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Athanasios Tsanas

Athanasios Tsanas

Athanasios Tsanas

B.Sc., B.Eng., M.Sc., D.Phil.

  • EPSRC post-doctoral researcher

Personal Web Page

eMail: Athanasios [dot] Tsanas [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
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Phone Number(s):

Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 615136

Office: DH45

Departmental Address:

Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England

Research Interests: 

Signal Processing

Statistical Machine Learning

Time Series Analysis

Mathematical Physiology & Systems Modelling

Prizes, Awards and Scholarships: 

  • Hellenic Medical Society, UK (2011)

    Shortlisted in the final six candidates for the Papanikolaou prize. Typically medical doctors and biologists are selected, but I successfully made a case to be considered for the award.

  • St. Cross college, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (2011)

    Andrew Goudie student recognition award in the field of Academics. The award is given "in recognition of outstanding achievement".

  • University of Oxford, Oxford UK (2008-2012)

    EPSRC Scholarship with additional industrial funding from Intel Corporation for the DPhil

  • Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK (2007-2008)

    CTA Scholarship (tuition fees+£7,000 living expenses) for the M.Sc. in Communications and Signal Processing (2007-2008)

  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2007)

    BNFL Prize for Final Year Project Excellence

  • Department of Medical Instruments Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece (2005)

    Graduated as the best student of the class 2001-2005

  • National Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Athens, Greece (2004)

    Scholarship for being the best student of the 3rd year in the Department of Medical Instruments Technology

  • National Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Athens, Greece (2003)

    Scholarship for being the best student of the 2nd year in the Department of Medical Instruments Technology

  • Athletic Union of Greece, Ministry of Sports, Athens, Greece (2003)

    Honorary scholarship for exceptional performance in Sports & Studies

  • Junior Chess Champion (-20) 2003 in Greece

    Ranked amongst top-3 juniors during 1996-2003 in several age groups and represented Greece in European and World Chess Championships

Major/Recent Publications: 

Journals 

A. Tsanas, J.Y. Goulermas, V. Vartela, D. Tsiapras, G. Theodorakis, A.C. Fisher and P. Sfirakis: "The Windkessel model revisited: a qualitative analysis of the circulatory system", Medical Engineering and Physics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 581-588, June 2009 [link] PDF

A. Tsanas , M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, L.O. Ramig: "Accurate telemonitoring of Parkinson's disease progression by non-invasive speech tests", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 57, pp. 884-893, April 2010 [link] PDF

A. Tsanas  , M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, L.O. Ramig: "Nonlinear speech analysis algorithms mapped to a standard metric achieve clinically useful quantification of average Parkinson’s disease symptom severity", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Vol. 8, pp. 842-855, June 2011 [link] PDF, see also the Electronic Supplementary Material [link] for more technical details. (Selected media coverage for this work appears here, and here.)

A. Tsanas, M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, J. Spielman, L.O. Ramig: "Novel speech signal processing algorithms for high-accuracy classification of Parkinson’s disease", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 59, pp. 1264-1271, May 2012 [link] PDF

A. Tsanas, M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, B.K. Scanlon, S. Papapetropoulos: "Statistical analysis and mapping of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale to Hoehn and Yahr staging", Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, Vol. 18 (5), pp. 697-699, 2012 [link] PDF

P.G. Foukas, A. Zourla, S. Tsiodras, A. Tsanas, K. Leventakos, E. Chranioti, A. Spathis, C. Meristoudis, C. Chrelias, D. Kassanos, G. Petrikkos, P. Karakitsos, I. G. Panayiotides: "B-lymphocyte, macrophage, and mast cell density in the stroma underlying HPV-related cervical squamous epithelial lesions and their relationship to disease severity: an immunohistochemical study", Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology 2:105, February 2012 [link] PDF

A. Tsanas, A. Xifara: "Accurate quantitative estimation of energy performance of residential buildings using statistical machine learning tools", Energy and Buildings, Vol. 49, pp. 560-567, 2012 [link] PDF


Conferences

A. Tsanas, M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, L.O. Ramig: "Enhanced classical dysphonia measures and sparse regression for telemonitoring of Parkinson's disease progression", IEEE Signal Processing Society, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),  pp. 594-597, Dallas, Texas, US, 14-19 March 2010

A. Tsanas, M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, L.O. Ramig: "New nonlinear markers and insights into speech signal degradation for effective tracking of Parkinson’s disease symptom severity", International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), pp. 457-460, Krakow, Poland, 5-8 September 2010 (invited)

V. Vartela, A. Tsanas, D. Tsiapras, P. Sfirakis, V. Voudris: "A new mathematical approach investigating patient specific factors for the determination of clinically useful markers of cardiovascular status", 5th International Meeting of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center: current trends in cardiac surgery and cardiology, Athens, Greece, 16-18 September 2010

A. Tsanas, M.A. Little, P.E. McSharry, L.O. Ramig: "Robust parsimonious selection of dysphonia measures for telemonitoring of Parkinson's disease symptom severity", 7th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA), Florence, Italy, 25-27 August 2011

A. Johnson, N. Dunkley, L. Mayaud, A. Tsanas, A. Kramer, G. Clifford, “Patient‐specific predictions in the ICU using a Bayesian ensemble”, Computers in Cardiology, Krakow, Poland, 9-12 September 2012
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