CUSAT Gets Approval for Project Worth Rs 4.5 Crore with Norwegian University

KOCHI:
A project jointly submitted by the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Lab, Department of Computer Science of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has been approved by the Norwegian Research Council.

The Council will fund around Rs. 4.5 Crores for the project titled ‘International Network for Image-based Diagnosis’. University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Hainan University, China and University of Aizu, Japan will also collaborate in this project.

The project will develop an international network for image-based diagnosis and establish a long term international partnership between CUSAT and world-class research groups in Artificial intelligence, medical imaging and clinical decision making in diagnosis. The project aims to enhance the visibility and quality in education and research on Artificial Intelligence for health imaging with five excellent partner institutions in Norway, Japan, China, India and U.S.A.

The collaboration was initiated by the CUSAT Computer Science Department Professors Dr Madhu S. Nair and Dr Sony George. Dr Santhosh Kumar G and Dr Madhu S. Nair will be the Co-Investigators in this project. A Cotutelle and Joint PhD programme will be the major outcome of this project, where a candidate can jointly enroll at two Universities (CUSAT and NTNU).

CUSAT’s Computer Science department has signed up for several national-level funded projects and the current active research works in the department are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Bio-medical image processing, Natural language processing, Cyber physical systems, Bio- informatics and software engineering.

“This project will definitely boost the efforts taken by CUSAT to enhance the internationalisation and eventually help the University to improve its national and international rankings”, said Vice Chancellor Dr K.N. Madhusoodanan.