Publications


2012

·         V.P. Oikonomou, K. Blekas and L. Astrakas. A sparse and spatially constrained generative regression model for fMRI data analysis . IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering , vol. 59 (1), pp. 58-67, 2012.

·         N. Tziortziotis and K. Blekas. An online kernel-based clustering approach for value function approximation. SETN 2012 (to appear)

 

2011

·         N. Tziortziotis and K. Blekas. A Bayesian Reinforcement Learning framework Using Relevant Vector Machines. AAAI 2011

·         V. Karavasilis, K. Blekas and C. Nikou. Motion segmentation by a model-based clustering approach of incomplete trajectories.. Proceedings of the ECML PKDD 2011, Athens, pp. 146-161, 2011.

·         S. Karavarsamis, N. Ntarmos and K. Blekas. InFeRno - an Intelligent Framework for Recognizing Pornographic Web Pages . Proceedings of the ECML PKDD 2011, Athens, pp. 638-641, 2011.

·         N. Tziortziotis and K. Blekas. Value Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning through Sparse Bayesian Modeling. EWRL 2011.

·         L. Astrakas, K. Blekas, C. Constantinou, et. al. Combining magnetic resonance spectroscopy and molecular genomics offers better accuracy in brain tumor typing and prediction of survival than either methodology alone. Int J Oncol. 38(4):1113-27, 2011.

 

2010

·         V.P. Oikonomou and K. Blekas. A Sparse Spatial Linear Regression Model for fMRI Data Analysis. SETN, 203-212, 2010.

 

2009

·         K. Blekas, K. Christodoulidou, I.E. Lagaris. Newtonian Spectral Clustering. ICANN, pp. 145-154. 2009.

·         O.C. Andronesi, K. Blekas, D. Mitzopoulos, L. Astrakas, P.M. Black and A. Tzika. Molecular classification of brain tumor biopsies using solid-state magic angle spinning proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and robust classifiers . Intern. Journal on Oncology, 33(5), pp.1017-1025, 2009.

2008

·         K. Blekas, C. Nikou, N. Galatsanos and N.V. Tsekos. A regression mixture model with spatial constraints for clustering spatiotemporal data. . Intern. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools , 17(5), pp.1023-1041, 2008.

·         K. Blekas, N.P. Galatsanos and A. Likas. A Sparse Regression Mixture Model for Clustering Time-Series. SETN, 64-72, 2008.

·         E. Voudigari and K. Blekas. A marginal mixture model for discovering motifs in sequences. Workshop on ‘Bioinformatics, Genomics and Proteomics on Artificial Intelligence Approach”, ECAI 2008.

 

2007

·         K. Blekas and I.E. Lagaris. Newtonian Clustering: An Approach based on Molecular Dynamics and Global Optimization . Pattern Recognition , vol. 40 (6), pp.1734-1744, 2007.

·         D. Saougos, G. Manis, K. Blekas and A. Zarras. Revisiting Java Bytecode Compression for Embedded and Mobile Computing Environments . IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering , 33(7), pp. 478-496, 2007.

·         D.L. Patiris, K. Blekas and K.G. Ioannides. TRIAC II. A MatLab code for track measurements from SSNT detectors. Computer Physics Communications , 177(3), pp. 329-338, 2007.

·         P. Margariti, K. Blekas, F. Katzioti, A. Zikou, M. Tzoufi and M. Argyropoulou. Magnetization transfer ratio and volumetric analysis of the brain in macrocephalic patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 . Journal of European Radiology , vol. 17 (2), pp.433-438, 2007.

·         M. Argyropoulou, A. Zikou, I. Tzovara, A. Nikas, K. Blekas, P. Margariti, N. Galatsanos, and I. Asproudis. Non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy: evaluation of the brain and optic pathway by conventional MRI and magnetization transfer imaging . Journal of European Radiology , 17(7), pp. 1669-1674, 2007.

·         A. Tzika, L. Astrakas, H. Cao, D. Mintzopoulos, O.C. Andronesi, M. Mindrinos, J. Zhang, L. Rahme, K. Blekas, A. Likas, N.P. Galatsanos and P.M. Black. Combination of high-resolution magic angle spinning proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and microscale genomics to type brain tumor biopsies . Intern. Journal of Molecular Medicine, vol. 20 (2), pp.199-208, 2007.

·         K. Blekas and I. E. Lagaris. Split-Merge Incremental Learning (SMILE) of Mixture Models . Inter. Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Porto 2007, Lecture Notes on Artificial Neural Networks, vol.4669, pp.291-300, 2007.

·         K. Blekas, C. Nikou, N. Galatsanos and N. Tsekos. Curve clustering with spatial constraints for analysis of spatiotemporal data . Intern. Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) Patras, 29-31 Oct. 2007

 

2006

·         D.L. Patiris, K. Blekas and K.G. Ioannides. TRIAC: A code for track measurements using image analysis tools . Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B , Vol. 244(2), pp. 392-396, 2006.

·         A. Kakoliris and K. Blekas. Incremental training of Markov mixture models . ECML 2006 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams (IWKDDS) , pp. 47-56, Berlin, Sep. 2006.

·         K. Blekas. A mixture model based Markov random fields for discovering probabilistic patterns in sequences . Panhellenic Conference in Artificial Intelligence (SETN-2006) Heraclion, Greece, May 2006, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3955, pp. 25-34, 2006.

·         C. Nikou, N, Galatsanos, A. Likas and K. Blekas. Image segmentation with a class-adaptive spatially constrained mixture model. EUSIPCO 2006.

 

2005

·         K. Blekas, D. Fotiadis and A. Likas. Motif-based Protein Sequence Classification using Neural Networks. Journal of Computational Biology , vol. 12(1), pp. 64-82, 2005.

·         K. Blekas, A. Likas, N. Galatsanos and I. E. Lagaris. A Spatially-Constrained Mixture Model for Image Segmentation . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks , Vol. 16(2), pp. 494-498, 2005.

·         K. Blekas, N. Galatsanos, A. Likas and I. E. Lagaris. Mixture Model Analysis of DNA Microarray Images . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 24(7), pp. 901-909, 2005.

 

2004

·         K. Blekas, D. Fotiadis and A. Likas. A Sequential Method for Discovering Probabilistic Motifs in Proteins. Methods of Information in Medicine , vol. 43(1), pp. 9-12, 2004.

·         K. Blekas and A. Likas. Incremental Mixture Learning for Clustering Discrete Data . Proceedings of the 3th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN'04) Samos, Greece, May 2004 , Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3025, pp. 210-219, 2004.

·         K. Blekas, A. Likas, N. P. Galatsanos and I. E. Lagaris. Mixture model based image segmentation with spatial constraints. Proceedings of the 12th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2004) , Vienna, Sep. 2004.

 

2003

·         K. Blekas, D. Fotiadis and A. Likas. Greedy Mixture Learning for Multiple Motif Discover in Biological Sequences. Bioinformatics vol. 19(5), pp. 607-617, 2003.

·         K. Blekas, D. Fotiadis and A. Likas. Protein Sequence Classification using Probabilistic Motifs and Neural Networks. Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2003), pp. 702-709, Istanbul, 2003.

·         K. Blekas, N. Galatsanos and I. Georgiou. An Unsupervised Artifact Correction Approach for the Analysis of DNA Microarray Images. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2003), Vol.2, pp. 165-168, Barcelona, Sep. 2003.

 

Before 2003

·         A. Likas, K. Blekas and A. Stafylopatis. Parallel Recombinative Reinforcement Learning : A Genetic Approach. Journal of Intelligent Systems , vol. 6(2), pp. 145-177, 1996.

·         A. Likas and K. Blekas. A Reinforcement Learning Approach Based on the Fuzzy Min-Max Neural network . Neural Processing Letters, vol. 4(3), pp. 167-172, 1996.

·         K. Blekas, A. Stafylopatis, D. Kontoravdis, A. Likas and P. Karakitsos. Cytological Diagnosis Based on Fuzzy Neural Networks. Journal of Intelligent Systems , vol. 8(1/2), pp. 55-79, 1998.

·         A. Stafylopatis and K. Blekas. Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Using Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning. European Journal of Operational Research , 108(2), pp. 306-318, 1998.

·         S. Pavlopoulos, E. Kyriacoy, D. Koutsouris, K. Blekas, A. Stafylopatis and P. Zoumpoulis. Fuzzy Neural Network Based Characterization of Diffused Liver Diseases Using Image Texture Techniques on Ultrasonic Images. . IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine , vol 19(1), pp. 39-47, 2000.

·         D. Kontoravdis, A Likas, K. Blekas and A. Stafylopatis. A Fuzzy Neural Network Approach to Autonomous Vehicle Navigation. Proc. European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference (EURISCON `94) , pp. 243-252, Malaga, Spain, Aug. 1994.

·         A. Likas, K. Blekas and A. Stafylopatis. Application of the Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network classifier to problems with continuous and discrete attributes. IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP `94), pp. 163-170, Ermioni, Greece, Sep. 1994.

·         A. Likas, K. Blekas and A. Stafylopatis. Parallel Recombinative Reinforcement Learning. Proc. Machine Learning: ECML-95, Heraclion, Crete, Greece, Apr. 1995. (Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 912, pp. 311-314, Springer-Verlag, 1995).

·         K. Blekas, A. Likas and A. Stafylopatis. Fuzzy Neural Network Approach Based on Dirichlet Tesselations for Nearest Neighbor Classification of Patterns. Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP `95), pp. 153-161, Boston, MA, Aug. 1995.

·         A. Stafylopatis and K. Blekas. Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Using Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning. Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems - Computation, Cognition and Action, Durham, North Carolina, Mar. 1996.

·         K. Blekas and A. Stafylopatis. Real-coded Genetic Optimization for Fuzzy Clustering. European Congress on Intelligence Techniques and Soft Computing, EUFIT-96 , pp. 461-465, Aachen, Germany, Sep. 1996.

·         K. Blekas, G. Papageorgiou and A. Stafylopatis. Continuous Optimization Schemes for Fuzzy Classification. Proc. 13th Int. Conference on Digital Signal Processing, (DSP'97), pp. 265-268, Santorini, Greece, Jul. 1997.

·         K. Blekas, A. Likas and A. Stafylopatis. A Fuzzy Neural Network Approach to Classification Based on Proximity Characteristics of Patterns. 9th IEEE International Confenrence on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'97), pp.323-330, California, USA, Nov. 1997.

·         E. Kyriakoy, S. Pavlopoulos, D. Koutsouris, K. Blekas, A. Stafylopatis and P. Zoumpoulis. Fuzzy Neural Network Based Characterization of Diffused Liver Diseases Using Image Texture Techniques on Ultrasonic Images. VIII Mediterranean Conference on Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON'98), pp. 180-184, Lemesos, Cyprus, June 1998.

·         N. Vlassis, K. Blekas, A. Stafylopatis, G. Papakonstantinou, A Vector Quantization Schema for Non-Stationary Signal Distributions Based on ML Estimation of Mixture Densities. Proc. EUSIPCO'98, IX European Signal Processing Conference, Rhodes, Greece, Sep 1998.

·         K. Blekas, D. Fotiadis and A. Likas. A Sequential Method for Discovering Probabilistic Motifs in Proteins. Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation (BSI 2002), pp. 11-14, Como, Italy, June 2002.