Work place: School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
E-mail: chiranji.lal@vit.ac.in
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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Vision, Image Compression, Image Manipulation, Image Processing
Biography
Chiranji Lal Chowdhary, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, where he has been since 2010. From 2006 to 2010 he worked at M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore, eventually as a lecturer. His research interests span both computer vision and image processing. Much of his work has been on images, mainly through the application of image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, biometric systems, deep learning, soft computing, and computational intelligence. He has given few invited talks on medical image processing. Professor Chowdhary is editor/co-editor of more than seven books and is the author of over 50 research articles on computer science. He filed two Indian patents deriving from his research.
By Karthick P. Chiranji Lal Chowdhary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2026.04.08, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026
Nephrolithiasis (kidney stone disease) is a common urological disease that has a high clinical and economic impact. The early diagnosis is needed to avoid complications like obstruction of the ureter, infection, impaired kidney functioning. Traditional imaging modalities, such as ultrasonography, kidney-ureter-bladder radiography, and non-contrast computed tomography, are common but have a number of limitations, specifically their operator dependence, radiation, and low sensitivity to small or radiolucent stones. This review follows a PRISMA-based methodology to conduct a systematic review of studies published between 2015 and 2025 on the topic of computational intelligence methods such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning to detect kidney stones based on medical images. Major scientific databases were considered in studies according to imaging modality, preprocessing method, model architecture and performance measures. Deep learning models, especially, Convolutional Neural Networks and U-Net-based frameworks, are highly effective in detection and segmentation tasks and have been reported to have accuracy of 86 to 99.9 percent, Dice coefficients over 0.85 and AUC of up to 0.99 in controlled data. Hybridization to combine ML classifiers, including Support Vector Machines, further improves the performance of classification. Yet, these outcomes are commonly limited through small datasets, class imbalance, external validation, and overfitting, which have an impact on real-life generalization. The use of computational intelligence has greatly improved the detection of kidney stones by enhancing automation, precision, and reproducibility. However, there are still major issues, such as the standardization of the dataset, interpretability of the models, and limitations to the clinical implementation. Explainable AI, federated learning, and 3D volumetric analysis should be prioritized in future research to create diagnostic systems.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2022.02.04, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2022
Being a near end to a confident life, there is no simple test to diagnose stages of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) for a patient. In order to estimate whether the disease is in control and to check if medications are regulated, the stage of the disease must be able to be determined at each point. Clinical techniques like the specific single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) scan called a dopamine transporter (DAT) scan is expensive to perform regularly and may limit the patient from getting regular progress of his body. The proposed approach is a lightweight computer vision method to simplify the detection of PD from spirals drawn by the patients. The customized architecture of convolutional neural network (CNN) and the histogram of oriented gradients (HoG) based feature extraction. This can progressively aid early detection of the disease provisioning to improve the future quality of life despite the threatening symptoms by ensuring that the right medication dosages are administered in time. The proposed lightweight model can be readily deployed on embedded and hand-held devices and can be made available to patients for a quick self-examination.
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