Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare

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 segmentation and survival prediction in brain tumours, screening of covid -19, and early detection of diabetic retinopathy.

About the Speaker:

Sushmita Mitra is a full professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She was in visiting positions at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany; University of Alberta, Canada; Meiji University, Japan; and Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark. Dr. Mitra received the University Gold Medal in 1988, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994, 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 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 National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). She is an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer, Member of the Inter-Academy Panel for Women in STEMM, and the current Chair of the IEEE Kolkata Section.