Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou is a professor of biomedical engineering

Biomedical engineering

Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology. This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine: It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve...

 and the Director of Computational Intelligence Laboratories at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou is also a Founding Fellow of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou's areas of interest include neural networks

Neural Networks

Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural networks: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier...

, information processing in the brain, image and signal processing applied to biomedicine, telemedicine

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities...

, mammography

Mammography

Mammography is the process of using low-energy-X-rays to examine the human breast and is used as a diagnostic and a screening tool....

, hearing aids and electronic equivalents of neurons. Dr. Evandelia Micheli-Tzanakou received international attention in 1974 when she established the first Brain to Computer Interface (BCI) using her algorithm ALOPEX

ALOPEX

ALOPEX is a correlation based machine learning algorithm first proposed by Tzanakou and Harth in 1974.-Principle:...

. This method was used in the study of Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

. The ALOPEX algorithm has also been applied toward signal processing, image processing, and pattern recognition.

Books

• Pattichis, C.S., Schizas, C.N., Micheli-Tzanakou, E., and Pattichis, M.S. Handbook Of Computational Intelligence in Medical Systems, to appear in 2005, Biomedical Engineering Series, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY.

• Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition :Feature Extraction in Computational Intelligence CRC Press, 371 pages, Jan 2000.

Awards

• Meritorious Service Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - CIS, 2006

• NJ Women of Achievement Award 1995 for the application of neural networks to engineering in medicine and biology

• Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers, 1992

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Outstanding Advisor Award, 1985

Education

• B.S. Physics, University of Athens, Greece, 1968

• M.A. Physics, Syracuse University
  Syracuse University
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  , 1974

• Ph.D. Physics, Syracuse University, 1977