Research Scholar

UGC-NET,Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala
E mail: nitha@keralauniversity.ac.in

RESEARCH

Biomedical Image Analysis

Nitha is researching medical image processing, machine learning, and computer vision. The emphasis is on the identification, localization, severity detection, and quantification of various lung abnormalities. She is developing real-time applications for synthesizing Contrast CTPA from Non-Contrast CTPA.

JOURNALS

• Nitha V R, Vinod Chandra S S, "ExtRanFS: An Automated Lung Cancer Malignancy Detection System Using Extremely Randomized Feature Selector"-Diagnostics, MDPI (ISSN: 2075-4418), Vol.13, No. 13, Article:2206, June 2023.(IF:3.992)


• Nitha V R, "Secure Jaunt– Implementation of Honeypot In VANET"-IJSRCSEIT. Volume 6, Issue 1, January-February-2020, ISSN:2456-3307.


• Nitha V R, "Integration of Cassandra and Spark in Computer Aided Drug Design"-IJSRCSEIT. Volume 7, Issue 1 January-February-2021, ISSN:2456-3307.


• Nitha V R, "Predictive Disease Modelling of Differentially Private Health Data"-IJSRCSEIT. Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April-2020, ISSN:2456- 3307.


• Nitha V R, "Analysis and Classification of Cryptanalytic attacks in a High-Risk Network using Honeypot"-IJSRCSEIT. Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April-2020, ISSN:2456- 3307.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Best Paper Award- Nitha V R, Vinod Chandra S S, "Lung Cancer Classification Using Fine-Tuned VGG16"-International Conference on Emerging Computational Intelligence (ICECI-2023)- Department of Computer Science- Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,11th -12th February 2023.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• Nitha V R, Vinod Chandra S S, "Lung Cancer Classification Using Fine-Tuned VGG16"-International Conference on Emerging Computational Intelligence (ICECI-2023)- Department of Computer Science- Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,11th -12th February 2023.


• Nitha V R, Vinod Chandra S S, "Lung Cancer Malignancy Detection Using Voting Ensemble Classifier"-2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Systems and Communications-(IEEE ICCSC-2023)- LBSITW- 3rd-4th March 2023.


• Nitha V R, Vinod Chandra S S, "A Deep Neural Network Architecture for Lung Cancer Detection upon Feature Extraction using Transfer Learning"-4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND-2022), -Department of Computer Science & Engineering Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT) Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh),19th – 20th January 2023

INVITED TALKS

• Resource person for the workshop on “Machine Learning Using Python” organized by the Department of Computer Science, University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus, held on 19 June 2023.


• Resource person on “Overview of machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision” at Carmel College, Muhamma, held on 22nd Jan 2022.

Nitha is an MCA graduate with a UGC-NET qualification. She has 4+ years of experience in teaching in various affiliated colleges under Kerala University. She has nearly 1.7 years of experience with a major MNC, IBM.