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 |
2025
- Edwin Dhas., Suchetha. “Adjacent Channel Weight Dependable RLS Adaptive Filter with VMD based Artifact Removal Mechanism in Fetal ECG Separation”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 3427-3438, May 2025,. (IF:6.7)
- Tamilselvi, S; Suchetha, M; Ratra, Dhanashree., “Evaluating anti-VEGF responses in diabetic macular edema: A systematic review with AI-powered treatment insights”. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 73(6):p 797-806, June 2025. (IF: 2.2)
- Rajalakshmi, R., Suchetha., Dhara, A.K. et al. “Creating a retinal image database to develop an automated screening tool for diabetic retinopathy in India”. Scientific Report 15, 7853 (2025).(IF: 2.2)
| 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 |
