Ashis Kumar Dhara
Post Doctoral
Department of Information Technology
METU CENTER FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS (OGAM)
Sweden
Biography
Dr. Ashis Kumar Dhara is presently serving as a post-doctral researcher at Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction in Uppsala University, Sweden. He has expertise in developing computer-aided diagnosis system and content-based image retrieval system for clinical assistance. He received Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2016. He received the B.Tech. and M. Tech.degrees in electrical engineering from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India, in 2005 and 2007 respectively. His area of interest is biomedical image analysis, Pattern recognition and Machine learning.
Research Interest
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major threat to public health across the world. It could lead to irreversible blindness if not treated at an early stage. An early diagnosis of DR and proper treatment can prevent blindness in more than 50% cases. However, the number of retinologists is very small in relation to the world population. In this situation, the use of an efficient screening tool is the only way for diagnosis of DR.
