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Biosketch
Education
(Pursuing) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering (July 2018 - Present)
--- Joined IIT Palakkad as an M.S. research scholar in July 2018 and upgraded to Ph.D. in June 2020.
--- Area of Research: Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2011 - 2015)
--- College of Engineering Adoor, Cochin University of Science And Technology, Kerala.
--- Final Year Project: Microchip Based Fuzzy Logic Controller for Reactive Power Compensation.
Professional Experience
Dec 2023 - April 2024: Project Intern, IIT Palakkad, Sponsored Project by Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore (SRI-B)
--- Project Title: Imaging Software for Portable Ultrasound Scanner
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020: Intern, Texas Instruments Inc., Bangalore
--- Project Title: Development of Voltage, Current, and Power Measurement Schemes for Portable Ultrasound Imaging System
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017: Programmer Analyst, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) India Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore
Nov 2015: Graduate Trainee, Cochin Shipyard Ltd., Kerala
Professional Activities
Student Member: International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
Reviewer: Elsevier Ultrasonics, Elsevier Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, Elsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine, IEEE ISBI 2025, IEEE EMBC 2024, IEEE ISBI 2024, IEEE EMBC 2023, IEEE INDICON 2022
Scopus Profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57189046774
Web of Science Profile: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/J-1312-2014
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sWfMeFgAAAAJ&hl=en
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Research
Research Publications:
Journals:
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Madhavanunni A. N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "A Nonlinear Beamforming for Enhanced Spatiotemporal Sensitivity in High Frame Rate Ultrasound Flow Imaging", Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 147, p. 105686, Aug. 2022. [arXiv] [GitHub]
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Madhavanunni A. N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, “Beam Multiply and Sum: A Tradeoff between Delay and Sum and Filtered Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,” vol. 85, p.104807, Aug 2023. [GitHub].
International Conferences:
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Arun Kumar V., Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "AI Enabled High Frame Rate Portable Ultrasound Imaging Pipeline: Prototype Implementation with GPU Acceleration", 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2024.
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Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, A. N. Madhavanunni, Gayathri Malamal, "Towards Automated Image Quality Assessment in Ultrasound Imaging", 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2024.
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Joel Joy, A. N. Madhavanunni, Gayathri Malamal , and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Towards Multi-Perspective Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Using Low-Cost 3D Printed Track and 1D Linear Probe", IEEE International Symposium for Biomedical Imaging 2024 (IEEE ISBI 2024), Athens, Greece. May 2024.
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Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "On the Performance Investigation of Diverging-Wave-Based Vector Doppler Imaging with Linear Arrays: In-silico Results", IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 (SAUS 2024), Gandhinagar, India. March 2024. (Finalist for the Best Poster Competition)
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Madhavanunni A.N., Niya Mariam Benoy, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, and Himanshu Shekhar, "A Performance Evaluation of Filtered Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Preliminary Results", IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 (SAUS 2024), Gandhinagar, India. March 2024. (Best Paper Award (2nd Prize)) [arXiv]
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Arun Kumar V.*, Madhavanunni A.N.*, Nivetha S., and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "On the Echogenicity of Natural Starch-Based Blood Mimicking Fluids for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging: Preliminary In-vitro Experiments", IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 (SAUS 2024), Gandhinagar, India. March 2024. [arXiv]
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Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Performance Evaluation of Beam Multiply and Sum Beamforming with Coherent Plane Wave Compounding: In-vitro Results", IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 (SAUS 2024), Gandhinagar, India. March 2024.
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Antony Jerald, A. N. Madhavanunni, Gayathri Malamal, Pisharody Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "A Simplified 3D Ultrasound Freehand Imaging Framework Using 1D Linear Probe and Low-Cost Mechanical Track", in Proc. of 8th International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2023), Jammu, India. Nov. 2023. [arXiv]
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Asif MS*, Malamal G*, Madhavanunni AN, Melapudi V, Rahul V, Patil A, Langoju R, Raveendranatha Panicker M. "Fast Marching based Tissue Adaptive Delay Estimation for Aberration Corrected Delay and Sum Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging". in Proc. of 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2023), Sydney, Australia, July 2023 [arXiv]
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Mayank Katare, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Madhavanunni A.N., and Gayathri M, “Learning while Acquisition: Towards Active Learning Framework for Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging,” in Proc. of MICCAI 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction, MLMIR 2022, Singapore, Sep. 2022. [arXiv]
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Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Lesion Detectability and Contrast Enhancement with Beam Multiply and Sum Beamforming for Non-steered Plane Wave Ultrasound Imaging", in Proc. of IEEE 19th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2022, ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata, India, March 2022.
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Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "An Angle Independent Depth Aware Fusion Beamforming Approach for Ultrafast Ultrasound Flow Imaging", in Proc. of 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Mexico (Online), Oct 2021. [arXiv] (Finalist for the Student Paper Competition)
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Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Yale Tung Chen, Gayathri M, Madhavanunni A N, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, C Kesavadas and A P Vinod, "Employing acoustic features to aid neural networks towards platform agnostic learning in lung ultrasound imaging", in Proc. of 28th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2021, Alaska, Sep 2021.
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Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Directional beam focusing based dual apodization approach for improved vector flow imaging", in Proc. of 17th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2020, Iowa City, April 2020.
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Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Triangulation based vector flow imaging with non-steered plane waves for transverse flows", in Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging 2020, Houston, Feb 2020. (Finalist for the Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award )
*Equal Contributions
Preprints:
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Antony Jerald, A. N. Madhavanunni, Gayathri Malamal, and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Towards Non-contact 3D Ultrasound for Wrist Imaging", [arXiv]
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Sairoop Bodepudi, A N Madhavanunni, and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, "Patch Based Transformation for Minimum Variance Beamformer Image Approximation Using Delay and Sum Pipeline", [arXiv]
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Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Yale Tung Chen, Gayathri M, Madhavanunni A N, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, C Kesavadas and A P Vinod, "An Approach Towards Physics Informed Lung Ultrasound Image Scoring Neural Network for Diagnostic Assistance in COVID-19". [arXiv]
Patents:
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Antony Jerald, A.N. Madhavanunni, G. Malamal, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Harikrishnan Pisharody Gopalakrishnan, “Apparatus and Method for Ultrasound 3D Imaging Through Contactless Freehand Linear Scanning” India Patent No. 202441053051. (Filed)
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Harikrishnan Pisharody Gopalkrishnan, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Madhavanunni A.N., Gayathri Malamal. "Array Adaptive Ultrasound Apparatus for Variable Field of View Imaging" India Patent No. 202141036310 (Published)
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Teaching
Teaching Assistance
EE2080 - Microprocessor Design and Interfacing (Jan - May 2023, Jan - May 2022, Jan - May 2021)
EE2170 - Digital Circuits Lab (Aug - Nov 2022, Jan - May 2021, Aug - Nov 2019)
EE5005 - Digital Image Processing (Aug - Nov 2021)
ME1160 - Workshop Practice II (Aug - Nov 2021)
EE2010 - Basic Electrical Engineering (Aug - Nov 2020)
EE4051 - Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing (Jan - May 2019)
- Phd Supervisor
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Additional Information
TitleAchievementsDescription
Aug 2024: Received the International Travel Support (SERB-ITS) from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to attend and present the research paper at 2024 IEEE UFFC-JS, Taipei, Taiwan.
Jun 2024: Received the Network Grant Funding from the International Photoacoustic Standardisation Consortium for a knowledge exchange visit to University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Apr 2024: Best Paper Award (2nd Prize), IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 (SAUS 2024), Gandhinagar India. (Paper Title: A Performance Evaluation of Filtered Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Preliminary Results)
Apr 2024: Best Poster Award Finalist, IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 (SAUS 2024), Gandhinagar India. (Poster Title: On the Performance Investigation of Diverging-Wave-Based Vector Doppler Imaging with Linear Arrays: In-silico Results)
Jan 2023: Excellence in Teaching Assistance Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India.
Oct 2022: Best Poster Award in the Symposium cum Hands-on Workshop on Medical Imaging, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, India. (Poster Title: Multiply and Sum Based Nonlinear Beamforming for Enhanced Spatiotemporal Sensitivity in Ultrafast Ultrasound Flow Imaging)
Nov 2021: Best Poster Award in Research Scholars' Day 2021, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India.
Oct 2021: Student Paper Competition Finalist, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Mexico (Online), 2021. (Paper title: "An Angle Independent Depth Aware Fusion Beamforming Approach for Ultrafast Ultrasound Flow Imaging")
Jan 2020: Robert F Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award Finalist, SPIE Medical Imaging 2020, Houston, USA (Paper title: "Triangulation based vector flow imaging with non-steered plane waves for transverse flows")
Jan 2020: Received the SPIE Student Travel Grant to attend and present the research paper in SPIE Medical Imaging 2020, Houston, USA.
Jan 2020: Got selected by Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (KDISC) and Kerala Start-up Mission for the Young Innovation Program 2019-2022. (Project: Eye-movement based Speller System)
Sep 2019: Best Poster Award in Research Scholars' Day 2019, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India. (Poster Title: Triangulation based vector flow imaging for transverse flows)