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CURRICULUM VITAE



 

 

Name: Eleni Zacharia

Email : eezachariadi.uoa.gr

 

Current Position

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Computational Biomedicine Lab, University of Huston, USA.

Education

2006 -  2009: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
2004 - 2006: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Signal Processing and Multimedia, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
2000 - 2004: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Journals

  1. S. Katsigiannis, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, MIGS-GPU Microarray Image Gridding and Segmentation on the GPU. Accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2016.
  2. S. Katsigiannis, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, Grow-Cut Based Automatic cDNA Microarray Image Segmentation, IEEE Trans. on NanoBioscience, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 138-145, 2015.
  3. E. Kostopoulou, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, An Effective Approach for Detection and Segmentation of Protein Spots on 2-D Gel Images, IEEE J. Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 67-76, 2014 [pdf]
  4. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "3D Spot-Modeling for Automatic Segmentation of Microarray Images," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 181-192, 2010. [pdf]
  5. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "An Original Genetic Approach to the Fully-Automatic Gridding of Microarray Images", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 27, no.6, pp. 805-813, June 2008. [pdf] [pdf]

Book Chapters

  1. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "A Spot Modeling Evolutionary Algorithm for Segmenting Microarray Images" (Chapter 24), Evolutionary Algorithms, Eisuke Kita (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-171-8, InTech, pp. 459 - 480, 2011. (invited) [pdf]
  2. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "Advanced evolutionary algorithms for intelligent microarray image analysis", Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 4th edition, Edited by Prof. Chi Chen, World Scientific, Chapter 4.6, pp. 557-577, 2010 (invited). [pdf]

International Conferences

  1. E. Zacharia, E. Kostopoulou, D. Maroulis, N. P. Anagnou, K. I. Pappa, 2D-GE spot detection combining multidirectional texture and spatial intensity cues, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) 2013: 1-4 [pdf]
  2. E.A. Mylona, M.A. Savelonas, E. Zacharia, C. Pattichis, D. Maroulis, "Unsupervised Level Set Parameterization Using Multi-Scale Filtering," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Santorini, Greece, 2013. [pdf]
  3. S. Katsigiannis, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, “Enhancing the Performance of a Microarray Gridding Algorithm via GPU Computing Techniques”,13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), Chania, Greece, 2013. (Best Student Paper Award)
  4. E. Kostopoulou, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, A. Vlahou,"2D-GE image analysis focusing on elimination of spurious spots,” , in Proc of the International Conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR), Japan, 2012 [pdf]
  5. E. Kostopoulou, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "Accurate Segmentation of 2D-PAGE Images," in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Bucharest, Romania, August 27-31, 2012. [pdf]
  6. E. Kostopoulou, E. Zacharia and D. Maroulis, "Detection and Segmentation in 2D Gel Electrophoresis Images", in Proc of the 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Corfu, Greece, 2011. [pdf]
  7. E. Zacharia, E. Kostopoulou, D. Maroulis and S. Kossida, "A Spot Segmentation Approach for 2D Gel Electrophoresis Images Based on 2D Histograms", in Proc of the 20th International Conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010. [pdf]
  8. E. Zacharia, and D. Maroulis, "Microarray Image Segmentation using Spot's Morphological Model", Proc. IEEE 9th International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2009. [pdf]
  9. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "Microarray Image Analysis based on an Evolutionary Approach", in Proc of the 19th International Conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, USA, 2008. [pdf]
  10. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "Microarray Image Gridding via an Evolutionary Algorithm", in Proc. of IEEE Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1444-1447, San Diego, California, 2008. [pdf]
  11. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "A precise and Automatic Gridding Approach to Noise-Affected and Distorted Microarray Images", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), pp. 605-607 , Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2008. [pdf]
  12. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "An Unsupervised and Fully-Automated image Analysis Method for cDNA Microarrays", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) , pp. 389-394 , Maribor, Slovenia, 2007. [pdf]
  13. D.K. Iakovidis , D. Maroulis, E. Zacharia and S. Kossida, "A Genetic Approach to Spot Detection in two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis images", in Proc. Of International Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine (ITAB) , Ioannina, Greece, Oct 2006. [pdf]

Greek Conferences

  1. E. Zacharia, E. Kostopoulou, D. Maroulis, I. Zoidakis, N.P. Anagnou, K.I. Pappa, "Αυτόματη Επεξεργασία Εικόνων Δισδιάστατης Ηλεκτροφορησης", 40ο Ετήσιο Πανελλήνιο Ιατρικό Συνέδριο, Αθήνα, 2014
  2. E. Kostopoulou, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "Segmentation of 2D‐Gel Electrophoresis Images", 5th Panhellenic Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Athens, Greece, 2013 [pdf]
  3. E. Kostopoulou, E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "Contribution of 2D Gel Image Processing in Proteomics Field", 14th Panhellenic Conference of the Greek Physicists Union, Kamena Vourla, Greece, 2012.
  4. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, S.Kossida, "An unsupervised spot detection algorithm for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis images", in Proc. of 2nd hellenic Proteomics Society Conference, Vol. 4, no. 4, pp.290-291, Crete, Greece, 2007.
  5. E. Zacharia, D. Maroulis, "A genetic approach to cDNA Microarray image Analysis", in Proc. of 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, Vol. 2, pp.383-392 , Patras, Greece, 2007. [pdf]