Name: Chanukya Krishna Chama

Contact No: 8001205326

Affiliation: E&ECE Dept., IIT Kharagpur
Title: Research Scholar
Brief Bio:
Chanukya Krishna Chama is a research scholar (PhD) working in Medical Image Anal
ysis area at E&ECE Dept., IIT Kharagpur .
He has 8+ yrs research experience in areas of Image Analysis, Computer Vision, P
attern Recognition and Machine Learning.
Publications:
1. Chanukya K. Chama,
hendra K. Madaiah and
CT images using mean
of SPIE, vol. 8670,

Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Prabir K. Biswas, Ashis K. Dhara, Ma

Niranjan Khandelwal, "Automated lung field segmentation in
shift clustering and geometrical features," In Proceedings
9-14 February 2013, Florida, United States

2. Ashis Kumar Dhara, Chanukya Krishna Chama, Sudipta Mukhopadhyay and Niranjan
Khandelwal, Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Differential Diagnosis of Lu
ng Cancer , 8th National Conference on Medical Informatics (NCMI) 2012, 3-5 Februa
ry 2012, AIIMS, Delhi.
3. Ashis Kumar Dhara, Chanukya Krishna Chama, Sudipta Mukhopadhyay and Niranjan
Khandelwal, Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Differential Diagnosis of L
ung Cancer, Indian Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI), vol. 6, no. 1, 2012
Seminar Title: Automated Lung Field Segmentation in CT images using Mean Shift C
lustering and Geometrical Features
Topic Description:
Lung field segmentation is a prerequisite for development of automated computer
aided diagnosis system from chest computed tomography (CT) scans. Intensity base
d algorithm such as
mean shift (MS) segmentation on CT images for delineation of lung field is repor
ted as the best technique in terms of accuracy and speed in the literature. Howe
ver, in presence of high dense abnormalities, accurate and automated delineation
of lung field becomes difficult. So an improved lung field segmentation using m
ean shift clustering followed by geometric property based techniques such as lun
g region of interest (ROI) created from symmetric centroid map of two normal sub
jects, false positives (FP) reduction module (using eccentricity, solidity, area
, centroid features) and false negatives (FN) reduction module (using overlap fe
ature between clusters from MS label map and convex hull of costal lung) is prop
osed. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated on images obtained
from Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) - Image Database Resource Initiative
(IDRI) public database of 17 subjects containing nodular patterns and from local
database of 26 subjects containing interstitial lung disease (ILD) patterns. Th
e proposed algorithm has achieved mean Modified Hausdorff Distance (MHD) in mm o
f 1.47 4.31, Dice Similarity Coecient (DSC) of 0.9854 0.0288, sensitivity of 0.97
71 0.0433, specificity of 0.9991 0.0014 for 133 normal images from 32 subjects a
nd MHD in mm of 6.23 9.00, DSC of 0.8954 0.1498, sensitivity of 0.8468 0.1908, s
pecificity of 0.9969
0.0061 for 296 abnormal images from 43 subjects.