Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Ioannina School of Engineering
 
 
foto-header
You are here: Home > Department > Personnel > Visiting professors > L. Athanasiou
PHOTO Lambros Athanasiou
Visiting Professor

LOCATION Administration Building, 1st floor, Office Β205
EMAIL lmathanas@uoi.gr
PHONE (+30)-265100-7534 (Office)
WEB Google Scholar
Short CV
Academic Titles
Educational & Professional Experience
Teaching Activities in the Department
Research Interests
Representative Publications

Academic Titles
  • B.Eng. & MSc (integrated master) Major: Computer Engineer, Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece, (2009)
  • Ph.D. - Field: Medical Image Processing and Machine Learning, Unit of Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, University of Ioannina (UOI), Ioannina, Greece (2015)
Educational & Professional Experience
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina (2024-today).
  • Sr. Scientist, Canon Medical, Cambridge, MA, USA, January (2023-2024).
  • Research Collaborator, Center for Advanced Technologies Image Guided Therapy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (2023-2024).
  • Sr. Scientist, Healthcare Optics Research Laboratory, Canon U.S.A. Cambridge, MA, USA (2020- 2022).
  • Visiting Scientist, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (2021- 2022).
  • Scientist, Healthcare Optics Research Laboratory, Canon U.S.A, Cambridge, MA, USA (2019- 2020).
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA (2019).
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (2019).
Teaching Activities in the Department
  • ETY 103 Math I, 1st Semester
  • ETE 601 Complex analysis, 6th Semester
  • ETE 819 Computational Modeling in Biomedical Technology, 10th Semester
Research Interests
  • Medical Imaging (ultrasound, Χ Rays, computed/magnetic tomography, optical imaging, molecular imaging)
  • Image Processing and Machine Learning
  • Three-dimensional Imaging and Modeling
  • Flow Dynamics
  • Patient-Specific Modeling
Representative Publications
  • Books
  • L. S. Athanasiou, D. I. Fotiadis, and L. K. Michalis, Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization Methods Based on Coronary Imaging. Elsevier Science, 2017.
  • Book chapters
  • E. R. Edelman, L. S. Athanasiou, and F. R. Nezami, “Endovascular Implants,” in McDonald's Blood Flow in Arteries, 2022.
  • F. R. Nezami, L. S. Athanasiou, and E. R. Edelman, “Endovascular drug-delivery and drug-elution systems,” in Biomechanics of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque, 2021.
  • A. S. Rammos, C. V Bourantas, A. I. Sakellarios, L. S. Athanasiou, K. K. Naka, D. I. Fotiadis, and L. K. Michalis, “3D Reconstruction of Coronary Anatomy Using Invasive Imaging Modalities: Methods, Applications and Challenges,” in 3D Reconstruction: Methods, Applications and Challenges, K. B. Jim Ashworth, Ed. Nova Science Pub Inc, 2013.
  • L. Athanasiou, N. Bruining, F. Prati, and D. Koutsouris, “Optical Coherence Tomography: Basic Principles of Image Acquisition,” in Intravascular Imaging: Current Applications and Research Developments, IGI Global, pp. 180–194, 2011.
  • A. A. Sakellarios, C. V Bourantas, L. S. Athanasiou, D. I. Fotiadis, and L. K. Michalis, “IVUS Image Processing Methodologies,” in Intravascular Imaging: Current Applications and Research Developments, IGI Global, pp. 36–54, 2011
  • Patents
  • L. Athanasiou, “Real-time lumen distance calculation based on three-dimensional (3d) a-line signal data,” US Patent 11,922,633, 2024.
  • M. Kunio and L. Athanasiou, Devices, systems and methods for detecting external elastic lamina (EEL) from intravascular OCT images, US Patent 12,076,118, 2024.
  • L. Athanasiou, Systems and methods for endovascular device detection and apposition measurement, US Patent 11,779,277, 2022.
  • L. Athanasiou, MA Hamm, and CD Brushett, Intravascular Pressure Sensing Using Inner Sheath, US20230363652A1, 2023.
  • M. L. Olender, L. Athanasiou, and Elazer R Edelman, “Arterial wall characterization in optical coherence tomography imaging,” US Patent US11122981B2, 2021.
  • Journals
  • H. GM, K. Mori, S. Verma, and Lambros Athanasiou, “Machine learning applications in breast cancer prediction using mammography”, Image and Vision Computing, 2024.
  • M. L. Olender, L. S Athanasiou, L. K Michalis, D. I Fotiadis, and E. Edelman, “A Domain Enriched Deep Learning Approach to Classify Atherosclerosis using Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2020.
  • L. Athanasiou, F. Rikhtegar, and E. R. Edelman, “Hemodynamic consequences of a multilayer flow modulator in aortic dissection”, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2019.
  • L. Athanasiou, F. Rikhtegar, and E. R. Edelman, “Computational Cardiology”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, (position paper) 2018.
  • L. S. Athanasiou, C. V Bourantas, G. Rigas, A. Sakellarios, T. Exarchos, K. G. Siogas, A. Ricciardi, K. K. Naka, M. I. Papafaklis, L. K. Michalis, F. Prati, and D. I. Fotiadis, “Methodology for fully automated segmentation and plaque characterization in intracoronary optical coherence tomography images,” J. Biomed. Opt., vol. 19, no. 2, p. 26009, 2014.
  • Peer Reviewed Conference Publications
  • H. GM, K. Mori, S. Verma, and Lambros Athanasiou, “The influence of image cropping sizes on mammographic breast cancer classification using CNN”, IEEE 23rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2023.
  • L. Athanasiou, C. D. Brushett, K. Watanabe, D. Yamada, E. C. Chernich, S. Verma, and T. Honda, “Intracoronary near infrared autofluorescence signal calibration”, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2020.
  • A. Gowrishankar, L. Athanasiou, M. Olender, and E. Edelman, “Neural Network Training Data Profoundly Impacts Texture-Based Intravascular Image Segmentation”, IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2019.
  • M. L. Olender, L. S. Athanasiou, M. José, E. Ben-Assa, and E. R. Edelman, “Simultaneous Multi-Surface Fitting for Vessel Wall Layer Delineation”, IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), 2019.
  • L. Athanasiou, M. L. Olender, J. M de la Torre Hernández, E. Ben-Assa, and E. R. Edelman, “ A deep learning approach to classify atherosclerosis using intracoronary optical coherence tomography”, SPIE Medical Imaging 2019.
Page-end