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Dept. of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics

University of Central Greece

 

 

 

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Courses

My courses during this academic year are as follows:

6CB03 Medical Information Systems I Importance and utility.  Medical data: Acquisition, storage, use, medical decision making. Data structures.  Data bases.  Networks and  communication protocols. Health Information Systems design and evaluation. Applications: Medical record, hospital information system, radiology information system, laboratory information system, pharmaceutical information system, administrative information system of material and anaesthesiological administrative information system.
6OB06 Telemedicine Definition and applications of Telemedicine. Physiological and medical data acquisition systems (Cameras: CRT, CCD, CMOS, Image quality issues). Minimal  technical requirements  from computing systems and warehouse systems in  telemedicine service. High computing output requirements. Data storage systems. Image and Video Compression and Coding (JPEG, MPEG, Wavelets). Computer supported cooperative work.  Main Telemedicine applications: Teleradiology, Telepathology, Telecytology, Telecardiology, Teleoncology, Telesurgery, Telepsychiatry,  Teledermatology, Telemedicine in primary health care places. Quality control and quality safeguard in Telemedicine. Data safety and privacy. Legal and ethical issues. Financial and administration issues. 
8CB02 Biomedical Image Analysis Digital Medical Image Processing Fundamentals. Image enhancement, segmentation, registration, interpolation, visualization and fusion of medical images. Pattern analysis and texture, border analysis of salient objects.  Motion compensation techniques. Applications in computational microscopy, digital mammography, ultrasounds, magnetic resonance and computational tomography images. Exercises and laboratory with the use of Matlab environment.
8OB05 Medical Information Systems II

Methodologies of Medical Information Systems (MIS). Workflow management and system integration. Administration of Medical Information Systems. Web based Medical Information Systems.Medical Data in Electronic Health Records. Coding and Standardization. Classification Systems ICD-10, MeSH, SNOMED, ICNP. Electronic Health Records Implementation Standards ISO/TC215 and CEN/TC251. Medical SW life circle modelling, user requirements methodologies, the CASE tool. Development of applications for Hospital Medical Information Systems (HMIS).

Announcements and Teaching Material

All announcements and teaching material (notes, presentations, exercises etc.) related to courses are posted in the asuncronous e-learning platform UCG eClass. Students require registration to get access.

PhD Students

Charalampos Doukas - Intellegent Telemedicine Applications (in University of Aegean)

Ioannis Kanaris - Grid and Parallel Biomedical Data Processing (in University of Aegean)

Kostas Moutselos - Integrating Biomedical Data - Virtual Physiological Human Modeling

Xanthi Kolovou - Patient Telemonitiring and Activity Recognition

Charalampos Liolios - Smart Homes and Pervasive Healthcare Applications

Theodosis Goudas - Intelligent Medical Image Processing