The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, KCG College of Technology organized ICMR sponsored Three Day Workshop on “MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES IN CLINICAL RESEARCH AND HEALTH CARE” from 14th – 16th September 2017. The inaugural function commenced at 9.30 am in Seminar Hall-I. The meeting was presided over by Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal and inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Dr. T. R. Muralidharan, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Cardiology, Sri Ramachandra University. The meeting formally begun with an invocation and the invited guests were welcomed by Dr. P. Deiva Sundari, Professor & Head, Department of EEE. . Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal and Dr. G. Sambandan, Advisor – Electrical Sciences offered felicitations. Around 25 participants registered for the programme. Most of the participants were Faculty from academic Institutions, Research Scholars, PG and UG students. The Chief Guest shared his views in the field of medical image processing and current research methodologies available.
The detailed report of the sessions are as follows:
Day 1 – Session 1
Ms. Prof. Kuppusamy Thayalan, Consultant Medical Physicist – Kamakshi Memorial Hospital
He introduced the technological perspectives of Medical Imaging. The development of modern radiographic imaging, the basic physical principles behind common approaches to imaging, including Computed Tomography (CT), Ultrasound, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and the pros and cons of each technique were explained by him. Students consider the broader picture behind bringing imaging into clinical use, such as animal testing, human trials, costs, and the requirement of training technicians. Medical imaging in general is rich with applications of engineering and physics because the instrumentation is technically complex. Many of the body’s systems and functions can be modelled, controlled, and investigated using engineering principles and methods. The instrumentation that is used to deliver health care is also very technical and rapidly evolving. As a result, engineering is becoming an increasingly important field of study in both biomedical research and medical delivery at all levels of the health-care system.
Session II
Dr. Y. Sreenivasa Varma, Medical Director, Balagangadhara Varma Nursing Home and Research Centre
He started the session by stating the definition of health, health care challenges and constraints. He emphasized that technology is driving a new paradigm to create better healthcare. He focussed on the basic two approaches in medical innovation: Linear and Technology adoption approaches. He also focussed on the basic two approaches to medicine: Clinical and Molecular approaches. He mentioned that technology helps doctors’ to have better decision making, improving patient and provider interaction and integrating preventive health care tools as clinical reminders. He explained about the top trends in the areas of medical research like image and signal processing, bio medical sensors, IOT and Big data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Genomics, stem cell therapy and tissue engineering. He explained the advancements in imaging techniques, bio sensors, bio sensing wearables, health care big data challenges.
Session III
Dr. M. Sasikala, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Anna University
She gave an idea about Thermal Imaging and its Applications to Breast Cancer Detection. Body temperature is a natural criterion for the diagnosis of diseases. Thermal imaging (thermograph) applies infrared method which is fast, non-invasive, and non-contact and flexible to monitor the temperature of the human body. Historically, temperature is a very good health indicator. Body produces heat and body temperature may be different from the surrounding temperature. The core temperature is maintained within a narrow range of about 33°C to 42°C. Abnormal thermal patterns can be easily detected by thermal imaging. The results of thermal measurement in general compared with other clinical findings to assess the possible correlation. Although the method is non-specific and environment can affect its results, there are several reasons which have caused thermal imaging to be accepted widely among the medical community. First of all, thermal imaging is noncontact, non-invasive method and can be used from far way.
She explained about the different image processing techniques used in thermo graphic images for breast cancer detection. The different thermo graphic image patterns for the normal and abnormal portion of the body were shown. The features to identify the abnormality were also clearly explained.
Session IV
Dr. Sheeja V Francis, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, MNM Jain Engineering College.
Her topic was Feature Extraction and Selection Algorithms adopted in Images. She summarised various ways of performing dimensionality reduction on high-dimensional microarray data. Many different feature selection and feature extraction methods exist and they are being widely used in clinical and health care systems. All these methods aim to remove redundant and irrelevant features so that classification of new instances will be more accurate. A popular source of data is microarrays, a biological platform for gathering gene expressions. Analysing microarrays can be difficult due to the size of the data they provide. In addition the complicated relations among the different genes make analysis more difficult and removing excess features can improve the quality of the results. She presented some of the most popular methods for selecting significant features and provides a comparison between them. Their advantages and disadvantages are outlined in order to provide a clearer idea of when to use each one of them for saving computational time and resources.
Day –II
Session V: Prof. V. Rajendran, Professor and Head, Department of ECE, Vels University
He addressed the importance of detecting the presence of solid deposit of calcium radicals grouped in certain way in breast tissue. He explained the principles of digital images and analysis of digital imaging processing operation. He explained a case study done titled automated simulation model using CAD techniques, Analysis on cyst using sonomammogram. He explained novel automated algorithm using CAD Technique to find 3D pattern recognition of lesion part using physical characteristics.
Session VI: Dr. T. Jayanthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Bio Medical Engineering, SRM University
She explained about Infra-Red Thermal Imaging for cardio vascular disorders. She discussed in detail about the following:
- Prevalence of CVD
- Standard Diagnostic Methods
- Infrared thermal imaging
- Potential of IR in diagnosing CVD
- Static thermal imaging
- Dynamic thermal imaging
- IR and hypertension
- IR and its scope for research
Session VII & VIII:
Mr. AS Subramanian & Mr. V. Vaanmugil, Siemens Healthineers
Mr.AS Subramanian explained about the different imaging equipments available from the earlier days to the recent ones. He also gave a detailed idea about how these equipments are used.
Mr.Vaanmugil explained about the company portfolio and the recent equipments that are available with them.
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Day –III Session IX: Dr V Sathiesh Kumar Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Basics of Imaging Processing using open CV and PYTHON Programming It was a Tutorial Session from 9 am to 12 noon on the basics of computer vision in Python programming. It included an introduction to Open CV, tutorial on image basics, drawing, basic operations on image resizing, masking, merging, kernels etc. and how it is been used in the image processing field.
Session X: Dr. M. Ramasubba Reddy Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras. He gave a presentation related to Ultrasound Stiffness Imaging Techniques. He emphasized on basics of ultrasound imaging process. He explained with respect to diagnosis of lesions using ARFI Imaging. He explained about Manual palpation and method of Elastography. A detailed analysis of steps in Elastography was presented. He presented a case study with results from an experiment obtained from a tissue mimicking phantom. He briefed about the breast cancer diagnostic technique (X- Ray mammography) comparison of Elastography with ultrasound process.
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Project e-Yantra is an initiative to spread education in embedded systems and Robotics by IIT Bombay sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). The objective of e-Yantra is to provide hands-on learning to engineering students, creating the next generation of engineers in India with a practical outlook to take on challenging problems and provide solutions.
KCG College of Technology is a member of e-Yantra and has set up a state of the art laboratory under the e-Yantra Lab Set-up Initiative (eLSI).The KCG e-Yantra Robotics Lab trains students in embedded systems and micro-controller programming by engaging them through the Project Based Learning (PBL) mode.
A Workshop in Robotics was conducted for the pupils of Hindustan International School, Karapakkam. The children were of different age group ranging from Grade 6 to Grade 9. It was conducted on 20 December 2017 for a session of 2 hours for 23 pupils. They showed immense pleasure in learning about Robots. A presentation on Robots and their varieties including its working were given. A few videos on the recent trends of Robots were played. A live demonstration on Firebird V was shown. Finally the children experienced a hands-on session of an LED glowing and a Buzzer beeping though Bread board connection.
The workshop was conducted by Aida Jones (Asst. Professor, ECE), Renganayaki G (Assoc. Professor, ECE), S. Subash Chandra Bharathi (Asst. Professor, EEE) and Feba Sosa Abraham (Asst. Professor, ECE).
A two day workshop on ARDUINO was conducted by the core team of EFY KCG Tech center exclusively for students of ECE department on Thursday, 22 Dec 2017 and Friday, 23 Dec 2017.The program commenced at 9.00 am at the EFY LAB, Room No T61. The Chief Resource Person was Dr.V.Subbaroyan, Professor, ECE Department and he was well supported by the core team members of EFY KCG Tech Center, Ms.B.Thyla, Mr.T.Thomas Leonid and Ms.Jaraline Kirubavathy. 24 students attended the Program.Out of which 12 students were from EEE, 3 students from E&I,7 students from CSE and 2 students from IT department.
First session was introduction to the Arduino and how to start up with the tools. Arduino is and inexpensive, cross platform, simple and clear programming environment. After the Tea break at 10.40 am the next sessions on few sketches like LED blink and sequence of LED blink was outlined. Participants found few programs like LCD display, seven segment display and Bluetooth module very interesting and got involved in doing further programs. Many other fun filled projects were done by the participants in the afternoon session.
This workshop was organized to facilitate the student to effectively use ARDUINO software to undertake projects and research work. The sessions were completely hands on, increasing the confidence of the participants in using the tools and the trainers were adept at clarifying the questions that arose during the session relating theory concepts studied to practical issues.
Coordinators:
Mr. K. Karthikeyan, Associate Professor, Department of EEE
Mr. S.Balaji, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE
Ms. M.Ramya, Teaching Assistant, Department of EEE
The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of KCG College of Technology has organized a NSDC certified Four Day Training on “Rooftop Solar Grid Engineer” during -26-29, Dec 2017 for the Third year students at EEE Class Room G01. The training was conducted by combining both A and B Sections. The training was aimed to create awareness on the Solar Energy in India. Being a Certified NSDC-SCGJ partner, this training helped students to familiarise with Solar PV system installation.
Dr. P. Deiva Sundari, HOD/EEE welcomed and inaugurated the workshop at 8.45 am. She also highlighted the importance of NSDC solar training and the availability of green jobs in future.
Mr. K. Karthikeyan, Associate Professor/EEE in the first session of day 1 (26.12.2017) after stating the objectives and significance of the programme discussed the following topics:
- Course overview
- Scenario of Renewable Energy Technologies
- Basics of Solar PV System
Post lunch, Mr. S. Balaji, Assistant Professor/EEE gave an outline about Standards and Regulation Procedures for Rooftop Solar PV System.
On day 2 (27.12.2017), during first Session (from 8.30 am to 11.00 am) Mr. S. Balaji discussed about overview and selection criteria for Solar PV Modules and its Components. After a small Tea Break Ms. M. Ramya discussed about the different types of Rooftop Solar PV Power Plants and their operating principle.
Afternoon session was handled by Mr. K. Karthikeyan who elaborated the Mechanical and Electrical Design System for ON/OFF Grid Solar PV Systems.
Day 3 (28.12.2017) started with the lecture on installation of Solar PV system.
The following topics were dealt in detail:
- Civil, Structural and Mechanical installations
- Electrical connections
- Electrical safety
- Installation of Inverters and Charge Controllers
After small Tea break, the session started with hands on practice in Solar PV installations. The students were split into batches with 10 students per batch and asked to install Rooftop PV System. They were guided by Trainers (Coordinators). The Trainers gave an insight to various solar programmes by MNRE, SECI, NSDC-SCGJ and NISE.
On day 4 (29.12.2017), Ms. M. Ramya briefed about the importance of Health and Safety in Project Site with the aid of a video demonstration. This helped the students to gain more knowledge about the safety in Solar PV Systems. Then, the students visited the 100 kW Solar Power Plant located on the terrace of Aeronautical building. The students were explained with the string connections, inverter and ACDB connections. Finally, the students were evaluated by oral test.
The NSDC training was concluded with a discussion and feedback session by the students. The student gave an impressive feedback about the training. They also stated that this training gave them the basic knowledge and confidence in Solar PV Systems.
