Sushmita Mitra

Sushmita Mitra is Professor HAG at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She was in the RWTH Aachen, Germany as a DAAD Fellow (1992-1994). She received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983), University Gold Medal (1988),  IEEE NNC Outstanding Paper Award (1994),  CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship (1996) and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship (2018-2020). She is  IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer, Chair IEEE Kolkata Section, INAE Chair Professor (and  J. C. Bose National Fellow. She is the author of several books, serves in editorial boards of many journals and has more than 200 journal publications. According to the Stanford List, she is ranked among the top 2% scientists worldwide in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing.

Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). She has visited more than 30 countries as a Plenary/Invited Speaker or an academic visitor.

Abstract – Intelligent Analysis of Biomedical Images

The talk will focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence and Learning in the domain of healthcare. Topics like Genomics, Radiomics, Radiogenomics, and Personalized Medicine will be discussed.Some research applications made by our group in these domains will be described. These include detection, segmentation and survival prediction in brain tumors from MRI, screening of covid -19 from lung scans, and early detection of diabetic retinopathy from fundus images of the eye.