Computer Applications in Medicine and Biology
    
within the
5th WSEAS International Conference on
DATA NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS and COMPUTERS (DNCOCO '06)
Bucharest, Romania, October 16-18, 2006
http://worldses.org/conferences/2006/romania/dncoco/

 

Topics:

  • Computer Applications in Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Health care & Bioengineering

  • Computers and Biomedical Engineering

  • Computational Biophysics

  • Tele-medicine and Medical Informatics, Tele-health care
     

Organizer:

Dr. (Ms.) Sreeparna Banerjee
West Bengal University of Technology
BF – 142, Salt Lake, Sector III
Kolkata 700064,
INDIA
Phone: country – 91; city – 033; 2321-7578
Fax 2321-7578
email: bsreeparna1@rediffmail.com; sreeparnab@hotmail.com
 


HOW TO SUBMIT:

 

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http://worldses.org/conferences/2006/romania/dncoco/


 

Brief Biography of the Organizer:

Education:
Ph.D. in Physics from University of Virginia, USA
M.Sc. in Physics with Biophysics in First Class from Calcutta University, India
B.Sc. with First Class honors in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta University..

Recent/Current Research:
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition with applications primarily in Medical Image Processing obtained from CT and MRI modalities as well as X-ray images. Also worked on PET images. Work done on Medical Image Registration, Data Fusion, Segmentation and Pattern Analysis using Neural Networks .

Currently working on Osteoarthritis detection in X-ray images as well as simulation and modeling of Olfactory bulb of brain, modeling of mental disorders and brain stroke.

Also doing some work on domain ontology and web mining (AI related), cloud image processing and pattern analysis for weather prediction and data mining related to protein structure and function.
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Current Occupation:
Senior faculty at IIIT-C ( now IT department of West Bengal
University of Technology). Also functioned as Acting Director of
IIIT-C from 25.04.02 to 30.04.03.

Publications:
Several Publications in refereed International Journals resulting from Medical Image processing of CT and morphological MR brain images, X-ray images, as well as in Physics.
Some representative publications in Image Processing:
• Osteoarthritis detection in X-ray images using CNN algorithms, conference abstract 2363, IEEE, Medical Imaging Conference 2004, Rome, Italy.
• Cellular Neural Network Algorithms in hand osteoarthritis detection, submitted (2005-06).
• Multisensor Data Fusion incorporating Fuzzy Membership, Partial Aggregation and reinforcement, (accepted in WSEAS, Computers, 534-376.pdf) 2006.

1. Shape analysis and volumetry studies using 3DVIEWNIX with applications to
Medical imaging, Intl. J. Image Processing and Communications, 5(1), 3-10 (2000)
2. Shape matching in multimodal medical images using point landmarks with
Hopfield net, Neurocomputing, 30, 103-116 (2000).
3.A fuzzy c-means approach to tissue classification in multimodal medical imag
-ing, Information Sciences, 115(1-4), 261-279 (1999).
4..Point landmarks in the registration of MR and CT images, Pattern Recognition Letters, 16, 1033- 1042 (1995).
5.Mathematical techniques in biomedical imaging, Ind. J. Pure Appl. Math., 215, 143-180 (1994).

Courses taught include but are not limited to: Medical Imaging and Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Processing, Multimedia Technology, Neuro-Informatics.