FEBRUARY 2011:
As a part of Association activity, the Department of Biomedical Engineering has arranged a guest lecture by Dr.V.K.Sundararaman, DMRD (Radiology) PhD (Biomed Engg), Scientist - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spectroscopy, Consultants-Biomedical Imaging Technology, Philips Innovation Research Center, Bangalore. The scientist was addressing about the latest research issues in the Biomedical Imaging fields, Problems related to various imaging modalities etc., The scientist also had a discussion with all the faculty members regarding their research work and the department is also planning for a Value Added Course on Biomedical Imaging in association with Philips Innovation Research Center, Bangalore.

Dr.V.Mahesh has conducted the Doctoral Committee meeting for two of his PhD Scholars at the Biomedical Department, SSNCE.

CPCSEA inspection committee member Dr.N.Radhakrishnan visited SSN animal house.

Dr.V.Mahesh has attended I-Cell meeting with the president ,SSNCE.

Dr N.Sriraam attended the meeting at Cyprus semiconductors regional office Chennai regarding the progress of SSN- CUA (Cyprus University Alliance) research projects. Mr. Patrick Kane ,Director CUA,USA and Mr. Karthikeyan CUA.

Bangalore division attended the session. It has been decided that a joint faculty program on PSoC and Engineering applications, will be conducted during May 2011. A special session for biomedical students will be conducted by Mr. Sanjeev Development Engineer,Biomedical Applications,CUA during mid May 2011.

Mr. G Mahendran,Territory Manager,CSM Software Pvt Ltd,Chennai delivered a special guest lecture on Finite Element Method and Biomechanics using LifeMod Software.

Mr Varadhan Srinivasan KariyaMaanikam, PhD research Shcolar,Finger" Lab (Motor Control Laboratory - Dept of Kinesiology),Penn State University, USA delivered a special lecture on "Kinesiology and Kinematics of Joints-Orthopedics” perspective.

The Doctoral Committee meeting for the candidate Ms Amuthadevi (Supervisor: Dr Sriraam) was held. Dr Sivaji Assoc Professor, Nuclear Physics Dept,University of Madras and Dr Kulandeivel Assoc Professor,ECE Dept NITTR,Chennai attended the session.

The Third Year Students Mr.S.Aswin and N.Gopalakrishnan has presented their project at the International Project Exhibition & Competition, held at Vel tech, Project titled "EOG based Assistive Technology Development",Authors: N. Gopalakrishnan, Aswin and Mahesh.

Dr Sriraam had a collaborative research discussion in the area of Orthopedic mechanics with Dr Sudan Christudoss,managing Director,COS-Orthopeadic speciality hospital tambaram Chennai.

Dr Sriraam attended the Board of Studies meeting at Anna University of Technology Chennai.

Dr.A.Kavitha,Assistant Professor, Electronics and Instrumentation ,MIT,Chromepet has delivered a guest lecture on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Equipments for Third year students.


JANUARY 2011:
The following paper has been published: G. A. Sathishkumar, K. Bhoopathybagan and N. Sriraam, Quality Analysis of a Chaotic and Hopping Stream Based Cipher Image, Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011, Volume 131,pp.307-317,Springer- Verlag,Germany.

The following pre-final year BME students have exhibited their projects at the National Science congress 2010 held at SRM university:

1.Preethi bai-electronic stethescope
2.Aswin S-Nurse calling station
3.Shruthi-Poster presentation on MEMS EEG sensors
4.Irfan M R M-Poster presentation on EEG-FMRI
5.Gopalakrishnan-Low cost hearing aid
6.Anusha A R-Galvanic skin response

The Association of Biomedical Engineers (ABE), Department of Biomedical Engineering has organized a special guest lecture delivered by two French Scientists Mr. Yann Renard and Mr. Laurent Bonnet from INRIA(Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique),Paris,France on Brain Computer Interface (BCI). They did a live demonstration using openvibe software for BCI applications.

Two Candidates, Ms Amuthadevi and Mr Narayanamurthy have regsitered as full -time PhD candidates Under Dr N.Sriraam to persue their PhD research at Anna University of Technology, Chennai.

A national level workshop on "Molecular Biology & Immunology techniques" organized by the BME department on 19-1-2011 &20-1-2011. The program coordinators are Dr. Mallika Jainu & Dr.R.Subhashini and the training program was given by "Biozone Research technologies" Chennai.Dr.Florida Tilton, Director, presented a lecture session on "Advanced PCR technology" and more than 50 candidates participated in this workshop.


DECEMBER 2010:
Dr.N. Sriraam presented the following papers at 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering & Sciences(IECBES 2010)] held at Kualalumpur Malaysia.

[1] AN UBIQUITOUS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM USING A WEARABLE SHIRT FOR A SMART HOME-A PILOT STUDY

[2] DETECTION OF UTERINE FIBROIDS USING WAVELET PACKET FEATURES WITH BPNN CLASSIFIER. He also chaired the session on Medical Image Processing.

The following paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been published in IEEE Explorer: R Arvind, B Karthik, N Sriraam and J Kamala Kannan,Automated detection of PD resting tremor using PSD with recurrent neural network classifier,Proc of 2010 International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing,pp.414-417,2010.

Dr.N. Sriraam visited Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM) located at Johor Bahru,Malaysia for the possible MoU between SSN and UTM. The following papers of Dr.N.Sriraam were published in an international Journal: G.A. Sathishkumar, K. Booparthy bangan, N. Sriraam, “Medical Image Encryption Using Choas Mapping for Teleradiology”, International Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing” Vol.1 No.2,pp.43-48 (July-December issue 2 2010).

R Arvind, B.Karthick and N.Sriraam, “A Medical Decision support systems for detection of essential tremors”, International Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing” Vol.1 No.2,pp.65-69 (July-December issue 2, 2010).

The following papers of Dr.V.Mahesh were published in an international conference: Gopalakrishnan, Aswin, Siddharth and Mahesh, "Human Computer Interface for the Physically challenged using Wireless Electro-oculography", Proceedings of the International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems, Dec 8-10,2010, Anna University.

Aswin, Gopalakrishnan and Mahesh ,"Acquisition, Analysis of Electro-Oculography and its Implementation through Human Computer Interface for the Physically Challenged", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, Dec 16-17, 2010, Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering conducted a Faculty Development Programme on Biosignalprocessing from Dec 20th -24th.There were around 25 participants from various colleges allover Tamilnadu.The FDP was inaugurated by Dr. Venkatraman, Head, Quality Assurance Division,IGCAR,Kalpakkam.The chief Guest speakers for the FDP were from Leading Academic Institutions.

Prof.HariKumar,ECEDepartment,BannariammanInstituteofTechnology,Sathyamangalam. Prof.Arulmozhivarman,DSPDivision,VIT,Prof.Poornachandra,Principal, JerusalemCollegeofEngineering,Dr.BheemsainRao,MSRIT,Bangalore, Dr.Chandrasekar,Head,StatisticsDepartment,MadrasChristianCollege,Dr.S.J.Thiruvengadum,Professor,ECE Department,Thiyagarajar College of Enginering,Dr.Krishnan and Dr.Malathi,Professors,EIE Department,Annamalai University were the chief guest speakers.Dr.N.Sriraam,HOD, Biomedical Department was the Convenor and Dr.V.Mahesh,Associate professor and Ms.B.Geethanjali,Assistant professor of The Department were the coordinators. There were Hands on session on lab view By national Instruments ,Tech Labs and biopac.

Dr.N.Sriraam gave a technical talk on "Biosignals as an Advanced Man -Machine Interface "at the FDP on Biosignal Processing organized by BME Dept.

Dr.Sachin, Assistant Prof, Biomedical gave a technical talk on "Biosignals-Doctor's Perspective"at the FDP on Biosignal Processing organized by BME Dept.

Mr.P.ManojNiranjan, AP, BME attended a workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition conducted by Department of Information Technology, SSNCE.

NOVEMBER 2010:

Dr .N.Sriraam ,Prof and Head, Biomedical Engineering, gave a key note address on " Recent Trends in Medical Imaging and Signal Processing" at the National Level Symposium,Medcom 2010 organized by Sahrdaya College of Engineering, Thrissur,Kerala.

Dr Sriraam, Prof and Head, Biomedical Engineering, was invited as Guest of Honor for the inaugural session of CISCON 2010-a national level conference on Instrumentation and Control organized by MIT Manipal Karnataka. He also chaired a session on Medical Instrumentation and applications as well as gave a key note address on:Recent Advances in BSP and Instrumentation: Global Perspective, Clinical Diagnosis and Other Applications.

Dr Sriraam attended the 6th International conference of Telemedicine society of India which was held at Bhubaneswar, Orissa. He also presented the following papers:[1]N.Sriraam, R Arvind and B. Kartick,"A KNOWLEDGE BASED FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSMISSION OF NEUROLOGICAL SIGNALS FOR TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS: A PILOT STUDY” [2]T.S. Bharath Balaji, M. Elshin Joel ,S. Prasanna and N.Sriraam,"DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF TELE HOME-CENTRIC PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM USING REAL-TIME PSoC PROCESSOR".

The following paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been published in an international journal:
N. Sriraam, R. Shyamsunder, “3-D medical image compression using 3-D wavelet coders”, Digital Signal Processing 21 (2011) 100–109, Elsevier,USA

Dr.N.Sriraam, Prof and Head, Biomedical Engineering gave a inaugural talk on Computer Vision and Image Processing and Recent advances in medical imaging techniques for clinical applications at the workshop-Digital Image Processing -Fundamentals to applications organized by IT Dept SSNCE.

The following paper of Dr.MallikaJainu has been published in an international journal:
Vishnu Priya V, Sankari G, Mallika Jainu, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Saraswathi P, Chandra Sada Gopan V. Auto Fluorescence And Fourier Transform – Infra Red (FTIR) Spectral Investigation On Di Ethyl Nitrosamine (DEN) Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Treated With Pericarp Extract Of Garcinia Mangostana Linn In Rats. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2010 ;(4):3289-3297.

SEPTEMBER 2010:
The following Paper of Dr.V.Mahesh has been presented in an international conference:
V.Mahesh and N.Gopalakrishnan, “Design of cranial Electrotherapy stimulator and analyzing it with EEG” was presented in an International Conference on Advances in Power Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering held at Kochi and it is indexed in Springer.

The following papers of Dr.N.Sriraam have been accepted for presentation in international conference:
N.Sriraam, T Bharath Balaji, S Prasanna and Elshin Joel, "AN UBIQUITOUS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM USING A WEARABLE SHIRT FOR A SMART HOME-A PILOT STUDY," accepted for presentation at 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Kualalumpur,Malaysia,Dec 2010.

N.Sriraam, S Vinodashri, R. Nithyshri and P Manoj Niranjan," Detection of Uterine Fibroids Using Wavelet Packet Features with BPNN Classifier"accepted for presentation at 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Kualalumpur,Malaysia,Dec 2010. (Note: Names underlined- Recently passed out students who worked as RA for a short duration in BME dept).

Under the Cyprus University Alliance Programme , Cyprus Semicondcutor Inc,USA has donated USD300 worth Programmable System on Chip(PSoC) kits to set up preliminary PSoC lab at Biomedical Department,SSN.Five kits of PSoC3 have been received and other 5 nos of PSoC5 will be delivered by first week of October 2010.

The following paper of Dr.MallikaJainu has been accepted for Publication in an international Conference: Vishnu Priya V, MallikaJainu, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Karthik B., “Toxicity Study of Garcinia Mangostana Linn. Pericarp Extract in Rats.” ,in Asian J. Exp. Biol. Sci. Vol 1 (3) 2010 :633-637.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering in association with CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR, Bangalore conducted a “Two Days Hands on training using PSoC for Biomedical Applications”. The Programme was inaugurated by Dr.J.Jayapandian, Head, Electronics and Instrumentation Division, IGCAR, Kalpakkam and Mr.A.K.Ponraj, Managing Director, Ideal Sensors, Chennai. Research scientists Smt.O.K.Sheela, Smt.Usharani Ravi and Balakumar from IGCAR interacted with the participants on the first day. The second day was taken over by Cypress Semiconductor senior application Engineers Mr. Praveen Sekar and Mr.Kannan Sadasivam who demonstrated the configuration and programming on PSoC.There were around 50 participants from allover Tamilnadu.

The following papers of Dr.N.Sriraam have been accepted for presentation in international conference: T.S. Bharath Balaji, S Prasanna , Elshin Joel and N.Sriraam,"DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF TELE HOME-CENTRIC PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM USING REAL-TIME PSoC PROCESSOR",accepted for presentation at 6th International Conference of The Telemedicine Society of India (Telemedicon’10) to be held at Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India , 14th to 16th November 2010.

N.Sriraam, R Arvind and B.Karthick, " KNOWLEDGE BASED FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSMISSION OF NEUROLOGICAL SIGNALS FOR TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS”, accepted for presentation at 6th International Conference of The Telemedicine Society of India (Telemedicon’10) to be held at Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India , 14th to 16th November 2010 (Note: Names underlined- Recently passed out students who worked as RA for a short duration in BME dept).

Mr.P.ManojNiranjan, AP, BME attended a two days National Workshop on Biomedical Signal and Image processing conducted by ECE department college of Engineering (ANNA university) Guindy.

The following paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been accepted for publication in an international journal:
Arvind.R, Karthik.B, Sriraam N ,"A Medical Decision Support System for Detection of Essential Tremors" accepted for publication in International Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing, Vol.1 No.2 (July-December issue, 2010).
(Note: Names underlined- Recently passed out students who worked as RA for a short duration in BME dept).

AUGUST 2010:
Dr Milind Purandare, Director Medical Division, HCL USA visited the BME dept and interacted with facultymembers. A colloborative intiative on product developement and consultancy is under process.

Dr Sriraam and R.Nithya Asst Prof/BME had a research discussion with Dr Lingam Gopal, Chairman,Sankara Nethralya,Chennai for colloborative intiative on the project: “STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR RETINAL DISORDERS USING ERG AND OCT”.

Dr sriraam met Dr G.S.K Velu, M.D Trivitron Healthcare systems regarding the student placement for BME as well as MoU. The following Papers of Dr.V.Mahesh have been published in the proceedings of the international conference on Information Processing held at Bangalore, 6th - 8th Aug 2010:

1. Meenakshi, Saranya, Vidya kamakshi and V. Mahesh, "Arrhythmia Detection and Classification using Decision Support System” International Conference on Information Processing.

2. ParuthiPradhapan, Muthukarupan, Harikrishna, V. Mahesh and N. Sriraam, "Classification of Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Signal Using Probabilistic Neural Network” International Conference on Information Processing.

Association Of Biomedical Engineering (ABE) was inauguirated on 13th august.Dr.G.S.K Velu,ManagingDirector ,Trivitron Group Of Companies Inaugurated the Association.Dr.N.Sriraam,HOD/BME gave the welcome address and the newly elected office bearers of the department were introduced by the HOD.

The following Paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been accepted for publication:
R Arvind, B.Karthick and N.Sriraam, Multi-Feature Characterization of Epileptic activity for Construction of an Automated Internet-based annotated Classification, Accepted for Publication in Journal of Medical Systems, Springer USA .

The following Paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been accepted for Presentation:
N.Sriraam,S.Swathy, R Vijayalakshmi and S Namitha,"Development of a Secure Body Area Network for a wearable Physiological Monitoring System' accepted for presentation at 2010 International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2010) to be held at Malaysia Dec 2010

Dr Sriraam,HOD/BME attended PHD protocol presentation meeting at Manipal University Karnataka.

Dr .N.Sriraam,HOD/BME gave a invited talk on Global research challenges. How to do research effectively: Sharing of Knowledge at ManipalUniversity(MU) Karnataka , organized by Indutrial collboration division and ECE Dept, MU

Dr. Mallika Jainu, AP,BME has been recognized as a Ph.D/MS guide by Saveetha University.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering has conducted its third national level technical symposium Srishti v3.0 on 30th aug 2010.Mr.Murali, General Manager, Philips Health Care Presided over the function as a chief guest and gave the chief guest address.Dr.M.Murugan, Psychiatrist gave a special key note address on autism. There were about 250 students participants from various other colleges from tamilnadu participating in various events like paper presentation, technical Dumb c etc.,

The Department of Biomedical Engineering conducted a Guest lecture on Digital signal processors and its applications for third year Biomedical Students.R.Suresh, Assistant Professor, Signal and Image Processing Division, VIT, Vellore was the chief guest.

JULY 2010:
Dr.N.Sriraam has submitted the following papers to an International Conference: N.Sriraam, L.Vinodhasri,D.Nithyasri and P.ManojNiranjan,"Detection of Uterine Fibroids Using Wavelet Packet features with BPNN Classifier",submitted to 2010 International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics to be held at Malaysia Dec 2010 .

N.Sriraam, S.Swathy, R.Vijayalakshmi, ''Development of a Secure Body Area Network for a wearable Physiological Monitoring System''submitted to 2010 International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics to be held at Malaysia Dec 2010.

Dr. Mallika. J article entitled "Cissus quadrangularis L. Extract Attenuates Chronic Ulcer By Possible Involvement Of Polyamines And Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen" published in International journal Pharmacognosy Research Vol 6(23); 229-237 ,2010.

Dr. Mallika. J received a Post graduate Diploma in Industrial Biotechnology from Annamalai University.

Dr.N.Sriraam has submitted the following paper to an International Journal: N.Sriraam, “ Correlation dimension based Lossless EEG Signal Compression,” submitted to Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Elsevier,USA .

Mr Pravinkumar, Assistant Professor,Biomedical Engineering has presented a paper titled- “Reconstruction of Brain Electrical Impedance Tomography Images Using Particle Swarm Optimization'' at the International Conference on Industrial and InformationSystems- 2010 (ICIIS 2010) held at NITK, Surathkal, Karnataka, India during July 29th-Aug 1st 2010.

JUNE 2010:
The following paper has been submitted to an international conference: M.Dhanalakshmi, R.Nithya, N.Sriraam has submitted a paper entitled “Development of CAD Toolfor screening DiabeticRetinopathy(DR) using retinal vessel tortuosity” to international Vision Science Optometry Conference which is to be held at chennai Trade Center on Aug 12-14,2010.

The following paper of Dr.V.Mahesh has been accepted for International conference:
N. Gopalakrishnan and V. Mahesh., "Design of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulator and Analyzing it with EEG" is accepted to an international conference "International Conference in Advances in Power Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering" 7-9 Sep,2010, Kochi, India.

Dr Sriraam and Ms Geethanjali have carried out preclinical study on Analysis of f-MRI on music rhythms at Vijaya Health center in association with Dr Sandeep Purvakar, Senior Radiologist Vijaya hospitals Chennai.

Mr.PravinKumar,AP,BME submitted his synopsis on “Development of Image reconstruction algorithms for electrical Impedance tomography and epilepsy detection techniques for neurological applications”on 26.6.10 at JNTU Hydrebad

A consultancy work has been obtained from National Instruments; Bangalore to develop LABVIEW based practical manuals for developing image and biomedical image processing lab experiments. A three month duration has been given and Rs 40,000will be earned for this work.

Members: Dr Sriraam,Ms Geethanjali,Mr Pravin Kumar and Dr Mahesh.

The following manuscript of Dr.N.Sriraam has been accepted for publication in an international journal: N.Sriraam and R .Shyamsunder, “3-D MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION USING 3-D WAVELET CODERS” accepted for publication in Digital Signal Processing,Elsevier,USA.

Mr.P.ManojNiranjan, AP, BME attended a Faculty Development Programme on Labview and its applications at NIT,Calicut.

Mr.P.ManojNiranjan, AP, BME attended a Faculty Development Programme on Digital Signal Processing at Jeppiar Engineering College.

The following paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been submitted to an international journal:
N.Sriraam, “EEG BASED AUTOMATED DETECTION OF AUDITORY LOSS: A PILOT STUDY” submitted to the Journal Expert Systemwith Applications: An International Journal, Elsevier,USA

The following paper of Dr.N.Sriraam has been accepted for International conference:
R Arvind, B.Karthik, ,N.Sriraam and J Kamala Kannan, “AUTOMATED DETECTION OF PD RESTING TREMOR USING PSD WITH RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER” accepted for presentation at Second International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing,ARTCom to be held in Kottayam, Kerala, India from Oct 16-17, 2010.

Dr N.Sriraam ,Prof and Head, Biomedical Engineering and Mr Pravinkumar,AP,BME attended the continuous medical programme on Neurophysiological applications to cancer Organized by Paterson Cancer Center, Chennai.

MAY 2010:
Dr.N.Sriraam has submitted the following paper to an international journal: R Arvind,B.Karthik and N.Sriraam, “Multi-Feature Characterization of Epileptic activity for Construction of an Automated Internet-based annotated Classification”,submitted to Journal of Medical Systems,Springer USA,May 2010.

The following Papers of Dr.V.Mahesh have been accepted for presentation in the international conference on Information Processing: Meenakshi, Saranya, Vidya kamakshi and V. Mahesh, "Arrhythmia Detection and Classification using Decision Support System" submitted to International Conference on Information Processing. to be held in Bangalore, 6th - 8th Aug 2010.

Vijayalakshmi S.P. ThenAruna, Kanimozhi and V. Mahesh, "Design and Development of Apnea Detector and Classification of Apnea" submitted to International Conference on Information Processing. to be held in Bangalore, 6th - 8th Aug 2010.

ParuthiPradhapan, Muthukarupan, Harikrishna, V. Mahesh and N. Sriraam, "Classification of Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Signal Using Probabilistic Neural Network" submitted to International Conference on Information Processing. to be held in Bangalore, 6th - 8th Aug 2010.

Dr.V.Mahesh, Associate Professor and R.Sivaramakrishnan, AssistantProfessor, BME attended a Workshop on e-learning conducted by SSN College of Engineering at MSIT.

Dr.N.Sriraam, Ms Geethanjali and Mr. PravinKumar attended a collaborative Initiative meeting with Dr Sandeep Purwakar, M.D Vijaya MRI, Vijaya Healthcare, vadapalani, Chennai on the project: Study and Investigation of EEG-fMRI fusion for clinical applications.

Dr.N.Sriraam has submitted the following paper to an international Conference: R.Arvind,B.Karthik, N.Sriraam and J.Kamala Kannan, “AUTOMATED DETECTION OF PD RESTING TREMOR USING PSD WITH RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER” submitted to Second International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing, ARTCom 2010 to be held at July 2010,Cochin.

A consultancy work for Developing Lab bench for Biomedical Imaging and Digital Image Processing applications from National Instruments, Bangalore has been received and the following members are involved in developing the bench: Dr N.Sriraam, Dr V.Mahesh. Ms B.Geethanjali and Mr. PravinKumar.S

APRIL 2010:
Mrs.K.Kavitha, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering has been Listed by the International Biographic centre,(IBC),Cambridge, England as member of the IBC TOP 100 Engineers 2010.She has also been nominated to join the American Chemical Society(ACS),Washington, the world's largest scientific society.

Dr.V.Mahesh, Associate Professor , Biomedical Engineering has submitted the following papers to an international Conference: Meenakshi, Saranya, Vidya kamakshi and V. Mahesh, "Arrhythmia Detection and Classification using Decision Support System" submitted to International Conference on Information Processing. to be held in bangalore, 6th - 8th Aug 2010.

Vijayalakshmi S.P. ThenAruna, Kanimozhi and V. Mahesh, "Design and Development of Apnea Detector and Classification of Apnea" submitted to International Conference on Information Processing. to be held in bangalore, 6th - 8th Aug 2010.

ParuthiPradhapan, Muthukarupan, Harikrishna, V. Mahesh and N. Sriraam, "Classification of Photoplethysmograph (PPG) Signal Using Probabilistic Neural Network" submitted to I nternational Conference on Information Processing to be held in bangalore, 6th - 8th August 2010.

Dr.N.Sriraam,Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering has submitted the following paper to an international journal: N.Sriraam, R Arvind and B Karthik, "Classification and Characterization of EMG tremor activity in Parkinson's Disease",submitted to Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier,USA.

Dr.N.Sriraam,Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering has submitted the following paper to an international Conference: T.S. Bharath Balaji, M. Elshin Joel ,S. Prasanna and N.Sriraam"A UBIQUITOUS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM USING A WEARABLE SHIRT FOR A SMART HOME-A PILOT STUDY," submitted to International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network and Computing – CNC 2010" to be held at cochin July 2010.

Dr .N.Sriraam , Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering gave a invited talk on "Recent Advances in Medical Imaging Techniques for Clinical Applications- A Quantitative Analysis" at International Conference on Convergence of Science and Engineering in Education and Research, A Global perspective in the New Millennium held at Dayanand Sagar Institutions ,Bangalore. He also chaired session on Medical Imaging Applications.

Dr.N.Sriraam, Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering gave a invited talk on "Recent advances in Knowledge based medical decision support system for healthcare applications" at the National Conference on Recent Trends in Biomedical Engineering” .zorganized by Jerusalem Engineering college.

Dr.N.Sriraam,Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering gave a invited talk on " Scope of Research in Medical Imaging" at Two-day National Level Seminar on "Research Avenues in Image Processing" organized by IT DEPT,SSNCE.