Name           :    Dr. G. Kavitha

Designation   :    Associate Professor

Qualification  :    Ph.D

Area of Specialization : Bio Medical Image Processing, Machine Learning           

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IRINS Profile

• Educational Qualifications

    

  Sl.No	Examination Passed	Name of the University/Board	Year of Passing/Awarded	Subject/ Specialization
  1)	PhD	MIT CAMPUS, ANNA UNIVERSITY	(2006 - 2010)	BIOMEDICAL IMAGE     PROCESSING
  2)	M.E	CEG Campus, ANNA UNIVERSITY	(2001 - 2003)	APPLIED ELECTRONICS
  3)	B.E	St. Joseph's college of Engineering, MADRAS UNIVERSITY	(1997 - 2001)	ELECTRONICS AND     COMMUNICATION ENGG

• Post Held

   

  POST HELD	Period of Service	Name & Address of Employer
  Associate Professor	From January-2016 To Till date	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Assistant Professor	From January-2009 To January-2016	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Lecturer	From October-2008 To January-2009	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Lecturer	From July-2004 To October-2008	Dept of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, Chennai
  Lecturer	2 years	Sathyabama University

   

• Lecture Notes

  1.  Muthulakshmi, M & Kavitha, G (2020), ‘Assessment of Cardiovascular Disorders Based on  3D Left Ventricle Model of Cine Cardiac MR Sequence,’ Advances in Decision Sciences, Image Processing, Security and Computer Vision: in proceedings of ICETE 2019, ed. S. Satapathy, K. Raju, K. Shyamala,  D. Krishna, M. Favorskaya, Springer, Cham, vol. 3, pp. 661-670.

  2. Ahana Priyanka N., Kavitha G. (2020) Detection of Dementia from Brain Tissues Variation in MR Images Using Minimum Cross-Entropy Based Crow Search Algorithm and Structure Tensor Features. In: Das K., Bansal J., Deep K., Nagar A., Pathipooranam P., Naidu R. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1048. Springer, Singapore, ISBN :978-981-15-0035-0
  3. Muthulakshmi M., Kavitha G. (2018) Analysis of Myocardial Ischemia from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images Using Adaptive Fuzzy-Based Multiphase Level Set. In: Nandi A., Sujatha N., Menaka R., Alex J. (eds) Computational Signal Processing and Analysis. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 490. Springer, Singapore, pp.11-22.
  4. Latha M., Kavitha G. (2018) Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Disorder Using Wasserstein Based Active Contour and Texture Features. In: Nandi A., Sujatha N., Menaka R., Alex J. (eds) Computational Signal Processing and Analysis. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 490. Springer, Singapore, pp. 23-32.
  5. Muthulakshmi M., Kavitha G. (2018) Local Region with Optimized Boundary Driven Level Set Based Segmentation of Myocardial Ischemic Cardiac MR Images. In: Bhattacharyya S., Chaki N., Konar D., Chakraborty U., Singh C. (eds) Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 706. Springer, Singapore, pp.7-18.
  6. Nadaradjane Sri Madhava Raja, Ganesan Kavitha, and Swaminathan Ramakrishnan (2012), “Analysis of Vasculature in Human Retinal Images Using Particle Swarm Optimization Based Tsallis Multi-level Thresholding and Similarity Measures” SEMCCO, LNCS 7677, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 380–387.
  7. J. Sivagamasundari, G.Kavitha, V.Natarajan, and S.Ramakrishnan (2012), “Content based human retinal image retrieval using vasculature feature extraction”, ACIIDS, Part-II, LNAI 7197, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.468-476.

• Journals

   

  INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: PUBLISHED

  1. Priyanka, Ahana and Ganesan, Kavitha (2021) "Hippocampus segmentation and classification for dementia analysis using pre-trained neural network models" Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, De Gruyter October 11, 2021, 66(6):581-592, Impact Factor: 1.411.

  2. Muthulakshmi, M and Kavitha, G (2021), ‘Identification of systolic and diastolic heart failure progression with Krawtchouk moment feature-aided Harris hawks optimized support vector machine", Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, 16, pages127–135, Impact Factor: 2.157.

  3. Kanchana Devanathan, Kavitha Ganesan and Ramakrishnan Swaminathan (2021), “An automated classification of HEp-2 cellular shapes using Bag-of-key point features and Ant Colony Optimization”, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Elsevier Publications, Available online 11th March 2021, Volume 41, Issue 2, April – June 2021, Pages 376-390, Impact Factor: 2.537

  4. M. Latha and G. Kavitha (2020), “Combined Metaheuristic algorithm and radiomics strategy for the analysis of neuroanatomical structures in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorders”, Innovation and Research in Bio Medical engineering (IRBM), Elsevier Publications, Available online 29 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irbm.2020.10.006, Impact Factor: 1.022.
  5. Muthulakshmi Muthunayagam and Kavitha Ganesan (2020), “Cardiovascular Disorder Severity Detection Using Myocardial Anatomic Features Based Optimized Extreme Learning Machine Approach”, Innovation and Research in Bio Medical engineering (IRBM), Elsevier Publications, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 June 2020,  https://doi. org/ 10.1016 /j.irbm.2020. 06. 004, Impact Factor: 1.022.
  6. M. Muthulakshmi and G. Kavitha (2020) "An integrated multi-objective whale optimized support vector machine and local texture feature model for severity prediction in subjects with cardiovascular disorder", International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer, 2020, 15, 601–615, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-020-02133-y, Impact factor: 2.398
  7. Latha M, and Kavitha G. (2019) Assessment of severity in neuropsychiatric disorders based on radiomic features with prior shape level set and metaheuristic algorithms. Int J Imaging Syst Technol. 2019; 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1002/ima.22306.
  8. Latha M, and Kavitha G (2018) 'Hermite transform and support vector machine based analysis of schizophrenia disorder in magnetic resonance brain images'  International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, Vol.27, No.3, 2018, pp. 203-220.
  9. J.Thamil Selvi , Ganesan Kavitha and C.Manoharan Sujatha (2018) 'An approach to extract edge maps in infrared based breast images using Perona- MALIK diffusion filter', International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2018, pp. 261 - 272.
  10. Latha. M and Kavitha. G  (2018) ‘Detection of Schizophrenia in brain MR images based on segmented ventricle region and Deep Belief Networks’, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3360-1, Impact factor : 2.505
  11. Manohar Latha and Ganesan Kavitha, (2017) “Segmentation and texture analysis of structural biomarkers using neighborhood‑ clustering‑ based level set in MRI of the schizophrenic brain” Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, Vol. 30, no:2, 2017, Springer.
  12. Latha. M and Kavitha. G (2017) ‘Diagnosis of Schizophrenia disorder in MR brain images using multi-objective BPSO based feature selection with fuzzy SVM’, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/s40846-017-0355-9.
  13. Kayalvizhi, M, Kavitha, G, Sujatha, C M & Ramakrishnan, S (2015), ‘Formulation of Minkowski based ratio metric index in Alzheimer’s MR brain images using localized region based Level set’, Neurodegenerative Diseases, vol. 15, suppl 1, pp. 861, doi:10.1159 /000381736.
  14. M. Kayalvizhi, G.Kavitha, C.M.Sujatha and S.Ramakrishnan (2015) 'Minkowski functionals based brain to ventricle index for analysis of AD progression in MR images' Measurement, Elsevier, pp.103-112.
  15. Jac Fredo A.R, Kavitha. G and Ramakrishnan. S (2015) “Automated segmentation and analysis of corpus callosum in autistic MR images using fuzzy c-means based level set”, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, Springer, doi:10.1007/s40846-015-0047-2.
      
  16. Kayalvizhi, M, K.R.Anandh, Kavitha, G, Sujatha, C M & Ramakrishnan, S (2015), ‘Analysis of anatomical regions in Alzheimer’s brain MR images using level sets and Minkowski functional,’ Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, World Scientific publishers, vol. 15, no.2, pp. 1540024(1-7).
  17. Jac Fredo A.R, Kavitha. G and Ramakrishnan. S (2015), ‘Segmentation and analysis of corpus callosum in autistic MR brain images using reaction diffusion level sets’, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, American Scientific Publishers, Vol. 5, No.4, pp. 737-74.
  18. S.Rajeswari, G. Kavitha and M. Latha (2015), ‘Severity detection in glaucoma affected retinal images using adaptive level set segmentation’ International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Research India Publications, ISSN 0973-4562,Vol.10, No.5, pp.4830-4833.
  19. Kayalvizhi M, Kavitha G, Sujatha CM, Ramakrishnan S (2015), ‘Study of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression in MR Brain Images based on Segmentation and Analysis of Ventricles using Modified DRLSE Method and Minkowski Functionals’, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Instrument Society of America; 51:332-40.
  20. J. Sivagamasundari, G.Kavitha, V.Natarajan, and S.Ramakrishnan (2015), ‘An approach to content based retinal image retrieval using Papamarkos multilevel thresholding method’ Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, American Scientific Publishers, Volume 5, Number 3, June 2015, pp. 527-536(6).
  21. Asaithambi, Mythili, Subramanian, Srinivasan, Manoharan, Sujatha C., Ganesan Kavitha and Swaminathan, Ramakrishnan (2014) “Analysis of restrictive pulmonary function abnormality using spirometric investigations and QPSO feature selection”, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Inderscience,Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 195-208
  22. A. R. Jac Fredo, G. Kavitha and S. Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘ Analysis of cortical and sub-cortical regions in autistic MR images using level set method and structure tensors’, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Instrument Society of America, 50:140-9, H- Index: 23. 
  23. A. R. Jac Fredo, G. Kavitha and S. Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘Segmentation and analysis of brain subcortical regions using regularized multiphase level set in autistic MR images’ International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology , Wiley Periodicals, Inc., Volume 24,  Issue 3, pp. 256 –262.
  24. A. R. Jac Fredo, G. Kavitha and S. Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘ Segmentation and morphometric analysis of subcortical regions in autistic MR brain images using fuzzy Gaussian distribution model based distance regularized multi pahe level set’ International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, Vol.15, No.3, 2014, pp. 211- 223.
  25. N. SriMadhava Raja, G.Kavitha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘ Analysis of Vasculature detection in human retinal images using Bacterial Foraging optimization based multi-Thresholding’ International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary computation,Volume 3:107.
  26. T.Akila and G.Kavitha (2014), ‘ Detection and classification of hard exudates in human retinal fundus images using clustering and random forest methods’ International Journal of Emerging technology and advanced engineering, Volume 4, Special Issue 2, April 2014, pp. 24-29.
  27. M.Kayalvizhi, G.Kavitha and C.M. Sujatha (2013), “Analysis of ventricle regions in Alzheimer’s brain MR images using level set based methods ” International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, Vol.12, No.3, 2013, pp. 300-309.
  28. J.Sivagamasundari, G.Kavitha, V.Natarajan, and S.Ramakrishnan (2012), “Characterization of optic disc in human retinal images using Tsallis entropy based method”, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Instrument Society of America, 48:524-31 , H- Index: 23. 
  29. Sri Madhava Raja N, Kavitha G. and Ramakrishnan S (2011), “Assessment of Retinal Vasculature Abnormalities using Slantlet Transform based Digital Image Processing”, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Instrument Society of America, 47: 88-93, H- Index: 23. 
  30. Kavitha Ganesan and Ramakrishnan Swaminathan (2011) “Detection of Blood Vessels in Human Retinal Images using Ant Colony Optimization Method”, International Journal of Bio-Medical Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, 2011, Vol. 5, No.4, pp. 360 – 370.
  31. Kavitha G. and Ramakrishnan S (2010) “Abnormality detection in Retinal images using Ant Colony Optimization and Artificial Neural Networks” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Instrument Society of America, ISSN: 00678856, 46: 331-6. H- Index: 23.
  32. Ganesan Kavitha and Swaminathan Ramakrishnan (2010), “An Approach to Identify Optic Disc in Human Retinal Images Using Ant Colony Optimization Method”, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, Volume 34, Issue 5, pp. 809 -81.
  33. Kavitha G. and Shanmugam J., (2009) “Video object Extraction based on a comparative study of efficient edge detection techniques” International Arab journal of Information Technology, 6(2):107-115, April 2009.

   

  NATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. Thamil Selvi, J, Kavitha, G & Sujatha C M (2016) “Analysis of breast thermograms using Gaussian Bilateral Filter and Statistical texture features”, Journal of Instrument society of India, vol.  46, no.3, pp 71-74.
  2. Thamil Selvi, J, Kavitha, G & Sujatha, C M  (2015) “Analysis of Plaque in Ultrasound Carotid Artery Using Phase Based Distance Regularized Level Set Evolution”, Journal of Instrument society of India, vol .45, no.1, pp 131-134.
  3. Malarkodi A, Latha G, Manamalli D and Kavitha G “Analysis of acoustic back scattered signalsof two different under water materials using Empirical mode decomposition and support vector machine”, Indian Journal of Geo marine sciences (IJMS), Vol. 44(5), May 2015, pp.656-664, Impact factor: 0.316
  4. J.Sivakamasundari, G.Kavitha, C.M.Sujatha and S.Ramakrishnan,(2013) “FPGA based hardware synthesis of thresholding algorithms for detection of glaucoma in retinal fundus images” Journal of Instrument society of India, ISSN 0970-9983,Vol.43, No.4, December 2013, pp.270-273.
  5. Kavitha Ganesan and Swaminathan Ramakrishnan, (2010) “Identification and Classification of retina objects using Ant Colony Optimization and Naive Bayes Classifier” Journal of the Instrument society of India, Vol. 40, No.1, pp.18-20, March 2010. 

   

• Conferences

  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. M. Muthulakshmi and G. Kavitha, Integrated Harris Hawks Optimization Based Classifier: An Approach to Cardiovascular Disorder Prediction, International Conference on Computational Sciences: Modelling, Computing and Soft Computing (CSMCS 2020), September 10 -12, 2020 (on-line mode), National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, Abstract: page no: 154.          
  2. M. Muthulakshmi, and G. Kavitha “Deep CNN with LM learning based myocardial ischemia detection in cardiac magnetic resonance images" 41 st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 23-27 July 2019, Berlin, Germany, pp: 824 - 827
  3. N. Ahana priyanka and  G. Kavitha, “Study of Tissue Variation and Analysis of MR Brain Images using Optimized Multilevel Threshold and Deep CNN Features in Neurodegenerative Disorders”  41 st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 23-27 July 2019, Berlin, Germany, pp: 2773 - 2776
  4. N. Ahana priyanka, G. Kavitha, “Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disorders in Brain MRI Using Tissue Variation and SVM Classifier”, Alliance International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AICAAM’19), Alliance University, Bangalore, 26^th & 27^th April 2019, pp. 272-283. 
  5. N.Ahana Priyanka and G.Kavitha,"Detection Of Dementia From Brain Tissues Variation In MR Images Using Minimum Cross Entropy Based Crow Search Algorithm And Structure Tensor Features", International conference  on soft computing for problem solving, VIT Vellore, Dec-17-19, 2018.
  6. J.Thamil Selvi, G.Kavitha and C.M.Sujatha, " Non linear Non- local diffusion model based edge map extraction of infrared breast images" 4th International conference on computational methods in Engineering and Health sciences, December 19-20, 2017, pp.25.
  7.  N.Ahana Priyanka and G.Kavitha "Analysis and Estimation of Brain tissue atrophy using Magnetic resonance images" Ninth International conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC 2017), 14-16 December 2017, Department of Computer Technology, Anna University, Chennai, pp.485 -491. 
  8. Muthulakshmi, M and Kavitha, G “Local region with Optimized Boundary driven level set based segmentation of Myocardial ischemic cardiac MR images”, International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP-2017), 08 – 10 September, 2017, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, pp. 2-3, 2017. (Springer Advances Intelligent Systems and Computing)  
  9. Latha, M, Muthulakshmi, M and Kavitha, G ‘Detection of Schizophrenia disorder from ventricle region in MR brain images via Hu moment invariants using random forest’, International conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms, 08 – 10 September, 2017, Sikkim Manipal University, Sikkim, India. (Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering) 
  10. M.Latha and G.Kavitha (2017), "Diagnosis of schizophrenia disorder using Wasserstein based active contour and texture features" International conference on NextGen Electronic Technologies: Silicon to Software" VIT University, Chennai , March 23-25, 2017, pp. 17 ( Springer 2^nd Best paper award), (Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)  
  11. M.Muthulakshmi and G.Kavitha (2017), 'Analysis of Myocardial Ischemia form Cardiac Magnetic Resonance images using adaptive fuzzy based multiphase level set', International conference on NextGen Electronic Technologies: Silicon to Software" VIT University, Chennai , March 23-25, 2017, pp. 15, (Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering).  
  12. M.Latha and G.Kavitha (2017), 'Segmentation and analysis of ventricles in schizophrenic MR brain images using optimal region based energy minimization framework', 4^th International conference on Signal Processing, Communications and networking, ICSCN 2017, MIT Campus, Chennai, India, March 16-18, 2017, ISBN No: 978-1-5090-4740-6.
  13. K.B.Sathya, V.Vaidehi and G.Kavitha (2017) , 'Vehicle license plate recognition' 9th International conference on Trends in industrial measurements and Automation , Department of Instrumentation Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai-44, 6^th -8^th January 2017, pp.24 (indexed in IEEE). 
  14. J.Thamil Selvi, G.Kavitha and C.M.Sujatha (2016), ‘Analysis of breast images using bilateral filter and distance regularized level set’, 2^nd International conference on Biomedical systems, signals and images, IIT Madras, Chennai, 24^th -26^th, February 2016, pp.28. 
  15. M.Latha and G.Kavitha (2016), ‘Hermite transform based analysis of Schizophernia disorder in Magnetic Resonance brain images, 2^nd International conference on Biomedical systems, signals and images, IIT Madras, Chennai, 24^th -26^th, February 2016, pp.16.
  16. J.Thamil Selvi, G.Kavitha and C.M.Sujatha (2016) , ‘Analysis of breast thermograms using BLS-GSM technique and total variation diffusion filter based level set’ Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Instrument Society of America.
  17. P.Arjun, M.K.Monisha, A.Mullaiyarasi and G.Kavitha (2015), ‘Analysis of the liver in CT images using an improved region growing technique’ IEEE International conference on industrial instrumentation and control, Department of Instrumentation and control, College of Engineering, Pune, 28^th -30^th May 2015.    
  18. P.M.Rajeswari, Dhilsha Rajapan, G.Kavitha and C.M.Sujatha (2015), ‘Multilevel Tsallis entropy based segmentation for detection of object and shadow in SONAR images’ IEEE International Conference on “Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES), NIT Calicut, 19^th-21^st February, Abstract in Proceedings, pp.97. 
  19. P.M.Rajeswari, G.Kavitha, C.M.Sujatha and Dhilsha Rajapan, (2015), ‘Swarm intelligence based segmentation for Buried object scanning SONAR images’ International Symposium on Under water technology, 23^rd-25^th February 2015, pp.52.
  20. A.R. Jac Fredo, G.Kavitha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014),‘Segmentation of subcortical regions in MR images using combination of fuzzy c-means and gaussian distribution model based augmented lagrangian multiphase level sets’ XIX International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (ICMMB 2014), Bologna, Italy, 3^rd - 5^th September 2014, pp. 431-434. 
  21. Kayalvizhi.M, Kavitha.G, Sujatha.C.M and Ramakrishnan.S (2014), ‘Minkowski functionals based analysis of hippocampus in Alzheimer’s brain MR images’ XIX International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (ICMMB 2014), Bologna, Italy, 3^rd - 5^th September 2014, pp.439-442.  
  22. Sivakamasundari .J, Kavitha. G, Natarajan. V and Ramakrishnan. S (2014), ‘Retinal image analysis for content based image retrieval applications using multilevel thresholding’ XIX International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (ICMMB 2014), Bologna, Italy, 3^rd - 5^th September 2014, pp.234-237.   
  23. Sri Madhava raja. N, Kavitha. G, Srinivasan Subramanian and Swaminathan Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘Multifractal based segmentation and analysis of human retinal blood vessels in fundus images' XIX International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (ICMMB 2014), Bologna, Italy, 3^rd - 5^th September 2014.  
  24. M. Kayalvizhi, G.Kavitha, C.M. Sujatha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014). Segmentation and analysis of hippocampus and ventricle in Alzheimer’s brain MR images using Minkowski weighted K-means clustering and its ratiometric index. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract:Neuroinformatics2014, Leiden, Netherlands,doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2014.18.00083. 
  25. A. R. Jac Fredo, G.Kavitha and S. Ramakrishnan (2014). Segmentation and analysis of sub-cortical regions of autistic MR brain images using Gaussian distribution model based reaction diffusion multi-phase level sets and geometric feature. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2014, Leiden, Netherlands, doi: 10.3389/ conf.fninf.2014.18.00090.
  26. M.Kayalvizhi, G.Kavitha, C.M.Sujatha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘Analysis of Alzheimer MR brain Images using Entropy based segmentation and Minkowski functional’ International conference on informatics, electronics and vision, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Indexed in IEEE), 23-24 May 2014, pp. 1-6.
  27. Sivakamasundari .J, Kavitha. G, Natarajan. V and Ramakrishnan. S (2014), ‘Proposal of a content based retinal image retrieval system using Kirsch template based edge detection’ International conference on informatics, electronics and vision, Dhaka , Bangladesh (Indexed in IEEE), 23-24 May 2014, pp. 1-5. 
  28. Sivakamasundari .J, Kavitha. G, Sujatha. C.M and Ramakrishnan. S (2014), ‘FPGA based hardware synthesis for automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels in diabetic retinopathy images’ Rocky mountain Bioengineering symposium, ISA, Denver, pp.156-163. 
  29. Jac Fredo A.R , Kavitha G, and Ramakrishnan S (2014), ‘ Analysis of sub-cortical regions in cognitive processing using fuzzy c-means clustering and geometrical measure in autistic MR images’, IEEE 40^th Annual North east Bioengineering conference, Boston, 25^th -27^th April 2014, pp.1-2. 
  30. P.M. Rajeswari, G.Kavitha, C.M. Sujatha and Dhilsha Rajapan (2014), ‘Particle swarm optimization based SONAR image enhancement for underwater target detection’ Springer International conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary algorithms in Engineering systems (ICAEES), Noor Islam University, Kanyakumari District, 22^nd and 23^rd April 2014, pp.76.(also published in Advances in Intelligent systems and Computing 324 –Springer series).  
  31. A. Malarkodi, D. Manamalli, G.Kavitha and G.Latha (2013), ‘Acoustic scattering of underwater targets’ International Symposium on Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL), 23^rd -25^th October 2013, pp. 127 – 132. (indexed in IEEE). 
  32. V. Divya and G.Kavitha (2013), ‘ Multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation in brain MR images based on a hybrid of Markov random field and Ant colony optimization’ International conference on Bio-signals, Images and Instrumentation, March 14^th- 16^th , 2013, pp.246-254.
  33. A.V.Pradeep kumar, V.Manoj kumar, B.Paranthamakannan and G.Kavitha (2012), ‘Segmentation of diabetic retinopathy images using hybrid learning models’ Proceedings of the international conference on biomedical system, signals and images, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, November 28 –December 1, 2012. 
  34. Tess Mathew and Kavitha. G (2012), ‘Comparison of Clustering Based Methods for analysis of medical images’, International Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Chennai, ISBN 978-81-9089-807-2, 3^rd & 4^th May 2012.  
  35. J. Sivagamasundari, G. Kavitha, V.Natarajan, and S.Ramakrishnan (2012), ‘Glaucoma identification in retinal images using active contours for CBIR applications’, International conference on signal, image and video processing, IIT Patna, pp.21-26. 
  36. A.V.Pradeep Kumar, C.Prasanth and G. Kavitha, (2011) ‘Segmentation and grading of diabetic retinopathic exudates using error-boost feature selection method’ World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Mumbai, December 11-14, 2011, pp.522-527, Organized by University of Mumbai, INDIA and MIR Labs, USA, (indexed in IEEE).
  37. Kavitha G. and Ramakrishnan S., (2009) ‘Identification and analysis of macula in retinal images using ACO based hybrid method’, International Symposium on Biologically Inspired Computing and Application, Bhubaneswar, December 21-22nd, 2009, pp. 48-51, (indexed in IEEE). 
  38. V.Archana Srinivasan and G.Kavitha, (2009) “Video Object Extraction Based on Histogram approach and Modified Horn-Schunck Algorithm”, International conference on Image processing, Computer vision and pattern recognition, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 13-16^th , 2009, pp. 922-927. 
  39. G.Kavitha and S.Ramakrishnan (2009) “A method of Extracting video object plane using Horn-Schunck Algorithm”, International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation at MIT Campus, January 4^th-6^th, 2009. pp., 44.
  40. G.Kavitha and S.Ramakrishnan (2008) “An Approach to Video Object Detection using Self-Organizing Map” The Second International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ISEEE-2008), Galati, Romania, pp.34-37.
  41. R.Senthil Kumar and G.Kavitha (2008) “Active contour extraction and tracking of flying vehicles in video frames”, International conference on Avionics systems (ICAS 2008) at RCI, Hyderabad, 22^nd-23^rd Feb, 2008, pp.591-595. 
  42. Dinesh Chandra and G.Kavitha (2007) “Video object extraction using model matching technique: A novel approach”, 14^th International conference on systems, signals and image processing (IWSSIP 2007) & 6^th EURASIP conference focused on speech and image processing, Multimedia communications and services (EC - SIPMICS 2007), Slovenia, 27^th-30^th June, 2007, pp.123-126. 
  43. Dinesh Chandra and G.Kavitha (2007) “A novel and fast algorithm to detect moving objects for content based applications”, Proceedings of the International conference on Signal processing, communications and networking (ICSCN’07), MIT Campus, Chennai, India, 22^nd -24^th February, 2007, pp. 518-520.

   

  NATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. J. Shiny Victory and G. Kavitha (2020) “FPGA based implementation of edge detection algorithm in sequence of images”, 12th National conference on signal processing, communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’2020), 12^th June 2020 (on-line mode), Anna University, Regional Campus, Coimbatore – Awarded Best paper.
  2. M. Muthulakshmi, N. Ahana priyanka and G. Kavitha (2019) “Detection of degree of abnormality in cardiac magnetic resonance images with segmented left ventricle and deep convolutional neural network”, 11th National Conference on Signal processing, Communication & VLSI design (NCSCV’19), Anna University, Regional Campus, Coimbatore, 4th & 5th April 2019, pp. 115-119. ISBN: 978-93-87862-64-7.
  3. N. Ahana priyanka and G. Kavitha (2019) “Study of symmetry variation and severity detection in MR brain images using crow search optimization based threshold and DSIFT detectors”, 11th National Conference on Signal processing, Communication & VLSI design (NCSCV’19), Anna University, Regional Campus, Coimbatore, 4th & 5th April 2019, pp. 250-254. ISBN: 978-93-87862-64-7.
  4. M.Latha and G.Kavitha (2016) , ‘ Study of  Schizophrenia disorders in MR brain images using histogram based active contour and Zernike moments’ Proceedings of the 8^th National conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’16), 29^th -30^th April 2016, pp.360-365,(best paper award). 
  5. V.Arthy and G.Kavitha (2016) , ‘Assessment of breast mammograms using nulti-scale local region based level set and support vector machine’ Proceedings of the 8^th National conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’16), 29^th - 30^th April 2016, pp.13-17, (best paper award).
  6. J.Thamilselvi, S.Prabha, G.Kavitha and C.M.Sujatha (2015), ‘Analysis of breast thermograms using Gaussian bilateral filter and statistical texture features’ National Symposium on Instrumentation (NSI -40), October 30^th -31^st 2015. 
  7. M. Latha and G. Kavitha (2015), ‘Denoising in MR brain images using a combination of Non-Local means and wavelet shrinkage techniques’, National Symposium on Instrumentation (NSI-40), Instrument Society of India, Department of Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science,  pp. 127-128, 2015.
  8. S.Rajeswari and G.Kavitha (2015), ‘An intensity –Texture based level set method for segmentation and analysis of optic disc in retinal mages’ Proceedings of the 7^th National conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’15), 24^th-25^th April 2015,pp.606-611, (best paper award).
  9. J. Thamil Selvi , K.Sumathi, G. Kavitha and  C. M. Sujatha (2014), ‘Analysis of Plaque In Ultrasound Carotid Artery using Phase Based Distance Regularized Level Set Evolution’ National Symposium on Instrumentation (NSI-39), October 15-17, 2014 (also indexed in Journal of the Instrument Society of India).
  10. M. Kayalvizhi, G.Kavitha, C.M. Sujatha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014) ‘Deep grey matter Index in Alzheimer’s Brain MR Images Using Minkowski Functional’ National Symposium on Instrumentation (NSI-39), October 15-17, 2014 (also indexed in Journal of the Instrument Society of India, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1-4, ISSN 0970-9983).
  11. A. R Jac Fredo, G.Kavitha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘ Characterization of  autistic MR brain images using Fuzzy C-means based reaction diffusion multi phase levelsets and structure tensor’, National conference on Present scenario and future trend in Biomedical Engineering and Health care technologies, School of Biomedical Engineering, IIT Varanasi, October 17-18, 2014, pp.4.
  12. M.Kayalvizhi, G.Kavitha, C.M. Sujatha and S.Ramakrishnan (2014), ‘ Medial temporal atropy MF2D index in Alzheimer’s brain MR images using Minkowski functional’, National conference on Present scenario and future trend in Biomedical Engineering and Health care technologies, School of Biomedical Engineering, IIT Varanasi, October 17-18, 2014. 
  13. V. Divya and G. Kavitha (2013) ‘Detection of multiple sclerosis lesions in brain MR images using Self-Organizing maps and expectation maximization based techniques’  on 5^th National conference on signal processing, communications and VLSI design, NCSCV’13, Anna University Coimbatore, pp.354 -358, (best paper award).
  14. V. Archana Srinivasan and G.Kavitha (2009) “An approach to video object segmentation based on spatio-temporal method” 1^st National conference on Signal processing communications and VLSI design-NCSCV ’09, Anna University Coimbatore, pp.372 -375.
  15. G.Kavitha and S.Ramakrishnan (2008) “Real time target detection using UAV on-board camera” National Symposium on Instrumentation organized by Andhra University college of Engineering & Instrument society of India, Vishakapatnam, December 8^th -10^th, 2008, pp.105.
  16. Shrividhyadevi and G.Kavitha (2007) “An automatic, efficient segmentation algorithm using split-merge technique, Third  National conference on signals, systems and communication (NCSSC’2007) organized by the Department of Electronics and communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, June 1^st-2^nd, 2007, pp.37.
  17. Dinesh Chandra and G.Kavitha (2007) “Video object extraction for content based applications”, National conference on emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, organized by ISTE, Saintgits college of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala, 5^th May 2007, pp.96.
  18.  A.Arun kumar and G.Kavitha  (2006) “Automatic segmentation of moving objects for content based applications”, Second  National conference on signals, systems and communication (NCSSC ‘2006) organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering , Anna University, Chennai, June 1^st-2^nd, 2006, pp.21. 
  19. Arun kumar and G.Kavitha (2006) “Segmentation in the presence of occlusion for content based applications ” National conference on emerging trends in computational science and information processing (CSIP) organized by Department of computer science and Engineering and Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering college, Aurangabad, April 1^st-3^rd, 2006, pp.233-238.

• Visits Abroad

   

  1. To attend and present two full contributed papers as poster presentations in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biological society, EMBC 2019 held at Berlin, Germany during 23^rd -27^th July, 2019.
  2. Visited University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Teaching and training programme during 23.07.2018 to 27.07.2018 under Erasmus +
  3. To attend and present a technical paper in XIX International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (ICMMB 2014), held in Bologna, Italy during 3^rd – 5^th September 2014.
  4. To attend and present a technical paper in the International conference on Image processing, Computer vision and pattern recognition (IPCV 2009) , held in United States of America (Las Vegas) during July 13^th -16^th, 2009.

   

• On-Going Projects

   

  Principal Investigator for the Project "Assessment of Cardiovascular disorders using Image Processing Techniques" ( Period: February-2017 - February-2020). Project Cost: 31 Lakhs, sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board.

   

• Projects Completed

   

  1. Principal Investigator at MIT for the DST-HUB project titled “Development of configurable platform for real-time signal and image processing applications” - National Hub for Healthcare Instrumentation Development (NHHID), Anna University. (PROJECT SPONSORSED BY DST).
  2. CTDT funded project-Anna University
     • Guided Project titled : Critical Medical diagnosis using wireless technology during February - September 2013. 

• Invited Lectures

  1.  Delivered a lecture on “Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Biomedical Image Analysis” Date: 28.5.2021 in the “Three Day Workshop on Recent Trends in Biomedical Instrumentation and Assistive Technology” (on-line mode only) under SPARC programme, Organized by Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, May 26-28, 2021

  2. Delivered a lecture on – “Computer aided Diagnosis of Brain Disorders using Structural MR images” Date: 29.3.2021 in the AICTE Sponsored “Two weeks Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Machine Learning Techniques for imaging and Healthcare with Python” from 18.3.2021 to 31.3.2021 (online mode) organized by Sri Sai Ram Engineering College. 
  3. Delivered a lecture on " MRI Segmentation: Challenges, Methods and Applications" in five day Faculty Development Programme on " Advances in Medical Signal and Image Processing" SSN college of Engineering (10.5. 2018)
  4. Delivered a talk on "Diagnostic relevance of MR images " in the workshop titled Emerging trends and future  perspective in image processing and   computer vision organized by Sri SaiRam Engineering college (4.01.2018)
  5. Delivered a Lecture on "Image processing in Biomedical applications" in Workshop on Advances in Image and its applications organized by Sri  Venkateswara college of Engineering, Sriperambadur (19.03.2016)

• Programme Chaired

  1. Chaired a session in the International conference titled "International Conference on Bio-Signals, Images and Instrumentation (ICBSII 2013)" conducted by SSN College of Engineering from 14-Mar-2013 to 16-Mar-2013. 
  2. Chaired a session in the International conference on Signal processing, Communication and Networking (ICSCN 2015) held during 26^th - 28^th March 2015, organized by Department of Electronics Engineering & AU-KBC Research centre.
  3. Co-Chaired a session in the International conference on “ Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation” TIMA 2017 organized by the Department of Instrumentation Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University in association with CSIR-CEERI, ISA south India Section & IEEE Madras section during 6^th – 7^th January 2017.
  4. Co-chaired a session in the 4^th International conference on signal
     Processing, Communications and networking, ICSCN 2017, MIT Campus, Chennai, India, March 16^th-18^th, 2017. 
  5. Chaired a session in the International conference titled "International Conference on International conference on NextGen Electronic Technologies: Silicon to Software" VIT University, Chennai , March 23^rd -25^th, 2017.
  6. Chaired a session in the International Conference ICSEMR-2018,Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr Rangrajan Dr Sakunthala Engineering college, Avadi, Chennai-62, 9^th March 2018.
  7. Session chair in the event "paper presentation"  of  ELECTROFOCUS '19, an Inter college Technical Symposium held from January 31^st to Feb 2^nd 2019 organised by Electronics Engineers Association, MIT, Anna University, Chennai.

• Programme Organised

  1. As coordinator, organized two days DST sponsored National level workshop on “Computational Intelligence Techniques” at Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University from 20-Oct-2016 to 21-Oct-2016. 
  2. As coordinator, organized two days National level workshop on “Advancements in Biomedical signal and image processing” at Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University from 29-Oct-2015 to 30-Oct-2015 
  3. As coordinator, organized two days workshop on “Video Analytics” at Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai, 28^th and 29^th March 2012.
  4. As coordinator, organized one day seminar on “Recent trends in image and video processing” at Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai, 12^th February, 2010.

• Programme Attended

  1. Short term course with Hands on Training on “Advances in Medical Imaging” during 15th -19^th March 2021, DST funded I-DAPT HUB foundation, a Technology Innovation Hub on  Interdisciplinary Data Analytics and Predictive Technology at IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

  2. AICTE training and learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “ Artificial Intelligence” from 28.12.2020 to 1.1.2021 at NIT Tiruchirapalli.

  3. International workshop on  “ Deep learning models and its applications, organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SSN college of Engineering, Chennai  during December 8^th - 9^th, 2020.

  4. Online Workshop on Essential MS Excel conducted by CIT – TLC on 24th & 25th June 2020,  through online mode, organized by Teaching Learning Centre, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Unique Certificate Number: A4WT8K-CE000054.

  5. Basic Author Workshop Research Article Writing & Reference Management Using Mendeley” on Monday, 22^nd June 2020, organized by the Faculty of Science, Annamalai University in collaboration with Elsevier.

  6. One Day Colloquium on “Grant Proposal Writing conducted by Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 13^th June 2020.

  7. Effective and Efficient Online Teaching in the Age of Corona - A Hands On Workshop,  conducted by IIT Bombay, May16^th, 2020.
  8. Two-day FDP on virtual Teaching conducted by CIT -TLC on April 20^th & 21^st, 2020.
  9. Technical workshop of Young Faculty Research Fellows (YFRFs) of Visvesvaraya PhD scheme during 9^th &10^th May 2019 at IISC Bengaluru.
  10. AICTE approved faculty development programme FDP 201x on Pedagogy for online and blended teaching-learning process conducted by IIT Bombay, at CEG, Anna University, May 3, 2018 to May 30, 2018.
  11. AICTE approved faculty development programme FDP101x on Foundation Program in ICT for Education conducted by IIT Bombay, at CEG, Anna University, March 8, 2018 to April 12, 2018
  12. One day awareness workshop on "Intellectual Property Rights", MIT Campus, Anna University Chennai-44, 2^nd February 2018.
  13. One day workshop on " An Overview of Medical Device Regulations" Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, April 6^th 2017.
  14. Attended “4^th International conference on Signal Processing, Communication and Networking” (ICSCN 2017), Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, March 16-18, 2017.
  15. Two week ISTE STTP on " CMOS , mixed signal and radio frequency VLSI Design , conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from 30^th January 2017 to 4^th February 2017.
  16. Two week ISTE STTP on “Introduction to Design of Algorithms” conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from 27^th April to 30^th May 2015 at Anna University, CEG Campus.
  17. Attended “3^rd International conference on Signal Processing, Communication and Networking” (ICSCN 2015), Department of Electronics Engineering & AU- KBC Research centre, MIT Campus, 26^th -28^th March 2015.
  18. Attended two days workshop on “Machine learning in computer vision” Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, 29^th and 30^th January, 2015.
  19. Attended seven days Faculty Development Programme on “Signals and systems” conducted by Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, 23^rd June- 29^th June, 2014.
  20. Attended faculty development training program on “Digital image processing” conducted by Department of IT, MIT Campus, Anna University, 4^th to 10^th December, 2012.
  21. Attended two days workshop on Image Processing framework using FPGA sponsored by Enix Technology India Pvt. Ltd., conducted by Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, 15 & 16^th October, 2012.
  22. Attended two days UGC sponsored “Workshop on soft computing” conducted by Department of Information Technology, MIT Campus, Anna University, March 21^st and 22^nd, 2012.
  23. Attended AICTE sponsored staff development programme on “Robotics technology for manufacturing” conducted by Department of Production Technology, MIT Campus, Anna University, 10^th December to 23^rd December 2011.
  24. Attended 2-week “ISTE workshop on Basic Electronics” conducted by IIT Bombay, at CEG, Anna University, 28^th June – 8^th July, 2011.
  25. Attended seven days faculty development program on “Data mining and data ware housing” at college of engineering, Anna University, 23^rd- 31^st May, 2011.
  26. Attended three days international workshop on “ Biomedical sciences and technologies (IWBMST 2011)” , organized by Centre for medical electronics, Department of physics, Crystal growth centre, centre for biotechnology, centre for international affairs, centre for research and CPEES, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2^nd - 4^th March 2011.
  27. Attended one day workshop on “Pattern Recognition” organized by Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University Chennai, 19^th March, 2010.
  28. Attended one day national seminar on “Research challenges in wireless sensor networks” organized by Department of electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, 3^rd March 2010.
  29. Attended three days “National symposium on instrumentation (NSI-34) & International conference on Instrumentation (ICI-2009)” sponsored by Instrument society of India, 21^st – 23^rd January 2010.
  30. Attended two week ISTE workshop on “Effective teaching/ learning of computer programming” conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 14^th – 24^th December, 2009.
  31. Attended three days workshop on “Content based Image retrieval and fusion” organized by International affairs and Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT, Anna University, 7th – 9^th August, 2009.
  32. Attended four days “International conference (IPCV 2009), WORLDCOMP’09”, Las Vegas, Nevada , USA, July 13-16^th, 2009
  33. Attended two days symposium on “Keyhole techniques in medicine” held at MIOT hospitals, Chennai, 7^th & 8^th February 2009.
  34. Attended four days Training program on “Recent Advances in Unmanned Air vehicles” September 22^nd -25^th, 2008.
  35. Attended four days workshop on “Trends in image and video processing” organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, December 12^th- 15^th, 2007.
  36. Attended two days workshop on “Electro-magnetic Theory–Revisited” at Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT, January 26^th-27^th, 2007.
  37. Attended one day workshop on “Effective teaching” at College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy, Chennai, March 16^th, 2006.
  38. Attended two days INAE workshop on “Image and speech processing” at IIT Chennai during February 27^th-28^th, 2006.

   

• Research guidance

  Ph. D students completed:  5

  (i)   A.R. Jac Fredo, Reg.No: 1114339714/ Ph.D/ AR3 

  Date of Joining: 25.07. 2011

  Title of the thesis: Segmentation and analysis of subcortical regions in autistic MR brain using multiphase levelsets and morphometric features, Viva -voce conducted on 14.01.2016.

   

        (ii)   M. Kayalvizhi, Reg.No: 1124439126 /Ph.D/ AR9

  Date of Joining: 10.01.2011

  Title of the thesis:Analysis of sub-anatomical regions in alzheimer's brain MR images using level sets and Minkowski functionals, Viva-voce conducted on 16.08.2016

   

       (iii)  J.Thamil selvi, Reg.No: 1124419702/Ph.D./AR12 - as Joint Supervisor

  Date of Joining: 09.06.2011

  Title of the thesis:Extraction and validation of Edge maps for Breast thermal image
  segmentation using Level sets, Viva-voce conducted on 12.10.2018.

   

    (iv)  M. Latha,Reg. No: 1422439905/ Ph.D /AR12           

  Date of Joining: 28.06.2014           

  Title of the thesis: Severity analysis in schizophrenic brain magnetic resonance images using
              radiomic features and metaheuristic algorithms, Viva – voce conducted on 17.12.2019.

   

       (v)   M.Muthulakshmi, Reg.No. 16243397109/Ph.D

  Date of Joining: 05.06.2016

  Title of the thesis: Cardiovascular Disorder Severity Analysis in Magnetic Resonance Images using Texture Features and Metaheuristic Classification Algorithms '' Viva- voce Conducted On 24.03.2022

   

  Ph. D students (on Roll): 3

   

             (i) Ms. N. Ahana Priyanka Reg. No. 17244391369/Ph.D /AR9 Date of Joining: 27.12.2016

             (ii) Mrs. S. Alagu, Reg. No. 18244391499 (As Joint supervisor)

             (iii) Mrs. V.Padmavathi, Reg. No. 21244397137, Month / Year of Joining: July 2021 

   

  M.S students (Completed): 2

  As Supervisor: 1

  (i) P.M. Rajeshwari, Reg. No:1125438106/M.S/AR3

  Title of the M.S work: Swarm intelligence based segmentation for detection of underwater targets in SONAR images

  As Joint supervisor: 1

  (i) A. Malarkodi, Reg. No: 2924438706/M.S/AR11

        Title of the M.S work: Analysis of acoustic back scattered signals for classification of underwater objects.

• Fellowship / Awards/ Recognition

  • Grant of Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF) - Under Visvesvaraya Ph.D Programme of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Meity, Government of India, January 2019. 

   

  Best paper awards

  1. Latha and G.Kavitha(2017), Springer Second prize in the best paper category in Computational Processing and Analysis (Symposium A) at  International conference on Next Gen Electronic Technologies :silicon to Software (ICNETS²), March 23^rd -25^th 2017.
  2. Srikalaivani and G.Kavitha(2018) Proceedings of the 10^th National conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’18), 6th -7th April 2018, (best paper award).
  3. Latha and G.Kavitha(2016), ‘Study of  Schizophrenia disorders in MR brain images using histogram based active contour and Zernike moments’ Proceedings of the 8^th National conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’16), 29^th -30^th April 2016, pp.360-365, (best paper award).
  4. Arthy and G.Kavitha(2016) , ‘Assessment of breast mammograms using multi-scale local region based level set and support vector machine’ Proceedings of the 8^th National conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’16), 29^th - 30^th April 2016, pp.13-17, (best paper award).
  5. Rajeswari and G.Kavitha (2015),‘An intensity –Texture based level set method for segmentation and analysis of optic disc in retinal mages’ Proceedings of the 7^thNational conference on signal Processing, Communication and VLSI design (NCSCV’15), 24^th-25^th April 2015,pp.606-611, (best paper award).
  6. Divya and G. Kavitha(2013) ‘Detection of multiple sclerosis lesions in brain MR images using Self-Organizing maps and expectation maximization based techniques’  on 5^thNational conference on signal processing, communications and VLSI design, NCSCV’13, Anna University Coimbatore, pp.354 -358, (best paper award). 

   

  Recognition

  Reviewer in the following Journals:

  1. Computers in Biology and Medicine,  Elsevier
  2. Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Elsevier
  3. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Elsevier.
  4. IRBM, Elsevier
  5. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
  6. International Journal of Automation and Computing

• Additional Responsibilities

  • Committee member of the review meeting for Anna Centenary Research Fellowship
  • Served as Chief Superintendent for PG Regular exams (Dec 2018) and for PG Supplementary exams (March 2019)
  • Personality Development Association, MIT Campus - Staff Advisor (2017 - 2018)
  • Guided students for CTDT projects during 2013-2014, 2017-2018
  • Department consultative committee member (2015-2018)
  • Served as Department co-coordinator for NBA (2013 to 2017)
  • Faculty Advisor (2004 -Till date)
  • NRI counsellor (2010-2013)
  • Involved in the Purchase of equipment for the department labs during 2013-2014
  • Committee member for curriculum and syllabus revision (Regulation -2012)
  • Served as Electronics Engineering Association President during 2010-2011.
  • Served as  B.E project co-ordinator during 2010-2011
  • Served as coordinator and co co-ordinator for workshops conducted in the Department
  • Principal Investigator  at MIT for collaborative project sponsored by DST, SERB
  • Scrutiny member for  Ph.D admission & interview – selection committee member 2011 - 2012
  • Selection committee member for Ph.D /M.S (by Research) interview (Jan 2013 session)
  • Served as one of the Department coordinator for NAAC 
  • Served  as member of the inspection committee.