Machine Learning in Bio-Signal Analysis and Diagnostic Imaging

Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He also holds a position of Adjunct Professor at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously, he held an honorary position of Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012–2015). He was awarded his PhD from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence , IGI Global, USA. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (SpringerNature), Data-Intensive Research(SpringerNature), Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier). He was an associate editor of IET Image Processing and editorial board member of Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer Nature. He is an editorial board member of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier. He is having 35 authored books and over 300 publications in the area of medical imaging, machine learning, computer aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Fellow of IETE and Senior member of IEEE. Surekha Borra is currently a Professor in the Department of ECE, K. S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. She earned her Doctorate in Image Processing from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India, in 2015. Her research interests are in the areas of Image and Video Analytics, Machine Learning, Biometrics and Remote Sensing. She has published 1 edited book, 8 book chapters and 22 research papers to her credit in refereed & indexed journals, and conferences at international and national levels. Her international recognition includes her professional memberships & services in refereed organizations, programme committees, editorial & review boards, wherein she has been a guest editor for 2 journals and reviewer for journals published by IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, IGI-Global etc,. She has received Woman Achiever's Award from The Institution of Engineers (India), for her prominent research and innovative contribution (s)., Woman Educator & Scholar Award for her contributions to teaching and scholarly activities, Young Woman Achiever Award for her contribution in Copyright Protection of Images. Amira S. Ashour is an Assistant Professor and Head of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. She is a member in the Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. She received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt in 1997, M.Sc. in Image Processing in 2001 and Ph.D. in Smart Antenna in 2005 from Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. Ashour has been the Vice Chair of Computer Engineering Department, Computers and Information Technology College, Taif University, KSA for one year from 2015. She has been the vice chair of CS department, CIT college, Taif University, KSA for 5 years. Her research interests are Smart antenna, Direction of arrival estimation, Targets tracking, Image processing, Medical imaging, Machine learning, Biomedical Systems, Pattern recognition, Image analysis, Computer vision, Computer-aided detection and diagnosis systems, Optimization, and Neutrosophic theory. She has 15 books and about 150 published journal papers. She is an Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), IGI Global, US. Fuqian Shi, is in an Visiting Associate Professor, University of Central Florida Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets, Industrial Design. He has got the best paper award, the 14th natural science best papers of Wenzhou City, 2009-2010. He has more than 40 publications in international journals. He reviewed several works for the IEEE Transactions Fuzzy Systems, the International Journal of System Dynamics Applications and others. He is in the Editorial Review Board, International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), and the Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automatic Control and Computer Science Series.

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