Heatwave 1987: the Piraeus Athens case.

Background: Heatwaves represent the main indices of climate change, while mortality is one of the established markers of their human effects. For unknown reasons populations adapt to temperature variations/challenges differently. Thus, to allow better precision and prediction, heatwave evaluations should be enriched by historical context and local data.

2D Anatomical Structure for COVID-19 Medical Images.

For many clinical goals like surgical planning and radiotherapy treatment planning is necessary to understand the anatomical structures of the organ that is targeted. At the same time the 2D/3D shape of the organ is important to be reconstructed for the benefit of the doctors. For that reason, accurate segmentation techniques must be proposed to overcome the big data medical image storage problem.

Motion Shield: An Automatic Notifications System for Vehicular Communications.

Motion Shield is an automatic crash notification system that uses a mobile phone to generate automatic alerts related to the safety of a user when the user is boarding a means of transportation. The objective of Motion Shield is to improve road safety by considering a moving vehicle's risk, estimating the probability of an emergency, and assessing the likelihood of an accident. The system, using multiple sources of external information, the mobile phone sensors' readings, geolocated information, weather data, and historical evidence of traffic accidents, processes a plethora of parameters in order to predict the onset of an accident and act preventively.

Epidemiological Analysis of the Covid-19 Epidemic in Greece.

During the last months the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) has been recognized as a global threat. Transmission of the infection has rapidly increased in Europe as well as in Greece, living behind a huge number of deaths. During this situation an analysis of the spread of the disease must be undertaken and characteristics of the virus must be recognized.

Correction: Diverse radiofrequency sensitivity and radiofrequency effects of mobile or cordless phone near fields exposure in Drosophila melanogaster.

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The Role of Metoprolol and Enalapril in the Prevention of Doxorubicin-induced Cardiotoxicity in Lymphoma Patients.

Background/aim: Anthracyclines, such as doxorubicin, though widely used in anticancer therapy, they are associated with cardiotoxic side-effects. The aim of this trial was to investigate long-term follow-up cardiotoxicity findings in patients treated with doxorubicin and concomitant metoprolol or enalapril 10 years earlier.

Patients And Methods: Overall, 147 patients were randomized into the treatment arms.

An Epidemiological Analysis for H1N1 Infection.

During the last years the dependence of inflections have been increased, especially the infection H1N1, in Europe as well as in Greece. Especially the last 2 years (2017-2018) the percentage of spreading is still significant. For the analysis of the impact's diseases in population during these periods, epidemiological indexes have been introduced.

Survival Models in Computer Virus.

During the communication between various computer system parts under a basic unit various threats can appear causing different damages into the system. The spreading of the computer virus into the system must be investigated under modeling analysis and simulations must be applied. In this work survival analysis models have been introduced to overcome the problem with the computer virus.

Computer Virus Models - The Susceptible Infected Removed (SIR) Model.

The healthcare domain requires security against possible threats, such as viruses to defend the integrity of the health and patient records. During the system analysis, different parts of the sub systems are connected under a main system. Under these connections into the Internet, malicious programs are spread into the system network and damages to vital information have been appearing.

SSEv: A New Small Samples Evaluator Based on Modified Survival Curves.

Rare diseases, either of genetic or epigenetic origin, either proliferative or degenerative, are hard to be studied credibly, because of sparse prevalence, thus, small sampling. In addition, biological or translational experimentation either with animal models, or in vitro studies share small sampling-often due to lack of financial support or due to mannered and costly techniques. Pilot or feasibility studies been performed, before expensive clinical trials are decided, focus on small samples.

Relational Algebra in Spatial Decision Support Systems Ontologies.

Decision Support Systems (DSS) is a powerful tool, for facilitates researchers to choose the correct decision based on their final results. Especially in medical cases where doctors could use these systems, to overcome the problem with the clinical misunderstanding. Based on these systems, queries must be constructed based on the particular questions that doctors must answer.

Investigation of the Impact of Extracting and Exchanging Health Information by Using Internet and Social Networks.

Introduction: Social networks (1) have been embedded in our daily life for a long time. They constitute a powerful tool used nowadays for both searching and exchanging information on different issues by using Internet searching engines (Google, Bing, etc.) and Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter etc.

Examine Trustiness of Medical Information Through Social Networks Using Path Models.

Social networks provide an alternative way to communicate and exchange of information with various people. Especially for Health Care Professionals, information ought to be exchanged and shared between individuals for diagnosis and proposed therapies. In this research, the important sources of medical information that people trust, through the exchange of information on social networks, were analyzed based on the perceived information quality using path models.

A Decision Support System Platform for Spatial Epidemiology.

A wide range of health care systems have been implemented, to support medical opinions, which are defined as Decision Support Systems. In this work a pilot information system was developed based on patients health records data combined with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology, which could be used as an advisor in cases where epidemiological diseases are taking place.

Diverse radiofrequency sensitivity and radiofrequency effects of mobile or cordless phone near fields exposure in Drosophila melanogaster.

Introduction: The impact of electromagnetic fields on health is of increasing scientific interest. The aim of this study was to examine how the Drosophila melanogaster animal model is affected when exposed to portable or mobile phone fields.

Methods/results: Two experiments have been designed and performed in the same laboratory conditions.

Epidemiological Indexes in Healthcare based on Social Cost Factors.

Hospital healthcare the last dictate becomes an important subject for analysis which includes factors such as epidemiological indexes and many others like Surgical, Economic, Organizational, Structural issues necessary for the overall evaluation of the general hospital performance. The social cost includes the private cost, the public expenditures and the external cost affecting the society at large from an incoming event, a current action and / or a policy change. For that reason, the calculation of these social costs over time (t) could be defined as a social measure to dictate the variability of social indicators on society.

The use of geographical information system in health sector.

The provision of health care has undergone radical changes during the last years. Geography plays an important role in understanding the dynamics of health, as well as the reasons why a disease is spreading. In general, a Geographic Information System (GIS) is based on the same principals with a traditional relational database.

The presence of asthma, the use of inhaled steroids, and parental education level affect school performance in children.

Objective: Childhood asthma is a frequent cause of absenteeism that affects school performance. We aimed to investigate the impact of asthma on absenteeism and school performance level of elementary and high school students.

Methods: Data about sociodemographics, absenteeism, and academic achievement were obtained from 1539 students attending 98 schools in Greece.

Epidemiological factors affecting "hepatitis C".

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease affecting the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can progress to scarring of the liver (fibrosis), and advanced scarring (cirrhosis) which is generally apparent after many years. The main goal of this work is the investigation of the important factors that affect hepatitis C.

Healthcare Information Systems for the epidemiologic surveillance within the community.

Public health and health care are important issues for developing countries and access to health care is a significant factor that contributes to a healthy population. In response to these issues, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been working on the development of methods and models for measuring physical accessibility to health care using several layers of information integrated in a GIS. This paper describes the methodological approach for the development of a real time electronic health record, based on the statistical and geographic information for the identification of various diseases and accidents that can happen in a specific place.

Calculating the social cost of illegal drugs: a theoretical approach.

The use of illegal drugs generates a wide range of social harms depending on various ways, according to the policy definition of the problem. The challenge is the way to model the impact of illegal drugs use during a long time period considering the factors that affects the process. Based on these models, estimation could be measured and prediction could be achieved.

Interactive tele-radiological segmentation systems for treatment and diagnosis.

Telehealth is the exchange of health information and the provision of health care services through electronic information and communications technology, where participants are separated by geographic, time, social and cultural barriers. The shift of telemedicine from desktop platforms to wireless and mobile technologies is likely to have a significant impact on healthcare in the future. It is therefore crucial to develop a general information exchange e-medical system to enables its users to perform online and offline medical consultations through diagnosis.

Cardioprotective effect of metoprolol and enalapril in doxorubicin-treated lymphoma patients: a prospective, parallel-group, randomized, controlled study with 36-month follow-up.

Anthracyclines have contributed to a marked increase in survival in different types of cancer [1,2]. Unfortunately, they are associated with dose-dependent cardiotoxicity and heart failure (HF) [3–8]. Change to a weekly dosage schedule with slow infusions has been tested, a strategy that requires more frequent hospital visits and increased storage resources[7,9].

Segmentation of transitional cell carcinoma nuclei by nonsupervised thresholding in different color spaces.

Objective: To develop a method for nonsupervised thresholding of transitional cell carcinoma nuclei of hematoxylin-eosin-stained histologic sections.

Study Design: For grayscale, RGB, HSL and L*a*b* thresholding we used an extension of a clustering method, based on a between-class/within-class criterion, applying optimal gray-level thresholding to distributions of R, G, B, or H and S or L* color domains. Algorithms were tested on 20 hematoxylin-eosin-stained sections of bladder carcinomas.