Prof Sushmita Mitra of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

With the inherent boom in availability of large volumes of multimodal  healthcare data over the internet, their automated processing is becoming all the more relevant in today’s perspective. Manual  delineation and processing is expensive, biased, and slow. Here lies the utility of artificial intelligence, encompassing machine learning and deep learning. The role of AI is in providing assistive intelligence to healthcare professionals, in their endeavour to arrive at cost-effective, fast, and viable solutions for complex decision-making. This talk outlines the role of AI in several aspects of healthcare, encompassing classification, segmentation, and survival prediction. We discuss applications with multimodal imagery spanning over X-ray, CT, MR, fundus images, to handle some diseases. Finally a deformable deep net  is introduced, for efficient segmentation.

Biography:

Sushmita Mitra is a full professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. From 1992 to 1994 she was in the RWTH, Aachen, Germany as a DAAD Fellow. She was a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Departments of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Meiji University, Japan; and Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark. Dr. Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983) from NCERT, India, the University Gold Medal in 1988, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing, the CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship in 1996, and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship in 2018-2020. She was the INAE Chair Professor during 2018-2020. Dr. Mitra has been awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship, 2021.

Dr. Mitra is the author of the books ``Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing" and ``Data Mining: Multimedia, Soft Computing, and Bioinformatics" published by John Wiley, and ``Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics", Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, beside a host of other edited books. Dr. Mitra has guest edited special issues of several journals, is an Associate Editor of ``IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics", ``Information Sciences", ``Proceedings of the INSA", ``Computers in Biology and Medicine", ``IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems", ``Neural Networks", a Founding Associate Editor of ``Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (WIRE DMKD)", and a Senior Associate Editor of ``Sadhana". She has more than 150 research publications in referred international journals.

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), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). She serves as a Member of the Inter-Academy Panel for Women in STEMM, and a Member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Groups of CAETS and IAPR. Dr. Mitra is a Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), 2025-2028. She has visited more than 30 countries as a Plenary/Invited Speaker or an academic visitor. She served in the capacity of General Chair, Program Chair, Tutorial Chair, of many international conferences; was the Chair, IEEE Kolkata Section (2021-2022) and an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer. Her current research interests include data science, machine learning, soft computing, medical image processing, and Bioinformatics.