Title : 3D semantic segmentation of brain tumor for overall survival prediction

Organized by : IEEE GS STEP lecture at Charusat SB
Date of Event : 12 September 2020 10:00 am onwards
Venue of event : Charusat , Changa (online mode)

An Expert Talk was arranged virtually on the platform of Google Meet by IEEE Charusat SB. The meeting was led by DR. Mehul Raval on the topic “3D semantic segmentation of brain tumor for overall survival prediction”. The Expert Talk began with the welcome speech which was hosted by Yesha Patel (Chair of IEEE Charusat SB). She welcomed the host and participants on the behalf of IEEE Charusat SB. Then Introduction Speech was given by DR. Trushit Upadhya (Branch Counselor, IEEE Charusat SB). DR. Mehul Raval Sir Initated his talk on 3d Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumor by giving the basic introduction about Brain Tumor.  

He also discussed about the challenges that one faces in Medical Imaging Technology. He explained about the Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenges. He also discussed the different types of dataset of images to detect the tumor. Then he also discussed the steps in Image pre-processing and Post processing. And he also discussed some topics of Hand Crafted Features in image processing.   

Then he discussed about the main concept which helps in detection of tumor”Deep Neural Network”. He also explained the basics of Deep Neural Network to make participants comfortable with the topic. He also explained how the concepts of math are used in detection of tumor.

Title – Defending Cyber Crimes by Laws

Date of Event: 29^th August, 2020

Venue of event : Ganpat University – U.V. Patel College of Engineering, Kherva, Mehsana

Organized by: IEEE UVPCE SB

Total number of Participant (IEEE/Non-IEEE) – 69 (16 IEEE Members/53 Non-IEEE Members)

Description: The IEEE UVPCE SB was seeking for a good expert on cyber-attacks and security prevention measure since long time. Our efforts to search such personality came to end by reaching to Mr. Manan Thakker who is not only the senior IEEE member but a well-known and eminent speaker of the desired domain too. The event took place by inviting him for an expert session on “Defending Cyber crimes by Laws” as per his availability and convenience. On the mutually decided day, 29th August, 2020 the event was scheduled. The registration process for the said event started on 25th August, 2020. Despite of the internal exams being scheduled to start on next week; the students of UVPCE showed immense interest and rush for registration.

On the day of event; i.e. 29th August, 2020; the session started with brief introduction and gratitude for the expert to spare the time despite of his busy schedule. Then Mr. Manan Thakker started the talk with briefings of recently happened cyber-attacks. Further he illustrated how cyber bullying, stalking attacks and identity theft attacks can happen with anyone of us. He continued the talk with compensation remedies for online frauds under I.T.Act, 2000 and criminal provision under I.T.Act, 2000. The expert has also provided some case studies and mantra meditation technique to stay away from cyber stress as concluding remark.

At the end of the talk; an open forum for students to ask questions was started. There were plenty of technical and law related questions/queries has been asked by students. The expert has flawlessly answered every doubts the student has raised.

National Seminar on Computer Vision & Image Processing (NaSCoVIP2020)

Date: 9th to 11th October 2020
Theme: Computer Vision and Image processing for Health Care
Website: https://ieeegujaratsection.org/nascovip-2020/

Preamble

With the explosion of Internet technology and Graphic Engines, there has been a massive growth in the research area of Computer Vision and Image Processing. While the field of Image Processing deals with the processing of digital images that are two-dimensional entities, Computer Vision adds the third dimension by computing the object’s depth. A three-day national seminar will promote research and developmental activities in India. The seminar fortifies the Computer Vision and Image Processing and the related fields by assembling experts and the researchers. The seminar’s primary goal is to promote scientific information exchange amongst experts, researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working in the country. The scientific program of the seminar will consist of presentations by leading experts worldwide in the field of Computer Vision and Image Processing. Experts will address the recent developments and trends in the fields. Participants will get enough opportunity to enhance their knowledge regarding the state-of-the-art fields through interaction with experts. It will stimulate the research potential of the candidates who wish to pursue doctoral degrees in the related fields.

Speakers:

The NaSCoVIP 2020 was a virtual event with spanning three days. Six speakers from industry and academia delivered the talks in two sessions from 4.00pm to 5.15 pm and then 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm. Following speakers were invited for delivering talks.

Ms. Mukta Joshi, Group leader Image Guided Therapy Systems R&D, Philips, Netherlands
Title of talk: Advances in medical imaging for diagnosis and treatment

Dr. Chintan Parmar, Senior Expert, Oncology Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA
Title of talk: AI applications for medical imaging biomarkers

Prof. Chang-Hyun Oh, Professor, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea University
Title of talk: Real-Time MR Thermometry using Deep Neural Network

Mr. Akbar Doctor, Principal Test Engineer, Fresenius Medical Care, USA
Title of talk: Test Automation-Medical Devices

Prof. Ram Bilas Panchori, Professor IIT Indore
Title of talk: Detection of human brain disorders using novel machine learning approaches

Prof. Tolga Kaya, Professor, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, USA
Title of talk: Validation Study of a Dry Hand Cleaner as a Potential Hand Sanitizer

Participants:

The participation for the IEEE members was free for the NaSCoVIP 2020 and in response to IEEE Enotice about 235 participation registered for the event. In the subsequent registration process through online platform about 110 participants confirmed their participation. It has been observed that on an average about 50 participants attended both the sessions on all three days. The consent from the speakers have been taken and sessions have been recorded. The recording link was shared with the participants. The feedback evaluation from the participants suggests that the event was success and participants enjoyed the overall workshop demanding similar events in the future.

Women with ambition

Date: 21st August 2020

Organized by: IEEE SB WIE AG A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Faculty Event Coordinator/s: Dr. Sudhir Vegad

Student Event Coordinator/s: Nil patel

No of Participants: 21

Event Type: Non-technical

Event Level: Student Branch Level

Date: 23th june 2020

Duration: 24 hr

Platform: Social media(facebook, instagram, LinkedIn)

Brief about Event:

IEEE A. D. Patel Institute of Technology student branch WIE Afinity group organized an event Women with ambition on 23th june 2020. We organized this event on International Women in Engineering Day. This event was coordinated by Nil Patel. WIE AG of IEEE ADIT SB and guided by Dr. Sudhir Vegad. Branch Counselor of our Student Branch.

​’UDGAM v4.0: Don’t Wait to Innovate’​

Organized By: ​WIE IEEE AU SB and CLIQUE​

Total number of participants: 42​ participants ( 9 teams ) ​ .​

Date of Event: ​9​th August 2020

Venue of the Event: Zoom​

Description:​               

Jury:  Anmol Anubhai, Sayanth K.S, Urvika Sonar​

‘UDGAM v4.0: Don’t Wait to Innovate’ is an entrepreneurial event, which brings​ together students who aspire to develop tenable and robust business plans. The participants will be required to form business models based on a certain set of issues (domains will be given on the spot) in a time span of 2 hours in a team of 3-5 students with at least one female member. The participants are then supposed to present their models after which, best 3 teams will be rewarded with cash prizes worth Rs.2400/-. This event is thus, fosters skills like business model planning, constructive thinking, and pitching.

There were total 9 teams who participated, out of which three teams won prizes.

It was an amazing opportunity to connect with talented people who would also be the judges for the event as judges were well-known entrepreneurs.

It was interesting to see participants coming with innovating business models.

​Webinar on “Let’s explore Language Model: Google BERT”​

​Organized By: WIE IEEE AU SB​

Total number of participants: 50​participants (approx) ​ ​.

​Date: 19​th July 2020

Venue: Google Meet​

​Speaker: Krupa Galiya​

​Topics Covered: 

• What is NLP and basics of NLP
• Introduction to BERT. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers​ (BERT) is a technique for NLP (Natural Language Processing) pre-training developed by Google.
• History of BERT: BERT has its origins from pre-training contextual representations​ including Semi-supervised Sequence Learnin​g,​ Generative Pre-Trainin​g,​ Elmo,​ and ULMFi​ Unlike previous models, BERT is a deeply bidirectional, unsupervised language representation, pre-trained using only a plain text corpus
• How to apply the BERT model for search
• Comparison of BERT model with other models.
• Application of BERT: applying BERT models to both ranking and featured snippets​ in Search
• BERT using Tensorflow

Our Stories-Love yourself

Date: 15 July 2020

Organized by: IEEE STUDENT BRANCH, A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

No of Participants: 20

Event Type: Non-technical

Event Level: Student Branch Level

Date: 15th July 2020

Duration: 1 day.

Venue: Social Media Platforms

Student Event Coordinator/s: Coalesce’20

Brief about Event:

The Executive Committee of IEEE A.D. Patel Institute of Technology Student Branch organized this event on 15th July 2020 which aimed to promulgate a self love campaign to realize the essence of saying “The better you feel yourself,the less you feel the need to show off”.

This campaign is open for all and participants and they are expected to post their pictures or videos with #SelfLove & #IEEEADITSB on their social media accounts(Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram) on 15th July 2020 by 23:59 IST which has  been showcased on the social media handles of our Student Branch.

Expedition: A Virtual Hunt

Organized by: Silver Oak University IEEE WIE AG

Total Number of Participants: 1300

IEEE Members: 200

Non-IEEE Members: 1000

Date of Event: 11^th & 12^th July, 2020

Venue of Event: Virtual Platform(Website)

Description:

The aim of Silver Oak University IEEE Student Branch always has been tending to the growth and development of the students. After the successful conduction of numerous tech events, Silver Oak University IEEE WIE Affinity Group had organized a non-tech fun event named “Expedition: A Virtual Hunt” to break the boredom of partakers and to cheer them up by giving a break to mundane tasks. It was the first-ever online treasure hunt. The event was open for all and free of cost to participate. The student members of SOU IEEE WIE AG made a website for the hunt. The event had 3 rounds in all. We got over 320+ teams each containing 3 to 5 members. Each team leader was given the credentials for logging into the website for the hunt. The teams were given riddles and clues in different forms such as Clues on Instagram and YouTube posts and comments and some Tricky questions at different levels. 1^st round was held on July 11, where all the teams competed, amongst them, the top 70 teams based on Time and accuracy moved forward for 2^nd round on the 12th of July in the morning. 20 top teams out of these 70 were selected for the final round in the evening the same day! Winners were announced a day after the hunt was completed! A handsome prize money was given to the winners.

We had received numerous positive reviews from the participants for this event. In all, it was a social cause by giving these cheerful moments to the participants amidst the hard times upon us. We are grateful to the whole student branch for putting their efforts into making this virtual hunt fun!