Email:      ramesh.galigekere@manipal.edu;   rgalig@gmail.com                                         

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PROFILE

Education 

B.E. in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Mysore University (National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, M.Sc. (Engg.) by Research, from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1997. 

After PhD... 

Held Research positions at: 

• • The Imaging Research Laboratories of the Robarts Research Institute (RRI), London, Ontario, Canada. Guest Scientist at the Medical Engineering Group (GT-4), Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany (as a part of collaboration with RRI, London, Ontario). 

    • TOPIC: Cone Beam CT: Reconstruction, Enhancement & Visualization 

  • Neurovascular Research Laboratory at the School of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario (UWO, both in London, Ontario). 

    • TOPIC: Development of Signal Processing algorithms - for Analysis of ECG and Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity (MSNA) records 

  • Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    • Moment-based invariants - invariance to blur

    • Development of Adaptive Algorithms for tracking frequencies and powers of narrow-band components 

• Served as an Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UWO, Canada. 

• Work as a Senior Software Engineer at IO Industries, London, Ontario, Canada - exposed me to Software development. 

Back in India!

I joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (an Institute of Eminence), Manipal, as a Professor, and headed the Dept. from June 2006 to May 2018), MIT.  Apart from triggering research, I had an opportunity to contribute to the academic structure - in terms of regular assignments, multiple choice questions in tests, and essential mathematics-courses in the MTech program. These ideas subsequently got introduced at the MIT-level. 

Current Research Interests

Biomedical Signal processing, and medical imaging/Image/Video Processing: contact/non-contact methods of estimation & analysis of vitals in humans and animal models (ZEBRAFISH LARVAE, now a popular model for studying the cardiovascular system: ), image processing and visualization in microscopy and nuclear medicine. 

Non-contact methods of measuring vitals has become all the more important, under the current circumstances arising from the pandemic - COVD-19. 

One of my current projects is on Automated (Digital) TB-screening (partially funded by the State TB Office, Govt. of Karnataka) by image processing, which involves deeper research with respect to MDR-TB - this R & D project is in line with our PM's vision for the country in Healthcare. We hold a US patent on method of TB-assessment by microscope image processing (see publications-section). For more information, see "TB-facts".  This is a part of what may be considered "Digital Pathology". 

Traditional Indian medicine, as it is called today, refer to medical practices that have existed since time-immemorial, and consists of several branches, one of which is "Naadi Pareeksha" - examination of the signals (pulses) at 3 different spots on the wrist) - has been an important one.  Digital acquisition and analysis of Naadi, is obviously timely and useful - and I have initiated work in this direction.