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16/05/12
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
14/05/12
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
14/05/12
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
08/05/12
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)
04/05/12
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
24/04/12
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
10/04/12
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/
10/04/12
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
09/04/12
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
06/04/12
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)
04/04/12
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)
03/04/12
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
29/03/12
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
27/03/12
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
26/03/12
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
20/03/12
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
19/03/12
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)
19/03/12
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)
19/03/12
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.
05/03/12
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.
28/02/12
The Exams Schedule for the 2nd semester 2012 has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Exams Schedule 2nd semester 2012 (pdf file)
20/02/12
The examination of the course "Pattern Recognition" (Perantonis) will take place in Room E of the department.
20/02/12
Publication with participation of student Tsagrasoulis D. in the Evolutionary Bioinformatics Journal.
Click here for more information.
20/02/12
Publication with participation of students Ropodi A. and Sakkos N. in the EMBnet.journal.
Click here for more information.
20/02/12
Publication with participation of students Vlachos I. and Georgakilas G. in the Nucleic Acids Research Journal.
Click here for more information.
06/02/12
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)
25/01/12
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
12/01/12
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).
19/12/11
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.
14/12/11
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".
29/11/11
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
23/11/11
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
22/11/11
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
18/11/11
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
17/11/11
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.
16/11/11
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
15/11/11
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
09/11/11
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.
07/11/11
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).
30/10/11
The course of Mr. Kandarakis "Medical Imaging Systems" will not be held this Monday, 31/10.
26/10/11
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
24/10/11
The Fall semester courses that are taught at the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA will start on Monday 31/10/11.
18/10/11
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.
17/10/11
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
13/10/11
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.
12/10/11
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)
07/10/11
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.
04/10/11
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
04/10/11
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
30/09/11
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.
27/09/11
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.
27/09/11
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.
25/09/11
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)
06/09/11
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)
29/08/11
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.
29/08/11
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)
20/06/11
Accepted Students to the postgraduate program ITMB for the academic year 2011-12
Attachments: Accepted Students 2011-2012 (pdf file)
16/06/11
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
14/06/11
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
10/06/11
Two-day scientific meeting at BFRAA, 24-25 June.
Link for the Program: http://bioacademy.gr/Announcements/pdf/fin_program.pdf
06/06/11
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)
31/05/11
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
13/05/11
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)
06/05/11
06/05/11
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)
13/04/11
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)
13/04/11
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)
06/04/11
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
31/03/11
Graduate Program Admissions for academic year 2011-2012.
Application submissions: 09 - 20 May 2011.
Attachments: Graduate Program Admissions (pdf file)
28/03/11
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)
24/03/11
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
14/03/11
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
14/03/11
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)
09/03/11
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
09/03/11
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
01/03/11
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
25/02/11
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)
24/02/11
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)
08/02/11
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)
08/02/11
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
31/01/11
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.
27/01/11
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).
19/01/11
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)
10/01/11
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/
Publications
 
25/10/10
Publication of graduate student Mr. Constantinos Eutaxias at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, Corfu, 2-5 November 2010.
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Abstracts - Posters
 
04/10/10
Poster presentations of graduate student Mr. D. Markopoulos to be presented at the 5th International Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association.
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04/10/10
Poster presentations of graduate student Mrs. E. Mastroleon to be presented at the 5th International Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association.
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Seminars - Events
 
24/02/11
Lecture by Jiannis Ragoussis with title "Integrated multivariate data-mining of miRNA and mRNA profiles identifies independent prognostic miRNAs associated with key Breast cancer progression pathways" on Wednesday March 02, 2011 at 13:00 in Room A2 of the Depart. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA.
19/01/11
Workshop at BFRAA with topic "From preclinical translational research to systems medicine" on Wednesday 26/01/11.
Attachments: Workshop program (pdf file)
14/01/11
Seminar lecture by Joseph Nadeau (Director of Research and Academic Affairs, Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), Seattle, USA) with title "From Peas (Genetics) to Disease (Systems Biology): Medicine Transformed as an Information Science" on Thursday January 27 2011 at 3:00pm, room A2 of the Depart. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA.
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
11/01/11
The UoA computing center in collaboration with Mentor Hellas organizes a seminar with title "Digital Signal and Image Processing using Matlab" on Wednesday 19/01/2011 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)
29/12/10
Seminar lecture by the Professor Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University) on "Optimization Techniques for Protein Docking " on Thursday January 13 2011, 3:00pm at the Seminars Room Gu-Media Center, 2nd floor of NOC Building (next to the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications Building - University of Athens).
Access to NOC Building: http://mc.gunet.gr/access.php
Attachments: Abstract (pdf file)
07/12/10
Seminar lecture by Associate Professor Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford University) on "Extracting medical and ancestry information from genomes" on Tuesday 14/12/2010 at 13:00, room A41, Wing Antoniades, Athens University of Economics and Business (A.U.E.B.) (Patision Ave. 76 , TK 104 34 Athens, Telephone Center: +302108203 911, URL: http://www.aueb.gr/)

Links: Personal web page of Mr.Batzoglou (http://ai.stanford.edu/~serafim /)
Tribute to Serafim Batzoglou (Article by "Kathimerini" newspaper: 10/04/1921)

07/09/10
Seminar lecture by Professor Stephen Grossberg on "How does a brain give rise to a mind? From vision to cognition" on 20/09/1910 at 17:00. The lecture will be held at the Auditorium Drakopoulos, Main Building, Panepistimiou 30, University of Athens.
Attachments: Invitation to the lecture (pdf file), Abstract (pdf file)
Older Announcements
 
16/11/10
Presentation of the Master’s thesis of student Minas Liarokapis on Thursday 18/11/2010 at 10:00 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: "Biosignal analysis for the reconstruction of force and study of the synergies of fingers in human hands"
Examining Committee:
Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Professor, National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.)
Dionysios Linardatos, Research Scientist, National Committee of Telecommunications And Post
Elias S. Manolakos, Assoc. Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (thesis advisor)
12/11/10
Due to the anniversary of Polytechneio, courses will not be held on 15, 16 and 17 of November (by Rector’s office decision).
08/11/10
The ITMB website has now RSS (Click on the icon of the Announcements or read the detailed instructions).
In order to be automatically informed you have to sign-in to Rss service (click the Subscribe button appearing in the Rss page).
The term RSS derives from the English Really Simple Syndication and is a content delivering format, based on XML. It is a new way to inform the Internet users about events and news of other users or information channels. This information comes online to the user's computer, via RSS.
08/11/10
Download the Program's Brochure 2010-11 (ITMB's promotion brochure in A4 printable format).
It is available in two resolutions (zip file 768 Kb and zip file 2.733 Kb). Printing instructions are included.
25/10/10
The ITMB Steering Committee is seeking the help of a student admitted to the program in 2009 or 2010 who will be willing to contribute significantly by providing service (with a corresponding discharge of student fees) during the winter semester of academic year 2010-11, towards translating in English the new website of the ITMB program.
Necessary requirement is Proficiency in English (excellent knowledge of English at the Proficiency level).. Prior translation experience would be an asset but is not required.
All those who are interested should to submit a petition along with the supporting supporting documents verifying their proficiency in English to Mrs Kanavou by Friday 29/10/2010.
On behalf of the Steering Committee
Elias Manolakos, Director
28/09/10
The winter semester courses of the Master’s Program "Information Technology in Medicine and Biology" will commence on Friday 1st October 2010.
22/09/10
The enrolment of the new students of the program will take place on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11.00-13.00 am at the Registrar’s Office of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications.
Admitted students must submit the following documents to enrol:
1. Certified photocopy of their identity card.
2. Two small size colour photos.
3. A copy of their undergraduate degree or certificate of undergraduate studies' completion, certified.
Students may also register by proxy, if s/he has official written authorization (certified by the Police Department or Citizens’ Service Center).
20/09/10
A welcoming event for the new students admitted to the Master’s program:
All the newly admitted students are invited on Tuesday 28/09/2010 at 10:00 am in room A56 (Conference room of the Department) in a welcome and orientation event regarding the requirements and courses of study of the program.
20/09/10
The time schedule of classes for the 1st and 3rd semester courses of the academic year 2010-2011, has been announced.
Click here in order to be transfered to the corresponding page or see it directly here: Timetable 2010-2011 (pdf file)
 
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