This book presents research advances in the theory of medical physics and its application in various sectors of biomedical engineering. It gathers best selected research papers presented at International Conference on Advances in Medical Physics and Healthcare Engineering (AMPHE 2020), organized by the Department of Physics (in collaboration with the School of Engineering and Technology) Adamas University, Kolkata, India. The theme of the book is interdisciplinary in nature; it interests students, researchers and faculty members from biomedical engineering, biotechnology, medical physics, life sciences, material science and also from electrical, electronics and mechanical engineering backgrounds nurturing applications in biomedical domain.

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Dr. Moumita Mukherjee is an alumnus of Presidency College (Kolkata) and Calcutta University. Dr. Mukherjee received M.Sc. (Physics) degree with specialization in Electronics and Communication, M.Tech. degree in Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. (Tech.) degree in Radio Physics and Electronics (2009), University of Calcutta, India. She has worked as DRDO-Scientist under DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, till 2015. She obtained 'Visiting Scientist' position from Newcastle University, UK (2009­2011). She obtained PDF position from Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany (2010). Dr. Mukherjee is Visiting/Adjunct Professor and a member of Board of Studies of the Joint Academic program on Biomedical Instrumentation under Calcutta University and the West Bengal University of Health Sciences. In continuation of her position at DRDO, she joined Adamas University in 2015 and presently working as Associate Professor Department of Physics and Associate Dean & Academic Coordinator of School of Science. She has guided more than 30 postgraduate thesis under Calcutta University & West Bengal University of Health Sciences, West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) and Adamas University. She is presently guiding/completed 11 (Eleven) Ph.D. theses under Adamas University and WBUT as Supervisor/Jt. Supervisor. Her research interest is focused on THz electronics, semiconductor devices based on wide-band-gap semiconductors, graphene electronics, photosensors, nano-biosensors and medical electronics & instruments, and biomedical imaging. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research papers on THz electronics, semiconductor devices, biomedical electronics & instrumentation and photonics in reputed international refereed journals including IEEE, SPIE, ELSEVIER, SPRINGER and reviewed conference proceedings with more than 850 citations globally with h-index 16. She is Principal Investigator of three industry funded research projects. She is a reviewer of a number of international peer-reviewed journals and editorial board member of international journals. She has worked as Volume Editor of ISBN numbered books published from UK and India. She has delivered a number of invited talks and presented several research articles in IEEE International Conferences in India and abroad.Dr. Mukherjee has received National Merit Scholarship award from Government of India and was enlisted in 'Marques Who's Who in Science and Engineering' and 'Marques Who's Who in the World.' She has received 'IEEE best paper award' three times in 2009, 2010 and 2019, prestigious 'Best Scientist Award,' 'Bharat Gaurav Award' in 2015, Best paper award in Science and Technology Congress, India, in 2012, Best paper award in International Conference MICRO 2019. Dr. Mukherjee is a member of IEEE (USA), IEEE-ED society (USA), and a life member of Biomedical Society of India, Indian Science News Association and Indian Science Congress.
**Prof. J K Mandal**, M.Tech. (Computer Science, University of Calcutta), Ph.D. (Engg., Jadavpur University) in the field of Data Compression and Error Correction Techniques, and is Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kalyani, India. He is Former Dean Faculty of Engineering, Technology & Management 20082012 (two consecutive terms) and has 29 years of teaching and research experiences. He served as Professor, Computer Applications, Kalyani Government Engineering College for two years. He served as Associate and Assistant Professor at the University of North Bengal for sixteen years. He is a life member of Computer Society of India since 1992 and a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India. He is a member of AIRCC. He is Honorary Chairman of CSI Kolkata Chapter 2016-17. He is working in the field of network security, steganography, remote sensing & GIS application, image processing, wireless and sensor networks. He is Domain Expert of Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, for planning and integration of public domain networks. He is Chief Editor, Advanced Computing: An International Journal, Associate Editor (Guest), Microsystem Technologies, Springer, Chief Editor, CSI Journal of Computing and Editor of Proceedings of ETCS 2012, NIDS-98 and ERC-95 of CSI. Seventeen Scholars awarded Ph.D., one submitted till January 2017, and 8 scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. degree. He published five books from LAPLambert Academic Publishing, Germany, and one book from IGI Global publishers, Indexed by Thomson Reuters. Total number of publications is 359 including 146 publications in various international journals. He edited fifteen volumes as Volume Editor from Science Direct, Springer, CSI etc., organizing various inte...

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Indian Sign Language Recognition using Combined Feature Extraction.- Creating Sleep-Health Awareness and Developing of a Sleep-apnea Screening Tool for People of developing/under-developed Countries.- Robust Detection of Atrial Arrhythmias using Sub-modules of Different Feature Predictors.- Normalized Average Gradient Based Fusion Method in Shearlet Domain for Studying the Prognosis of Alzheimer's Disease.- In vitro Biocompatibility Study on Implantable Crystalline silica- Aluminium Metal Based Hybrid Composites.- Segmentation of Brain Tumor using Cluster Validity Index based Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm.- Biomarkers and Heart Rate Variability in the Prognosis of Cardiovascular Disease: A Perspective.- Gabor Filter based Automated Enhancement of Brain Tumors.- Green Synthesis of Magnetite (Fe3O4) Nanoparticles using Azadirachta Indica Leaf Extract and Their Characterization.- System Modeling and Prediction of Respiratory Diseases using Machine Learning.