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Dimitris Anastassiou

Dimitris Anastassiou

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Computer Science

D-Index
42
Citations
8011
World Ranking
8338
National Ranking
3578

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 1998 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to video technology, developing high-performance digital image and video coding techniques.

Overview

Dimitris Anastassiou is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The primary areas of their research center on molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, pathology, and forensic medicine, with a focus on cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer cells and metastasis, and cancer metabolism and hypoxia.

Their work spans topics including:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer

Dimitris Anastassiou has published multiple papers in prominent journals. Recent publications include:

  • "A community effort to create standards for evaluating tumor subclonal reconstruction" (2020), Nature Biotechnology
  • "Single-cell analysis reveals the pan-cancer invasiveness-associated transition of adipose-derived stromal cells into COL11A1-expressing cancer-associated fibroblasts" (2021), PLoS Computational Biology
  • "2DImpute: imputation in single-cell RNA-seq data from correlations in two dimensions" (2020), Bioinformatics
  • "Pan-cancer driver copy number alterations identified by joint expression/CNA data analysis" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "The fibro-adipogenic progenitor APOD+DCN+LUM+ cell population in aggressive carcinomas" (2024), Cancer and Metastasis Reviews

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Cancer Research
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Cancer and Metastasis Reviews

Collaborators commonly found in their work are:

  • Kaiyi Zhu
  • Lingyi Cai
  • Adriana Salcedo
  • Stefan C. Dentro
  • Jeff Wintersinger

Their contributions to research and technology have been recognized through several honors, including being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2013 and an IEEE Fellow in 1998 for contributions to video technology and digital image and video coding techniques.

Best Publications

  • Performance models of statistical multiplexing in packet video communications

    B. Maglaris;D. Anastassiou;P. Sen;G. Karlsson

  • Subpixel edge localization and the interpolation of still images

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  • Frequency-domain analysis of biomolecular sequences

    Dimitris Anastassiou

  • An adaptive least squares algorithm for the efficient training of artificial neural networks

    S. Kollias;D. Anastassiou

  • Models for packet switching of variable-bit-rate video sources

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  • Computational analysis of the synergy among multiple interacting genes

    Dimitris Anastassiou;Vinay Varadan

  • Multi-cancer computational analysis reveals invasion-associated variant of desmoplastic reaction involving INHBA, THBS2 and COL11A1

    Hoon Kim;John Watkinson;Vinay Varadan;Dimitris Anastassiou

  • Error diffusion coding for A/D conversion

    D. Anastassiou

  • Systems and methods for coding even fields of interlaced video sequences

    Feng Ming Wang;Dimitris Anastassiou

  • Constrained and general dynamic rate shaping of compressed digital video

    A. Eleftheriadis;D. Anastassiou

  • Error control using retransmission schemes in multicast transport protocols for real-time media

    Sassan Pejhan;Mischa Schwartz;Dimitris Anastassiou

  • Development of a Prognostic Model for Breast Cancer Survival in an Open Challenge Environment

    Wei-Yi Cheng;Tai-Hsien Ou Yang;Dimitris Anastassiou

  • Meeting Arbitrary QoS Constraints Using Dynamic Rate Shaping of Coded Digital Video

    Alexandros Eleftheriadis;Dimitris Anastassiou

  • Biomolecular events in cancer revealed by attractor metagenes

    Dimitris Anastassiou;Wei Yi Cheng

  • Switched-capacitor neural networks

    Y.P. Tsividis;D. Anastassiou

  • Methods and apparatus for performing digital image and video segmentation and compression using 3-d depth information

    Alexandros Eleftheriadis;Dimitris Anastassiou;Shif-Fu Chang;Shree Nayar

  • Correction of shading effects in video images

    Dimitris Anastassiou;William Boone Pennebaker

  • Hierarchical coding of digital television

    Tihao Chiang;D. Anastassiou

  • Time-recursive deinterlacing for IDTV and pyramid coding

    F.-M. Wang;D. Anastassiou;A.N. Netravali

  • A method and system for compressing grey scale image data

    Dimitris Anastassiou;Joan Laverne Mitchell

  • Time-recursive deinterlace processing for television-type signals

    Feng-Ming Wang;Dimitris Anastassiou;Arun N. Netravali

  • Spectrogram analysis of genomes

    David Sussillo;Anshul Kundaje;Dimitris Anastassiou

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

Frequent Co-Authors

Shih-Fu Chang
Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University
Stefanos Kollias
Stefanos Kollias National Technical University of Athens
Martin Vetterli
Martin Vetterli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Joshua M. Stuart
Joshua M. Stuart University of California, Santa Cruz
Hui Shen
Hui Shen Van Andel Institute
Houtan Noushmehr
Houtan Noushmehr Henry Ford Health System
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute
Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

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