James Stephen Meka

Work place: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Chair, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

E-mail: jamesstephenm@gmail.com

Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5072-1116

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Biography

Dr. James Stephen Meka is the National Chair Professor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair, Andhra University (Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India), and a Professor in Computer Science & Engineering with over 23 years of teaching and research experience and 11 years in administration. He served as Registrar (Adl. Charge), Dean of A.U. TDR-HUB, Principal of WISTM Engineering College, and Mentor of American Corner. Holding a Ph.D. and five postgraduate degrees, he has 50+ patents/copyrights, 13 authored books, 70+ research publications, and has guided 13 Ph.D. scholars. With strong international exposure through invited lectures and academic collaborations abroad, he is known for applying technology to address societal challenges. He has received 12 national and international awards for excellence in education and research.

Author Articles
Deep Learning Models for Non-Invasive Blood Group Detection Using Fingerprint Images

By Rajendra Prasad Banavathu James Stephen Meka K. Venkateswara Rao B. Raja Rao Yaswanth Kumar Peddagamalla

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2026.04.19, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026

In the context of medical diagnosis, the identification of human blood groups plays a significant role. To perform the identification of human blood groups, usually invasive identification methods are used. However, due to the limitations of the invasive methods of blood group identification, the use of fingerprint-based identification of human blood groups gained significance recently. In this paper, an accurate comparison of the recently developed deep learning models of fingerprint-based blood group identification techniques is provided. Five CNN-based models, such as ConvNeXt-Tiny, ConvNeXt-Small, EfficientNetV2-S, RepVGG-B3g4, and MobileViT-V2 models for the identification of human blood groups, are implemented. The results obtained in the experiment, considering the accuracy of the models, have proved the EfficientNetV2-S model to have the highest accuracy of 98.84%, followed by the ConvNeXt-Small, ConvNeXt-Tiny, MobileViT-V2, and RepVGG-B3g4 models with accuracies of 97.66%, 97.21%, 97.08%, and 96.98%, respectively.

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