Aravinda K.

Work place: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, India

E-mail: aravindake@gmail.com

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Biography

Dr. Aravinda K. received the Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University in 1988, received the Master’s degree in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2010, and obtained the Doctoral degree from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2020. From 1988 until 1996, he was an Engineer (R&D) at Swede (India) Teltronics Ltd., Bangalore. From 1996 until 2006, he was with Pulsetone Industries, Bangalore, as Senior Engineer (Mfg). In addition, he has teaching experience of about 19 years. He has served as Lecturer at Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bengaluru, for one academic year. He is associated with New Horizon college of Engineering, Bengaluru since 2007 in various capacities.

Author Articles
Optimizing Sinusitis Detection with Harmony Search-grey Wolf Feature Selection and Modified ANN Classification

By P. Maria Jesi V. Kavitha Vignesh Prasanna Natarajan Aravinda K.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2026.03.10, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

Sinusitis is an inflammation of the paranasal sinus mucosa, which is an infection caused by a bacterium, fungus or virus. Therefore, for earliest and accurate prediction of sinusitis from Computed Tomography (CT) image, this research introduces a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technique. The developed research is initiated with preprocessing using a Gabor filter to improve the quality of an image. After, segmentation using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is exploited for effective isolation of sinus regions affected by inflammation. For acquiring the crucial features from the segmented regions, Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) based feature extraction is utilized which offers clinically meaningful features that improve transparency. Consequently, the hybrid Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA)-Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) feature selection is utilized to choose the most relevant features. This hybrid method outperforms traditional selection techniques by effectively identifying the most discriminative and non-redundant features, enhancing classification accuracy while reducing computational complexity. For accurate classification of sinusitis into various severity levels, the modified Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is employed. Unlike end-to-end deep learning models, this modular approach allows for fine-grained control at each stage, ensuring that critical medical insights are not lost in abstraction. This structured pipeline allows each phase to be optimized individually, improving transparency, reliability and ultimately, diagnostic performance. The performance of the research is analyzed via python software and it reveals that the developed classifier achieves an accuracy of 96.41%.

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