
Centre for Healthcare Advancement, Innovation and Research (CHAIR)
The multidisciplinary centre for Healthcare Advancement, Innovation and Research aims in bringing a fresh perspective to the challenges of embedding health and social care innovations, sustainability at large. We, actively, encompass to be at the forefront of cutting-edge advancements in teaching, training & research by setting an example in preserving lives & providing all technological solutions under one roof at an affordable cost. We bring together experts from a variety of disciplines across, including electronics engineers, bioengineers, computer scientists, chemists, healthcare Professionals and clinicians. Some of the thrust areas include bio-signals/bio-imaging, speech signal, developing biosensors, wearable technology, eHealth & telemedicine, non-invasive medical devices, rehabilitative and assistive device technology, BCI applications, biomechanics, biorobotics, bioinformatics, clinical support/data management system and also on developing computer-aided affordable diagnostic tools through technological intervention.
The key emphasis of research centre is:
- To strengthen innovation and technology in healthcare by focusing on signal and image processing solutions using artificial intelligence concepts, with prime focus on machine learning and deep learning technology.
- To bridge the gap between healthcare sciences and technology transformation by developing innovative products.
- To develop low-cost flexible novel 2D-nanomaterial-based biosensors with high sensitivity and theranostic agents for cancer imaging and targeting.
- To design affordable, rehabilitative assistive technology components and diagnostic tools for conducive healthcare solutions benefiting society at large.
Research
S.NO | TITLE | NO. | DATE OF FILING | FILED BY | STATUS |
1 | Ambulatory Prenatal Observation using Cardiotocography, Uterine Activity Findings And AI Methods | 202141054137 | 24-11-2021 | John Sahaya Rani Alex, Annis Fathima.A, A.R.Mirunalini, Shwetha.S, Varsha Sri | Published |
2 | Optimal sub-band wavelet cepstral coefficient technique for speech recognition | 202041045428 | 06-11-2020 | John sahaya rani alex, Nithya venkatesan | Published |
3 | Disease detection and identification for coconut plantation | 202041045426 | 06-11-2020 | John sahaya rani alex, Abhishek verma, Mr. Piyush singh | Published |
S.No | Title | Funding Agency | Amount (INR) | Investigators | Duration |
1 | Deep learning-based multi-task and multimodal study to assess the progressive nature of Alzheimer’s disease | DST-GITA INDO-TAIWAN | 38,40,528 | Dr.John Sahaya Rani Alex Dr. Jeetashree Aparajeeta | 3 years |
2 | Artificial Intelligence for affordable screening and prediction of Diabetic retinopathy in framework of big data | DBT | 2,72,232,00 | Dr. Suchetha M | 2022-2024 |
3 | Signal Processing using Variational Mode Decomposition based Adaptive Structures
| ISRO | 28,42,000 | Dr. Suchetha M Dr.AnaniahDurai | 2019-2021 |
2023
- Edwin Dhas., Suchetha.“Energy Dependent RLS Architecture for the Separation of Fetal ECG using Thoracic and Abdominal Lead ECG of Mother”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023. (IF:5.6)
- Sateesh Kumar Reddy, C., Suchetha. “A 1-D CNN-FCM model for the classification of epileptic seizure disorders.” Neural Computing & Applications, Vol.33, pages17871–17881, 2023. (IF: 6.012)
- Hari Krishnan S.,Rajiv Raman., Suchetha. “ Comparative performance of deep learning architectures in the classification of diabetic retinopathy.” International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol.44, pages 23-35, 2023. (IF: 0.7)
Faculty | Book Title/Chapter Name | ISBN no. | year | Publisher |
Vijayarajan R, Sangeetha N, Karthik R, Kethepalli Mallikarjuna | Handbook of Research on Deep Learning-Based Image Analysis Under Constrained and Unconstrained Environments / Chapter 8: Performance Analysis of VGG19 Deep learning network based Brain Image Fusion | 9781799866 909 | 2020 | DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6690-9 IGI Global |
Karthik.R, Nandana B, Mayuri Patil, Chandreyee Basu, Vijayarajan R | Handbook of Research on Deep Learning-Based Image Analysis Under Constrained and Unconstrained Environments / Chapter 15: Performance Analysis of GAN Architecture for Effective Facial Expression Synthesis | 9781799866 909 | 2020 | DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6690-9 IGI Global |
Collaboration
Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs)
S.No | International Agency | Date | Faculty in-charge | Activity | |
1 | Phoenix Medical Systems | 23-11-2022 | Dr. R.Vijayarajan Dr.M.Suchetha | Joint project, Internship (with stipend) | |
2 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore | Dec,2020 | Dr.M.Suchetha | Joint research projects and publications |
Insights
Awards/Recognition
2021
S No | Award/Recognition | Agency | Faculty | Year |
1 | IEEE Publication Award (3 papers in Journal) | IEEE Madras | Dr. M. Suchetha | 2021 |
2020
S.No. | Award/Recognition | Faculty | Agency | Year |
1. | IEEE Publication Award (3 papers) | Dr. M.Suchetha | IEEE Madras | 2020 |
2. | Reviewer Recognition | Dr. Ilavarasi A K | Elsevier (Measurement) | 2020 |
3. | Reviewer Recognition | Dr.R.Vijayarajan | Elsevier (Biomedical signal processing and control) | 2020 |
4. | Reviewer Recognition | Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi | Sens. Act. B/Elsevier | 2020 |
5. | Reviewer Recognition | Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi | Journal of Fluorine Chemistry/Elsevier | 2020 |
2019
S.No. | Award/Recognition | Faculty | Agency | Year |
1. | IEEE Publication Award (4 medals for 4 papers) | Dr.M.Suchetha | IEEE Madras | 2019 |
2. | Appreciation award | Dr.John Sahaya Rani Alex | IEEE SPS | 2019 |
2018
S.No. | Award/Recognition | Faculty | Agency | Year |
1. | Young Researcher Award- Republic day Achievers Award | Dr.M.Suchetha | Intelligent Research India | 2018 |
2. | Fellowship | Dr.R.Vijayarajan | IETE | 2018 |
2017
S.No. | Award/Recognition | Faculty | Agency | Year |
1. | Outstanding Professional award – Women Achievers | Dr.M.Suchetha | FICCI-FLO | 2017 |
2. | Reviewer Recognition | Dr. Gargi Raina | Nature Publishing Group | 2017 |
3. | Chemosensors Travel Award | Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi | MDPI Publishers | 2017 |
4. | The Arskin Postdoctoral Fellowship | Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel | 2017 |
Innovations

Diabetes detection from breath (Faculty: Dr.M.Suchetha & Research Scholar: S.Lekha)

Chronic kidney disease detection from saliva(Faculty: Dr.M.Suchetha & Research Scholar: Navaneeth Bhaskar)

Cardiorespiratory Abnormalities from breath (Faculty: Dr.M.Suchetha & Research Scholar: D.Bhagya)

Sleep Apnea Detection from ECG signal (Faculty: Dr.M.Suchetha & Research Scholar: S.Smruthy)

Harnessing the 2-dimensional material, Fluorinated graphene for the fabrication of highly sensitive, selective and fast responsive ammonia sensor (Faculty: Kiran Kumar Tadi)
Training & Events
Workshop/FDPs Organized:
S. No. | Title of the Event | Coordinators | Date |
1 | Online training on Android App Development for Healthcare Application with IoT | Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex & Dr.A.K.Ilavarasi | 17-18 October 2020 |
2 | Joint Industry-Academia”Online Workshop on SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY” | Dr. Kiran kumar Tadi & Dr. Gargi Raina | July 16, 2021 |
3 | Faculty Development Program on Novel “Nanomaterial based Flexible and Wearable Devices for Health-care Applications” | Dr. Gargi Raina and Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi | July 5-9, 2021 |
4 | Faculty Development Programme on “PYTHON for Vision Techniques” | Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex & Dr. A. Annis Fathima | 26-30, July, 2021 |
5 | One Day workshop on Machine Learning for Image classification | Dr.R.Vijayarajan & Dr.S.Sathiya Narayanan | 31-07-2021 |
6 | Two-day workshop on Deep Learning for Signal Processing | Dr.John Sahaya Rani Alex | 7-8 ,August,2021 |
Guest Lectures / Webinars/Seminars Organized:
S. No. | Title | Name and Affiliation of the Speaker | Coordinators | Date |
1 | International Webinar on Design of Novel Nano-platforms for Microbial Detection and Disinfection | Dr. Chevva Harish, Material Research Analyst, JUUL Labs, California, USA | Dr. Gargi Raina | 26/10/2020 |
2 | International Webinar on Artificial Intelligence-An Industry Perspective | Mr. R. Karthikeyan from Kochi industries, USA | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 27-10-2020 |
3 | Webinar on Data science for Healthcare | Dr.R.Joseph Manoj, Data Scientist, Hexaware Technologies, Chennai | Dr.R.Vijayarajan Dr.M.Suchetha | 31-10-2020 |
4 | Data Science for Healthcare | Mr. Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI Research, Zoho Corporation | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 31-10-2020 |
5 | Python programming for AI-an overview | Mr. Harshal Mumbaikar, SoC Design Engineer, Intel Technology, India | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 11-11-2020 |
6 | International Webinar on Roadmap for machine learning and data science using python | Mr. Dhaval Patel, Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP, US and Youtuber | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 25-02-2021 |
7 | Augmented and virtual reality impact on manufacturing and medicine | Mr. Saketh Bhagavatula, Co-Founder at Liminal Tech Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 27-02-2021 |
8 | Introduction and application of IoT | Mr. Sridhar Ramasubban, Core Member of Singularity Automation, India | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 02-03-2021 |
9 | International Guest Lecture on “Flexible Electronic devices for Healthcare Applications” | Dr. Mohit R. Kulkarni, Research Fellow, School of MSE, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore | Dr. Gargi Raina | 16/03/2021 |
10 | International webinar on Raw Waveform-based Acoustic modeling and its Analysis | Dr. Mathew Magimai Doss,Senior Researcher at the Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland & lecturer at EPFL | Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex | 20/3/2021 |
11 | Rise of citizen- data scientists | Mr. Saurabh Moody, CEO of Alphaa.ai, Noida, India | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 20-03-2021 |
12 | Robotics & Beyond | Varshini Kannan, Robotics Software Engineer, Mowito Shilpa Rudrapathy J, Xarvin, Electronics Engineer, TeamIndus Lab2Moon | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 23-03-2021 |
13 | Threat Intelligence in VUCA world | Mr. Manoj Reddy, Cyber Security Analyst, Indian Law Institute | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 30-03-2021 |
14 | Industrial IoT & Automation | Mr. Amit Kumar Choudhary, Head, Technology and Training, Pragya Mika | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 02-04-2021 |
15 | Introduction to automation | Mr. Senthilnathan R, Senior Technical Engineer Technocrats Automation, Chennai | Dr.Suchetha Dr.Guga Priya | 08-04-2021 |
16 | Introduction to assembly commands and firmware for any hardware | Mr. Nitin Desai, Senior Engineer DFT, Microchip,Bangalore | Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex & Dr. Sivasubramanian.A | 28/05/2021 |
17 | Distinguished Lectures – Seminar | Prof. Shubha Tole, Senior Professor,TIFR, Mumbai & Prof. Rajesh Ganapathy, Professor, JNCASR, Bangalore | Dr. Gargi Raina (VIT Chennai) & Dr. Partha S. Mallick (VIT Vellore) | 25/03/2022 |
Consultancy
S. No | Title | Organization | Amount | Faculty | Status |
1 | Data Modeling Based on Bathymetric Map Analysis for Marine Underwater Survey | Pacific Blu Subsea Services, UAE | 2165AED | Dr. Ilavarasi A K | Completed |
2 | Synthesis of Two Dimensional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications | Avanz Bio Pvt. Ltd, Chennai | Rs. 15,000/- | Dr.Kiran Kumar Tadi | Ongoing |
3 | Virtual VISN | Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai | Rs. 3,00,000/- | Dr. John Sahaya Rani Alex Dr. Prakash V | On-going |
Invited Talk
S. No | Title | Organization | Date | Faculty |
1 | Challenges in Medical Image Processing | CVT College of Engineering, Hyderabad | 20-12-2022 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
2 | Digital Image Processing: A MATLAB perspective | Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai | 24-08-2022 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
3 | Artificial Intelligence in Medical diagnostics | SSN College of Engineering, Chennai | 16-18 Nov 2022 | Dr.M. Suchetha |
4 | AI for Werables | Sona College of Technology | 21-04-2022 | Dr.M. Suchetha |
5 | AI for Medical Image Analysis | GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, AP | 25-03-2022 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
6 | Brain Tumour classification using ML algorithms | Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai | 05-03-2022 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
7 | AI for medical image analysis | VIT, Chennai | 27-02-2022 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
8 | Machine learning and its applications | RGM College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal, AP | 20-11-2021 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
9 | Machine Learning for image classification | Siddartha Institute of Science and Technology (Autonomous), Puttur | 21-06-2021 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
10 | Machine Learning for Medical image analysis | BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore | 01-06-2021 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
11 | Introduction to computer vision | VIT, Chennai | 08-04-2021 | Dr.R.Vijayarajan |
12 | Leveraging Machine learning with Evolutionary optimization | Karpagam Academy of Higher Education | 16.02.2021 | Dr. Ilavarasi A K |
13 | Design and Development of Ultrathin Nanomaterials based Biosensors | Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, INDIA | 18-09-2021 | Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi |
14 | Harnessing the Intrinsic Properties of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Biosensing | International Conference on “New Horizons and Trends in Chemical Sciences – 2022” Organized by DADA RAMCHAND BAKHRU SINDHU MAHAVIDYALAYA, Nagpur | 26-03-2022 | Dr. Kiran Kumar Tadi |