Guest Speaker -Sushmita Mitra
This talk outlines the role of AI in several aspects of healthcare, including classification, segmentation, and survival prediction. We discuss applications of multimodal imagery, including X-ray, CT, MR, and fundus images, to handle some diseases. Finally, a deformable deep net is introduced for efficient segmentation.
Brief Bio:
Sushmita Mitra is a full professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU) at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. From 1992 to 1994, she was a DAAD Fellow at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. She has served as a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Departments at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada; Meiji University in Japan; and Aalborg University in Esbjerg, Denmark. Dr. Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship from NCERT, India, from 1978 to 1983, the University Gold Medal in 1988, and the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing. She was awarded the CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship in 1996 and the Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship from 2018 to 2020. Dr. Mitra held the position of INAE Chair Professor from 2018 to 2020. In 2021, she received the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), as well as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Her current research interests include data science, machine learning, soft computing, medical image processing, and bioinformatics.
