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Catherine E. Chronaki

Institute of Computer Science

Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

Science and Technology Park

P.O. Box 1385, GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Tel: +30 281 39 1691

Fax: +30 281 39 1428

chronaki@ics.forth.gr 

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Last Update: December 14, 2006

Brief CV of Catherine E. Chronaki

Catherine was born on Sunday August 8, 1965 in Xanthi, Greece. She received her Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics, from the Technical University of Patras, Greece, in 1988 and an M.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Rochester in 1990 and in 1991 respectively.

In the period 1988-1990 she worked on issues related to the exploitation of parallelism in programming languages, and in 1990 she received her Masters in Computer Science and Information Systems from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her master thesis was entitled ``Parallelism in Declarative Languages.''
In the summer of 1990 she participated in the DOM project at GTE Labs, and programmed part of the DOM transaction subsystem. In the period 1990-1991, she studied lower bounds on the decision tree complexity of boolean functions and in 1991 she received her Masters in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. Her master thesis was entitled ``A surver of Evasiveness: Lower Bounds on the Decision-Tree Complexity of Boolean Functions.''
During 1991-1992, she worked on the development of large DBMS, part of a commercial product, a multidimensional spreadsheet for financial analysts.

In September 1992 she joined the the Medical Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH as the local coordinator for the INDET Topic of the EurIPACS/AIM project. The main goal of INDET is the development of I2C, a system for the indexing, storage and retrieval of medical images by content which is expected to give added value to PACS and support computer aided diagnosis, medical training, and research. She has been a part of this group since then, working on R&D issues in the development of a  regional healthcare information infrastructure. Recent projects involve the development of a collaboration infrastructure using Internet technologies (WebOnCOLL), the application of LDAP directories in healthcare (PCDD), and components for medical image databases.

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Research Interests:

Her research interests include but are not limited to medical information systems, image database management systems, programming environments, distributed systems, interoperability of heterogeneous systems, digital medical libraries, WWW applications.

Recent Projects:

Recent work of Catherine  (1997- ) addresses technical aspects related to the provision of integrated services over regional telematics networks. In specific, she has been involved in projects that address design, development, and interworking of middleware services in a regional healthcare information infrastructure:

directory services for resources and user profiles

collaboration services for shared workspaces providing user and contents awareness (WebOnCOLL - developed mainly by X. Zabulis)

security services using smart cards

dicom gateway software (DICOM translation services - developed mainly by S. Kostomanolakis)

A number of health-telematic services have designed on top of this infrastructure:

an implementation of the Virtual Electronic Healthcare Record Concept based on a directory of EHCR segments (see report on PCDD)

telecardiology consultation service for the support of remote Primary Healthcare Centers (see presentation at mednet 98)

directory of healthcare resources (Healthcare Resource Map) (senior thesis of V. Giakoumidaki)

We have also worked on providing access to a cardiology information system using Internet technologies (joint work with P.J. Lees).

Recent Publications:

  1. C.E. Chronaki, P. Lelis, C. Demou, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis.  An HL7/CDA Framework For The Design And Deployment Of
    Telemedicine Services    . In Proceedings of EMBC 2001,   23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
    Society, 25-28 Oct. 2001, 2001 Instambul, Turkey.
  2. C.E. Chronaki, et al. "Preliminary Results From The Deployment Of Integrated Teleconsultation Services In Rural Crete." In Proceedings 28th
    Annual Computers In Cardiology Congress from 23-26 September 2001, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  3.  P.J. Lees, F. Chiarugi, D. Lombardi, C.E. Chronaki, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis. "Simulator of Patient Traffic in a Cardiology
    Department for Testing the Integration of an ECG Management System with an Existing Clinical Database    ." In Proceedings 28th Annual Computers In
    Cardiology Congress from 23-26 September 2001, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  4.  F. Chiarugi, P.J. Lees, C.E. Chronaki, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis. "Developing Manufacturer-Independent Components For ECG
    Viewing And For Data Exchange With ECG Devices: Can The SCP-ECG Standard Help?" In Proceedings 28th Annual Computers In Cardiology Congress from 23-26 September 2001, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  5. C. Chronaki, P. Lelis, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis. "XML Technology in support of Clinical Protocols for Teleconsultation". (to be presented in Mednet 2000, 22-24 November 2000, Brussels, Belgium
  6. S. Kostomanolakis, G. Kavlentakis, V. Sakkalis, C. E. Chronaki, M. Tsiknakis, S. C. Orphanoudakis. Seamless Integration of Healthcare Processes related to Image Management and Communication in Primary Healthcare Centers. In Proceedings of the EuroPACS 2000 Conference in Gratz, Austria 20-22 September 2000. 
  7. P.J. Lees, C.E. Chronaki, F. Chiarugi, E. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis. "Interconnectivity Of Cardiology Patient Databases Using Internet Technology" in Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of Computers in Cardiology, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 24-27 September 2000
  8. C.E. Chronaki, S.G. Kostomanolakis, P. Lelis, P.J. Lees, F. Chiarugi, M. Tsiknakis. "Integrated Teleconsultation Services In Cardiology" in Proceedings of the 27th annual conference of Computers in Cardiology, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 24-27 September 2000.
  9. C. Chronaki, S. Kostomanolakis, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis; Advanced imaging services in a health-telematics network. Poster Presentation in the ECR 2000/Compurad Exhibit, 5-10 March 2000, Vienna Austria. abstract  http://www.ecr.org/T/ECR00/sciprg/abs/p280017.htm
  10. S. Kostomanolakis, C. Chronaki, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis. DicomGW: DICOM functionality as middleware. Poster Presentation in the ECR 2000/Compurad Exhibit as part of the DICOM space activity, 5-10 March 2000, Vienna Austria  Abstract http://www.ecr.org/T/ECR00/sciprg/abs/p280017.htm
  11. P.J. Lees, C.E. Chronaki, E.N. Simantirakis, S.G. Kostomanolakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis, and P.E. Vardas. "Remote Access to Medical Records via the Internet: Feasibility, Security and Multilingual Considerations" In Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology 1999 (CIC 99)  - Hannover, Germany, September 26 - 29, 1999
  12. P.J. Lees, C.E. Chronaki, E.N. Simantirakis, S.G. Kostomanolakis, P.E. Vardas. "Remote Access to Medical Records via the Internet: How to Solve the Language Problem?" Poster Presentation in XXIst Congress of the ESC - Aug 28th - Sep. 1st  1999, Barcelona Spain.
  13. P.J. Lees, C.E. Chronaki, E.N. Simantirakis, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis, P.E. Vardas. "Remote Access to Medical Records via the Internet: Is it Feasible?" Poster Presentation in XXIst Congress of the ESC - Aug 28th - Sep. 1st  1999, Barcelona Spain.
  14. C. E. Chronaki, X. Zabulis, D.G. Katehakis, A. Giannopoulos, N. Stathiakis, M. Tsiknakis, P.J. Lees, E.N. Simantirakis, P.E. Vardas, and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "WebOnCOLL-enabled Remote Cardiology Consultation for Suspected Myocardial Infarction," In Proceedings of Mednet'98, London, England, 16-19 November 1998, pages 41-43.
  15. Evangelos Markatos  and Catherine E. Chronaki : "A Top-10 Approach to Prefetching on the Web", In Proceedings of INET' 98 (The Internet Summit), Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998.
  16. S.C. Orphanoudakis, C.E. Chronaki, M. Tsiknakis, and S. Kostomanolakis. "Telematics in Healthcare", Chapter 10, In "Biomedical Image Databases ," Biomedical Image Databases, S. Wong (editor), Sharon Fletcher, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, Ma 02061
  17. C. Chronaki, D. Katehakis, M. Tsiknakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis "WebOnCOLL: An open platform enabling Collaborative Information Sharing and its Application in Medicine," In Proceedings of Euro-MED NET'98 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 4-7, 1998
  18. C. Chronaki, D.G. Katehakis, X. Zabulis, M. Tsiknakis, S. C. Orphanoudakis,  "WebOnCOLL: Medical Collaboration in Regional Healthcare Networks."  IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, December 1997, vol 01, no 4, p 257-269
  19. M. Tsiknakis, C.E. Chronaki, S. Kapidakis, C. Nikolau, and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "An Integrated Architecture for the Provision of Health Telematic Services through Application of Digital Library Technologies", Special issue of the international journal of digital libraries, "Digital Libraries in Medicine.", vol. 1(3), 257-277, 1997.
  20. C.E. Chronaki, X. Zabulis, and S.C. Orphanoudakis, " I2Cnet Medical Image Annotation Service", Medical Informatics, vol. 22, No. 4, p. 337-347, 1997
  21. C. Chronaki, X. Zabulis, N. Stathiakis, E. Leisch, D. Katehakis, M. Tsiknakis, and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "A Web-Based Environment for Medical Collaboration in a Regional Health Care Network", Proceedings of CAR'97, pp. 656-661, Berlin, Germany, June 25-28, 1997.
  22. X. Zabulis, C. Chronaki, and S. Orphanoudakis, "The I2Cnet Service Architecture Paradigm", Proceedings of MIE'97, pp. 569-600,Porto Carras, Greece, May 25-29, 1997.
  23. C. Chronaki, X. Zabulis, M. Tsiknakis, and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Web-Based Medical Services in the Regional Health Care Network of Crete", ERCIM News, #29, pp. 28-29, 1997
  24. Catherine Chronaki, Manolis Tsiknakis, Stelios Orphanoudakis, "Virtual Workspaces in I2Cnet", In proceedings of Mednet96, Brighton, UK, pp. 89-91, October 14-17, 1996. Also appeared in the Special Issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 47, Issue 1-2, November 1997, pages 115-119

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