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Dr. Neeraj Sharma

Professor

School of Biomedical Engineering IIT BHU

Phone No(s): 9235633730

Email: neeraj.bme@iitbhu.ac.in

Area of Interest: Bioinstrumentation, Biomedical Signal and image Processing.

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Professor

Ex Coordinator

School of Bio-Medical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU),

Varanasi, India 221005

Ex Coordinator, Design and Innovation Centre, MHRD project

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India

Phone: +91-9235633730 (Mobile), Email: neeraj.bme@iitbhu.ac.in,

Education:

Ph. D Biomedical Engineering (Instrumentation),

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) (Formerly, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India

Title of Thesis: Segmentation of CT and MR Images of Brain and Liver Using Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques

M. Tech. Instrumentation,

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India.

B. Tech. Electrical Engineering,

National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.

Fellowships/Life Memberships of Professional Societies:

Life member of Association of Medical Physicist of India.
Life member of Indian Society of Technical Education

Research Interests:

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Applications to Medical Image and Signal Processing
Biomedical Instrumentation System Design
Reliability and its Application to Medical Field
Optimization in Radiotherapy treatment planning
Electro-optical Instrumentation
Thin film-based Biosensors
Design and Development of Prosthetic Devices.

Journal Publications:

S Tripathi, N Sharma, "AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF COVID-19 AND VIRAL PNEUMONIA IN X-RAY IMAGES USING DEEP LEARNING APPROACH", Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications 35 (02), 2350001, 2023.
P Kumar C, LM Aggarwal, S Bhasi, N Sharma, "Unified Dosimetry Quality Audit Index: an integrated Monte Carlo model-based quality assurance ranking for radiotherapy treatment of glioblastoma multiforme", Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 178 (3-4), pp 258-299, 2023.
Neeraj Sharma, Alok Prakash, Shiru Sharma, "An optoelectronic muscle contraction sensor for prosthetic hand application", Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol 94, pp 035009-1-9, 2023.
Mahatim Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Rakesh Mondal, Preetam Singh, Rajiv Prakash and Neeraj Sharma, "Combustion-Synthesized KNiPO₄: A Non-toxic, Robust, Intercalating Battery-Type Pseudocapacitive Electrode for Hybrid Supercapacitors as a Large-Scale Energy Storage Solution", American Chemical Society, Energy and Fuels, Vol. 37, pp 4094- 4015, 2023.
Taresh Sarvesh Sharan∗, Romel Bhattacharjee∗, Alok Tiwari, Shiru Sharma and Neeraj Sharma, "Cascaded Model (Conventional + Deep Learning) for Weakly Supervised Segmentation of Left Ventricle in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images", 2023, VOL. 40, NO. 1, 63–75, IETE TECHNICAL REVIEW, 2023.
Alok Tiwari, Taresh Sarvesh Sharan, Shiru Sharma & Neeraj Sharma, “Deep learning-based automated multiclass classification of chest X-rays into Covid-19, normal, bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia”, Journal, Cogent Engineering, Volume 9, Issue 1,Pages 2105559-2105577, 2022.
Pankaj K.Jain , NeerajSharma , Mannudeep K.Kalra, AmerJohri , LucaSaba , Jasjit S.Suri, “Far wall plaque segmentation and area measurement in common and internal carotid artery ultrasound using U-series architectures: An unseen Artificial Intelligence paradigm for stroke risk assessment”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 149, pages 106017-37, 2022.
Pankaj K Jain, Abhishek Dubey, Luca Saba, Narender N Khanna, John R Laird, Andrew Nicolaides, Mostafa M Fouda, Jasjit S Suri, Neeraj Sharma, “Attention-Based UNet Deep Learning Model for Plaque Segmentation in Carotid Ultrasound for Stroke Risk Stratification: An Artificial Intelligence Paradigm”, Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease 9 (10), 326, 2022.
A Prakash, N Sharma, AK Katiyar, SK Dubey, S Sharma, "Magnetic-based detection of muscular contraction for controlling hand prosthesis", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 344, pages113709, 2022.
Taresh Sarvesh Sharan, Romel Bhattacharjee, Alok Tiwari, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma,"Cascaded Model (Conventional + Deep Learning) for Weakly Supervised Segmentation of Left Ventricle in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images", IETE Technical Review, Vol. 1 pages 1-13,2022.
Nilmani, PK Jain, N Sharma, MK Kalra, K Viskovic, L Saba, JS Suri, ”Four Types of Multiclass Frameworks for Pneumonia Classification and Its Validation in X-ray Scans Using Seven Types of Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Models”, Diagnostics Vol.12 (3), pages 652, 2022.
R Bhattacharjee, A Verma, N Sharma, S Sharma, "Non-rigid registration (computed tomography-ultrasound) of liver using B-splines and free form deformation", International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 39 (4) ,pages 327-346, 2022.
Pankaj K Jain, Neeraj Sharma, Mannudeep K Kalra, Klaudija Viskovic, Luca Saba, Jasjit S Suri, “Four Types of Multiclass Frameworks for Pneumonia Classification and Its Validation in X-ray Scans Using Seven Types of Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Models”, Diagnostics, Vol. 12 Issue 3, pages 652-684, 2022.
Pankaj K Jain, Neeraj Sharma, Argiris A Giannopoulos, Luca Saba, Andrew Nicolaides, Jasjit S Suri, Hybrid deep learning segmentation models for atherosclerotic plaque in internal carotid artery B-mode ultrasound, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol 136, 104721. 2021.
B Jena, S Saxena, GK Nayak, L Saba, N Sharma, JS Suri, Artificial intelligence-based hybrid deep learning models for image classification: The first narrative review, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol 137, 104803, 2021.
S Negi, U Sagar, VK Nautiyal, N Sharma, Design and analysis of magneto-rheological damper based ankle-foot prosthesis prototype, Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IR-04-2021.
TS Sharan, S Tripathi, S Sharma, N Sharma, Encoder modified U-net and feature pyramid network for multi-class segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance images, IETE Technical Review, 1-13, 2021.
Sumit Tripathi, Neeraj Sharma, Denoising of Magnetic Resonance Images Using Discriminative Learning-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Technology and healthcare. 2021.
Luca Saba, Skandha S Sanagala, Suneet K Gupta, Vijaya K Koppula, Amer M Johri, Narendra N Khanna, Sophie Mavrogeni, John R Laird, Gyan Pareek, Martin Miner, Petros P Sfikakis, Athanasios Protogerou, Durga P Misra, Vikas Agarwal, Aditya M Sharma, Vijay Viswanathan, Vijay S Rathore, Monika Turk, Raghu Kolluri, Klaudija Viskovic, Elisa Cuadrado-Godia, George D Kitas, Neeraj Sharma, Andrew Nicolaides, Jasjit S Suri, Multimodality carotid plaque tissue characterization and classification in the artificial intelligence paradigm: a narrative review for stroke application, Annals of Translational Medicine, Vol 9 (14), 2021.
A Prakash, N Sharma, S Sharma, An affordable transradial prosthesis based on force myography sensor, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 325, 112699, 2021.
Sumit Tripathi, Taresh Sarvesh Sharan, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma, An Augmented Deep Learning Network with Noise Suppression feature for Efficient Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images. Journal: IETE Technical Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1080/02564602.2021.1937349, 2021.
Sumit Tripathi, Neeraj Sharma, Computer-aided Automatic Approach for Denoising of Magnetic Resonance Images. Journal: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2020.1818628, 2021.
Negi, S., Sharma, S. and Sharma, N., "FSR and IMU sensors-based human gait phase detection and its correlation with EMG signal for different terrain walk", Sensor Review, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 235-245. https://doi.org/ 10.1108/SR-10-2020-0249. 2021.
U Kasiviswanathan, C Kumar, S Poddar, S Jit, N Sharma, SK Mahto, Extended Large Area Si/ZnO Heterojunction Biosensor for Assessing Functional Behaviour of Primary Cortical Neuronal Cells, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021.
U Kasiviswanathan, CK Balavigneswaran, C Kumar, S Poddar, S Jit, Aluminium Oxide Thin-Film based in vitro Cell-Substrate Sensing Device for Monitoring Proliferation of Myoblast Cells, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 2021.
R Bhattacharjee, F Heitz, V Noblet, S Sharma, N Sharma, Evaluation of a Learning-based Deformable Registration Method on Abdominal CT Images, IRBM 42 (2), 94-105, 2021.
U Kasiviswanathan, C Kumar, S Poddar, S Jit, N Sharma, SK Mahto, Functional Behaviour of the Primary Cortical Neuronal Cells on the Large Surface of TiO2 and SnO2 based Biosensing Device, IEEE Transactions on Nano Bioscience, 2021.
Luca Saba, Skandha S Sanagala, Suneet K Gupta, Vijaya K Koppula, John R Laird, Vijay Viswanathan, Miguel J Sanches, George D Kitas, Amer M Johri, Neeraj Sharma, Andrew Nicolaides, Jasjit S Suri, A Multicenter Study on Carotid Ultrasound Plaque Tissue Characterization and Classification Using Six Deep Artificial Intelligence Models: A Stroke Application IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70, 1-12, 2021.
TS Sharan, S Sharma, N Sharma, Denoising and spike removal from Raman spectra using double density dual-tree complex wavelet transform, Journal of Applied Spectroscopy 88 (1), 117-124, 2021.
Negi, S., Negi, P.C., Sharma, S. and Sharma, N., Human locomotion classification for different terrains using machine learning techniques. Critical ReviewsTM in Biomedical Engineering, 48(4), 2020.
Sumit Tripathi, Ashish Verma, Neeraj Sharma, Automatic segmentation of brain tumor in MR images using an enhanced deep learning approach. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2020.
Negi, S., CBS Negi, P., Sharma, S., and Sharma, N., Electromyographic and acceleration signals-based gait phase analysis for multiple terrain classification using deep learning. International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 11(6), 2020.
Venkatesh, Vishal, Neeraj Sharma, Vivek Srivastava, and Munendra Singh. "Unsupervised smoke to desmoked laparoscopic surgery images using contrast driven Cyclic-Desmoke GAN." Computers in Biology and Medicine 123: 103873, 2020.
V Venkatesh, N Sharma, M Singh, Intensity inhomogeneity correction of MRI images using InhomoNet, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 84, 101748, 2020.
U Kasiviswanathan, S Poddar, C Kumar, S Jit, SK Mahto, N Sharma, A portable standalone wireless electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) system for assessing dynamic behavior of mammalian cells, Journal of Analytical Science and Technology 11 (1), 1-12, 2020.
Uvanesh Kasiviswanathan, Chandan Kumar, Suruchi Poddar, Satyabrata Jit, Sanjeev Kumar Mahto, Neeraj Sharma: “Fabrication of MSM Based Biosensing Device for Assessing Dynamic Behavior of Adherent Mammalian Cells”. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 20, no. 17, pp. 9652-9659, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.2990919
Uvanesh Kasiviswanathan, Suruchi Poddar, Chandan Kumar, Satyabrata Jit, Sanjeev Kumar Mahto, Neeraj Sharma: “A Portable Standalone Wireless Electric Cell–Substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) System for Assessing Dynamic Behaviour of Mammalian Cells”. Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, Springer Open; Volume 11; Article number 25 (2020); DOI: 10.1186/s40543-020-00223-9
Gaurav Kumar, Uvanesh Kasiviswanathan, Sumedha Mukherjee, Sanjeev Kumar Mahto, Neeraj Sharma, Ranjana Patnaik: “Changes in electrolyte concentrations alter the impedance during ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat brain", Physiological Measurements, IOP 2019 Oct 30; 40(10):105004; DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ab47ee;
Prakash, Alok, Ajay Kumar Sahi, Neeraj Sharma, and Shiru Sharma. 2020. “Force Myography Controlled Multifunctional Hand Prosthesis for Upper-Limb Amputees.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 62 (September): 102122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102122.
Prakash, Alok, Neeraj Sharma, and Shiru Sharma. 2020. “Novel Force Myography Sensor to Measure Muscle Contractions for Controlling Hand Prostheses.” Instrumentation Science & Technology 48 (1): 43–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/10739149.2019.1655441.
H Shakya, S Sharma, N Sharma, The efficacy of mechanical cervical traction for cervical spondylosis patients, International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics 12 (6), 591-598, 2020.
Anuranjeeta, S Sharma, N Sharma, M Singh, KK Shukla, Enhancement and segmentation of histopathological images of cancer using dynamic stochastic resonance, International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics 12 (2), 180-193, 2020.
Sharma, Neeraj, Alok Prakash, Ajay Kumar Sahi, Neeraj Sharma, and Shiru Sharma. 2020. “Multimodal Sensor to Measure the Concurrent Electrical and Mechanical Activity of Muscles for Controlling a Hand Prosthesis.” Instrumentation Science & Technology, August, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10739149.2020.1804932.
Singh, Munendra, Vishal Venkatesh, Ashish Verma, and Neeraj Sharma. "Segmentation of MRI data using multi-objective antlion based improved fuzzy c-means." Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 40, no. 3 (2020): 1250-1266.
Negi, S., Negi, P.C., Sharma, S. and Sharma, N., 2020. Human Locomotion Classification for Different Terrains Using Machine Learning Techniques. Critical Reviews™ in Biomedical Engineering, 48(4).
A Prakash, S Sharma, N Sharma, A compact-sized surface EMG sensor for myoelectric hand prosthesis, Biomedical engineering letters 9 (4), 467-479, 2019.
Singh, M., Verma, A., & Sharma, N. (2018). Optimized multi-stable stochastic resonance for the enhancement of pituitary microadenoma in MRI. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22(3), 862 – 873. SCI, IF:3.85
Singh, M., Verma, A. & Sharma, N., Multi-objective noise estimator for the application of de-noising and segmentation of MRI data. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. Vol. 46, 249-259 (2018), SCI, IF: 2.78.
Munendra Singh, Ashish Verma, Neeraj Sharma, “BAT optimization based neuron model of stochastic resonance for the enhancement of MR images.” Biocybernatics and Biomedical Engineering, 37, no. 1 (2017):124-134. SCI, IF: 1.021
Singh, M., Sharma, S., Verma, A., & Sharma, N. (2017). Enhancement and Intensity Inhomogeneity Correction of Diffusion-Weighted MR Images of Neonatal and Infantile Brain Using Dynamic Stochastic Resonance. Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 37(4), 508-518. SCI, IF:0.989
A Kajaria, N Sharma, S Sharma, S Pradhan, M Abhijit, L Aggarwal, “Monte Carlo study of a flattening filter-free 6 MV photon beam using the BEAMnrc code”, Biomedical Research 28 (4), 2017.
S Saxena, S Sharma, N Sharma, Study of Parallel Image Processing with the Implementation of vHGW Algorithm using CUDA on NVIDIA’S GPU Framework, Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering, 2017
Munendra Singh, Neeraj Sharma, Ashish Verma and Shiru Sharma, “Dynamic Stochastic Resonance based diffusion-weighted MR image enhancement using multi-objective PSO.” Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering (Springer), 36, no. 6 (2016): 891-900.
Munendra Singh, Shiru Sharma, Ashish Verma, Neeraj Sharma, “Enhancement and Intensity Inhomogeneity Correction of Diffusion-weighted MR image of Neonatal and infantile brain using Dynamic Stochastic Resonance”, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering (Springer), March 2016.
Saxena S., Sharma N., Sharma S., Parallel Image Processing Techniques, Benefits and Limitations, Research Journal of Applied Science, Engineering & Technology, 12(2), 223- 238, 2016.
A Kajaria , N. Sharma, S Sharma, S Pradhan, A Mandal, L Aggarwal, Study of unflattened photon beams shaped by multileaf collimator using BEAMnrc code Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, Vol. 15(4), 2016.
A Kajaria, N Sharma, S Sharma, S Pradhan, A Mandal, LM Aggarwal, “Study of the dosimetric properties of an unflattened 6-MV photon beam by using the BEAMnrc code”, Journal of the Korean Physical Society 69 (4), 2016.
A Kajaria, N Sharma, S Sharma, S Pradhan, A Mandal, LM Aggarwal, “Analysis of Radiation Transport through Multileaf Collimators Using BEAMnrc Code”, American Journal of Biomedical Engineering 6 (4), 124-131, 2106.
Ankit kajaria, Neeraj Sharma, Shiru Sharma, Satyajit Pradhan, Lalit.M.Aggarwal^,“Monte Carlo calculation of 6 MV Varian Linac photon beam spectral characteristics using the BEAM code” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 11(14), 2016.
Subhash Chand Kheruka, Lalit Mohan Aggarwal, Neeraj Sharma, Umesh Chand Naithani, Anil Kumar Maurya, Sanjay Gambhir, “Evaluation of single-photon emission computed tomography images obtained with and without copper filter by segmentation”, Vol. 31(2), 2016.
Saxena S., Sharma S., Sharma N., Verma A., An Automated System for Atlas Based Multiple Organ Segmentation of Abdominal CT images, British Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 12(1), 1-14, 2016.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Noninvasive blood glucose measurement utilizing a newly designed system based on modulated ultrasound and infrared light’, International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries; Springer, 1-10, December 2015. DOI 10.1007/s13410-015-0459-0.
Saxena S., Sharma N., Sharma S., “Multithreaded Approach for Registration of Medical Images using Mutual Information in Multicore Environment and its Applications in Medical Imaging ” in International Journal of Computer Application,vol. 113(3):23-32, March 2015.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Error Grid Analysis of Reference and Predicted Blood Glucose Level values as obtained from the Normal and Prediabetic Human Volunteers’, American Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 5(1); 2015, pp.6-14.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘The Error Grid Analysis of invasive and indigenously developed noninvasive technique based blood glucose readings obtained from the effect of various glucose concentration sample solutions over blood glucose levels on the human subjects’, Research Journal of Biotechnology. Vol. 10(1), January, 2015.pp.76-84.
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., ‘The utilization of ultrasonic standing waves for predicting glucose concentration levels in dextrose mixed intralipid based tissue phantom’, Research Journal of Biotechnology, Vol.10(6), 50-56,
Saxena S., Sharma N., Sharma S., “A Significant Approach for Implementing Parallel Image Processing using MATLAB with Java Threads and Its Implementation in Segmentation using Otsu’s-Method-in-Multi-Core-Environment” in-International Journal of Applied Engineering and Research, Vol. 10, No 17, pp. 37651 – 37657, 2015.
Saxena S., Sharma N., Sharma S., “Parallel Computing in Genetic Algorithm (GA) with The Parallel Solution of n Queen’s Problem Based on GA in Multicore Architecture” in International Journal of Applied Engineering and Research, Vol 10, No 17, pp. 37707–37716, 2015.
Subodh Srivastava, Neeraj Sharma, S.K. Singh “Quantitative analysis of a general framework of a CAD tool for breast cancer detection from mammograms”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI), Vol. 4, pp. 1-21, 2014.
O.P.Singh, S.K.Saraf, I.S,Gambhir, Gaurav-Singh, Er.Anup-Sam-Mathew, Neeraj-Sharma,The Effect of Knee Sleeve on Loading Response Phase of Normal Gait, Indian Journal of Movement Education and Exercises Sciences (IJMEES), Bi-annual Refereed Journal, Vol. IV No. 1 January-June 2014
Subodh Srivastava, Neeraj Shrama,and S.K. Singh “ A combined approach for the enhancement and segmentation of mammograms using modified fuzzy C-means method in wavelet domain” , Journal of Medical Physics, Vol. 39, No. 3, 169-83, 2014. (In PubMed).
Subodh Srivastava, Neeraj Sharma, S. K. Singh, ”Fusion of SFS-SVM feature selection methods using robust rank aggregation for optimal feature subset selection for mammogram classification,” International Journal of Enhanced Research in Science Technology & Engineering, ISSN: 2319-7463 Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp: (171-176), 2014.
Subodh Srivastava, Neeraj Sharma, S.K. Singh, ”Empirical Analysis of supervised and unsupervised filter based feature selection methods for breast cancer classification from digital mammograms,” International Journal of computer Applications, (0975-8887) Volume No . 88-N0.8 February , 2014.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Estimation of fasting Blood glucose levels by invasive and indigenously developed noninvasive technology and its correlation with the glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) biomarker in healthy and diabetic subjects’, Research Journal of Biotechnology, Vol. 9(12), pp.64-71, 2014.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Prospective Analysis of Developing Noninvasive Blood Glucose Monitoring Biosensors for Diabetic population’, Bioscience Biotechnology Research Asia, December 2014. Vol. 11(3), pp.593-602, 2014.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘The role of amplitude modulated ultrasonic standing waves in noninvasive blood glucose level detections’, Advances in Bio Research, Vol 5 (4) December 2014, pp.103-109.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Five days daily sessions of noninvasive blood glucose level predictions based on amplitude modulated ultrasound and infrared technique over a healthy and diabetic subject’, Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vol.5.Ver. IV , Sep-Oct, 2014, pp-34-41.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘The potential application of amplitude modulated ultrasound with Infrared Technique for blood glucose level determination in non invasive manner’. Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal, Vol.7, No.1, June, 2014 , pp.195-206.
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., ‘Measurement of Glucose Concentration using Amplitude Modulated Ultrasound with Infrared Technique in Intralipid Phantoms and Human Whole Blood mixed intralipid phantom of Healthy and Diabetic Subjects’, Bioscience Biotechnology Research Asia, August 2014. Vol. 11(2), 593-602 (2014).
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., ‘Determination of glucose concentration in various optical phantoms by indigenously developed ultrasound collaborated infrared technology’, Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal, Vol. 7(2), 727-736 (2014).
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., ‘The viability of Intralipid optical phantom for developing noninvasive blood glucometer’. Adv. Biores., Vol 5 (4), pp 80-87, 2014.
Srivastava, S., Sharma, N., Singh, S.K., ‘Design, analysis and classifier evaluation for a CAD tool for breast cancer detection from digital mammograms’, Int. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 13,No. 3, pp. 270–300, 2013.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘The influence of blood glucose level upon the transport of light in diabetic and non-diabetic subjects’. International Journal of Biomedical and Advance Research, 4(5), May, 2013 pp.306-316.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Challenges & Countermeasures in Optical Noninvasive Blood Glucose Detection’, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJIRSET), Vol.2, Issue 1, Jan, 2013., pp.324-329.
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., ‘Blood Glucose Monitoring Using Non Invasive Optical Method: Design Limitations and Challenges’, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (IJAREEIE),Vol. 2, Issue 1, Jan 2013, pp.615-620.
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, S., Sharma, N., ‘Optical Clearance Effect Determination of Glucose by near Infrared Technique: An Experimental Study using An Intralipid Based Tissue Phantom’, International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET), Volume 6 Issue 3, pp. 1097-1108, July 2013.
Sanjay Saxena, Neeraj Sharma, Shiru Sharma, “Image processing tasks using parallel computing in multicore architecture & its application in medical imaging ” in international journal of advance research in computer and communication in engineering(IJARCCE), Vol. 2, issue 4, April 2013.
Sanjay Saxena, Neeraj Sharma and Shiru Sharma , “Region wise processing of an image using multithreading in multi core environment & its application in medical imaging”, in International journal of Computer Engineering & Technology (IJCET).Volume:4,Issue:4,Pages:20-30, 2013.
A. Srivastava, Md. K. Chowdhury, S. Sharma, N. Sharma, ‘Optical Clearance Effect Determination of Glucose by near Infrared Technique: An Experimental Study using An Intralipid Based Tissue Phantom’, International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET), Volume 6 Issue 3, pp. 1097-1108, July 2013.
A.Srivastava, Md.K.Chowdhury, S.Sharma, N.Sharma, “Blood Glucose Monitoring Using Non Invasive Optical Method: Design Limitations and Challenges”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (IJAREEIE), Vol. 2, issue 1, Jan 2013, pp.615-620. (Impact factor 1.686).
Subodh Srivastava, R. Srivastava, N. Sharma et al., “A Fourth-order PDE based
Nonlinear Filter for Speckle Reduction from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)Images”, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Inderscience Publications, UK., Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.55–69, 2012.
Neeraj Sharma, and Shiru Sharma, ‘Bio-inspired optimization techniques and their application to biomedical engineering’, Indian journal of industrial and applied mathematics, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp 114-127, (2012).
Mousumi Dhara , K.K.Shukla, and Neeraj Sharma, “A critical Comparison of Graph Clustering Algorithms Using the K-clique Percolation Technique”, International Journal of Engineering Research and Development, Volume 3, Issue 7 (September 2012), pp 15-19.
P. Bhattacharya, A. K. Pandey, N. Sharma, J. P. Tiwari, R. Patnaik, S. Paul, “A Strategic Application Of Fast Fourier Transform As A Novel Tool To Evaluate The Extent Of Neuronal Insult In Rat Model Of Focal Cerebral Ischemia”, Bangladesh Journal of Medical Physics , Vol. 5, No.1, pp 29-36, 2012.
Subodh Srivastava, R. Srivastava, N. Sharma et al., “A nonlinear complex diffusion based filter adapted to Rayleigh’s speckle noise for de-speckling ultrasound images”, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Inderscience Publications, UK., Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.101–117, 2012. (In Scopus).
Shiru Sharma, Ranjana Patnaik, Neeraj Sharma, and Tiwari, J.P. ‘Simulated annealing based PSO with adaptive jump strategy for modelling of dynamic cerebral pressure auto regulation’, International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp 225-237, (2011).
Neeraj Sharma and Lalit M Aggarwal, ‘Automated medical image segmentation techniques’, Journal of Medical Physics, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp 3-14, (2010). (Impact factor 0.754)
Shiru Sharma, Ranjana Patnaik, Sharma, Neeraj, and Tiwari, J.P. ‘Modelling of dynamic cerebral pressure autoregulation using sequential genetic algorithm’, Int. J. Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation, Vol.1,No.4, pp 299-315, (2010).
Neeraj Sharma, Amit K Ray, Shiru Sharma, KK Shukla, Satyajit Pradhan, Lalit M Aggarwal, ‘Segmentation of medical images using Simulated Annealing Based Fuzzy C Means algorithm’, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp 260-278, (2009).
Neeraj Sharma, Amit K Ray, Shiru Sharma, KK Shukla, Satyajit Pradhan, Lalit M Aggarwal, ‘Segmentation and classification of medical images using texture-primitive features: Application of BAM-type artificial neural network’, Journal of Medical Physics, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp 119-126, (2008).

Papers published in Conference Proceedings:

PCBS Negi, SS Pandey, S Sharma, N Sharma, "Classification of Gait Abnormalities Using Transfer Learning with EMG Scalogram Features", International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, 407-415, 2023.
S Tripathi, TS Sharan, S Sharma, N Sharma Segmentation of brain tumour in MR images using modified deep learning network IEEE, 8th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications (ICSCC) Kochi, Kerala, 2021.
Uvanesh Kasiviswanathan, Suruchi Poddar, Chandan Kumar, Satyabrata Jit, Sanjeev K. Mahto and Neeraj Sharma, "In-house Developed Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) System for Studying Dynamic Behaviour of Myoblast cells", Advanced Nano Materials Conference (ANM-2018), University of Aveiro, Portugal. (Support by DBT-CTEP Scheme Vide No: DBT/CTEP/02/201800285).
Singh M., Bhattacharjee R., Verma A. & Sharma N. (2017). An improved Xie-Beni index for cluster validity measure, In Image Information Processing International Conference on, (pp. 95-99). IEEE.
Singh, M., Sharma N., & Verma, A. (2017, February). Effect of image transformations on dynamic stochastic resonance based MR image enhancement. In Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2017 4th International Conference on (pp. 1-6) IEEE.
Lalit.M.Aggarwal, Ankit kajaria, Satyajit Pradhan, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma “Monte Carlo Simulation in Treatment Planning for Radiation Oncology” was communicated to “Medical Physics - Expanding the Vision, Enhancing the Capabilities” 36^th Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPI) - AMPICON 2015.
Ankit kajaria, Neeraj Sharma, Shiru Sharma, Satyajit Pradhan, Lalit.M.Aggarwal “MonteCarlo simulation model for Telecobalt machine Treatment head” was presented in International Conference on Medical Physics Radiation Protection and Radiobiology “ICMPRPR- 2K15” organised by Department of Radiological Physics, SMS Medical College, Jaipur (Raj.) and AMPI-NC.
Ankit kajaria, Neeraj Sharma, Shiru Sharma, Satyajit Pradhan, Lalit.M.Aggarwal^,“Monte Carlo study of a flattening filter-free 6 MV Varian Linac using the BEAMnrc cod” was communicated to the “37^th Annual Conference of Association of Radiation Oncologists of India” is being organized and hosted by Department of Radiotherapy, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, (India).
Lalit.M.Aggarwal, Ankit kajaria, Satyajit Pradhan, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma^,“Clinical implementation and application of Monte Carlo methods in photon and electron dose calculation” was communicated to the “37^th Annual Conference of Association of Radiation Oncologists of India” is being organized and hosted by Department of Radiotherapy, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, (India).
Ankit kajaria, Neeraj Sharma, Shiru Sharma, Satyajit Pradhan, Lalit.M.Aggarwal^, “Design of Monte Carlo simulation model for Telecobalt machine” was presented in National Conference on Present Scenario and Future Trends in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technologies, School of Biomedical Engineering IIT (BHU), Varanasi.
Chowdhury, M.K., Anuj Srivastava, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma, ‘Glycemia levels relation with blood pressure in normal and hyperglycemic subjects: Its evaluation by invasive and indigenous noninvasive glycemic level detecting technology’, IEEE International Conference on Advances in Engineering & Technology Research (ICAETR - 2014), August 01-02, 2014, Dr. Virendra Swarup Group of Institutions, Unnao, India.
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Measurement of Glucose by Using Modulating Ultrasound with Optical Technique in Normal and Diabetic Human Blood Serum, ‘IEEE International Conference on Advances in Engineering & Technology Research (ICAETR - 2014), August 01-02, 2014, Dr. Virendra Swarup Group of Institutions, Unnao, India.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘A significant analysis for noninvasive glucose biosensors’, National Conference on Present Scenario and Future Trends in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technologies (FTBH - 2014), October 17-18, 2014, School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.
Srivastava, A., Chowdhury, M.K., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Vital role of Intralipid as tissue phantom for the design and development of noninvasive blood glucometer’, National Conference on Present Scenario and Future Trends in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technologies (FTBH - 2014), October 17-18, 2014, School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.
Hemlata Shakya, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma “ECG Biofeedback System: A Survey” ICITEM- 2015 International Conference on Innovation Techniques in Engineering and Management, Lucknow (u.p.), India.
Hemlata Shakya, Shiru Sharma “A Review: Telemedicine techniques of Present Scenario”, FTBH- 2014 School of Biomedical Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi.
Sanjay Saxena, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma, “Parallel Computation of Mutual Information in Multicore Environment and Its Applications in Medical Imaging” IEEE Xplore in International Conference on Medical Imaging, m Health & Emerging Communications System, Noida, India, pp 272-277, 2014.
Sanjay Saxena, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma , “Image Registration Techniques Using Parallel Computing in Multicore Environment and Its Applications in Medical Imaging” IEEE Xplore in International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology, ICCCT, MNNIT (Moti Lal Nehru, National Institute of Technology), Allahabad, pp 97-104, 2014.
Sanjay Saxena, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma, “Parallel Approaches of Image Processing Techniques and Its implementation in Abdominal Image Segmentation” in FTBH 2014, Conference on Present Scenario and Future Trends in Biomedical Engineering and HealthCare Technology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India, 2014.
Sharma N., Saxena S., Sharma S., Agrawal L.M. , “Parallel Processing of Images in Multi Core Environment: It’s Applications in Medical Imaging” in Annual Conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India, AMPINC – CON 2014, KGMC Lucknow.
Jitendra singh parihar, Neeraj Sharma and Anchal singh “Information retrieval from derived features of GSR readings to recognize emotions” in FTBH 2014, Conference on Present Scenario and Future Trends in Biomedical Engineering and HealthCare Technology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India, 2014.
Srivastava, Subodh., Sharma, Neeraj, and S.K. Singh, Optimal feature subset selection and classification by fusion of supervised filter based selected feature sets for breast cancer classification from mammograms, In proc: 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Assistive Technologies (BEATS- 2014), Chandigarh , India. February 2014.
Sanjay Saxena, Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma, ‘An Intelligent System for Segmenting an Abdominal Image inMulticore-Architecture’, The 10^th International Conference and Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smatter World, held on 21^st and 22^nd of October 2013. CEWIT 2013, Melville Marriott, Newyork, USA.
Chowdhury, M.K., Srivastava, A., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘A Feasibility Study on Noninvasive Blood Glucose Measurement Using Amplitude Modulated Ultrasound and Infrared Technique’, The 1^0th International Conference and Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smatter World, held on 21^st and 22^nd of October 2013. CEWIT 2013, Melville Marriott, Newyork, USA.
Srivastava, A, Chowdhury, M.K.,., Sharma, N., Sharma, S., ‘Glucose Induced Voltage Amplitude Variation in Intralipid Samples of Healthy and Diabetic Subjects Using Amplitude Modulated Ultrasound with Infrared Technique’, The 10^th International Conference and Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smatter World, held on 21^st and 22^nd of October 2013. CEWIT 2013, Melville Marriott, Newyork, USA.
Subodh Srivastava, N. Sharma, R. Srivastava and S.K. Singh, “Restoration of digital mammographic images corrupted with quantum noise using an adaptive Total Variation (TV) based nonlinear filter” , In Proc. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS-12), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dec’2012, pp 125-128.
Subodh Srivastava, N. Sharma, S.K. Singh, and R. Srivastava, “Analysis of image segmentation techniques in the design of a CAD tool for early breast cancer detection from mammograms”, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft

Computing (AISC-2012), 7-9 December’2012, IIT-BHU, Varanasi.
Neeraj Sharma, Shiru Sharma, and Uppala Vikram, ‘Estimation of Convolution Masks for Image restoration using Genetic Algorithm’, presented at National conference on mathematical modelling and computer simulation, organized by Deptt of Aplied Mathematics, Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi, March 2011.
Shiru Sharma, Neeraj Sharma and Ranjana Patnaik, ‘Comparison of Genetic algorithm and Particle swarm optimization technique for modelling of physiological system’, presented at National conference on mathematical modelling and computer simulation, organized by Deptt of Aplied Mathematics, Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi, March 2011.
Sudip Paul, Neeraj Sharma, P Bhattacharya, A. K. Pandey, Shiru Sharma and Ranjana Patnaik, ‘Mathematical modelling of focal cerebral ischemia using EEG data’, in proceedings of National conference on mathematical modelling and computer simulation, organized by Deptt of Aplied Mathematics, Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi, March 2011.
Shiru Sharma and Neeraj Sharma, ‘Frequency Response Analysis of Optimized ARX Model of Physiological System (A Case Study of Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation Mechanism)’, presented at International conference on Biomedical Engineering and Assistive Technologies, organized by National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Dec 2010.
Gajendra K. Mourya,Tanmoy Mondal, H.K. Sardana , Neeraj Sharma, ‘Semi automatic landmark localization on 2D cephalometric images’, National conference on computational instrumentation (NCCI-2010), organized by CSIO Chandigarh, India. 19-20^th March 2010.
Aggarwal, L.M., Mandal,A., Sharma, N., Pradhan, S., ‘Advances in medical imaging: Boon for radiation oncology’, Proceedings of conference on Updates in Medical Physics organized by Medical physics unit, IRCH and Department of Radio diagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, pp13-16, (2007).
Jaiswal S. Ray A.K., Sharma N., and Sharma S., ‘Hazards of Electromagnetic Waves on Environment and Health’, presented at NCCE organized by Banaras Hindu University Varanasi (2007).
Akash Tripathi, Neeraj Sharma, Ray A.K., and Shiru Sharma, ‘Scientific validation and Development of Instrumentation System of Nadi Pariksha’ published in proceedings of Souvenir of Scientific Validation and Technical Evaluation of Ancient Medical System (2007).
Neeraj Sharma, Ray A.K., ‘Computer aided segmentation of medical images based on hybridized approach of edge and region based techniques’, Proc. of Int. Conf. on Mathematical Biology’, Mathematical Biology recent trends by ANAMAYA publisher’s pp. 150-155(2006).
Neeraj Sharma, Ray A. K., Pradhan, S., Sharma, S., Aggarwal, L.M., ‘Indigenous software for computer aided analysis of medical images using artificial neural network’, Proceedings of conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India, pp 125-126, (2006).
Mahendra S.N., Ray A.K., Sharma N., and Sharma S., Invited Talk on “Integration of god-made sensors and man-made sensors” at National Conference on Sensors organized by Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala (2005).
Sharma N., ‘Microcontroller Based Stepper Motor control for micro stepping mode’ paper presented at All India Seminars on Information and Communication Technology. Organized by the Institute of Engineering (India), Haryana State center (2002).
Sharma N and Chauhan R., ‘Automated Analysis of ECG using Digital Signal Processing’, paper presented at all India Seminar Organized by ISTE Chapter Guru Nanak Engineering College Ludhiana, India (2002).

Book Chapter: Subodh Srivastava, Neeraj Sharma, and S.K. Singh, “Image analysis and understanding techniques for breast cancer detection from digital mammograms ,” in Research Developments in Computer Vision and Image Processing: Methodologies and Applications, Chapter 8, pp. 123-128, IGI Global, USA, September’2013.DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4558-5.ch008.

Completed consultancy project in 2008 awarded for “Review of quality adherence to technical specification and use of health facility building and medical equipment of Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand health system development project”, review done for World Bank jointly with Faith Healthcare Private Limited, Delhi.
Completed consultancy project in Sept 2011 regarding “Review of quality/adherence to technical specification & use of health facility building & medical equipment of Rajasthan Health System Development Project”, review done for World Bank jointly with Faith Healthcare Private Limited, Delhi.

Uvanesh Kasiviswanathan, Neeraj Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar Mahto, Satyabrata Jit, Chandan Kumar, Suruchi Poddar: “Extended Larger Area Heterojunction Based Bio-Sensing Device.” Indian Patent Application No.: 202011014307
Prakash, Alok, Bindu Kumari, Shiru Sharma and Neeraj Sharma: EMG sensor for prosthetic hand control Indian Patent: 201811016601, May 2, 2018 (status- published).
Prakash, Alok, Shiru Sharma & Neeraj Sharma: FMG sensor for hand prosthesis application,” Indian Patent: 201911043042, October 23, 2019 (status- filed).
Non invasive blood glucose meter based on modulated ultrasound & optical technique.

Design and development of prosthetic devices and AI based control strategies, Key note Lecture delivered at International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Science (AICES 2022), organized by NIT Raipur.

Artificial Intelligence and its Application to Biomedical Engineering, keynote Lecture at "International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theory & Applications AITA-2021" 23 - 24 December 2021, Organized by the Department of Electronics & Communication, Engineering National Institute of Technology Patna, India.

Issues in Biomedical signal Processing, delivered at FDP on Application of Computers in Biology, AICTE Training and Learning Academy sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Application of Computers in Biology” organized by Galgotias University 2021.

Biomedical Image Processing, Delivered at FDP on Application of Computers in Biology, AICTE Training and Learning Academy sponsored Faculty Development Program on “Application of Computers in Biology” organized by Galgotias University 2021.

Application of optimization in the area of biomedical engineering, AICTE-ISTE FDP on optimization in communication engineering, 2021-2022, organized by Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg.(ECE) G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science, Shaikpet, Hyderabad - 500 104 Telangana, INDIA.
FDP lecture delivered on topic: Role of AI and challenges in healthcare, at Technological Innovation of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis, organized by AICTE Training and Learning Academy, Shri Shankracharta Technical Campus Bhilai, 2021.
Invited lecture delivered at ISM Dhanbad, for Short Term Course on “Image Processing: Algorithms and Applications” during 13-17 June 2016, delivered: “Medical Image Processing and its Practical Session”.
“Design criterion, safety, reliability aspects of Biomedical equipment” at Challenges in Product Development of Medical Implants and Devices, Indian Institute of Science and Technology, Shibpur on 18 December 2015 .
“Dealing with the artifacts in medical images: An important issue in computer aided analysis of medical images” at Challenges in Product Development of Medical Implants and Devices, Indian Institute of Science and Technology, Shibpur on 19 December 2015
“Segmentation of Medical images using artificial intelligence techniques: our experiences”, March-2010 and attended meeting on “Advanced detectors in physics and medical diagnosis” at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata.

Completed successfully the project jointly with Industrial collaborator Pravartan Technology, Gurgoan, title of project: "Wireless Dry sensors and mobile based ECG and Cloud based consultancy platform", BIRAC project (IIPME project BT/IIPME0051/01/15).
Completed: Design and Development of Affordable Myoelectric prosthetic hand, funded by SERB.
On going: Hybrid EEG-EMG based Prosthetic hand for transradial amputees to perform reach and grasp tasks TIDE DST, PI: Dr. Shiru Sharma Co-PI: Neeraj Sharma.

Course No. & Title	Level (UG/PG)
BM-502 Biomedical signal and image processing BM-101 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering	PG UG
BM-322 Transducer and instrumentation	UG
BM-2202 Electronic Circuits	UG
BM-513 Biomedical instrumentation	PG
BM-401 Bioinstrumentation and Medical Imaging Modalities	PG
BM-311 Microprocessor and microcontrollers	UG
BM 513 Biomedical Instrumentation design, safety and reliability aspects	PG
BM 511 Artificial Intelligence And Its Application In Biomedical Engineering	PG
BM 522 Hospital System Management	PG

1. Name: Dr. Mausmi Dhara (Awarded)

Supervisor Name: Prof. KK Shukala.

Co-Supervisor Name: Dr. Neeraj Sharma.

Title of Thesis: New Approaches to Graph Clustering and Overlapping Community Detection with Applications".

2. Name: Dr. Sudip Paul (Awarded)

Supervisor Name: Prof. Ranjana Patnaik.

Co-Supervisor Name: Dr.Neeraj Sharma.

Title of Thesis: Electrophysiological signal analysis during stroke in animal model.

3. Name: Md Koushik Chowdhury (Awarded)

Supervisor Name: Dr. Neeraj Sharma.

Co-supervisor Name: Dr. Shiru Sharma.

Title of Thesis: Non-invasive blood glucose measurement using modulated ultrasound and infrared light.

4. Name: Dr. Subodh Srivastava (Awarded)

Supervisor Name: Dr. Neeraj Sharma.

Co-supervisor Name: Dr. S. K. Singh

Title of Thesis: Approaches for the design and development of an automatic computer aided diagnostic (cad) systen for early breast cancer detection from mammograms.

5. Name: Sanjay Saxena (Awarded)

Supervisor Name: Dr. Shiru Sharma

Co-supervisor Name: Dr. Neeraj Sharma

Thesis Title: Embedding parallelism in image processing technique using multicore environment with its application in medical imaging.

6. Name: Ankit Kajaria (Awarded)

Supervisor Name: Dr. Neeraj Sharma.

Co-supervisor: Prof. L. M. Agarwal (Deptt. Of Radiotherapy, IMS-BHU, Varanasi),

Title of Thesis: Monte Carlo based simulation study of flattened and unflattened photon beam used in radiotherapy.

8. Name: Munendra Singh (Awarded)