Wed, May 22, 2013

Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray, Vice Chancellor, BESUS

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Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray joined Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur as its Vice Chancellor with effect from 01.03.2009. Prior to this assignment he was a Professor of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and Head, School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Ray had his Bachelor’s degree from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, followed by M.Tech and Ph.D from Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. He joined IIT Kharagpur as a Faculty in 1980.

Prof. Ray has successfully completed twenty research projects and several consultancy projects, sponsored by several agencies like Defence Research & Development Organization, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, INDAL and so on. He was the Principal Investigator of research projects, sponsored by Intel Corporation during 1997 – 2004. During the course of this research project, he was the co inventor of six US patents jointly with Intel Corporation. Prof. Ray is the Chief Investigator of a Texas Instruments sponsored research project, being conducted at the School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur. As a part of this project, he, along with other team members have filed five USA patents jointly with Texas Instruments. Prof. Ray was associated with the University of Southampton as Senior Research Fellow during 1989-90 and led the research group on ‘Image and Video Processing’ of Avisere Inc., USA during 2004-2005.

He has co-authored about 115 research papers in International journals and Conferences. He has authored five books published by International Publishing Houses, such as John Wiley, Tata McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall of India and Taylor and Francies Publication, including one in Chinese.

In addition, under his leadership, his group in the School of Medical Science and Technology has initiated a number of research projects on ‘Molecular Imaging’ and Image Processing, Medical Instrumentation, Early detection of oral, breast and cervical cancer, Coronary Artery disease detection, Epidemiological Studies and Bio Informatics, all of which are of national importance. Prof. Ray is the Fellow and Member of many professional bodies and is involved with a large number of Universities in their academic bodies. He has been serving as member of the working committee of National Planning Commission on ‘Technical Education’. He has been associated with Nehru Museum of Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur as Secretary and Chairman from 1991 – 2006.

His current research interest includes Medical Imaging and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. His recent research activities during 2010-12 are as follows.

List of publications  (2010-12)

2012

  1. “Automated oral cancer identification using histopathological images: A hybrid feature extraction paradigm” Micron, 43: 352-364 (2012) (with MM Rama Krishnan et al.)
  2. “Hybrid segmentation, characterization and classification of basal cell nuclei from histopathological images of normal oral mucosa and oral submucous fibrosis” Expert Systems with Applications, 39(1): 1062-1077 (2012) (with MM Rama Krishnan et al.)
  3. “Automated screening of arrhythmia using wavelet based machine learning techniques” Journal of Medical Systems, 36(2):677-688 (2012) (with RJ Martis et al.)
  4. “Statistical Analysis of Textural Features for Improved Classification of Oral Histopathological Images” Journal of Medical Systems, 36(2):865-881 (2012) (with MM Rama Krishnan et al.)
  5. “Computer vision approach to morphometric feature analysis of basal cell nuclei for evaluating malignant potentiality of oral submucous fibrosis” Journal of Medical Systems, 36(3):1745-1756 (2012) (with MM Rama Krishnan et al.)
  6. “Automated detection of atrial flutter and fibrillation using ECG signals in wavelet framework” Special issue Anals & Mech of Phys Signals in Journal of Mechanics and Medicine in Biology, 12(5) 1240023 (2012) (with RJ Martis et al.)
  7. “Application of Principal Component Analysis to ECG Signals for Automated Diagnosis of Cardiac Health” Expert Systems With Applications, 39(14) 11792-11800 (2012) (with RJ Martis et al.)
  8. “Cardiac Decision Making Using Higher Order Spectra” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, (with RJ Martis et al.) (Accepted in 2012)
  9. “Quantitative microscopy approach for shape-based erythrocytes characterization in anaemia” Journal of Microscopy, (with D K Das et al.) Accepted (2012)

2011

  1. “Fuzzy Particle filter for video Surveillance” IEEE Trans on Fuzzy Systems Vol 19 No 5, pps 937 – 945, Oct 2011 (with Vinu Thomas) 
  2. “Development of Cardiac Prescreening Device for Rural Population Using Ultralow-Power Embedded System”, IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering, Vol 88 (3), pps 745-749, March 2011 (with S Mandal et al)
  3. “Automated Diagnosis of Oral Cancer using Higher Order Spectra features and Local binary pattern: A Comparative Study” Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, 10(5):443-55 (2011) (with MM Rama Krishnan et al.)
  4. “Quantitative Characterization of Plasmodium vivax in Infected Erythrocytes: a Textural Approach” Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, in Press (2011) (with M Ghosh et al.)
  5. “ApoTome to visualize E-cadherin and p63 expression in oral pre-cancer” Biotechnology Journal, 10.1002/biot.2011000 (2011) (with R K Das et al.)
  6. “Brownian motion curve based textural classification and its application towards cancer diagnosis” Analytical Quantitative Cytology and Histology, 33(3): 158-168 (2011)
  7. “Texture based segmentation of epithelial layer from oral histological images” Micron, 42(6): 632-641 (2011) (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  8. “Textural characterization of histopathological images for oral sub-mucous fibrosis detection” Tissue and Cell, 43(5):318-30 (2011) (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  9. “Automated leukocyte recognition using fuzzy divergence” Micron, 41(7) 840-846 (2010) (with M Ghosh et al.)
  10. “Quantitative analysis of sub-epithelial connective tissue cell population of oral submucous fibrosis” Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 1(1):4-12 (2011) (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  11. “Study of Retinal Biometric Systems with Respect To Feature Classification for Recognition and Diabetic Retinopathy” Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 1(2): 97-106 (2011) (with Srikanth Prabhu et al.)
  12. “A mirror reflection and aspect ratio invariant approach to object recognition using Fourier descriptor” Applied Soft Computing, 11: 3910-3915 (2011) (with M Agarwal et al.) 
  13. “Development of Renyi entropy based fuzzy divergence measure for leukocyte segmentation” Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 1(4):1-7 (2011) (with M Ghosh et al.)
  14. “Gaussian Mixture Model Based Clustering Technique for Electrocardiogram Analysis” Data Mining in Biomedical Imaging, Signaling, and Systems, 101 - 117 (2011) (with Roshan Joy Martis et al.) 3 | P
  15. “Quantitative Characterization of Plasmodium vivax in Infected Erythrocytes: a Textural Approach” Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, in Press (2011) (with M Ghosh et al.)
  16. “Wavelet based texture classification of oral histopathological sections” Microscopy: Science, Technology, Applications and Education, 2: 897-906 (2011) (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)

2010

  1. “Automated leukocyte recognition using fuzzy divergence” Micron, 41(7) 840-846 (2010) (with M. Ghosh et al.)
  2. “Intuitionistic Fuzzy Segmentation of Medical Images” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng. 57(6) 1430-1436, (2010). ( with Chaira, T)
  3. “Statistical analysis of mammographic features and its classification using support vector machine” Expert Systems with Applications, 37, 470-478 (2010) (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  4. “Automated classification of cells in sub-epithelial connective tissue of oral sub-mucous fibrosis - an SVM based approach” Computers in Biology and Medicine, 39(12)1096-1104 (2009) (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  5. “Assessment of Malignant Potential of Oral Submucous Fibrosis through evaluation of p63, E - cadherin and CD 105 expression” Journal of Clinical Pathology , British Medical Journal, Vol 63, pp 894-899, 2010. (with R K Das et al.)
  6. “Structural markers for normal oral mucosa and oral sub-mucous fibrosis”, Micron, Volume 41, Issue 4, June 2010, pps 312-320. (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  7. “Computer vision approach to morphometric feature analysis of basal cell nuclei for evaluating malignant potentiality of oral submucous fibrosis”, Journal of Medical Systems, 3(4), pps 261-270, 2010 (with M. Muthu Rama Krishnan et al.)
  8. “Automated leukocyte recognition using fuzzy divergence”, Micron, Vol-41, Issue -7, October 2010, Pages 840-846. Elsevier Publication (with M Ghosh et al)

Patents ( Jointly with Texas Instruments Pvt Ltd):

  1. Method and system for analyzing breast carcinoma using microscopic image analysis of fine needle aspirates, US Patent 2010/0111397 A1
  2. Method and system for Detection of Oral Sub-Mucous Fibrosis using Microscopic Image Analysis of Oral Biopsy Samples, US Patent 2010/0111398 A1.
  3. Method and system for determining skin line in digital mammogram images, US Patent 12/705,984, filed on 16 Feb. 2010.
  4. Method and apparatus for enhancing representations of micro calcifications in a digital mammogram image US Patent 12/899,575, filed on 7 Oct. 2010.
  5. Digital Microscopy Equipment with Image Acquisition, Image Analysis and Image Communication 12/979,398 filed on December 28, 2010.

Conference Papers:

  1. "Image Quality Assessment for Performance Evaluation of Despeckle Filters in Optical Coherence Tomography of Human Skin", in 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 30 Nov.–2 Dec. 2010 ( with D. Sheet et al)
  2. "Statistical Tools for Evaluating Classification Efficacy of Feature Extraction Techniques", in Proceedings 2nd Int. Conf. Digital Image Processing, Singapore, 26-28 Feb. 2010., vol. 7546, pp. 1B1-1B6 (with D. Sheet et al. )
  3. “Phonocardiogram signal analysis using adaptive line enhancer methods on Mixed Signal Processor” Proc International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication ( SPCOM ) 18-21 July, 2010, Bangalore, pp 1-5. ( with K Basak et al )
  4. "Segmentation of blood smear images using normalized cuts for detection of malarial parasites," INDICON, 2010 , pp.1-4, 17-19 Dec. 2010 (with S. Mandal, et al)
  5. "A comparative study of phonocardiogram analysis techniques based on mixed signal processor," INDICON, 2010 , 17-19 Dec. 2010 (with K. Basak et al)
  6. "Visual Importance Pooling for Image Quality Assessment of Despeckle Filters in Optical Coherence Tomography", in 2010 International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology, Kharagpur, India, 16–18 Dec. 2010 (with D. Sheet et al).
  7. “Statistical Pattern Analysis of White Blood Cell Nuclei Morphometry”, IEEE-TechSym, 3-4 th April 2010, IIT Kharagpur, India ( with Madhumala Ghosh, et al.)

Invited Lectures ( International ):

  1. “Early Detection of Oral and Cervical Cancer –Computer Vision Theoretic Approach” at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, 29 June 2010.
  2. “Automated classification of oral sub-mucous fibrosis and breast carcinoma” at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203 , 5 July, 2010.3. Keynote address on “Recognition of Bengali Alphanumeric characters using a hybrid classification strategy”, International Conference on Computer Processing of Bangla ICCPB – 2011, Dhaka, February 19, 2011.