modelling and scaling analysis".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR-Demokritos
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Vassilis Konstantoudis, Researcher, NCSR-Demokritos

On Monday 14/09/2015 at 13:00 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Christos Smailis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Multimedia Content Analysis For The Assessment of Depression Level".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR-Demokritos
Phd. Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Research Associate, NCSR Demokritos
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA

On Thursday 23/07/2015 at 11:00 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Georgia Soulioti will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Specification of Important Characteristics of the Spontaneous Activity of Isolated Cerebral Cortex in vitro".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Irini Skaliora, Investigator – Assistant Professor Level, BRFAA
Phd. Evanthia Anastasiadou, Investigator – Lecturer Level, BRFAA

The list of candidates for the ITMB program 2015-16 has been announced.
Attachments: List, Greek only (pdf file)

The Oath ceremony for the graduates of the winter semester 2014-15 will take place on Thursday 02/06/15 at 11:00 a.m in the Ceremony Room of the mail building of the Athens University (30 Panepistimou str., Athens).
The graduates must have on them their identity card and be present one hour prior to the opening of the ceremony in order to prepare.
In order to participate to the ceremony the graduates must consult the Registrar's Office.

We are pleased to announce that the dynamical model developed as part of the graduate thesis of Mr. L. Ouzounoglou, capturing the effects of alpha-synuclein on neuronal homeostasis that is believed to play a role on the onset of Parkinson's disease has been selected as the "Model of the Month" (March 2015) and featured in the systems biology EMBL-EBI Biomodels Data Base.
For more details click here

On Friday 22/05/2015 at 12:00, at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Evangelos Kontopodis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Insights of the Human Proteome based on unique peptide analysis".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Georgios Tsangkaris, Staff Research Scientist - Professor Level, BRFAA
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Evanthia Anastasiadou, Investigator - Lecturer Level, BRFAA

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2015-2016.

Applications will be accepted from May 18th to June 05th 2015 by the Registrar's Office of the Department of Telecommunications and Informatics (University of Athens, Ilisia, tel.210-7275338) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 to 14:00.

Attachment: Admissions 2015-2016 - In Greek only (pdf file)

The deadline for submitting applications for the oath ceremony of the postgraduate students who completed their studies in the Fall Semester 2014-15 will expire on Friday, the 29th May 2015.
No other applications will be accepted beyond this date. The same deadline applies to doctoral students.

In the context of a collaboration with a research team of National University of Singapore (NUS) Prof. Manolakos is seeking a qualified graduate student interested to start in the immediate future a Thesis related to biomedical signal analysis / fusion and machine learning.
Interested persons please send your CV and copy of transcripts, publications/presentations, in a zip file to eliasm [at] di.uoa.gr

On Friday 13/03/2015 at 09:00 in Conference Room A25 (1nd floor) of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Nikolaos Papatheodorou will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Motor skills evaluation of upper limbs in patients with multiple sclerosis using the IDEA (Input Device Evaluation Application) system".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Kouroupetroglou, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, NKUA (advisor)
Phd. Elsa Andreadou, Assistant Professor, Medicine School, NKUA
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA

On Tuesday 10/03/2015 at 16:00 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Evangelia Anagnostopoulou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Modelling the impact of respiratory motion on the detection of pulmonary nodules in PET imaging and applying motion correction methods".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
PhD. Georgia Oikonomou, Radiologist, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Radiologic Technology, T.E.I. of Athens
Phd. Anastasios Gaitanis, Staff Research Scientist - Associate Professor Level, BRFAA, Athens

The Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2015 is now available. Courses start on 16/02/2015.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2015 (pdf file)

On Friday 19/12/2014 at 20:00 at the Laboratory of Medical Image and Signal Processing, Dept. of Medical Instruments Technology of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, postgraduate student Giannou Meletia will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Classification of Cell Biopsy Data from Skin Diseases".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology

On Friday 19/12/2014 at 19:00 at the Laboratory of Medical Image and Signal Processing, Dept. of Medical Instruments Technology of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, postgraduate student Karagiannis Nikolaos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Controlling robotic mechanism through brainwaves by using an open hardware platform".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology

On Wednesday 17/12/2014 at 15:30 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Kalliroi Konstantinakou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Implementation of Random Walk methodologies to cluster microcalcifications in mammography imaging".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
PhD. Georgia Oikonomou, Radiologist, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Radiologic Technology, T.E.I. of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Athanasiadis, PostDoctoral researcher, BRFAA, Athens

On Wednesday 17/12/2014 at 16:30 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Konstantina Leventi will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development of an integrated environment of mammographic images analysis and classification".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
PhD. Georgia Oikonomou, Radiologist, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Radiologic Technology, T.E.I. of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Athanasiadis, PostDoctoral researcher, BRFAA, Athens

On Thursday 27/11/2014 at 18:00 at the School Room of the Educational Office of NCSR "Demοkritos", postgraduate student Orfeas Aidonopoulos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "A method for parsing clinical outcomes and combining them with phosphoproteomic and genomic data for predicting drug efficacy: application in hepatocellular carcinoma".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR-Demokritos
PhD. Leonidas Alexopoulos, Assistant Professor, NTUA
PhD. George Vernikos, Researcher

On Tuesday 18/11/2014 at 16:00 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Marina Tsiana will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Protocol Development and Performance Evaluation of a computer aided segmentation of the hippocampus anatomical structure related to Alzheimer's disease".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
PhD. Georgia Oikonomou, Radiologist, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Radiologic Technology, T.E.I. of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Athanasiadis, PostDoctoral researcher, BRFAA, Athens

Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall organizes an event with subject The human genome: "Know thyself" – myth, challenges and prospects . The event will take place on Thursday 13 November 2014 at 19:00 in Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall.
Free admission with admission ticket. Distribution of admission tickets begins at 5:30 p.m.
For more information: http://www.megaron.gr/default.asp?la=2&pid=5&evID=2210

On Friday 14/11/2014 at 20:00 in Room B25 (2nd floor) of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Stamatina Pilichou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Integrated mammographic image classification system".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology

On Friday 14/11/2014 at 19:00 in Room B25 (2nd floor) of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Aggeliki Palioura will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Classification of Breast Biopsy Data".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology

On Thursday 06/11/2014 at 15:00 in the Laboratory of Ionizing and Non Ionizing Radiation ("RadLab") Room, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering (former Medical Instruments Technology) of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, postgraduate student Ioannis Leon will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Denoising methods in ultrasound images via GUI".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Ioannis Kandarakis, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (former Medical Instruments Technology) – T.E.I. of Athens (Supervisor)
PhD. Georgia Oikonomou, Radiologist, Associate Professor,Department of Medical Radiologic Technology, T.E.I. of Athens
PhD. Stavros Tsantis, Biomedical Engineer, Research Collaborator – T.E.I. of Athens and University of Patras.

The enrolment of the new students of the Postgraduate Program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology", will be held on Friday, 31/10/2014, at 11.00 - 13.00 at the Registra's Office of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.
For the enrolment it is necessary to have an exact photocopy of the identity and degree (for those who have provided a simple photocopy).

On Wednesday 22/10/2014 at 15:30 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Paulos Kafouris of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Methods of computational intelligence for classifying mammographic images of masses".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou PhD, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Athanasiadis, PostDoctoral researcher, BRFAA, Athens

The course "Introduction to Bioinformatics" will take place for this Friday only (10/10) in Room ΙΣ2 (opposite of the amphitheater of BRFAA).

The first lecture of the course "Embedded Systems" will take place on Tuesday 14/10/2014.

The Courses Schedule for the Winter semester 2014-15 is now available (last update: 03/10). The courses will start on 06/10.
The first lecture of the course "Introduction to Biotechnology" will take place on 15/10/2014.
The first lecture of the course "Algorithms in Molecular Biology" will take place on 16/10/2014.
All other courses will start according to the schedule
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the Winter semester 2014-15 (pdf file)

The Courses Schedule for the Winter semester 2014-15 is now available. The courses will start on 06/10.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the Winter semester 2014-15 (pdf file)

On Friday 03/10/2014 at 16:00 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Tsakiraki Aggeliki-Kalliopi of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development of design environment for computational models of composite structures for biomedical imaging systems simulation".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou PhD, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Athanasiadis, PostDoctoral researcher, BRFAA, Athens

Τhe presentation of the Master's Thesis of Kontos Dimitris has been postponed.
You will be informed about the new presentation date.

On Friday 19/09/2014 at 13:00 at the Bioinformatics ground floor of BRFAA, postgraduate student Kontos Dimitris of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Βiology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development of web tool for proteomic similarity search based on Secondary Structure".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Sophia Kossida, Investigator (Assist.Prof.Level), BRFAA
Phd. Maroulis Dimitrios, Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Dimitris Vlachakis, Associate Researcher, BRFAA

On Friday 12/09/2014 at 15:00 at the Teleinformatics Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Eleutheriou Stergiani of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Βiology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Design and development of a mobile app for the quick and sufficient information retrieval for the human genes".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. George Spyrou PhD, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Phd. Emmanouil Athanasiadis, PostDoctoral researcher, BRFAA, Athens

The final list of candidates for the ITMB program 2014-15 has been announced.
Attachments:List, Greek only (pdf file)

The list of proposed candidates for the ITMB program 2014-15 has been announced.
Attachments: List, Greek only (pdf file)

On Friday 11/07/2014 at 12:00 at the Videoconference Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Chouvardas Panagiotis of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Βiology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Inferring regulatory subnetworks through the analysis of genome-wide expression profiles".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, University of Thessaly, Researcher (B), Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming" - Supervisor
Dr. Evangelia Chrysina, Scientific Personnel, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Dr. Christoforos Nikolaou, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Crete

Within the 3Gb-TEST project (www.3gb-test.eu) a 4-day course on NGS is organised in Greece, Athens in the period of 8-11 September 2014. The focus of the course is on clinical diagnostics using exome/genome sequences, variant identification and analysis including afternoon praticals.
The programme is attached and further details on e.g. registration and venue can be found at http://3gb-test.eu/ngs-course-next-generation-sequencing-in-a-diagnostic-setting/.
The course is open to everyone involved in molecular genetic testing.
On September 9 an evening symposium is organised at the Acropolis Museum in Athens: "Next-generation sequencing and genomic applications in disease and health: has the future arrived?".
The programme of the evening is also attached. The symposium is free of charge but registration is mandatory http://3gb-test.eu/3gb-test-meeting-in-athens-at-september-9/.
Attachments: Course programme (pdf file)
Symposium programme (pdf file)

The Foundation for Research and Technology (ΙΤΕ) organizes a Workshop with title "Statistical Methods for Omics Data Integration and Analysis", on November 10-12, 2014, at Heraklion, Crete.
For more information visit the website: http://smodia2014.com/

On Monday 30/06/2014 at 11:00 in Room Α9 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Stella Lalassidou of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for the discrimination between benign atypical nevi and malignant melanomas on digital dermatological images using image processing and pattern recognition algorithms".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Dimitrios Glotsos, Application Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ-Α.

On Friday 27/06/2014 at 12:00 in Teleconference Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Dimitra Karagouni of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computational and high perfomamce data analysis, aiming at finding and undestanding the molecular genetic changes associated with breast cancer".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly (thesis advisor)
Phd. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Phd. Evangelia D. Chrysina, Scientific Personnel, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation

The application submissions deadline for the graduate program 2014-15, is extended until Friday 20/06/14.

The graduation ceremony of the postgraduate and PhD students will be held on Friday, July 11, 2014, 11:00 am at the Propylaea of the University of Athens in the Ceremonial Hall.
In order to participate at the ceremony it is necessary to contact in advance the Registrar's Office of the Department

Τhe course μάθημα Acquisition and Processing of Biomedical Data - Ventouras will be taught from now on every Wednesday 16:00-19:00 at ΤΕΙ-Α.

All graduate and doctoral students, who have completed their studies, are invited to apply for the oath ceremony until Friday 16th May 2014.
Within the same deadline the library submission process of theses and dissertations must be completed, otherwise they will not be able to take part in this ceremony.

The Courses Schedule has been changed. The course Medical Information Technology and Telemedicine - Spyropoulos will be taught every Monday at 15:00-18:00 at TEI-A.

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2014-2015.

Applications will be accepted from June 02 to 13, 2014 by the Registrar's Office of the Department of Telecommunications and Informatics (University of Athens, Ilisia, tel.210-7275338) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 to 14:00.

Attachment: Admissions 2014-2015 - In Greek only (pdf file)

On Monday 05/05/2014 at 19:00 in Room Α56 of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Paraskeuas Giampouras of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Unobtrusive extraction of PPG signal and heart rate through video processing".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, NCSR-Demokritos
PhD. Sergios Petridis, Research Associate, NCSR-Demokritos
PhD. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

The course"Image Processing and Analysis" will be taught from now every Monday 09:00-13:00 in Ro. Α1.

The course "Real Time Systems" - Maroulis will be offered this semester (Spring semester), every Friday 13:00-15:00 at Ro. Α1 of the department. Course start on: 09/05/14.

The course "Real Time Systems" - Maroulis will be offered this semester (Spring semester), every Friday 13:00-15:00 at Ro. Α1 of the department.

On Monday 28/04/2014 at 16:00 at the Videoconference Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Efthymios Maneas of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Simulation of a Molecular Imaging System based on Optoacoustic (Photoacoustic) Tomography".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Sergios Theodoridis, Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Dr. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA - Advisor
Dr. Emmanouil Athanassiadis, Postdoctoral Researcher, BRFAA

Lecture with title "Restoration of Motor Skills in Patients with Disorders of the Central Nervous System" with speaker Mr. V John Mathews, (IEEE SP Society Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112) on Monday 28/04/14, at 11:00 at Room Α1 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications - UoA
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

On Friday 25/04/2014 at 12:00 at Room A3 of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Kalamara Aggeliki of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Detecting molecular boundaries in density maps".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Ioannis Z. Emiris, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunication - UoA
PhD. Chrysina D. Evangelia, Researcher, HNFR
PhD. Frederic Cazals, Researcher, Algorithms-Biology-Structure, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

On Thursday 24/04/2014 at 19:00 at Room A3 of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Maridaki Emmanouela of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development and evaluation of a vessels segmentation image processing system for the investigation of vascularity of breast cancer, using breast Magnetic Resonance Images".
Attachments: Awaiting for abstract
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Dimitrios Glotsos, Application Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, ΤΕΙ-Α.

The Courses Schedule for the 2nd semester 2014 is now available.

• The first lecture of the course "Radiographic Anatomy" will take place on 30/04/2014.
• The first lecture of the course "Acquisition and Processing of Biomedical Data" will take place on 02/05/2014.
• The first lecture of the course "Machine Learning Methods in Computational Biology" will take place on 30/04/2014.
• All other courses will start according to schedule.

Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the 2nd semester 2014 (pdf file)

On Thursday 10/04/2014 at 18:00 at Room A3 of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Aikaterini Rota of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Classification of pre-malignant lesions of cervical cancer based on microscopy images".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Spyridon Kostopoulos, postdoctoral researcher, TEI-A.

The Exams Schedule of the Winter semester 2014 has been announced (update: Mr. Kandarakis course).
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Exams Schedule of the Winter semester 2014 (pdf file)

Enrolment of new students of the Postgraduate Program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology", will be held on Thursday, 27/02/2014, at 11.00 - 14.00 (both tracks) at the Registra's Office of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.

Students must carry the following documents:

• Original diploma or a certified copy or certificate of completion of studies (for those who have not filed with the application). In case of foreign University diploma, an equivalence from the Hellenic NARIC is necessary.
• Identity card with a validated Photocopy of it.
• A small color photo, in case you did not submit it with your application.
• Authorization if the student's enrolment is held by another person.

Lecture of Prof. Paschalidis (Boston Univ.) with title «Graph-theoretic conflict resolution with applications in wireless networks and protein docking», on Monday 03/02/14 at 12:00 at NCSR Democritos, Conference Room, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications.
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

Seminar with title "Discovering the Brain through Big Data Exploration" - Anastasia Ailamaki ((EPFL), on 31/01/14, at 15:00, Conference Room Α56.
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

On Monday 27/01/14 Harald zur Hausen (Nobel 2008) will be awarded with an honorary doctorate of the Medical School and the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Athens, at 19:00 in the Great Ceremonial Hall (main building, Panepistimiou str. 30). A speech from Mr. Hausen will follow entitled «Are some human cancers zoonoses?»..
We cordially invite you to attend.
Attachments: Invitation - Program (pdf file, Greek only)

On Wednesday 08/01/2014 at 17:00 at the Videoconference Room of NOC of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Marios Fytras of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computational evaluation of potential binding molecules to protein targets with geometric criteria".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Ioannis Z. Emiris, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunication
Dr. Chrysina D. Evangelia, Researcher, HNFR
Dr. Theoharis Theoharis, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunication

Οn Monday 23/12 the courses will take place as usual. After the holiday vacations, the courses will begin on Tuesday 07/01/14.

On Friday 20/12/2013 at 15:00 at the Videoconference Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student Marilena Bourdakou of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Investigating the influence of the biological networks combination with differential gene expressions on the selection of biomarker genes for breast cancer classification".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA - Advisor
Dr. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Dr. Despina Sanoudou, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Dep. Medical School, UoA

On Friday 20/12/2013 at 14:00 at the Videoconference Room of BRFAA, postgraduate student George Tzanoukos of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "A detectably study of Solitary Pulmonary Nodule in PET/CT images using simulation methods".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA - Advisor
Dr. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Dr. Anastasios Gaitanis, Head of the Department of Biomedical Technology, BRFAA

The course "Algorithms in Molecular Biology" taught by Mr. Vernikos will not take place today (Only for this Monday 11/12).

The Courses Schedule for the winter semester 2013-14 is now available.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the winter semester 2013-14 (pdf file)

On Monday 16/09/2013 at 13:00 at room Γ1 of BRFAA, postgraduate student Argiro Karozou of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "3D molecular modelling study of the H7N9 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase as an emerging pharmacological target".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD. Sophia Kossida, Investigator (Assist.Prof.Level), BRFAA
PhD. Dimitrios Gunopulos, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens
PhD. Antonia Vlahou, Staff Research Scientist (Prof. Level), BRFAA

From the academic year 2013-14 a new elective course will be available (for both tracks) with title "Computer Modeling of Biomolecules" and instructor PhD. Zoe Cournia.
For more information about the course and the instructor please see the relevant pages of our website or see the following attachment.
Attachments: Course description and short bio (pdf file)

On October 7 and 8, 2013, the Dept. of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology organizes a two-day workshop for students at the NHRF with subject «New drug design techniques - Study of their action at the molecular level».
Interested parties must register by Friday 20/09/2013.
Attachments:

• Invitation (pdf file)
• Program (pdf file)
• Application form (doc file)

On Monday 26/08/2013 at 16:00 at the Teleconference room of NOC of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Balomenos Athanasios of the graduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and biology" will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Bacterial image analysis based on time-lapse microscopy".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Dr. Katia Karalis, Investigator - Associate Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA (thesis advisor)

On Friday 19/07/2013 at 19:00 at Room A3 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Evangelia Kotsiliti will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Implementation of a pattern recognition system for the discrimination of multiple sclerosis from ischemic lesions based on MRI".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Spyridon Kostopoulos, postdoctoral researcher

The graduation ceremony of the postgraduate and Phd students will take place on Thursday 18 July 2013, at 11:00 in the Big Ceremony Room of the University of Athens (Propylea).

On Friday 19/07/2013 at 18:00 at Room A3 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student George Leontidis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Retinal image blood vessels segmentation – Vessel width estimation".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Panteleimon Asvestas, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology

On Friday 19/07/2013 at 17:00 at Room A3 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Vassiliki Tsimpida will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer based diagnosis of thyroid cancer based on cytological images".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Spyridon Kostopoulos, postdoctoral researcher

The list of accepted students for the ITMB program 2013-14 has been announced.
Attachments: List, Greek only (pdf file)

Τhe Real-Time Systems & Image Analysis Lab (http://rtsimage.di.uoa.gr/) of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA, offers one Ph.D position on the research area of Contemporary Biomedical Image Processing Techniques.
Attachment: Ph.D position (pdf file, Greek only)

The Department of Biomedical Technology engineering (former Medical Instruments Technology), Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece, is organizing the 2nd Conference on Bio-Medical Instrumentation and related Engineering and Physical Sciences (BIOMEP) with International contribution, to be held at TEI of Athens, on June 21-22, 2013.
On June 21 during the parallel session "Emerging Technologies in Clinical Laboratories as outlined in Industrial Property Documents", graduates from our postgraduate program ITMB, will present their research: George Tzanoukos, Manos Kontogiorgis and Constantine Christou.
Conference Program: http://biomep.teiath.gr/program.html

A new round of International Scholarships funded by the State Scholarships Foundation has now opened, as follows:

• up to fifteen (15) scholarships to nationals (foreigners or / of Greek origin) of Balkan and Eastern European countries (non-member states of the European Union), Asia, Africa and Latin America and
• up to fifteen (15) scholarships to nationals (foreigners or / of Greek origin) of Greek origin) of the European Union Member States, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Oceania, for studies in Greece, beginning in the academic year 2013-2014.

For more information: http://www.iky.gr/en/press/item/1052-announ_foreigner

On Wednesday 12/06/2013 at 16:00 at Room A9 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Louis Papageorgiou will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer aided diagnosis of histopathological images in microscopy".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Spyridon Kostopoulos, postdoctoral researcher

On Wednesday 12/06/2013 at 15:00 at Room Teleconference GU-MediaCenter (2nd floor), in Network Operations Center of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Meropi Topalidou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Analysis of the periodicity of brain activity recordings from local field potentials (LFPs)".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
PhD Alexandros Efteriadis, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications (thesis advisor)
PhD Sergios Theodoridis, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, UoA
PhD Irini Skaliora, Investigator – Assistant Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens

New proposed Master's Thesis topic with title "Software development for consensus scoring of molecular modeling results and molecular docking to pharmaceutical targets".
Advisor: Ι. Emiris
Attachment: Proposed Master's Thesis topic (pdf file)

Following the TransMed Conference, "Mechanisms of Disease Development: New Challenges for Translational Research" which took place on April 19-20, 2013, the videos of the talks have been uploaded onto the BRFAA website for all to view.
Website: http://www.bioacademy.gr/event-details/GcuF/mechanisms-disease-development-n

The course "Radiographic Anatomy" taught on Wednesday May 15th, by Mrs. Oikonomou will be postpone, so that our students can attend the short course of Mr. Frederic Cazals.

Dr. Frederic Cazals (Algorithms-Biology-Structure, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France), will offer to all our students the short course "Modeling macro-molecular complexes and assemblies", on Tuesday, 14th May, at 14:00-17:00 (Room Α1) and on Wednesday 15th May, at 10:00-13:00 (Room D).
All registered students should attend the course.

Attachment: Course description and short bio (pdf file)

Dr. Frederic Cazals, Algorithms-Biology-Structure, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, will present a seminar entitled "Modeling Noisy Data with Applications in Structural Bioinformatics" on Monday 13th May 2013 at 14:00 in Room Α1 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication. All welcome.
Attachment: Poster-Abstract (pdf file)

Professor Tulay Adali, IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, will present a seminar entitled "ICA and IVA: Theory, Connections, and Applications to Medical Imaging" on Monday 29th April 2013 at 11:00 in Room Α2 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication. All welcome.
Attachment: Poster-Abstract (pdf file)

To highlight recent advances on Translational Research a conference entitled "Mechanisms of Disease Development: New challenges in Translational Medicine" will be held in in Athens, Greece between the 19th and 20th of April.
The conference, which is held under the framework of the EU funded program TRANSMED, (http://www.bioacademy.gr/transmed/) will take place in the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), and will have prominent and inspiring speakers to address current issues in Translational Medicine.
The Meeting is open for all those interested. Registration is Free.

Attachments: Conference Program (pdf file), Conference Poster (pdf file)

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2013-2014.

Applications will be accepted from May 13 to 24, 2013 by the Registrar's Office of the Department of Telecommunications and Informatics (University of Athens, Ilisia, tel.210-7275338) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 to 14:00.

Attachment: Admissions 2013-2014 - In Greek only (pdf file)

For this Friday οnly (15/3), the course "Acquisition and Processing of Biomedical Data" and the 1st hour of "Image Processing and Analysis", will take place in room E'.
The 2nd hour of the course "Image Processing and Analysis" will take place as usual in room A1.

On Wednesday 13/03/2013 at 12:00 at Room A3 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Sotiris Konstantinidis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Comparative Study of Target Prediction Algorithms, utilizing artificial and experimental data on Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes & Epstein–Barr virus".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly (thesis advisor)
Phd. Vangelis Karkaletsis, Research Director, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos"
Phd. Ilias Maglogiannis, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Central Greece

Change in the courses schedule concerning the course "Radiographic Anatomy". Τhe course will be taught every Wednesday at 13:00-16:00.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2013 (pdf file)

The Institute of Microelectronics of NCSR "Demokritos", (IMEL), now part of the Institute of Advanced Materials, Physicochemical Processes, Nanotechnology and Microsystems, organizes the "MINASENS- MINiAturized biochemical SEnsiNg devices & systemS for health/food/environmental monitoring" workshop. The workshop will take place at NCSR “Demokritos” campus in Athens, Greece, the period March 7th-8th, 2013.

The MINASENS workshop aims to bring together engineers and scientists from all over Europe to discuss recent progress and future trends in the fabrication and applications of miniaturized biochemical sensing devices and systems. Leading European scientists are invited to participate in order to evaluate our achievements and bring-in new ideas for further improvements and additional collaborations for the creation of healthy strategic research partnerships. Young scientists from our country are invited to attend in order to get acquainted with new methodologies and the obtained scientific results.

For more information please visit the following webpage: http://www.imel.demokritos.gr/minasens/

You're kindly requested to fill the registration form: http://imel.demokritos.gr/minasens/registration

The Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2013 is now available.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the spring semester 2013 (pdf file)

An 8-day practical course entitled "Digital image processing/analysis tools in Light Microscopy: From the basics and beyond" will be organized in Athens, Greece at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in June 10-17, 2013. The course focuses on topics related to biomedical applications in the fields ofinfectiology, neurobiology and cell biology.
The course objective is to provide theoretical and practical training in basic and advanced concepts and methods of digital image analysis and in the use of several open source and commercial software for quantitative assessment of fluorescence microscopy data through:

• Lectures
• Hands-on practicals with participants' microscopy data or data provided by the instructors
• Informal discussions and tutorials with experts in the field

For more information please visit the webpage of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute: http://www.pasteur.gr/?p=3470

The graduation ceremony of the ITMB students will take place on Thursday 31 January 2013, at 11:00 in the Big Ceremony Room of the University of Athens (Propylea).
Please contact the Registrar's Office, until Tuesday 08/01 (Tel: 210 727 5338) to confirm your attendance.

On Wednesday 19/12/12 at 16:00 at Room A3 (1st floor) of the Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, postgraduate student Konstantinos Karampoulas will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Operation principles of laparoscopic imaging systems".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Ioannis kandarakis, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI-A (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangriotis, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Nektarios Kalyvas, Applications Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI-A

Enrolment of new students of the Postgraduate Program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology", will be held on Tuesday, 11 December, at 11.00 - 13.00 (both tracks) at the Registra's Office of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.

Students must carry the following documents:

• Original diploma or a certified copy or certificate of completion of studies (for those who have not filed with the application). In case of foreign University diploma, an equivalence from the Hellenic NARIC is necessary.
• Identity card with a validated Photocopy of it.
• Authorization if the student's enrolment is held by another person.

On Friday 23/11/12 at 18:00 at the Conference Room A56 Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, postgraduate student Spyridoula-Irida Xenaki will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Telepathology system for the automatic classification of brain tumours employing histopathology tissue samples".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α

On Friday 23/11/12 at 19:00 at the Conference Room A56 Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, postgraduate student Theodosi Angeliki will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Image analysis and classification of 2D gel electrophoresis images based on pattern recognition methods".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α

The Research Institute INRIA (France) offers Internships for all students of the University of Athens, who want to work in a research team between March - October 2013. The Internships concern postgraduate students and doctoral candidates (4 to 9 months) but also graduate students (2 to 4 months).
Useful information: http://www.inria.fr/en/research/international-mobility/internships-programme/applications
Interships-Themes: https://idal-siege.inria.fr/dri/IS_Stage_L_RO.php
Inria blog: http://inria-info.blogspot.com/

Those who are interested must send no later than November 30, 2012 to Prof. Ioannis Emiris the following:

• A url with an English CV (pdf) that will also include up to 5 Internship topics, in order of preference and a justification (1-2 sentences per topic)
• A brief recommendation letter (email or pdf) from the advisor of the dissertation / thesis / doctoral dissertation.

Τhe course "Pattern Recognition" taught by Professor S. Perantonis will not take place on Tuesday 06/11.

Professor John Pezaris, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, will present a seminar entitled "The Thalamic Visual Prosthesis Project" on Monday, November 5th, 2012.
The seminar will be held from 2.00pm - 3.00pm in the ground floor Seminar Room of BRFAA. All welcome.

Attachments: Invitation-Abstract (pdf file)

On Tuesday 30/10/12 at 12:00 at the Teleconferencing Room of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, postgraduate student Maria Paraskevopoulou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computational prediction of microRNA targets on long non coding RNAs".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou PhD, Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Thessaly, Associated Researcher, Biomedical Science Research Center "Al. Fleming" (Supervisor)
Dr. George Spyrou PhD, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA
Dr. Evangelia D. Chrysina, Scientific Personnel, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation

Postponement of tomorrow's course "Simulation Methods in Medicine and Biology". The course will take place on Friday 12/10/2012, 13:30-16:30.

Lecture by Professor Ioannis Kakadiaris (Depts. of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering University of Houston, TX, USA) with title: "Computational Intelligence: From Biometrics to Biomedicine", on Tuesday 16 October, at 11:00-12:00, in Room Α56 of the dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications.
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

Lecture by Professor Peter Wellstead (Adjunct Professor, Hamilton Institute, Ireland), on Tuesday 9 October, at 15:00, in Room Γ1 (3rd floor) of the Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA) with title: "An Energy Theory for Parkinson’s Disease".

POSTPONEMENT OF COURSES
All courses (of both directions) on Friday, October 5, 2012, carried out BRFAA will not be carried out. These courses will be offered as usual on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012.

Orientation/Welcome Meeting of newly admitted students
All students admitted to the graduate program for the academic year 2012-13 are invited to attend an orientation/welcome meeting on Monday 01/10/12, at 11:00, Room A56 (Conference Room), Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens.

New proposed Master's Thesis Topic with title: "Study of image reconstruction algorithms effect on the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) lesion detectability, using simulation modeling".
Advisor: G. Spyrou.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page

The Exams Schedule of September 2012 has been changed.
Τhe examination of the course "Medical Information Technology and Telemedicine" will take place at BRFAA at the same time, while the examination of the course "Acquisition and Processing of Biomedical Data" will take place on Thursday 27/09 at ΤΕΙ-Α at 17:00.

The Courses Schedule for the winter semester 2012-13 is now available.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the winter semester 2012-13 (pdf file)

The Exams Schedule of September 2012 has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Exams Schedule of September 2012 (pdf file)

On Tuesday 24/07/2012 at 16:00 at the TeleConference Room GU-MediaCenter of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Dionisis Markopoulos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development of a software application for managing protein crystallization data".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Elias S. Manolakos, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Advisor)
Georgios Th. Tsangkaris, Staff Research Scientist - Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Dr. EvageliaChrysina, Scientific staff, National Hellenic Research Foundation

On Friday 13/07/2012 at 15:00 at the TeleConference Room GU-MediaCenter of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Dimitris Christodoulou will present his Master's Thesis
Thesis Title: "Computational Modeling of the Dynamics of the IFNβ transcription mechanism through its Enhanceosome Assembly".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dimitris Thanos, Investigator – Professor Level, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA)
Phd. Elias S. Manolakos, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Advisor)
Phd. Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Research Assistant Professor, National Hellenic Research Foundation

The candidates who wish to attend the program must complete the Study Acceptance Form and to send it to Mrs. Kanavou (kkanavou@di.uoa.gr) as soon as possible, until 03/09/2012.
Those who do not wish to attend the program are kindly requested to send an email to Mrs. Kanavou which will declare that they resign the participation to the program.

The Greek Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Greek Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and the Greek Crystallographic Association are organizing a lecture by Nobel Prize Professor of Chemistry V. Ramakrishnan with topic: "Antibiotics help illumninate ribosome function and vice versa".
The lecture will be held on Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 19:00 at the Auditorium "Ioannis Drakopoulos" (Main Building, University of Athens, 30 University str.).
The lecture will be in English.
Attachments: Invitation, Greek only (pdf file)

The list of suggested candidates-finalists for the ITMB program 2012-13 has been announced.
Attachments: List, Greek only (pdf file)

On Wednesday 27/06/2012 at 18:00 at the Conference Room A56 of Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Myrto Dassi will present her Master's Thesis
Thesis Title: "Detection and Correction of the Elemental Image Grid in Light Field Microscopy".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Emmanuel Sagriotis Assistant Professor, University of Athens (Supervisor)
Dr. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor Technical Educational Institute of Athens
Dr Dimitrios Maroulis Professor, University of Athens

In order to promote and enhance the educational and research process of the postgraduate program ITMB, as well as to promote the promising young scientists that it nurtures an Alumni Club will be created and be available at the ITMB's website.
For the proper organization of the Alumni club, all graduate students are kindly requested to fill the relevant form that can be found at the Forms - Applications page (instructions are included). The participation of all graduates is essential.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or download it directly here: Form for ITMB's graduate students (ITMB_Alumni) (pdf file)

New proposed Master's Thesis Topic with title: "In-Silico modelling studies of the immune modulatory mechanisms in Inflammatory Bowel Disease". Thesis Advisors: K. Karali, D. Kalamatianos, E. Manolakos. Those who are interested can contact mr. Manolakos.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Master's Thesis Topic, Greek only (pdf file)

The Exams Schedule of June 2012 has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Exams Schedule of June 2012 (pdf file)

ITMB' s 8th Cross-disciplinary Seminar on Wednesday 23/05/12, at 16:00, in Room A2 of the dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications - UoA, with title: "Computational Diffusion MRI : On some recent advances and beyond".
Speaker: Dr. Rachid Deriche (Research Director, Inria).
More details here

On Thursday 17/05/12 at 10:00 at the TeleConference Room - NOC of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Maria Tzoka will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Analysis of the clinical characteristics of neurosurgical patients".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Thesis advisor
Phd. Dionisios Linardatos, Specialised Scentific Personnel, National Telecom. & Post Commission (ΕΕΤΤ) - Thesis co-advisor
Phd. George Strantzalis, Assoc. Professor, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

On Friday 18/05/12 at 14:00 at the Seminars Room Gu-Media Center of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Ioannis Vlachos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computational Tools for the Identification of the Functional Role of Experimentally Validated microRNA Gene – Targets"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Thessaly, Associated Researcher, Biomedical Science Research Center "Al. Fleming"
Dr. Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. George Spyrou, Staff Research Scientist (Professor Level), BRFAA

We are pleased to announce that as part of the international collaboration of our graduate program with the Master of Science in Computational Biology and Biomedicine, Nice Sophia Antipolis University, France, Dr. Rachid Deriche has been invited and will offer to all our students the short course "Variational methods and geometric flows for brain imaging", on Thursday 24/05/2012, 09:00-14:00 (Room Α1) and on Friday 25/05/2012, 09:00-14:00 (Room A1).
All registered students should attend the course .
Attachments: Course description and short bio (pdf file)

On Friday 11/05/12 at 17:00 at the Conference Room A3 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Εleni Oikonomi will present her Master's Thesis..
Thesis Title: "Design and implementation of the ASTM Continuity of Care Record standard".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd Spyropoulos Vasileios, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI-A (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Maroulis Dimitrios, Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

On Friday 27/04/12 at 09:00 at the Conference Room A56 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Sofia Alysandratou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development and evaluation of a data acquisition system for nuclear medicine imaging systems based on a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Ioannis Kandarakis, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI-A (thesis advisor)
Phd. George Loudos, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI-A
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, TEI-A

6th International Summer School on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine "Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Approaches for the Analysis of Complex Biological Networks", Patras 1st -6th July 2012.
Μore information at: http://biosignal.med.upatras.gr/school2012/

On Tuesday 24/04/12 at 18:00 at the Conference Room A56 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Margarita Magiati will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "cDNA Microarray image processing based on robust segmentation techniques".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

On Tuesday 24/04/12 at 19:00 at the Conference Room A56 of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Theodora Manetzi will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer system for emphysema quantification from CT images of the lungs".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Georgia Oikonomou, Associate Professor, Department of Radiography, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

New proposed Master's Thesis topic with title "Characterization of optical microscopy imaging systems behavior in the restoration and reconstruction of three-dimensional fluorescence images".
Advisors: M. Sangriotis, NKUA - G. Spyrou, BRFAA.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Proposed Master's Thesis topic - M. Sangriotis, G. Spyrou (pdf file)

The Postgraduate program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology" invites all graduate students to submit applications for the academic year 2012-2013.

Applications will be accepted from May 7 to 18, 2012 by the Registrar's Office of the Department of Telecommunications and Informatics (University of Athens, Ilisia tel.210-7275338) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00 to 14:00.

Attachment: Admissions 2012-2013 - In Greek only (pdf file)

The Foundation Bodossaki announces the event for a fourth consecutive year cycle Seminar on Biology and Medicine, addressed to distinguished young Greek students.
The seminars will be held in the conference room of the Hotel Cape Sounio in Sounio, Attica.
Arrival date: 09/09/2011. Departure date: 13/09/2011 (4 nights).
More information at (Greek Only): Announcements of the Bodossaki Foundation

On Monday 02/04/12 at 12:00 at the Conference Room A56 of Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Theodora Manoussidou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Evaluation and comparison of bioinformatics tools for studying 3d protein structure".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Yannis Emiris, Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (thesis advisor)
Phd. Chrysina Evangelia, Scientific Personnel of IOPC - National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) (thesis advisor)
Phd. Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

On Tuesday 03/04/12 at 19:00 at the Conference Room A56 of Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Peggy Lagga will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer-aided detection system for lung nodules of CT images".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Georgia Oikonomou, Associate Professor, Department of Radiography, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

On Tuesday 03/04/12 at 18:00 at the Conference Room A56 of Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Klestis Liakos will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Computer Aided Diagnosis system for discriminating normal from abnormal breast lesions, segmented from ultrasound images".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

Cross-disciplinary Seminar on Wednesday 28/03/12, at 15:00, in Room D of the dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications - UoA, with title: "Systems Biology for Drug Discovery".
Speaker: Leonidas Alexopoulos (Lecturer, Systems Biology and Bioengineering Lab, National Technical University of Athens).
More details here

New proposed Master's Thesis topic with title ""Development of algorithms for biomedical image analysis by exploiting Graphics Processing Units - GPUs". Advisor: G. Spyrou, BRFAΑ.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Proposed Master's Thesis topic - G. Spyrou (pdf file)

New proposed Master's Thesis topic with title "Measurement parameters automation in the frequency of collagen fibrils images by electronic microscopy TEM". Advisors: Ε. Ventouras & G. Fountos, ΤΕΙ-Α.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Proposed Master's Thesis topic - Ε. Ventouras & G. Fountos (pdf file)

All MSc and PhD candidates, who have completed their studies, are kindly requested to apply for the graduation ceremony until 25/05/12.
Within the same period, all candidates must complete the theses and dissertations submitting process in the library or they will not be able to take part in this ceremony.

The graduation ceremony of the MSc and PhD candidates will take place between 28 June and 10 July 2012.
All PhD candidates who wish to take part at the graduation ceremony are kindly requested to complete their obligations (examination report to the Secretariat, submission of PhD thesis in the library, graduation ceremony apllication to the Secretariat) until the May 28, 2012.

The Exams Schedule for the 2nd semester 2012 has been announced.
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The examination of the course "Pattern Recognition" (Perantonis) will take place in Room E of the department.

Publication with participation of student Tsagrasoulis D. in the Evolutionary Bioinformatics Journal.
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Publication with participation of students Ropodi A. and Sakkos N. in the EMBnet.journal.
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Publication with participation of students Vlachos I. and Georgakilas G. in the Nucleic Acids Research Journal.
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The Exams Schedule of February 2012 has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for September 2011 (pdf file)

The Steering Committee of the program congratulates the following students for their distinctions:

Fellowship to newly admitted student:

Admitted on 2011-12: Athanasios Balomenos

Certificates of Performance:

Admitted on 2009-10: 2nd Direction: Eleftherios Ouzounoglou

Admitted on 2010-11:

• 1st Direction: Anthonios Danelakis
• 2nd Direction: Ioannis Vlachos

Certificates of Excellence:

Admitted on 2008-09: 2nd Direction: Minas Liarokapis

Admitted on 2009-10:

• 1st Direction: Vassilios Kassis
• 2nd Direction: Eleftherios Ouzounoglou

The graduation ceremony of the ITMB students will take place on Thursday 26 January 2012, at 11:00 in the Big Ceremony Room of the University of Athens (Propylea).
In order to participate to the ceremony an earlier contact with the Registrar's Office is required
(telephone: 210-727 5338).

Third semester students that meet the criteria to be considered for scholarship (see the criteria here) are kindly requested to submit a petition to the Administrative Support of the ITMB Program (to Mrs Kanavou) by Wednesday 21/12/2011.

Download the New Interactive Study Guide 2011-12 (In Greek only):
Low Resolution (pdf file 2,98 MB), High Resolution (pdf file 3,44 MB)
Τhe New Interactive Study Guide 2011-12 can be also found at the page "Courses".

On Monday 05/12/11 at 19:00 at the Conference Room A56 of Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate student Dimitrios Siderakis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Design and development of a Pattern Recognition system for discriminating amongst healthy, benign and malignant prostate tumors, employing proteomic mass spectroscopy (MS) samples".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

On Thursday 24/11/2011 at 16:00 in The Conference Room (A56) of the Dept of Informatics and Telecommunications, postgraduate students Nomiki Katsiaouni and Katerina Koukolia will present their Master's Thesis.

Thesis Title of postg. student N. Katsiaouni: "Integrated child psychiatry electronic record system".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

Thesis Title of postg. student K. Koukolia: "Interconnection of medical sensors and electronic child psychiatry record for the recording of behavioristic and biometric parameters".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

Examining Committee:
Ph.D Maroulis Dimitrios, Professor, Dept of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Nikolaos Sgouros, ΤΕΙ Piraeus and Associate Researcher at UoA

On Friday 25/11/2011 at 12:00 a.m in Room D, postgraduate student Mihalis Sarris will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Digital Tomosynthesis of Medical Imaging".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Ioannis Kandarakis, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α(thesis advisor)
Phd. Georgios Fountos, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

Presentation of the Master's thesis of student Anuj Sharma on Wednesday 23/11/2011 at 15:00 in the Conference Room of the Networks Operation Centre (the building is next to the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens).
Thesis Title: "Improving sequence similarity search for Protein Homology Inference using Structural data and Machine Learning methods".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Yannis Emiris, Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (thesis advisor)
Dr. Evangelia Chrysina, Scientific Personnel of IOPC - NHRF

Course change of venue: From 21/11/2011 the course "Special Topics on Bioinformatics" that is currently taught at UOA, will take place at BRFAA, Room Teleinformatics, E4 building - same day and hour.
The course of Monday 21/11/2011 will take place at BRFAA.

Change in Schedule: From 16/11/2011 the lectures of the topic "Simulation Methods in Medicine and Biology" given at BRFAA will take place on Mondays 14:45-17:45 instead of Fridays 14:00-17:00.
The lecture of Friday 18/11/2011 will be given on Monday 21/11/2011

On Friday 18/11/2011 at 15:00 at Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (room C1, 3rd Floor), postgraduate student Eleftherios Ouzounoglou will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Application of Systems Biology methods in the elucidation of alpha-synuclein’s role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Elias Manolakos, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens (research advisor)
Katia Karalis, Researcher Β,' Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens
Kostas Vekrellis, Researcher C,' Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens

All postgraduate students and Ph.D candidates who completed their studies, are kindly requested to submit the Oath Application until 19/12/11.
Within the same period the library submission process of the theses and dissertations must be competed or they wont be able to participate to the oath process.

On Wednesday 09/11, at 16:00, in the Seminars Room Gu-Media Center, will take place a cross-disciplinary seminar with title: How to "improve" amino acid sequences - technical limits of evolution and lab methods. Speaker: mr. Michael Szardenings (Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany).

The course of Mr. Kandarakis "Medical Imaging Systems" will not be held this Monday, 31/10.

Workshop at the National Hellenic Research Foundation on "Structure- & Computer- Aided Design Workshop: Bioactive Molecules & Materials" on 07-11 November 2011.
The workshop includes lectures and practical courses on both traditional and high-throughput methods applied in vitro, in silico and in vivo in the field of structural biology and materials. Young scientists who are already working or are interested in getting the first insights in this field are encouraged to attend.
Participants should register by email. Those who wish to attend the practical courses should also send a short CV by October, 28th 2011.

More information can be found in the following link: http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/iopc/eu-projects/eurostruct/Workshop_7-11-2011.html

The Fall semester courses that are taught at the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA will start on Monday 31/10/11.

Enrolment of new students of the Postgraduate Program "Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology", will be held on Monday and Tuesday, 24 and 25 October respectively, at 11.00 to 13.00 at the Registra's Office of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.

Students must carry the following documents:

1. Identity card with a validated Photocopy of it.
2. Two small size color photos.
3. A copy of their diploma or certificate of completion of undergraduate studies, certified.

Also, students can register by proxy if he has authorization from the student.

On Tuesday 18/10/11 at 15:00 at Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (teleconferencing room), postgraduate student George Georgakilas will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Prediction of microRNA transcripts from genomic data".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Researcher Β', BSRC Alexander Fleming (Supervisor)
Ioannis Emiris, Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunication, UoA
Spyridon Garbis, Researcher Β,' Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens

All students admitted to the graduate program for the academic year 2011-12 are invited to attend an orientation/welcome meeting on Monday 17/10/11, at 14:00, Room A56 (Conference Room), Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens.

The Courses Schedule for the winter semester 2011-12 is now available.
The courses taught outside the dept. (BRFAA-ΤΕΙ-Α) will begin on Monday 17/10. An announcement will soon follow for the courses taught at the department.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule 2011-2012 (pdf file)

The examination of the course "Biology" (Karali-Anastasiadou) will take place on Thursday 13/10/11, time: 10:00-13:00 at BRFAA, room of Ground Floor 1.

On Wednesday 05/10/11 at 18:00 at the Laboratory of Medical Image and Signal Processing, Dept. of Medical Instruments Technology of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, postgraduate student Christos Sakellarios will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Decision Support System for Classification of Urinary Bladder Cancer from Histopathological Images".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

Interesting Conference in Athens with title: New Imaging Technologies in Health and Disease
DATES & VENUE: 6-8 October 2011, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
For more information/registration check: http://www.bioacademy.gr/transmed/node/67

The examination of the course "Pattern Recognition" will take place at the Seminars Room of the Institute of Informatics, NCSR-Demokritos at the same day and time that it was scheduled.

All students that have been accepted to the postgraduate program ITMB for the academic year 2011-12 are kindly requested to send via email a Declaration of Studies Acceptance to Mrs. Kanavou until 30/09/2011. The starting date of the courses will be announced here as soon as the occupation of the department is over.

The course "Medical Imaging Systems" will be examined on Friday 30/09, at 12-15:00, at the room of the Laboratory of Ionizing and Non Ionizing Radiation, TIO - TEI-A.

The examined courses have been moved. See the updated Exams Schedule for September.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for September 2011 (pdf file)

The examined courses between 01-09/09 have been moved. See the updated Exams Schedule for September.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for September 2011 (pdf file)

The course "Introduction to Biotechnology" (Instructors: Vlahou - Tsangaris) will be examined on Tuesday 13/09/11, at 10:00-13:00 at BRFAA (Seminars Room on Ground floor).
All students who intend to take the exam are kindly requested to inform the intructors via email (vlahoua@bioacademy.gr, gthtsangaris@bioacademy.gr) until 06 September 2011.

The Exams Schedule for September has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for September 2011 (pdf file)

Accepted Students to the postgraduate program ITMB for the academic year 2011-12
Attachments: Accepted Students 2011-2012 (pdf file)

Presentation of the Master's thesis of student Konstantinos Eftaksias on Friday 17/06/2011 at 10.45 π.μ in Seminars Room Gu-Media Center, 2nd floor of NOC Building, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.
Thesis Title: "EEG Signal Processing using Kernel Methods".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Phd. Sergios Theodoridis, Professor, NKUA
Phd. Dimitrios Maroulis, Associate Professor, NKUA
Phd. George Kouroupetroglou, Associate Professor, NKUA

Presentation of the Master's thesis of student Danelakis Antonios on Tuesday 14/06/2011 at 10:00 am in Room A56 of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.
Thesis Title: "Development of automated diagnostic software for breast MRI examination"
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
Examining Committee:
Dr. Theoxaris Theoxaris, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, NKUA
Dr. Maroulis Dimitrios, Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, NKUA
Dr. Sagriotis Emmanouil, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, NKUA

Two-day scientific meeting at BFRAA, 24-25 June.
Link for the Program: http://bioacademy.gr/Announcements/pdf/fin_program.pdf

The Exams Schedule of June 2011 has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Exams Schedule of June 2011 (pdf file)

The graduation ceremony of the postgraduate and PhD studentds of the Department will be held on Monday, June 27, 2011, 11:00 am at the Propylaea of the University of Athens in the Ceremonial Hall.
In order to participate at the ceremony it is necessary to contact in advance the Registrar's Office of the Department

Presentation of the Master's thesis of student Eudoksia Mastroleon on Monday 16/05/2011 at 11:00 am in the Conference Room of the Networks Operation Centre (the building is next to the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens).
Thesis Title: "Development of an electronic laboratory notebook for computer aided drug design"
Examining Committee:
Yannis Emiris, Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (thesis advisor)
Evangelia Chrysina, Scientific Personnel of IOPC - NHRF (thesis Co-advisor)

Event "Innovation in biosciences-opportunities, challenges & the future", on Monday 09/05/11, at 11:30-16:30. The event will take place at the Amalia Hotel.
Attachments: Invitation (pdf file)

Lecture of Prof. J. Watson (Nobel Prize 1962 Medicine and Physiology) at NCSR «Demokritos», Friday 15/04/11, at 15:00 p.m.
Attachments: Invitation (pdf file)

On Thursday 14/04/11, at 11:00, in Room St', Prof. Sally McClean of the University of Ulster, who's visiting our Department under the program ERASMUS, will give a talk on "Intelligent Management of Patients and Others".
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)

On Μonday 11/04/11 at 10:00 a.m in Room D, postgraduate student Christos Konstantinou will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Decision support system for discriminating low from high malignancy brain astrocytomas, using routinely H&E stained cytological images".
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

Graduate Program Admissions for academic year 2011-2012.
Application submissions: 09 - 20 May 2011.
Attachments: Graduate Program Admissions (pdf file)

On Thursday 31/03/11 at 11:30 a.m in Room A56, postgraduate student Eftichia Moumou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Digital Watermarking for images of 3D microscopy".
Examining Committee:
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dimitris Maroulis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA (thesis advisor)

On Monday 28/03/11 at 10:00 a.m in Room D, postgraduate student Thomas Katsaros will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Network Design for Health Information Systems".
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dimitris Katsianis, Research Associate, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

On Friday 18/03/11 at 18:00 p.m in Room C, postgraduate student Vassilios Kassis will present his Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Automatic Diagnosis of Breast Cancer from Histopathological Images".
Examining Committee:
Phd. Erricos Ventouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Dionisis Cavouras, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α (thesis advisor)
Phd. Manolis Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

The obligations of undergraduate and postgraduate students and doctoral candidates towards the Library of the School of Science are posted on its website (www.lib.uoa.gr/sci). Note that only the submission of dissertations of undergraduate students is optional.
Moreover, students of the postgraduate program ITMB must submit to Miss Kanavou a copy of the final text of their work (exact copy to that delivered to the library) and send to the Director of postgraduate program the final PDF file, as well as the English title and abstract (as it is stated in the library's official inventory form)

Lecture by George Vernikos with title "Overtake in reverse gear" on Friday April 01, 2011 at 14:00 in Seminars Room Gu-Media Center, 2nd floor of NOC Building, UoA

On Friday 11/03/11 at 10:00 a.m in Room D, postgraduate student Maria Toutoutzi will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Application of non-deterministic classification and meta-classification methods on medical datasets".
Examining Committee:
Phd. Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Phd. Stavros Perantonis, Research Director, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications - NCSR-Demokritos
Phd. Sergios Petridis, Investigator, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications - NCSR-Demokritos

On Thursday 03/03/11 at 12:00 a.m in Room Α56 (1st floor of the department) postgraduate student Vassiliki Mamakou will present her Master's Thesis.
Thesis Title: "Development a training tool to familiarize medical personnel to the implementation of relevant Diagnostics Groups (Diagnosis Related Groups-DRGs)".
Examining Committee:
Phd. Spyropoulos, Professor, Department of Medical Instruments Technology, ΤΕΙ-Α
Phd. Sangkriotis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA
Phd. Maroulis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA

The UoA computing center in collaboration with Mentor Hellas organizes a seminar with title "Digital Signal and Image Processing using Matlab" on Wednesday 02/03/2011 at 09:30-13:30 at the Seminars Room Gu-Media Center, 2nd floor of NOC Building (next to the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications Building - University of Athens).
For more information please contact mr. Yannis Georgiadis (tel: (+30) 210-727 5620 - giannis [at] cc.uoa.gr)

New Master's Thesis Proposal (Advisor Prof. Elias S. Manolakos)
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Master's Thesis Proposal (pdf file)

The Courses Schedule for the 2nd semester of the academic year 2010-2011, has been announced. Courses start on 21/02/11.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Courses Schedule for the 2nd semester 2010-2011 (pdf file)

Presentation of the Master’s thesis of student Aikaterini Styllou on Thursday 10/02/2011 at 11:00 am in the Conference Room of the Networks Operation Centre (the building is next to the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens).
Thesis Title: "Development of computational methods to characterize code areas and UTR's"
Examining Committee:
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Investigator (Assoc.Prof. Level) - BSRC "Alex.Fleming" (thesis advisor)
Katia Karali, Investigator (Assoc.Prof. Level) - BRFAA
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The exams of the ITMB courses scheduled for Tuesday 02/01/11 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, will be held a week later, at the same day and time.

On 24/01/2011 the Department announced the deadline for the applications for MSc and PhD graduation. The deadline is on 27/05/2011.
Those who have completed their studies up to that date, have:
1. to pay tuition (Konstantina Kanavou, tel: 210-727 5337).
2. to submit their theses and dissertations at the library.
3. All Master’s Thesis must be presented in public at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications prior to their approval.
For any questions please contact the Registrar’s Office of the Department: 210-727 5181 (V. Pothitou) and 210-727 5338 (O. Fourtouneli).

The Exams Schedule for the winter semester is available. The courses of the Spring semester start on Monday 14/02/2011.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Timetable 2010-2011 (pdf file)

In collaboration with EMBL_EBI, the Bioinformatics Roadshow will be delivered at BRFAA from the 1st to the 3rd of November, 2011.
For more information and registration details, please visit the site at:
http://www.bioacademy.gr/bioinformatics/courses/bioinfo_roadshow2011/