EVENTS DURING Q1, 2004

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Special Lecture

A special lecture on “Multiparameter Medical Imaging and Image Analysis: Current Research and Future Trends” by Atam P. Dhawan was held on 24th March 2004 at 4.00 p.m in ECE Department, IISc Bangalore.

 Abstract

Since the advent of x-rays, medical Imaging and computerized image analysis have made significant contributions in diagnostic radiology and health care. Several imaging modalities have been developed to acquire anatomical and physiological information about human body and organs. These modalities differ in basic principles of image acquisition but provide, in most cases, complementary information to define a physiological process. It is important to acquire and analyze all of the  information describing the specific anatomical and functional behavior for diagnosis, treatment and therapeutic intervention. It becomes apparent that synergetic multidisciplinary efforts involving researchers from medicine, biological sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and computer science are needed for further advancement of existing imaging technologies. Such a synergy is also needed to invent new multiparameter imaging technologies to improve understanding and modeling of physiological behavior which could be used for early diagnosis of specific diseases and to devise better methods of treatment, intervention and clinical management. Future trends may include a virtual environment of interactions among researchers and clinicians through global databases and information processing modules involving models, simulations and clinical trials.

 STUDENT ACTIVITIES

 During the AGM 2003 held on 14th Feb. 2004 at Hotel Taj Residency, Student Paper Contest prizes were given away for the B.R.Varadan Memorial Student Paper contest held in Nov. 2003.

During the AGM announcement was made and appreciation was placed on record for the following student awards:

Mr. Mukund Venkataram of Golden Valley Institute of Technology, KGF, Kolar bagged the First Prize in Region 10 Undergraduate Student Paper Contest for 2003 for his paper “On A TCP-friendly Linear Congestion Control Algorithm for Real Time Streaming Applications”.

Mr. A.G. Krishna of Indian Institute of Science won the Second Prize in the All India M.V. Chauhan Student Paper Contest held during ACE 2003 at Pune.

2nd IEEE Region10 Student Congress 2004

 On 24th March 2004 announcement of the call for participation of the Second IEEE Region10 Student Congress 2004 proposed to be held on 16-18th July 2004 at Hongkong was  given wide circulation amongst the student branches in Karnataka.  The last date for sending nominations to the Student Activities Chair IEEE Bangalore Section was 2nd April 2004.

IEEE Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits Society Bangalore Chapter

The first event for the year 2004 was an IEEE Distinguished Lecture  by Prof. Cor Claeys, KU Leuven, Belgium. This was held on 8th January 2004. The topic of his talk was “Technological Challenges of Advanced CMOS Processing and their Impact on Design Aspects”.   He stressed the importance of strong connection between process technologists and designers in the deep sub-micron era.

 A two day extended short course on Data Converters was presented by Prof. Paul G. Jespers,  KU Leuven, Belgium on January 14th and 16th.  On 14th he explained the design issues in “Integrated D to A converters”. On 16th, he discussed about “Integrated A to D converters” and “Sigma-Delta Converters”. There were about  80 attendees from academia and industry. He also spent time discussing with the students at the Indian Institute of Science and giving them a demo of matlab toolbox useful in performance analysis of data converters. He also visited Texas Instruments India office and discussed with the designers at TI.

 The ED/SSC chapter received the outstanding chapter of the year award (2003) by the Solid State Circuits Society, which was presented during the ISSCC 2004 at San Franscisco, USA on February 16, 2004.