1. Samir Kumar Biswas
August 25, 2015
Contact
Information
SiNAPSE Voice: (+65)6404 5442
National University of Singapore E-mail: s.k.biswas@utwente.nl
Post Box 117456, NUS email: lsiskb@nus.edu.sg
Singapore web site:https://sites.google.com/site/sam2012iisc/
Objective Ultrasound and Optical Physicist/Engineer Looking for a Challenging Research & Development
Position in Biomedical Engineering Field.
Research
Interests
Soft matter under low radiation field and angiogenesis. Functional hybrid microscopy with optics
and photoacoustic. Holography for 3D cell cytoskeleton, radiation-matter interaction modeling with
FEM and inverse problem. Mathematical algorithm development. Advanced experimental and
theoretical approaches in photoacoustic, ultrasound, optical methods for cancer biology, arthritis,
angiogenesis and health science, and basic biophysics research.
Work
Experiences
Have working knowledge of CW laser, pulse laser, fiber optics, optical imaging, photoacoustic mi-
croscopy, tomography and in-vivo human micro-vessels diagnosis, ultrasound imaging for rheumatoid
arthritis disease monitoring. Experienced in signal/image processing, inverse problem and algorithm
development, Finite Element Method and light-tissue-ultrasound interaction modeling, ex-vivo ani-
mal and human tissue imaging, in-vivo angiogenesis diagnosis on human subject.
Education Research Fellow, 2014(Decem) - Present.
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Singapore Institute of Neurotechnology
• Project:“Hybrid resolution handheld photoacoustic microscope (hPAM) design and develop-
ment for neurovascular study under US stimulation.”
Postdoc, 2012 - 2014.
University of Twente, Netherlands
Biomedical Photonic Imaging Group
• Project:“Design and development of photoacoustic imaging instrument and US array detec-
tor for monitoring angiogenesis and rheumatoid arthritis in human finger joints.”
Ph.D in Medical Physics and Biomedical Imaging, Jan 2012
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Department of Physics
• Dissertation Topic: “Inverse problem in diffuse optical tomography. New reconstruction
approaches and automated system development for 2D and 3D image formation”.
M.Sc in Solid State Physics, June, 2006
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
Department of Physics
B.Sc in Physics(Hons), June, 2004
Presidency College, Calcutta, India
Department of Physics
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2. Honors and
Awards
• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2014, from SRISTI India for “Laser light
based fully computerized automated breast cancer and muscle screening system development”.
• Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access (FAEA), from 2003-2006, New Delhi 110016.
• Research Fellowship Indian Institute of Science since August 2006 to 2012 April.
• CSIR, New Delhi, India, International Travel Grand for Participating in ICDIP-2010 Confer-
ence, Singapore.
• CCSTDS, Chennai,India, International Travel Grand for Participating in ICDIP-2010 Confer-
ence, Singapore.
Academic
Entrance Test
Qualified
WBJEE 2001, IIT JAM Entrance Test 2004, JU B.Tech Entrance Test 2004, BHU Entrance Test
2004, JNU Entrance Test 2004. IISc Entrance Test 2006, JEST 2006, DRDO Entrance Test 2005,
CSIR December 2006.
Talk Presented
in National and
international
Conferences
• Presented Rheumatoid Arthritis Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (RAPACT) work IN
ECBO,12-16 May, 2013, Munich, Germany.
• Presented an invited talk in Calcutta University, SaltLake Science and Technology Campus,
7th June, 2013, Calcutta, India
• Presented an oral presentation at International Conference, ICSMB-2010,on 17th Dec, 2010 in
IIT-Kharagpur, India
• Presented an oral presentation at International Conference, ICDIP-2010,on 27th Feb, 2010 in
Singapore
• Presented an invited talk in Raman Research Institute of center for Advanced Technology,June
22th, 2008, Indore, India
• Presented poster in international conference, CCMT-2009, May 25-29th, in Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India
• Presented an oral presentation in In-house symposium,Nov 26th , 2008. Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Patent • BOI-Scanner: An Indian patent on laser light based composite tissue diagnostic system is
submitted for filing.
• hPAM: Lens free hybrid resolution water ball photoacoustic microscopy; draft submitted for
filing in NUS, Singapore.
Professional
Experience
Multi-band superconductor and band structure analysis by FP-LMTO method.
under the guidance of -:
Prof. Prabhakar P. Singh
Department of Physics, IIT, Bombay (2005 June -2006 May)
Phase matching and two photon resonance.
under the guidance of -:
Prof T. Kundu
Department of Physics, IIT, Bombay (2005 Aug-Jan)
Detecting patterns in images which is invariant to translation, rotation
and stretching transformation by Fourier-Mellin transformation process.
under the guidance of -:
Prof. Manojkumar Saranathan
Department of Electrical Engineering,IISc, Bangalore. (2006 Aug-Dec)
Design &
development
Skill for Medical
Devices
• Optical Imaging System: During my PhD tenure I have designed and developed a cost
effective complete personal computer operation based automated 2D slice wise 3D imaging
system and later it has been transformed to a direct 3D optical tomography (OT) system for
screening muscle tissue, breast tissue diagnosis. I started the work with nothing and made a
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3. modern intelligent optical imaging machine. The automated digital optical tomographic imag-
ing system uses digital output of parallel port and serial port of personal computer (PC) for
controlling the stepper motors which varies source-detector position dynamically to irradiate
the phantom surface and gathering the exit transmitted photon from phantom surface. A cus-
tom design optical encoder and matlab interface have been made and used for detecting the
position of sources and detectors. A master matlab software package is developed which does
system control, data acquisition, data organization, data calibration and image reconstruction.
The system is working in department of physics, Tomography Lab. The financial support has
been arranged by Dr. R M Vasu (Dept. of Instrumentation, IISc) and Dr. K Rajan (Dept. of
Physics, IISc).
• Ultrasound and PAT imaging system: I have handled a High-tech Health Farm (HTHF)
project which was a complete automated photoacoustic computed tomography instrument de-
velopment project for monitoring rheumatoid arthritis progress in human finger joints. This
project is a high tech scientific instrument design and development project. During my post-
doctoral program I have designed and optimized a dual frequency wide banded ultrasound
transducer array for photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging to monitor rheumatoid arthritis
disease progress in joints. The wide band dual frequency sensitive photoacoustic signal detec-
tor array has separate ultrasound transmitter and receiver elements and are incorporated in a
spherically focused transducer array for imaging angiogenesis ( using PAT) as well as structural
(US) images of the inflamed joints. The mechanical design, sensitivity, size of each element and
field distribution of element are optimized for both photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging of
finger joints. The design has taken account into the anatomy of the finger joint so that it
is more sensitive to synovitis associated inflammation progress in finger joint. The developed
instrument is working at BMPI, University of Twente,
Journal Reviewed • IEEE Trans. on Medical Image
• Medical Image Analysis
• Applied Physics letter
Computer Skills • Languages: MatLab, Fortran, basic C++, Unix shell scripts.
• Applications: SolidWorks, TecPlot, LATEX, graphics in LATEX, Interface of MatLab and par-
allel port, serial port, stepper motor control through MatLab, common Windows database,
spreadsheet, and presentation software
• Programming Experience: PDE and 2D, 3D FEM, Inverse problem and CGS, EM, ART, FBP
in DOT and EIT. Model based iterative parameter distribution reconstruction for ultrasound
imaging and photoacoustic tomography.
• Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows.
Journal
Publications
(14) S. K. Biswas, Liu Yu, L. D. Liao, A. Bandla and N. V. Thakor, Lens free water ball photoa-
coustic microscope,(communicating).
(13) S. K. Biswas, Peter V. Es, S. Manohar and W. Steenbergen, A vectorization algorithm for
iterative photoacoustic image reconstruction,(under review.).
(12) S. K. Biswas, Peter V. Es, W. Steenbergen and S. Manohar, A new method for delineation
of bone surfaces in photoacoustic computed tomography of human finger,( in press at ultrasound
imaging).
(11) Peter V. Es., S. K. Biswas, H. Moen, W. Steenbergen and S. Manohar, Initial results of finger
imaging using Photoacoustic Computed Tomography, J. Biomed. Opt. Lett., Vol. 19, 060501 (2014).
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4. (10) T.K. Bera S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and J. Nagaraju, Projection error propagation-based reg-
ularization (PEPR) method for resistivity reconstruction in electrical impedance tomography (EIT),
Elsevier (measurements), Vol. 49, 329, (2014).
(9) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Models and Algorithms for Diffuse Optical Tomographic
System, Sci. Research ,IJCNS Vol. 6, 489-496 (2013).
(8) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Flux density calibration in diffuse optical tomographic
systems, J. Biomed. Opt., Vol. 18(2), 026023 (2013).
(7) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Practical fully 3-D reconstruction algorithms for
diffuse optical tomography, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., Vol. 29, 1017, (2012).
(6) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, A Pseudo-dynamical Systems Approach Based on a
Quadratic Approximation of Update Equations for Diffuse Optical Tomography, J. Opt. Soc. Am.
A., Vol. 28, 1784, (2011).
(5) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Accelerated gradient based diffuse optical tomographic
image reconstruction, Medical Physics. Vol. 38, 539, (2011)
(4) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Diffuse optical tomographic imager using a single light
source, J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 105 ,024702, (2009).
(3) T.K. Bera S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and J. Nagaraju, Improving Conductivity Image Quality
Using Block Matrix-based Multiple Regularization (BMMR) Technique in EIT: A Simulation Study,
J. Elc. Bioimp., Vol. 2, 33-47 (2011).
(2) T.K. Bera S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and J. Nagaraju, Improving Image Quality in Electrical
Impedance Tomography (EIT) Using Projection Error Propagation-Based Regularization (PEPR)
Technique: A Simulation Study, J Electr. Bioimp, Vol. 2, 2-12 (2011).
(1) K. Rajan, , Vijayakumar.V, S. K. Biswas and R M Vasu, Implementation of a phase array
diffuse optical tomographic imager ,Rev. Sci. Ins., 79, 084301 (2008),
Article under
process
(15) S. K. Biswas, Peter van Es., S. Manohar and W. Steenbergen, Design and development of multi
model multi frequency photoacoustic sensor for better sensing and imaging finger joints associated
rheumatoid arthritis., (under preparation).
(16) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Matlab based a simple automated imaging system for
diffuse optical tomography - Part I: in vivo 2-D Slice images, (about to submit, waiting for patent).
(17) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Matlab based a simple automated imaging system
for diffuse optical tomography - Part II: A direct 3-D imaging system, (about to submit).
Conference
Proceeding
(9) S. K. Biswas, P. van Es, S. Steenbergen and S. Manohar, A new approach to depict bone surfaces
in finger imaging using photoacoustic tomography, SPIE Proceeding, Vol. 9323-73, Photonic West
BiOS -2015, San Francisco, California, United States. Among top 5 innovative idea within all paper,
Got honourable comments from committee members.
(8) P. van Es,S. K.Biswas,H. Moen, S. Steenbergen and S. Manohar, Photoacoustic tomography of
the human finger: towards the assessment of inflammatory joint diseases , SPIE Proceeding, Vol.
9323-177, Photonic West BiOS -2015, San Francisco, California, United States.
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5. (7) S. K. Biswas, P. van Es, Ir. E. Vermeij, Fans Loo ,W. Steenbergen,H. Moen, S. Manohar, Pho-
toacoustic detection of inflammation in an arthritis mouse model : An ex-vivo knee study, Accepted
in ECBO OSA-SPIE -2013, Munich, Germany.
(6) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu , Linearization and reconstruction of nonlinear diffuse
optical tomographic image, SPIE Proceeding, Vol. 8313, 83133X-1 (2012),(SPIE Medical Imaging-
2012, San Diego, California, USA.).
(5) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu , Interior photon absorption based adaptive reg-
ularization improves diffuse optical tomography, 2010 SPIE Proceeding, Vol.7546, 754611( 2010)
(ICDIP-2010, Singapore).
(4) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Regional Sub-block Matrices Based Multiple Regu-
larization and Biomedical Image Reconstruction, Vol. 1, 63,(2010) (ICSMB-2010, IIT Kharagpur).
(also available in IEEE Xplore)
(3) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, 3D Diffuse OpticalTomography:System Implementation
and Validation of Reconstruction Algorithm, 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical
Imaging Conference, Tennessee, USA.
(2) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Diffuse Optical Tomography for detection and localiza-
tion of tumor, EPSM ABEC, Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference16-20 November 2008,
Christchurch Convention Centre Christchurch, New Zealand , Volume epsm abce 2008 , Pages 272
Year 2008.
(1) S. K. Biswas, K. Rajan and R. M. Vasu, Quantitative Recovery and Resolution of Diffuse
Optical Tomography (DOT): An Experimental Study , NSI 33, Vizag ,India, Dec 8-11, Year 2008.
Contact
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Referee
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