Kriti Sen Sharma

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (Jun. 2009 - May 2013)

Ph.D. thesis focusing on improving image quality and resolution in micro- and nano- computed tomography (micro-CT and nano-CT) through iterative image reconstruction and compressed sensing techniques (Advisor: Dr. Ge Wang)

Minor option in Biomedical Engineering and Sciences

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering (Aug. 2007 - May 2009)

As part of research project, developed experimental protocol, imaging methods and image processing algorithms for in vitro quantification of viral infectivity (Advisor: Dr. Amy E. Bell)

Key Courses: Stochastic signals and systems, Advanced DSP & filter design, Robust estimation and filtering, Pattern recognition, Theory and design of computer vision systems, Advanced image analysis, Numerical analysis, Intermediate differential equations, Biomedical engineering and human disease, Mammalian physiology

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

B.Tech., Electronics & Electrical Communication Engg. (Jul. 2001 - May 2005)

Senior project on DSP implementation of a heart valve disorder detection system at Digital Signal Processing Lab (Advisor: Dr. Goutam Saha)

Published

• K. Sen Sharma, C. Holzner, D. M. Vasilescu, X. Jin, S. Narayanan, M. Agah, E. A. Hoffman, H. Yu, G. Wang, "Scout-view assisted interior micro-CT ", Physics in Medicine and Biology, to appear
• A. A. Gurjarpadhye, B. M. Whited, G. Niu, A. Sampson, K. Sen Sharma, W. C. Vogt, G. Wang, Y. Xu, S. Soker, N. Rylander, C. Rylander, "Imaging and characterization of bioengineered blood vessels within a bioreactor using free-space and catheter-based OCT", Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, to appear
• K. Sen Sharma, X. Jin, C. Holzner, S. Narayanan, B. Liu, D. Wang, M. Agah, L. Wang, H. Yu, G. Wang, "Experimental studies on few-view reconstruction for high-resolution micro-CT ", Journal of X-ray Science and Technology, to appear, vol. 21(2), 2013
• K. Sen Sharma, S. Seshadri, M. Feser, G. Wang, "Accurate resolution measurement for X-Ray micro-CT systems", AIP Conf. Proc., vol. 1365, 2011
• K. Sen Sharma, D. Qiao, A. E. Bell, S. K. Samal, S. Elankumaran, "Efficient fluorescence-based imaging methods for quantitating infectivity of Newcastle Disease Virus", Journal of Virological Methods, vol. 163, no. 2, 2010
• B. Laha, K. Sen Sharma, J. D. Schiffbauer, D. Bowman, "Effects of immersion on visual analysis of volume data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Virtual Reality 2012), vol. 18, no. 4, 2012
• J.D. Schiffbauer, S. Xiao, K. Sen Sharma, and G. Wang, "The origin of intracellular structures in Ediacaran metazoan embryos", Geology, vol. 40, no. 3, 2012
• S. Mishra, K. Sen Sharma, S. J. Lee, E. A. Fox, G. Wang, "SLATE: Virtualizing multiscale CT training", Journal of X-ray Science and Technology, vol. 20, no. 2, 2012
• S. Ari, K. Sen Sharma, G. Saha, "DSP implementation of a heart valve disorder detection system from a phonocardiogram signal", J. Med. Eng. & Tech., vol. 32, no. 2, 2008

Non-refereed

• K. Sen Sharma, X. Jin, Z. Chen, L. Li, H. Yu, G. Wang, "OpenRecon Reference Manual --- open-source software library for image reconstruction", Technical report at Biomedical Imaging Division

Conferences (oral presentations)

• Novel biomedical and biological applications using lab-based multi-scale CT system, Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Hartford, CT, Oct. 2011
• Micro-CT for osteon-like scaffolds, 11th Annual Conference of the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, Winston-Salem, NC, Nov. 2009