Publications
2020
Fereshteh Yousefi Rizi, Jason Au, Heikki Yli-Ollila, Spyretta Golemati, Monika Makūnaitė, Maciej Orkisz, Nassir Navab, Maureen MacDonald, Tiina Marja Laitinen, Hamid Behnam, Zhifan Gao, Aimilia Gastounioti, Rytis Jurkonis, Didier Vray, Tomi Laitinen, André Sérusclat, Konstantina S. Nikita, Guillaume Zahnd. “Carotid Wall Longitudinal Motion in Ultrasound Imaging: An Expert Consensus Review”. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2020.
2015
Aimilia Gastounioti, Makrodimitris, Stavros, Spyretta Golemati, Nikolaos P.E. Kadoglou, Christos D. Liapis, Konstantina S Nikita. “A novel computerized tool to stratify risk in carotid atherosclerosis using kinematic features of the arterial wall”. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform, vol. 19, 2015.
Golemati, S, Lehareas, S, Chatziioanou, A, Perrea, D N, Aimilia Gastounioti, Nikita, K S. “Variation of longitudinal strain along the arterial wall adjacent to the asymptomatic carotid plaque”. Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2015 IEEE International, 2015.
2014
Nikolaos P.E. Kadoglou, Vaia Lambadiari, Aimilia Gastounioti, Christos Gkekas, Triantafyllos G. Giannakopoulos, Katerina Koulia, Eirini Maratou, Maria Alepaki, John D. Kakisis, Petros Karakitsos, Konstantina S Nikita, George Dimitriadis, Christos D. Liapis. “The relationship of novel adipokines, RBP4 and omentin-1, with carotid atherosclerosis severity and vulnerability”. Atherosclerosis, vol. 235, pp. 606 - 612, 2014.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Vassileios D Kolias, Spyretta Golemati, Nikolaos N Tsiaparas, Aikaterini Matsakou, John S Stoitsis, Nikolaos P.E. Kadoglou, Christos Gkekas, John D. Kakisis, Christos D. Liapis, Petros Karakitsos, Sarafis, Ioannis, Angelidis, Pantelis, Konstantina S Nikita. “CAROTID: A web-based platform for optimal personalized management of atherosclerotic patients”. Computers Method and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 114, pp. 183 - 193, 2014.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Marios Prevenios, Konstantina S Nikita. “Using spatiotemporal patterns of the arterial wall to assist treatment selection for carotid atherosclerosis”. MICCAI, 2014.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Sofia Douma, Vassileios D Kolias, Konstantina S. Nikita. “A Toolbox for in Silico Evaluation of Motion Estimators for the Arterila Wall”. EMBC 2014, 2014.
Spyretta Golemati, Aimilia Gastounioti, Konstantina S Nikita, Nikolaos N Tsiaparas. “Bilateral Asymmetry of Ultrasound-Image-Based Mechanical and Textural Features in Subjects with Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Disease”. IEEE-EMBS International Conferences on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014.
2013
Spyretta Golemati, Aimilia Gastounioti, Konstantina S Nikita. “Toward novel noninvasive and low-cost markers for predicting strokes in asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis: the role of ultrasound image analysis”. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, pp. 652-658, 2013.
Nikolaos N Tsiaparas, Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Konstantina S Nikita. “Multiscale motion analysis of the carotid artery wall from B-mode ultrasound: investigating the optimal wavelet parameterization”. 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE 2013), 2013.
2012
Spyretta Golemati, John S Stoitsis, Aimilia Gastounioti, Alexandros C Dimopoulos, Koropouli, Vassiliki, Konstantina S Nikita. “Comparison of Block Matching and Differential Methods for Motion Analysis of the Carotid Artery Wall From Ultrasound Images.”. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 16, pp. 852-858, 2012.
Spyretta Golemati, Apostolakis, I Z, Aimilia Gastounioti, Nikolaos N Tsiaparas, Konstantina S Nikita. “Using optical flow and multiscale image analysis to produce displacement and strain maps of the healthy and diseased arterial wall”. RSNA 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, 2012.
Apostolakis, I Z, Spyretta Golemati, Aimilia Gastounioti, Konstantina S Nikita. “Ultrasound-image-based displacement and strain maps of the human carotid artery using weighted-least-squares optical flow”. IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 2012.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Konstantina S Nikita. “Computerized analysis of ultrasound images: potential associations between texture and motion properties of the diseased arterial wall”. EEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 2012.
2011
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, John S Stoitsis, Konstantina S Nikita. “Comparison of Kalman-filter-based approaches for block matching in arterial wall motion analysis from B-mode ultrasound”. Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 22, 2011.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Nikolaos N Tsiaparas, Konstantina S Nikita. “Multiscale block matching for carotid artery wall motion estimation from B-mode ultrasound”. 7th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2011.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, Nikolaos N Tsiaparas, John S Stoitsis, Konstantina S Nikita. “Multiscale approach for weighted least-squares optical flow for estimating arterial wall displacements”. 10th IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Engineering (10th BioEng), 2011.
Aimilia Gastounioti, Nikolaos N Tsiaparas, Spyretta Golemati, John S Stoitsis, Konstantina S Nikita. “Affine optical flow combined with multiscale image analysis for motion estimation of the arterial wall from B-mode ultrasound”. 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC{\textquoteright}11), 2011.
2010
Aimilia Gastounioti, Spyretta Golemati, John S Stoitsis, Konstantina S Nikita. “Kalman-Filter-Based Block Matching for Arterial Wall Motion Estimation from B-Mode Ultrasound”. IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 2010.