Seferina Mavroudi Seferina Mavroudi is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Agriculture and Food, of the TEI of Ionian Islands and an adjunct lecturer (407/80) in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras, Greece. Her research interests include computational intelligence, bioinformatics, and scientific computing. Mavroudi graduated in 1998 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , School of Engineering of the Aristotles University of Thessaloniki .In 2000 she received a Master’s degree from the European Postgraduate Program on Biomedical Engineering, organized by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Patras, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, in collaboration with more than 20 European Universities. In the same program, in February of the year 2003 she completed her Ph.D. Thesis with title “Development of advanced computational intelligence models for complex bioinformaticsand biosignal processing applications”. During her phd studies she visited the Bioinformatics Center of the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting researcher. Contact her at mavroudi@ ceid.upatras.gr. Publications Peer-reviewed journal papers 1. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon Likothanassis, "ScalaLab: an effective scientific programming environment for the Java Platform based on the Scala object-functional language," Computing in Science and Engineering, PrePrint, 2010, ISSN: 1521-9615, DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.77 2. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon Likothanassis, "Scientific Scripting for the Java Platform with jLab," Computing in Science and Engineering (ΙΕΕΕ Computing society) vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 50-60, July/Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2009.126 3. S. Mavroudi, S. Papadimitriou, S. Kossida, S. Likothanassis, A. Vlachou, “Computational Methods & Algorithms for Mass-Spectrometry based Differential Proteomics”, Current Proteomics, Vol. 4, Number 4, pp 223-234,December 2007 4. Stergios Papadimitriou, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon Likothanassis “Mutual Information Clustering For Efficient Mining Of Fuzzy Association Rules With Application To Gene Expression Data Analysis” the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 15, No. 2 pp. 227-250, 2006 5. Andrei Dragomir, Seferina Mavroudi, , Anastasios Bezerianos, “Som-based Class Discovery exploring the ICA-reduced features of microarray expression profiles”, Comparative and Functional Genomics, Vol.5, pp.596-616, December 2004 6. Seferina Mavroudi, Stergios Papadimitriou, Anastasios Bezerianos, “Gene Expression Analysis with a Dynamically extended Self-Organized Map that exploits class information”, Bioinformatics , Vol.18, No.11, pp. 1446-1453, 2002 7. S.Papadimitriou, S.Mavroudi, L. Vladutu, A. Bezerianos, " Ischemia Detection with a Self Organizing Map supplemented by Supervised Learning”, IEEE Transactions On Neural Networks, Vol. 12, No. 3, p. 503-515, May 2001. 8. S. Papadimitriou, S. Mavroudi, L. Vladatu, A. Bezerianos, G. Pavlides, ‘’The Network Self-Organizing Map for pattern classification, prediction and data mining of Large Data Sets’’, Applied Intelligence Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3 pp. 185-203, May 2002. 9. S. Papadimitriou, S. Mavroudi, L. Vladutu, A. Bezerianos, G. Pavlides, “Radial Basis Function Networks trained with instance based learning for Data Mining of Symbolic Data”, Applied Intelligence Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3 pp. 223-234 (May 2002) 10. S. Papadimitriou, T. Bountis, S. Mavroudi, A. Bezerianos, “A Probabilistic Symmetric Encryption Scheme for very fast Secure Communication based on Chaotic Systems of Difference Equations’’, International Journal of Bifurcation & Chaos, Vol. 11, No12, p. 3107-3115, 2002 11. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Skarlas Lambros, Spiridon Likothanassis “Fuzzy Rule based Classifiers from SVlearning”, WSEAS Trans on Computers Issue 7, Vol. 4, July 2005, ISSN 1109-2750 12. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Skarlas Lambros, Spiridon Likothanassis “Local fuzzy association rules discovery using a kernel map that exploits apriori knowledge”, WSEAS Trans on Information Science and Applications, Issue7, Vol. 2, July 2005, ISSSN 1790-0832 13. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Skarlas Lambros, Spiridon Likothanassis “Discovering Interesting Fuzzy Rules using the Fuzzy Frequent Pattern Tree” , WSEAS Trans on Information Science and Applications, Issue7, Vol. 2, July 2005, ISSSN 1790-0832 Book Chapter S. Papadimitriou, S. Mavroudi, A. Bezerianos “Kernel-Based Self-Organized Maps Trained With Supervised Bias for Gene Expression Data Mining”, Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems, Business and Technology in the New Millennium, Volume V: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Theory and Genetic Algorithm Techniques, Leondes, Cornelius T. (Ed.), 2004, Springer Verlag, ISBN: 1-4020-7829-3 Peer-reviewed conference papers 1.) K. Theofilatos C., Dimitrakopoulos, A. Tsakalidis, S. Likothanassis, S. Mavroudi, “A New Hybrid Method for Predicting Protein Interactions Using Genetic Algorithms and Extended Kalman Filters”, accepted to the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010) 2.) . Μ. Rapsomaniki, P. Zerefos, K. Theofilatos, A. Tsakalidis, S.Likothanassis, , S. Mavroudi “A Novel Pipeline Method For The Preprocessing Of Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Data”, accepted to the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010) 3.) K. Theofilatos, D. Kleftogiannis, M. Rapsomaniki, V. Haidinis, S. Likothanassis, A. Tsakalidis, S. Mavroudi “A novel embedded pre-miRNA classification approach for the prediction of microRNA genes”, accepted to the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010) 4. Adam Adamopoulos,Mirto Ntasi,Seferina Mavroudi, Spiros Likothanassis, Lazaros Iliadis, George Anastassopoulos "Revealing the Structure of Childhood Abdominal Pain Data and Supporting Diagnostic Decision Making", accepted toEANN2009, August 2009. 5. John Kontaxakis, M. Sangriotis, R. Angelopoulou, K. Plastira, N. Sgouros, S. Mavroudi “Automatic Analysis of TUNEL assay Microscopy Images”, The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Biomedical Signal Processing Session, pp 1172-1176, December 15-18, Cairo Egypt, 2007 6. S. Mavroudi, P. Katsanos, S. Papadimitriou and S. Likothanassis, “Transparent Classification Process of Bioinformatics data With An Approximated Support Vector Fuzzy Inference System”, The International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine (ITAB 2006), Ioannina –Epirus Greece, October 26-28, 2006 7. S. Papadimitriou , K. Terzidis S. Mavroudi, P. Katsanos, “Simple Fuzzy Rules extracted with Support Vector Learining”, accepted to the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2006), Feb. 13, 2006 Innsbruck Austria. 8. S. Mavroudi, P. Katsanos, S. Papadimitriou “Transparent Classification Process Analysis”, accepted to the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2006), August 28 to August 30, 2006, at Palma De Mallorca, Spain 9. A. Dragomir, S. Mavroudi and A. Bezerianos " Tumor classification using ensembles of support vector machines and boosting", The Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2004), Baltimore, Maryland, USA 10. Seferina Mavroudi, Andrei Dragomir, Stergios Papadimitriou, Anastasios Bezerianos “Integrating Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in Self Organizing Maps for Gene Expression Data Analysis” , ICANN/ICONIP, June 26-29, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2714, pp. 262-270 11. Seferina Mavroudi, Stergios Papadimitriou, Anastasios Bezerianos, "Gene Expression Analysis By A Novel Dynamically Extendable Self-Organized Map Integrating Unsupervised And Supervised Learning", Poster-session, RECOMB 2002, The Sixth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Washington, DC, April 18-21, 2002 12. Seferina Mavroudi, Stergios Papadimitriou, Anastasios Bezerianos, "Gene Expression Data Analysis With A Novel SOM-Based Model that is dynamically extandable and Exploits Class Information", Third European Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Patras, 27/8 01/09, 2002 13. L. Vladutu, S. Papadimitriou, S. Mavroudi and A. Bezerianos, "Ischemia Detection using Supervised Learning for Hierarchical Neural Networks based on Kohonen -Maps", Τhe 23rd IEEE-EMBS Conference, Istanbul, 25-28 October 2001, Proceedings, 2, 1688-1691 14. L. Vladutu, S. Papadimitriou,, S.Mavroudi, A. Bezerianos, “Generalized RBF Networks trained with Instance Based Training for mining Symbolic Data”, The 5 th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01), April 16-18, 2001, Hong Kong, published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,Edts. David Cheung, Graham J. Williams, Qing Li, SpringerVerlang, pp. 587-594 15. S. Papadimitriou, A. Bezerianos, L. Vladutu, S.Mavroudi, “Detection of ischemic episodes with a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning”, the Int. Conference On Computational Intelligence, Slovakia, ISCI 2000, 29 August – 1 September 2000 published in "The State of the Art in Computational Intelligence",Physica-Verlag, SPRINGER, 2000,P. Sincak, J. Vascak, V. Kvasnicka, R. Mesiar,Eds. 16. S. Papadimitriou, A. Bezerianos, L. Vladutu, S.Mavroudi, G. Pavlides, “Generalized Radial Basis Function Neural Networks for data mining of symbolic data”, The Int. Conference On Computational Intelligence, Slovakia, ISCI 2000, 29 August – 1 September 2000 published in "Quo Vadis Computational Intelligence", P. Sincak, J. Vascak, Editors, Physica-Verlag, SPRINGER , 2000. 17. Stergios Papadimitriou, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon Likothanassis “Mutual Information Clustering for efficient Mining of Fuzzy Association Rules with application to Gene Expression Data Analysis”, Proceedings of the WSEAS CSCC 2005 for the 9th WSEAS International CSCC Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece (July 2005) 18. Stergios Papadimitriou, , Seferina Mavroudi, “The Fuzzy Frequent Pattern Tree”, Proceedings of the WSEAS CSCC 2005 for the 9th WSEAS International CSCC Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece (July 2005) 19. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Skarlas Lambros, Spiridon Likothanassis “Efficient and Interpretable Fuzzy Classifiers from Data with Support Vector Learning” Proceedings of the WSEAS CSCC 2005 Journal for the 9th WSEAS International CSCC Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece (July 2005) 20. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon D. Likothanassis “The Fuzzy Frequent Pattern Tree for Mining Large Databases”, Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization, Simulation & Manufacturing Systems -SOSM 2005,Cancun, Mexico, May 11-14 2005 21. Stergios Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Terzidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Spiridon D. Likothanassis ,“Mining of Fuzzy Association Rules using a Kernel-based Self-Organized Map for partitioning large databases”, Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization, Simulation & Manufacturing Systems -SOSM 2005,Cancun, Mexico, May 11-14 2005 22. A. Dragomir, S. Mavroudi, A. Bezerianos. “A Boosting Based Framework for Gene Expression Data Classification Using Support Vector Machines”, Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (MEDICON 2004), August 1-5, 2004, Naples, Italy