Biography
Christophoros Nikou
University of Ioannina, Greece
Christophoros Nikou received the Diploma in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1994 and the DEA and Ph.D. degrees in image processing and computer vision from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He was a Senior Researcher with the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2001. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Engineer and Project Manager with Compucon S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece. He was a Lecturer (2004-2009) and an Assistant Professor (2009-2013) with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, where he has been an Assiociate Professor, since 2013. His research interests mainly include image processing and analysis, computer vision and pattern recognition and their application to medical imaging. He is a member of EURASIP and an IEEE Senior Member.