About the Contributors

Dimitris Arabadjis received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2006. He has been a PhD. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA since 2006. His research interests and recent work are on the following subjects: applications of information theory to archaeology, automatic reassembling of fragmented objects, image processing, pattern recognition, finite precision error, numerical solutions of differential equations, etc. He has two publications in international Journals on these subjects.

Nikolaos Arikidis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1974. He received BSc (1997) in Medical Instrumentation Technology from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece, and M.Sc. (1999) in Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation from the University of Dundee, UK. He is Biomedical Engineer in "Sotiria" Hospital, Athens, Greece, and PhD. candidate in the Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras, Greece. His research interests include medical image segmentation and wavelet analysis.

Konstantinos Arfanakis is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. His research interests include the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquisition, image reconstruction, data analysis, and visualization techniques, and the application of these methods for the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological disease. His recent research contributions can be grouped into the following categories: a) functional MRI, b) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and structural connectivity of the brain, c) lesion detection, d) neuronal structural integrity in seizure disorders, e) microstructural correlates of psychiatric disorders, f) early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

Charalambos N. Bougias was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1973. He received the Diploma Degree from the Department of Radiology Technologist, Athens, Greece, in 1998. He is currently working at the department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina. His research interests include fMRI, protocol optimization of the diffusion tensor imaging and advanced neuro imaging with MRI.

Christos V. Bourantas was born in Levadia, Greece in 1974. He graduated from the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece in 1999 and awarded his PhD. degree in Cardiology in 2005 from Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece. Currently he is working as specialist registrar in Cardiology at "Laikon" General Hospital, Athens. He is also a Horonary Lecturer in Academic Cardiology, Hull University, Kingston-upon-Hull, United Kingdom. His research interests focus on cardiac imaging, image processing and 3-D reconstruction methodologies.

Dr. Alex Bui received his PhD in Computer Science in 2000 and is now an Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences at UCLA. He is the Director of the UCLA-National Library Medicine (NLM) training program in medical informatics. Dr. Bui's research interests focus on distributed information architectures for biomedical research and clinical environments, probabilistic data modeling, and visualization of medical information.

Christophe Charrier, received his PhD from the university of Saint-Etienne in 1998 in the field of Computer Engineering and Image Processing. From 1998 to 2001, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the LRTS, Laval University, Quebec City, with Pr. Gilles Y. Delisle. In 2001, he joined the Communication Networks and Services department of technology of the Université de Caen Basse Normandie as an associate professor. His research concerns color image compression, human vision, color image quality, data fusion and data classification.

Dr Aristotelis A. Chatziioannou received a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering and a PhD. in Metabolic Engineering and Medical Informatics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Greece. Since September of 2005 he is with the Institute of Biological Research & Biotechnology in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His published work includes various peer reviewed journal papers a book chapter and more than (30) international conference proceedings. His scientific activities include metabolic engineering, genomics, biological ontologies, bioinformatics, computational biology, biomedical image processing. Dr. Chatziioannou is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Hellenic Computer Society, the Hellenic Society of Artificial Intelligence, the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and a founding member of the Hellenic Society of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He is reviewer in various scientific journals

Christodoulos I. Christodoulou received his diploma in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Telecommunications at the Technical University RWTH Aachen, Germany in 1987 and the PhD. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Queen Mary University of London, in 2000. He carries out his research work in cooperation with the department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus and with the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. His research interests include Intelligent Information Systems, Artificial Neural Networks, Signal and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Biosignal Analysis, and Computer Applications in Medicine and Meteorology. His research work in the above areas has been published in a number of refereed journal papers, book chapters and conference papers.

Richard S.C. Cobbold received the BSc degree in physics from Imperial College, University of London in 1956, and obtained the M.Sc. and PhD. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1961 and 1965 respectively. Since 1966 he has been with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering where he was Director from 1974 through to 1983. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Institute and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests center around the fundamental aspects of ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound and its application for vascular assessment. He is the author of two books, a number of research papers and several book chapters. A third book, Foundations of Biomedical Ultrasound, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976 and was appointed Canada-UK Rutherford lecturer in 1995.

Lena Costaridou received BSc (1979) in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece, M.Sc. (1982) in Medical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Sciences of the George Washington University, USA, and PhD. (1997) in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, Greece. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece. Her research interests include medical image processing and analysis with emphasis on tissue quantification and characterization in the frame of Computer Assisted Diagnosis systems and quality of medical imaging systems. She is author/co-author of 60 articles in international refereed journals and over 70 international conference papers, and reviewer for several international journals. She is the editor of the book "Medical Image Analysis Methods" (CRC Press, 2005).

Alberto Taboada Crispi, Electronic Engineer (Universidad Central de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba, 1985), Master of Sciences (Electronics, UCLV, 1997), PhD (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada, 2002). From 1985 to 1988, he worked as an Engineer at the University Hospital "Arnaldo Miliân Castro", Santa Clara, Cuba. Then, he joined the Electrical Engineering Faculty at UCLV as Professor and Researcher. Now, he is with the Center for Studies in Electronics and Information Technologies at UCLV. His research interests are in Instrumentation, Digital Signal and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Biomedical Applications.

Robert J. Dawe holds a BS degree in biomedical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA and is now pursuing a PhD degree in the same field. His research interests include diffusion tensor imaging and postmortem MRI of the human brain. He is a recipient of the ARCS Foundation scholarship for college scientists.

Cecile Delgorge-Rosenberger graduated from Ecole Nouvelle d'Ingénieurs en Communication (ENIC), Lille, France, in 1999, with an Engineering Degree in New Information and Communication Technologies. In 2001, she received the Master Degree in Signals and Images in Biology and Medicine, from University of Angers, France. In dec. 2005, she obtained the PhD. in Industrial Sciences and Technologies in the Laboratory of Vision and Robotics from University of Orleans, France. Her PhD. work is a contribution to the European project, named OTELO (mObile Tele-Echography using an ultra-Light rObot). Her research work is in acquisition, compression, transmission and evaluation techniques for ultrasound images.

I. Dimou received an MSc in informatics from the Technical University of Crete since 2002 and a Bachelor's in telecommunications and electronics engineering since 1998. In 2005 he worked as a research assistant at the Katholieke Univeriseit Leuven, Belgium in research related to the development of intelligent diagnostic tools for cancer. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Crete, where he has also worked as a teaching assistant. He has actively participated in various research projects in his field. His research interests are mainly focused on practical and theoretic aspects of biomedical informatics applications with the use of intelligent tools including probabilistic methods, support vector machines and classifier fusion.

Charalampos Doukas has received a diploma in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from the University of the Aegean and is currently a PhD Student at the same department. His research activities are focused on medical image processing, telemedicine and applications of artificial intelligence on medical informatics. He is an author/co-author of 8 journal papers and book chapters and more than 15 international conference papers. He is a member of IEEE - Societies: Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Computer, Communications, ACM, the Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Greek Computer Society and the Hellenic Organization of Biomedical Engineering. Charalampos Doukas is currently working as a research associate at the University of the Aegean and Athens Information Technology.

Hubert Elie is doctor in pathology and head of the pathological histology and cytology department, Centre Hospitalier du Cotentin, Cherbourg, France.

Abderrahim Elmoataz is a full-time professor of computer Science at the Computer Science Department of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France. His research concerns graph-based and discrete variational methods for image and data processing.

Alfred Gangl is professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Medical University of Vienna (since 1982) which he heads. After he graduated as Doctor universae medicinae in 1966 at the University of Vienna, he worked in different Austrian hospitals. Apart from that he spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Medical Center of the University of California. He is a member of several associations and societies in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology. His research interests and scientific activities include all aspects of diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and liver diseases.

John G. Georgiadis is the Kritzer Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has expertise in the area of quantitative visualization of flow and mass transport in biological and engineered systems, and the use of in vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to improve medical diagnostics and to quantify energy utilization in the human body. He is currently directing research projects focusing on MRI studies in brain and skeletal muscle. He received his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (1984) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his MS (1985) and PhD (1987) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA.

Panagiotis Georgoulias is a Lecturer of Nuclear Medicine in the Medical School of the University of Thessaly. He received his Medical Degree in 1991 from the University of Athens and his PhD in 1999 from the University of Crete. His main research interests are focused on the field of Nuclear Medical Imaging, and Nuclear Cardiology.

Nikolaos Giannakeas was born in Athens, Greece in 1980. He graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2003. He is currently working towards the PhD degree in the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. His research interests include microarray image and data analysis, biomedical engineering and bioinformatics.

Alexia Giannoula was born in 1979 in Greece. She received the BSc degree in computer science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2001. From 2001 to 2002, she worked as a research assistant at the Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2004, she obtained the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering (communications) from the University of Toronto, Canada, and in 2008, the PhD. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include the acoustic radiation force of ultrasound for elasticity imaging, the principles of shear-wave propagation and also, signal processing, multimedia coding and biometrics.

Spyretta Golemati received the Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1994 and the M.Sc. and PhD. degrees in Bioengineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. She is currently a Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her research interests include medical imaging, image and signal processing, and cardiovascular and respiratory mechanics. She has co-authored more than 60 papers in international refereed journals, book chapters in books and conference proceedings. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Michael Häfner was born on December 9 1968 in Vienna, Austria. He studied Medicine in Vienna and Perugia, Italy and graduated on January 23 1995. He started collaborating at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Medical University of Vienna in 1994, where he also was trained in Internal Medicine. He is specialist in Gastroenterology and Hepatology with his main focus on interventional endoscopy. Michael Haefner is currently secretary of the Austrian Society of Gastro-enterology and Hepatology and organiser of several courses on interventional endoscopy, including an annual postgraduate course on endoscopy in Vienna. He acts as tutor at various national and international hands-on training courses. Recently he spent half a year in Malaysia to start up an endoscopy unit in Kuala Lumpur.

J. Michael Herrmann received a Diploma in Mathematics and PhD. In Computer Science from Leipzig University, Germany, in 1993. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Leipzig University, at NORDITA, Copenhagen, at the Laboratory for Information Representation at RIKEN in Japan, and at the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Göttingen. After having held an assistant professorship at the Physics Department of Göttingen University, he is now a lecturer for robotics at the school of Informatics of Edinburgh University, Scotland. His research interests include dynamical systems and the computational neuroscience of behavior.

William Hsu is a doctoral student in the Medical Imaging Informatics group at UCLA. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering in 2004 at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include information visualization, knowledge representation, and human computer interaction. His dissertation work is related to exploring novel visualizations and methods for interaction that assist physicians and patients with understanding the diverse data captured in medical records.

Stavros Kakkos holds a Medical Degree (1990, University of Patras, Greece), a Doctorate in Medicine (1995, University of Patras) and a license to practice General Surgery (1997, Greece). In 1999 he received a Master's degree in Vascular Technology and Medicine and in 2004 a PhD in Vascular Surgery both by the University of London, UK. During 2004-2008 he continued clinical training in Vascular Surgery (UK & USA). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Dept of Vascular Surgery, University of Patras, Greece. Dr Kakkos has received numerous awards and distinctions for his clinical and research activities.

Kangarloo is a Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology, and Bioengineering at UCLA. Dr. Kangarloo is an experienced medical informatics researcher and is the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health-funded grants in the areas of imaging informatics. He leads a multi-disciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, physicists, and clinical researchers and is a co-Director of the UCLA Biomedical Informatics Center.

Anna Karahaliou was born in Patras, Greece, in 1977. She received BSc (2001) in Physics from University of Patras, Greece, and M.Sc. (2003) in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, Greece. She is currently PhD. candidate in the Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras, Greece. Her research interests include medical image processing and analysis and pattern recognition.

Petros Karvelis was born in Mesolongi, Greece in 1978. He graduated from the Computer Science Department, School of Natural Sciences, of the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2001. His thesis was on Computational Geometry - "Tetrahedralization algorithms of convex polyhedron". He received a M.Sc. thesis in the area of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, School of Natural Sciences, University of Ioannina in 2004. The title of the M.Sc. thesis was - Segmentation of human chromosome images. Today he is PhD candidate of the Department of Computer Science, School of Natural Sciences, University of Ioannina and his PhD thesis concerns the - Processing and Analysis of human chromosome images for the detection of chromosome abnormalities.

Dimitrios C. Karampinos received a Diploma degree in Mechanical Engineering (2003) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and is now pursuing a PhD. degree in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research work has been focused on the development of acquisition and model-based analysis techniques in diffusion, perfusion, elastography and flow quantification MRI of the human brain and skeletal muscle.

Thomas Kilindris received his Electrical Engineering Diploma in 1991 from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. He is occupied at the Laboratory of Medical Phyhsics and Informatics at the Medical School of the University of Thessaly, Hellas. His research interests include biomedical image and signal processing, parallel processing methods for dose calculation and design and optimization of treatment planning systems for stereotactic radiotherapy. He is the co-author of "PARALLEL EIKONA: a parallel digital image processing package" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993).

Veliou S. Konstantia was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1973.She received the Diploma Degree from the Department of medicine, Boulgary, in 1997.She is radiologist and currently working at the department of MR imaging, Magnitiki Tomografia of Epirous. Her research interests include fMRI, and neuro imaging with MR.

Anastasios Koutlas was born in Ioannina, Greece in 1981. He graduated with BSc Honours in Computing Science, from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 2003. He is currently working for a PhD. in Medical Physics Department, in the Medical School of University of Ioannina. His research interests include facial expression recognition and machine learning.

Efthyvoulos Kyriacou is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Frederick University Cyprus. His research interests focus on Telematics, image processing, neural networks and their applications in medicine. He has published several journal and conference papers in the above fields. He is an associate editor of IEEE transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine, while he is an active reviewer of many other scientific journals. He is a member of IEEE EMB and Computer Societies, the Hellenic society of Biomedical Engineering and the Cyprus Society of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.

Gilles Lebrun received his PhD from the university of Caen Basse-Normandie in 2006 the field of computer science. He is actually assistant professor of computer science in the Services and Network Communication of the université de Caen Basse-Normandie. His research concerns machine learning paradigm and their application to image processing problems.

Michel Lecluse is cytological technician in the pathological histology and cytology department, Centre Hospitalier du Cotentin, Cherbourg, France.

Michael Liedlgruber received his Master's degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Salzburg (Austria) in May 2006. His Master's thesis has already been devoted to pit pattern classification using wavelets. Currently he is working on his PhD thesis at the Department of Computer Sciences (University of Salzburg) in the same field of research. His main research interests include image processing and pattern recognition.

Olivier Lezoray received the M.S and Doctoral degrees, both in Computer Science, from Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France, respectively in 1996 and 2000. From 1999 to 2000, he was assistant professor with the Computer Science Department of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Since 2000, he has been an associate professor with the Cherbourg Institute of Technology in the Communications, Networks and Services Department. His research concerns color image segmentation and filtering (graph-based variational and morphological methods) and machine learning techniques for image mining (neural networks and support vector machines).

Christos P. Loizou: Received the BSc degree in electrical engineering, the M.Sc. degree in computer science and telecommunications from the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the PhD. degree from the Department of Computer Science, Kingston University, U.K. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Intercollege, Limassol, Cyprus, since 2000. He has been involved in numerous projects funded by the Cyprus Institute Promotion and Foundation. He has published 1 book, 6 chapters in books, 6 refereed journal articles, and 24 conference proceeding papers. His current research interests include medical imaging, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, biosignal analysis and computer applications in medicine. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

George Loudos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Instruments Technolody, Technological Educational Institute of Athens. He received the Diploma in electrical engineering and the PhD. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in1998 and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2003. His research interests are focused on the field of Nuclear Medical Imaging, including dedicated systems for small animal imaging and scintimammography, SPECT and PET, Monte Carlo simulations of PET/SPECT systems. In addition he is working in the field of Tele-medicine and more specifically Telecardiology.

Panagiota Loumou was born in Athens, Greece in 1985. She is a graduate student at the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. She is a member of the Multimedia Laboratory of the same department and has participated in several European Programs as a Project Team Member. Her research interests involve biomedical engineering, image processing, web development and social networks.

D. Lowe is Professor of Information Engineering at Aston University and a leading innovator in the research and development of applications for neural networks, forecasting and pattern recognition. While at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, UK, Professor Lowe specialized in automatic speech recognition and generic pattern processing. In 1993, he joined Aston University as a founding Professor in the Neural Computing Research Group. Professor Lowe is a past Chairman of the IEE International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, and remains active on various committees of international neural network, biomedical and financial conferences. He is also a member of several strategic government advisory committees on technology development.

Luca Mainardi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano. His teaching activities concern Biomedical Signal Processing and Bioelectricity and Biolectromagnetism. His research concerns biomedical signal and image processing and biomedical system modelling. He is the responsible of the Biomedical Signal Processing Laboratory at the Department of Bioengineering and he is Member of the Scientific Board of the Laboratory of Advanced Radiological Analysis (LARA) at the National Cancer Institute of Milano. He is author of more than 50 peer reviewed international papers. Member of the Board of Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria in the years 2004-2007.

Ilias G. Maglogiannis received a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering and a PhD. in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Greece in 1996 and 2000 respectively, with scholarship from the Greek Government. From 1996 until 2000 he worked as a Researcher in the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory in NTUA and he has been engaged to several European and National Projects. Since February of2001 he is with the Dept of Information and Communication Systems Engineering in University of the Aegean. His published scientific work includes three (3) books (Springer, IOS press and Morgan Claypool Publishers) and five (5) lecture notes (in Greek) on Biomedical Engineering and Multimedia topics, forty one (41) journal papers and more than seventy (70) international conference papers. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Journal and editorial board member of the Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare. He has served as guest editor in IEEE EMB Magazine (special issue on Signal and Distributed Data Processing for Networked eHealth Applications), Oncology Reports (special issue on Computational analysis and decision support systems in oncology), Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modelling and Simulation International (special issue on Performance Modelling and Simulation in Healthcare Information Systems), Applied Intelligence (special issue on Artificial Intelligence Application and Innovations) and Section Editor in Handbook of Computational Intelligence in Medical Systems. He has served in program and organizing committees in national and international conferences (26) and he is a reviewer for several scientific journals (15). His scientific activities include medical bioinformatics, medical image processing and telemedicine. Dr. Maglogiannis is a member of IEEE - Societies: Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Computer, Communications, SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, ACM, the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Greek Computer Society and the Hellenic Organization of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Maglogiannis is also a national representative for Greece in the IFIP technical committee TC 12 (Artificial Intelligence - Knowledge-Oriented Development of Applications) and member of the Working Group on Leading-edge Applications of the eMobility technology platform.

George K. Matsopoulos received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece. He received the M.Sc. degree in 1989 and the PhD. degree in Bioengineering in 1993 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include nonlinear image processing applied to medical applications, biomedical signal processing, 2-D and 3-D registration of medical images, computer vision applications, classification and experts systems and Web-based medical systems for telemedicine application and remote image processing. Dr. Matsopoulos is a member of the IEEE, the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Hellenic Society of Biomedical Engineering.

Cyril Meurie received his PhD from the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France in 2005 in the field of computer science. From 2004 to 2006, he was assistant professor at the computer Science Department of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. He is actually a two-year postdoctoral researcher at the INRETS (French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research), Lille, France. His research concerns color image segmentation (variational and morphological method) with application in vidéo-surveillance (critical event detection, people tracking, passengers counting…) in transport environment.

Arcangelo Merla holds a PhD in advanced biomedical technologies and bioimaging from the University of Chieti (Italy) and a MS (laurea) in physics from the University of Bologna (Italy). His expertise is in the area of biomedical imaging and modelling, with special reference to thermal and infrared imaging. He is the Director of the functional Infrared Imaging Lab at the ITAB - Institute of Advanced Biomedical Technologies at the Foundation University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, and Professor of Applied Physics at the School of Medicine of the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.

Lampros K. Michalis was born in 1960 in Arta, Greece. He graduated with distinction from the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece in 1984. In 1989 he was awarded with Distinction for his MD Thesis from the Athens Medical School, Greece. Since 1995, he has been in the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece, where he is currently a Professor of Cardiology. He is in charge of the Coronary Care Unit and the Catheter Laboratory of the University Hospital of Medical School, Ioannina, Greece. His research interests focus on vibrational angioplasty using guide-wires, bioengineering and interventional cardiology.

Maykel Orozco Monteagudo was graduated with high honors in Computer Sciences from Universidad Central de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba, in 2002. He is a Master of Sciences (Computer Sciences, UCLV, 2006) and he is currently starting his PhD studies. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as professor of Department of Mathematics at UCLV. Then, he joined the Center for Studies in Electronics and Information Technologies at UCLV to work as professor and researcher. His interests are in Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Signal Processing.

Stavroula G. Mougiakakou received the diploma and the PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1997 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, she was with the Greek Ministry of Public Order as Special Consultant in IT projects. Since 2005 she is working as a Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, NTUA. Her research interests include intelligent medical decision support systems, physiological control systems, "artificial pancreas", medical informatics, bioinformatics, and eHealth. She has co-authored 18 papers in refereed international journals and book chapters, more than 40 papers in international conference proceedings and held one patent. She has been involved as technical project manager in several European and National funded R&D projects in the area of biomedical engineering. Dr. Mougiakakou is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Panagiotis Moulos holds a Diploma in Applied Mathematics and Physics, from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Master of Science Degree in Bioinformatics from the Free University of Brussels (ULB). His scientific activities include system biology, bioinformatics with emphasis in microarray analysis, genomics, computational biology. Mr. Moulos is a member the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

Katerina K. Naka was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1971. She graduated with distinction from the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece in 1994. She received the PhD. degree from the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom in 2003. She has completed her training in Cardiology and is currently a Lecturer in Cardiology, in the Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. Her research interests focus on vascular endothelial function, large arterial mechanics, heart failure and bioengineering.

Anrew Nicolaides is Professor Emeritus at Imperial College. He was the Professor of Vascular Surgery at Imperial College School of Medicine and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1983-2000 and Medical Director of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics from 2001-2004. His research group is known internationally in several areas, which include noninvasive vascular screening and diagnostic investigation, early detection and prevention of cardiovascular and venous disease. His research is now directed towards the genetic risk factors and biomarkers for cardiovascular disease (arterial and venous), identification of individuals at risk and the development of effective methods of prevention, especially stroke.

Alexandra Nikita received the M.D. degree from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1993. From 1994 since 1998, she was resident at the 2^nd Department of Radiology, University of Athens, Greece. In 1998, she successfully passed the Greek radiological exams and obtained the title of radiologist. Since May 2000, she works at the University as scientific collaborator at the 2^nd Department of Radiology, University of Athens. She has co-authored 15 papers in refereed international journals and 50 papers in international conference proceedings. She is a member of the Athens Medical Association, the Hellenic Radiological Society, the Cardiovascular Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Konstantina S. Nikita received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering and the PhD. degree from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and the M.D. degree from the Medical School, University of Athens, in 1993. Since 1990, she has been working as a Researcher with the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, NTUA. In 1996, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, where she is currently a Professor. Her current research interests include medical imaging, biomedical signal and image processing and analysis, biomedical informatics, health telematics, simulation of physiological systems, computational bioelectromagnetics, biological effects, and medical applications of electromagnetic waves. She has authored or coauthored 90 papers in refereed international journals and chapters in books, and more than 150 papers in international conference proceedings. She was the coauthor of one book in Greek and the coeditor of one book in English published by Springer. She holds two Greek patents. She has been the Technical Manager with several European and National Research and Development Projects in the field of biomedical engineering. Dr. Nikita is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Athens Medical Association, and the Hellenic Society of Biomedical Engineering. She was the recipient of the 2003 Bodossakis Foundation Academic Prize for exceptional achievements in "Theory and Applications of Information Technology in Medicine."

Marios S. Neofytou received his diploma degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2000 and his PhD. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2007. From 2000 to 2003 he was a research graduate student at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - NTUA, working in the area of Biomedical Engineering in several EU funded research projects (EMERGENCY-112, MEDISIGNAL etc) concerning telemedicine, medical imaging and medical informatics. From 2003-2007, he is the Administrator of the Medical Informatics Laboratory of the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus. He is working in research projects (IPPOKRATHS, CATIA, InteMEDnet etc.) dealing with e-learning, medical imaging and image processing. He has published several journals and conference papers in the fields of telemedicine, medical imaging and medical informatics. Dr. Neofytou is a member of IEEE EMB Society, IEEE Computer Society and the Hellenic society of Biomedical Engineering.

Denis Hernandez Pacheco: was graduated as Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer from Universidad Central de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba, in 2006. Since then, he has been with the Center for Studies in Electronics and Information Technologies at UCLV, working as professor and researcher. His interests are in Programming, and Digital Signal and Image Processing.

Mihalis Panagopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2002. He received his PhD. degree in Computer Engineering from NTUA in 2008. His main research interests involve: Image processing, pattern recognition, curve fitting, finite precision error, biomedical engineering and application of pattern recognition methods and statistics to archeology. He has eight publications in international journals on these subjects.

George Panayiotakis was born in Chania, Greece, in 1956. He received BSc (1979) in Physics and PhD. (1986) in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, Greece. He is professor in the Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece and head of the Medical Radiation Physics Unit at the University Hospital of Patras. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Interdepartmental Program of Postgraduate Studies in Medical Physics, as well as of the Steering Committee of the Interdepartmental Program of Postgraduate Studies in Electronics and Information Processing, both offered by the University of Patras. He is a consultant to the National Food and Drug Administration, Greece. He is a member of the overseas advisor committee of the British Journal of Radiology and reviewer for several international journals. He has published over 160 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and over 200 papers in international conferences. His research interests focus on medical radiation physics, medical imaging, medical image detectors, simulation of medical imaging systems using Monte Carlo techniques, and include medical image processing and analysis.

Constantin Papaodysseus received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and his M.Sc. degree from Manchester University, U.K. He received his PhD. degree in Computer Engineering from NTUA. From 1996 he was an Ass. Professor at NTUA, Dpt. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2001 he is an associate Professor at the same department. His research interests include music and speech processing and automatic recognition, image processing, applied mathematics, quantization error analysis, adaptive algorithms, biomedical engineering, etc. He has more than forty-five publications in international Journals and many publications in international conferences on these subjects.

Katia Passera took her Master degree in Biomedical Engineering on April 2004 at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with a thesis awarded by the Bioengineering National Group. She took the European PhD degree in Bioengineering on June 2008 defending a thesis on image registration and segmentation. She is collaborating with the Department of Imaging Diagnosis and Radiotherapy, National Cancer Institute of Milan. The research topic concerns the registration and elaboration of biomedical images, in particular Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in applications orientated to improve the diagnosis and treatment of tumors.

Constantinos Pattichis is a Professor in the Computer Science department of the University of Cyprus. His current research interests include ehealth, medical imaging, biosignal analysis, and intelligent systems. He has been involved in numerous projects related to health telematics funded by EU, the National Research Foundation of Cyprus, the INTERREG and other bodies, with a total funding managed close to 5 million Euros. He has published 47 refereed journal and 110 conference papers, and 18 chapters in books in these areas. He served as Chairperson of the Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering(96-98), and the IEEE Cyprus Section(98-00). He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Marios S. Pattichis is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Associate Professor with the Department of Radiology at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research interests are in the areas of medical image and video processing, digital image and video models, radar image processing, SIMD, and reconfigurable computer architecture applications. He is an associate editor for Pattern Recognition. At UNM, he received the 2004 ECE distinguished teaching award and the 2006 School of Engineering Harrison Faculty Recognition Award. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Christophe Rosenberger is Full Professor at ENSICAEN, France. He obtained his PhD. degree from the University of Rennes I in 1999. He works at the GREYC Laboratory in the Image Research Unit. His research interests include evaluation of image processing algorithms and biometric systems. He also works on biometric authentication algorithm for e-transactions.

Panayiotis Roussopoulos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1971. He received his Diploma in Physics from the university of Patras in 2002. He has been a PhD. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA since 2002. His research interests and recent work are on the following subjects: applications of information theory to archaeology, image processing, pattern recognition, finite precision error, numerical solutions of differential equations in physics, etc. He has nine publications in international Journals on these subjects.

Alexander Falcon Ruiz: was graduated with high honors as Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer from Universidad Central de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba, in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as professor of Department of Digital Systems at the University of Informatics Sciences, Havana, Cuba. Since then, he works as professor and researcher in the Center for Studies in Electronics and Information Technologies at UCLV. His interests are in Instrumentation, Programming, and Digital Signal Processing.

Valentina Russo received her Laurea degree in Computer Scince from University of Roma Tre (Italy) in the 2006. From 2004 she worked on the development of innovative tools to support the Dynamic Contrast Enhancement analysis cooperating with the Complex System and Security Lab of the University CAMPU Bio-Medico. Actually she is PhD Student in System Engineering at University "La Sapienza" of Rome. Her research interests include development of biomedical systems and automatic image analysis and processing. She is the co-author of 4 scientific papers.

Farhang Sahba received the BSc degree in electronics engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, in 1992, the MS degree in telecommunications from the Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, in 1995, and the PhD. degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2007. He has worked in the area of medical image analysis for several years. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.

Hichem Sahli: received the PhD degree in computer sciences from the Ecole Nationale Sup. De Physique Strasbourg - France in 1991. From 1991-1996, he was attaché de recherche at the Ecole des Mines de Paris. He held visiting professor appointments from 1997 to 1998 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 1999 he is professor at the Dept. of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the VUB, and group-coordinator at the Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum vzw (IMEC). Within ETRO, he coordinates the research team in computer vision, with research fields in inverse problems in computer vision, image and motion analysis, and subsurface imaging.

Roberto Setola received his Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering (1992) and his PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (1996) from the University of Naples. From 1999 to 2004, he worked at the Italian Prime Minister's Office. At present, he is an Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at University CAMPUS Bio-Medico of Roma and lead of the Complex System and Security Lab. His research interests include modelling and control, control of complex systems, surgery robotics, and biomedical systems. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers.

Spyros Skiadopoulos was born in Piraeus, Greece, in 1972. He received BSc (1995) in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and M.Sc. (1997) and PhD. (2003) in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, Greece. He is Medical Radiation Physicist at "Olympion" Hospital of Patras and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras, Greece. His research interests include medical image processing and analysis and medical image quality evaluation methods.

John S. Stoitsis received the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2002, and the M.Sc. and PhD. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Patras in 2004 and 2007, respectively. His research interests include biomedical image and signal processing, medical informatics, computer aided diagnosis and neuroscience. He has authored or co-authored seven papers in international journals and chapters in books, and more than ten papers in international conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Vasilios Tanos received his diploma degree in Medical School of Cyrillus and Methodius University, Skopje, Yugoslavia in 1986, and his PhD degree in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Department of Biochemistry), Human Sciences in 2003. He is a Visiting Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in the Ioannina University, the Faculty of Medicine and a Visiting Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Faculty of Medicine, in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has worked in several European and local funded project such as IPPOKRATHS, CATIA, TeleGYN etc. He has several publications in international journals and conferences. He is working in the ARETAEION Hospital, Nicosia where he is the director of the gynaecology clinic.

Ricky Taira received a PhD in biomedical physics in 1988 from UCLA and is currently a Professor of Radiological Sciences. His past research interests have included development of picture archive and communication systems (PACS), medical knowledge bases (the KMeD project), and currently, natural language processing of medical corpora and formal ontological representations of disease entities.

Evanthia E. Tripoliti was born in Chios, Greece, in 1978. She received the Diploma Degree from the Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2001 and the MS Degree in the area of Technology and Applications in the Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2003. She is currently working toward the Ph. D Degree at the Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina. Since 1999, she has been with the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Computer Science University of Ioannina, Greece and her research interests include digital processing of medical images (MRI, fMRI, DTI).

Kiki Theodorou received her Bachelor degree in Physics in 1994, a Masters degree in Medical Physics in 1996 and her PhD in Medical Physics in 1999. She is an Assistant Professor in the Medical School at the University of Thessaly, in Medical Physics and Medical Informatics. Her main research interests are focused on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Processing, High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Monte Carlo Simulations in Radiation Dosimetry.

George Theodoropoulos is an Associate Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Anatomy & Physiology of Domestic Animals. He received his Diploma of Veterinary Medicine from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1979) and his M.Sc. degree in Veterinary Pathology (Veterinary Parasitology) from the Iowa State University (1984). He received his PhD. degree in Comparative Pathology, from the University of California, Davis (1988). His research interests include host-parasite interactions, epidemiology of parasites, multimedia computer systems in Veterinary Medicine, etc. He has more than forty-five publications in international Journals and many publications in international conferences on these subjects.

Dimitrios G. Tsalikakis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1977. He is a researcher at the Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems and external lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He received the Diploma degree in Mathematics from the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2001 and the PhD degree in computation electrophysiology from the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2006. His research interests include cardiac modeling, monophasic action potential analysis, automated systems analysis, virtual instrumentation, computational electrophysiology, spatial extended cardiac models, phase resetting techniques and scientific computing. He has published several papers in refereed journals and international conferences.

Manolis Tsiknakis received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering, in 1983, the M.Sc. degree in microprocessor engineering, in 1985, and the PhD. degree in control systems engineering from the University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K., in 1989. Since 1992, he has been with the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, where he is currently a Principal Researcher in many collaborative R&D projects, the Head of the Center of eHealth Technologies, and the technical coordinator of the development of HYGEIAnet, the regional health information network of Crete. He is the initiator and Co-Chair of the ERCIM Biomedical Informatics Working Group. His current research interests include biomedical informatics, component-based software engineering, biomedical information integration, ambient intelligence in eHealth and mHealth service platforms, and IT adoption related issues.

Ioannis Tsougos received his Bachelor degree in Physics in 1998, a Masters degree in Medical Physics in 2001 and his PhD in Medical Physics and Radiation Biology in 2005. His current position is a lecturer with tenure in the Medical School at the University of Thessaly, in Medical Physics and Radiobiology. His main research interests are focused on in vivo Radiation Dosimetry and Radiation Biology, Nuclear Imaging and High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Andreas Uhl is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Sciences (University of Salzburg) where he heads the Multimedia Processing and Security Lab. His research interests include image and video processing and compression, wavelets, media security, medical imaging, biometrics, and number-theoretical numerics.

Andreas Vécsei graduated (Dr. med. univ.) at the University of Vienna. His post-graduate training in Austria and Kerala (India) made him receive his license to practice general pediatrics (Facharzt für Kinderund Jugendheilkunde). After having been instructed in pediatric gastroenterology according to the syllabus of GPGE (Gesellschaft für pädiatrische Gastroenterologie und Ernährung; an association of German-speaking pediatric gastroenterologists) at the Medical University of Vienna and Munich, he received his certificate in 2006. Since 2006 he is in charge of the Endoscopy Unit of the St. Anna Children's Hospital, Vienna. His current research interests include Helicobacter pylori infection, celiac disease and computer-assisted evaluation of endoscopic images including the assessment of villous atrophy on endoscopic examination of the small intestine.

Ioannis K. Valavanis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1980. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece and his Master degree in 2006 from University of Athens, Greece. He is currently a PhD student at the laboratory of Biomedical Simulations and Medical Imaging (BIOSIM) at NTUA. His research interests include medical image processing, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence methods and their application in biological and medical data. He has co-authored more than ten papers in international journals or conferences. Mr. Valavanis is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Marotesa Voultsidou received a Diploma in Physics from the University of Crete at Heraklion, Greece, 1997. In 1999 she receive her Master degree also in Physics. In 2006 she received her PhD form the Department of Physics at the University of Crete. Her research interests include dynamical systems, graph theory and neural modeling.

Friedrich Wrba is professor of Pathology at the Department of Clinical Pathology of the University of Vienna. After training as a general practitioner in various Austrian hospitals he started his special training in clinical Pathology, which he finished successfully at the Department of Clinical Pathology at the University of Vienna in the year 1987. In 1990-1992 he spent 2.5 years as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London, England, (Walter Bodmers laboratory). Since 1991 he is lecturer and Professor of Pathology, and staff member of the department. His areas of special interest are gastroenterology, hepatology, and molecular pathology.

M. Zervakis holds a PhD degree from the University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering, since 1990. He joined the Technical University of Crete on January 1995, where he is currently full professor at the department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. Prof. Zervakis is the director of the Digital Image and Signal Processing Laboratory (DISPLAY) and is involved in research on modern aspects of signal processing, including estimation and constrained optimization, multi-channel and multi-band signal processing, wavelet analysis for data/image processing and compression, biomedical imaging applications, neural networks and fuzzy logic in automation applications.