Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Analysis / Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Bd.992 (PDF)

Foundation, New Delhi in 2017. He received the NACF-SCRA, India award for Best Faculty for Research in 2017. He received Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America in 2017. He is also the recipient of the South East Asia Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year at Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2017. He is currently the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is also serving as the Dean (Research and Development and Academic Affairs) of the institute. He is a co-author of 4 books and the co-editor of 8 books and has more than 170 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got a patent on intelligent colorimeter technology.



Sambhunath Biswas obtained an M.Sc. degree in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Radiophysics and Electronics, from the University of Calcutta in 1973 and 2001 respectively. In 1983-85 he completed courses of M.Tech. (Computer Science) from Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. His doctoral thesis is on Image Data Compression. He was a UNDP Fellow at MIT, USA to study machine vision in 1988-89 and was exposed to research in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He visited the Australian National University at Canberra in 1995 and joined the school on wavelets theory and its applications. In 2001, he became a representative of the Government of India to visit China for holding talks about collaborative research projects in different Chinese Universities. He started his career in Electrical Industries, in the beginning as a graduate engineering trainee and, then as a design and development engineer. He, at present, is a system analyst, GR-I (in the rank of Professor) at the Machine Intelligence Unit in Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta where he is engaged in research and teaching. He is also an external examiner of the Department of Computer Science at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. He has published several research articles in International Journals of repute and is a member of IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence). He is the principal author of a book titled Bezier and Splines in Image Processing and Machine Vision, published by Springer, London.