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  • Categorical assessment of depression based on high level features.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Vazakopoulou, Kalliopi-Marina
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2018-04-17
    Depression is one of the leading causes of ill health and disability worldwide. In the US nearly 50 million people were living with depression in 2015. According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organization ...
  • Categorical assessment of depression based on low level features.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Maridaki, Anna
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2018-06-01
    Mental illness is a disease which usually causes behavior disturbances. Nowadays, mental disorders are commonplace, affecting a large number of people. There are more than 200 forms of mental illness. Depression, bipolar ...
  • Development of a web-based platform for cognitive training.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Tsichlaki, Styliani
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2019-05-21
    In this thesis, a web-based platform for cognitive training was developed, as a tool for a) the training of cognitive functionality of high-risk individuals or individual facing early Mild Cognitive Impairment (eMCI), ...
  • e-Questionnaire platform (ON-Surveys).

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Nika, Olympia
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Businesses and researchers across industries are conducting research with the use of surveys to investigate answers of specific questions related to one or more topics. These questions usually cover a wide range of areas ...
  • Estimating human activity patterns in dynamic environments based on smart, wearable sensors : a feasibility study.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Chatzaki, Charikleia
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2016-07-15
    The demands for understanding human activities have steadily grown in recent years in the health-care domain, especially in elder care support, rehabilitation assistance, diabetes, cognitive disorders, assisting living and ...
  • An extensible computational framework for the management and analysis of wellness data in an Android environment.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Kasapakis, Adamantios
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2017-11-20
    Modern lifestyle leads to increases inactivity in populations around the world, causing health problems, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, often related to premature death and an increasing financial ...
  • Ontology-based search engine with speech recognition.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Kyriakakis, Alexandros
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2019-03-12
    Searching for data throughout the internet is not always an easy task. The reason for that is that the internet is flooded with data and the most common searching techniques often fail to provide the best possible results ...
  • Pathway analysis for ChIP-seq data.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Atsalaki, Xanthoula
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2018-01-22
    With the completion of the human genome sequence, attention turned to identifying and annotating its functional DNA elements and the interactions among them through different phenotypes. Epigenetics is a field of biology ...
  • Signal processing methods for the estimation of physiological parameters from optical recordings.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Christinaki, Eirini
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2017-01-16
    Monitoring of physiological signals of an individual via remote and contactless means is an important scientific challenge, whose resolution will enable the development of novel, non-intrusive mHealth and wellness-management ...
  • Wellness management and positive psychology app for smartphone platforms.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Strataki, Evangelia
    Thesis advisor: Akoumianakis, Dimosthenis; Kalaitzaki, Argyroula; Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    This thesis describes the development of an Android application called “BeHappier”. The objective of the “BeHappier” app is to help individuals to improve their well-being and increase their life satisfaction. The “BeHappier” ...
  • Android application for monitoring sleep patterns.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Aivaliotis, Anastasios
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2019-05-13
    The thesis aims to develop a mobile application capable to identify sleep stages. This application was developed using Android Studio and can be installed on Android devices. During sleep the user wears a device that can ...
  • Human activity recognition using smartphones.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Malliotakis, Theodoros
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2017-02-20
    Many countries are facing an increasing elderly population. Consistently low birth rates and higher life expectancy is transforming the shape of the EU-28’s age pyramid; probably the most important change will be the marked ...
  • Emotion recognition from facial expressions.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Bolarakis, Panagiotis
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2017-03-23
    Psychologist Paul Ekman, after extensive research on the facial expressions made in different populations around the world, concluded that six basic emotions are universal, meaning that they are understood and globally ...
  • Driver's drowsiness detection through eye characteristics from video.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Asargiotakis, Konstantinos
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 14-10-2015
    Nowadays that the car accidents lead to a large number of annual deaths, the safety of the driver and passengers is a major issue. An important proportion of these accidents is due to the drivers’ fatigue from the everyday ...
  • Video-based fall detection.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Gianni, Stavroula-Niki; Pipeli, Eleni
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 30-10-2015
    Falls are one of the greatest causes of accidents for elderly people that can result in limited activity or even death. The purpose of this thesis is the development of a video-based fall detection system. For this purpose, ...
  • Dynamic statistical view of the usage of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) through web technologies.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Medical Systems Technology EUP
    Authors: Kourakis, Georgios
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 29-02-2008
    It is a report which includes the medical protocol DICOM and the creation of a web page, that gives the opportunity to the users to obtain statistics from the databases of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) ...
  • Export cognitive processes information via electroencephalography

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Grigoriadis, Dimitrios
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2016-06-28
    This work studies the effect of stress/anxiety states on EEG signals during one-minute music video sessions. The emotion induced to each subject while watching each video is represented and projected to arousal and valence ...
  • Exploring eye activity as an indication of emotional state.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), PPS in Informatics and Multimedia
    Authors: Tzedakis, Charalampos
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 2016-10-31
    The human eye allows vision but also reflects mood, emotional state, mental and physical condition. Εye activity and behavior reflected in pupil size, gaze direction, eyelid motion or eye opening are affected by states of ...
  • E-health application for patients' observation using smart phones.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Vavoulas, Georgios
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 07-09-2014
    Currently, recognizing human activities is an important research topic; it is exploited widely and applied to many fields in real-life, especially health care or context aware applications. Research achievements are mainly ...
  • Organizational and operational models of e-Health: Field research on best practices.

    T.E.I. of Crete, School of Engineering (STEF), Department of Informatics Engineering
    Authors: Kostas, Michail
    Thesis advisor: Tsiknakis, Emmanouil
    Publication Date: 26-11-2013
    The internet has changed things dramatically for everyone involved. The ability of consumers to find and buy products, services or information online and the ability of businesses to use global connectivity, and reach new ...