Sayantan Dutta
Postdoctoral Associate
The Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine,
Cornell University, New York, USA
Sayantan Dutta received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, India, in 2016, the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, in 2018, and the M.S. degree in fundamental physics from the University of Tours, Tours, France, in 2019. He received Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, in 2023. He is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, USA.
His research interests include quantitative acoustic microscopy, quantum computing, quantum image processing, deep learning, and inverse problems, particularly denoising, deblurring, super-resolution, and compressed sensing.
In 2023, he was guest co-editor for the EURASIP JIVP special issue on "Recent Advances in Plug-and-Play Methods for Signal, Image and Video Processing: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" and co-organizer of the special session on "Plug-and-Play Algorithms for Computational Imaging: Theory and Applications" at EUSIPCO.
Research Interests:
Quantum Computing: Signal representation in a quantum computer, internal circuit noise removal in a quantum processor, and adaptive thresholding of a noisy quantum state.
Quantum Image Processing: Quantum mechanics-based adaptive transformation, image decomposition using quantum many-body interaction theory, image formation, and reconstruction.
Deep Learning: Designing novel networks, deep unfolded networks, and customized convolution kernels based on quantum mechanical laws for solving inverse problems.
Quantitative Ultrasound: Study the acoustical and mechanical properties of soft tissues at microscopic resolution for tissue characterization using quantitative acoustic microscopy.
Medical Image Processing: Analyze biomechanical properties of the sclera in myopic guinea pigs using very high-frequency ultrasounds, and computed tomography image processing.
Work Experience:
Apr 2023 -- Present Postdoctoral Associate in Quantitative Ultrasound - Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Mamou
Laboratory: Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, USA
Project: Quantitative acoustic-microscopy and characterization of soft tissue
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow in Ultrasound Imaging - University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Advisor: Prof. Adrian Basarab
Laboratory: CREATIS Laboratory, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Project: Restoration and enhancement of echocardiographic images
Education:
2019 - 2023 Ph.D. in Computer Science - University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
Supervisors: Prof. Adrian Basarab, Prof. Denis Kouamé and Dr. Bertrand Georgeot
Laboratories: (i) Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), CNRS
(ii) Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de Toulouse (LPT), CNRS
Thesis Title: Novel prospects of image restorations inspired by concepts of quantum mechanics. (arXiv)
2018 - 2019 M.Sc. in Fundamental Physics - The University of Tours, Tours, France
Master's Thesis Title: Classical signal and image processing methods inspired from quantum mechanics
2016 - 2018 M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics - The Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
Master's Thesis Title: Electromagnetic solitary waves in a relativistic pair plasma
2013 - 2016 B.Sc. in Mathematics - The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, India
Research Labs:
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Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), CNRS, UMR 5505, Toulouse, France
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de Toulouse (LPT), CNRS, UMR 5152, Toulouse, France
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Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement de l'Image pour la Santé (CREATIS), CNRS UMR 5220, Lyon, France
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Department of Mathematics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
Collaborations (past and present):
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Dr. Jonathan Mamou, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Prof. Sally McFadden, Department of Vision Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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Dr. Quan V. Hoang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Prof. Adrian Basarab, CREATIS, Lyon, France
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Prof. Denis Kouamé, IRIT, Toulouse, France
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Prof. Damien Garcia, CREATIS, Lyon, France
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Dr. Bertrand Georgeot, LPT, Toulouse, France
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Dr. Duong Hung Pham, IRIT, Toulouse, France
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Prof. Amar P. Misra, Department of Mathematics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
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Guest editor for EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing special issue on "Recent Advances in Plug-and-Play Methods for Signal, Image and Video Processing: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications", 2023 (Springer).
Editorial Experience:
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Co-organizer of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2023 special session on "Plug-and-Play Algorithms for Computational Imaging: Theory and Applications"
Organized Events:
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
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IEEE Access
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Signal Processing
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IEEE Signal Processing Letters
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Geophysical Journal International
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Physics of Plasmas
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MDPI Fractal and Fractional
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MDPI Entropy
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MDPI Sensors
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MDPI Applied System Innovation
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MDPI Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
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IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
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IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
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Conferences:
2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s top 25 downloaded articles for IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
2019 Best Presentation Award – ACNCP, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
2016 – 2018 DST-Inspire Master scholarship by the Government of India for an excellent academic result.
2013 – 2016 DST-Inspire Undergraduate scholarship by the Government of India for an excellent academic result.
2013 3rd Place, student poster presentation competition for 12th grade High School, by the Government of India.
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Presentations:
Oral Presentation:
2024 9. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024 in Athens, Greece.
8. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2024 in Seoul, Korea.
7. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2024 Conference in Seattle, Washington, USA
2023 6. Acoustics 2023 Conference (Acoustical Society of America) in Sydney, Australia.
5. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2023 in Helsinki, Finland.
2022 4. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2022 in Bordeaux, France.
3. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2022 in Venice, Italy.
2. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2022 in Kolkata, India.
2021 1. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2021 in Dublin, Ireland.
2021 3. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
2. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2021 in Xi’an, China.
1. Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology Summer School 2021 at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
Poster Presentation:
Apr - Jul, 2019 IRIT, CNRS and LPT, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.
Title: Develop signal and image processing algorithms for medical image denoising.
May - Jun, 2017 The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India.
Title: Mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics: a rudimentary study.
Jul - Sep, 2014 Vivekananda Mahavidyala - Burdwan, Burdwan, India.
Title: Linear instability analysis of a finite amplitude long wave flowing down an inclined plane.
Mar - May, 2021 Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI), Federal University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Subject: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
Jun - Jul, 2022 16th Gretsi Peyresq Summer School 2022 on Methodological and Societal Challenges of Deep Learning at Peyresq, France.
Sep, 2021 Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology Summer School 2021 on Quantum Sensing and Imaging at Vienna University of Technology,
Vienna, Austria.
Jun, 2021 15th Gretsi Peyresq Summer School 2021 on Signal and Image Processing for the Co-design of Innovative Imaging Systems: Physics, Mathematics, Algorithms at Peyresq, France.
Jul, 2020 28th Summer School on Image Processing 2020 at The University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
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Publications
Journal Papers:
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Arthur Floquet, Sayantan Dutta, Emmanuel Soubies, Duong H. Pham, Denis Kouamé, "Automatic Tuning of Denoising Algorithms Parameters without Ground Truth", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 31, pp. 381-385, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2024.3354554.
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Denis Kouamé, Bertrand Georgeot, "Quantum Algorithm for Signal Denoising", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 31, pp. 156-160, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2023.3344071.
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "A Novel Image Denoising Algorithm Using Concepts of Quantum Many-Body Theory", Signal Processing, vol 201, pp. 108690, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108690. (arXiv) (code)
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "Plug-and -Play Quantum Adaptive Denoiser for Deconvolving Poisson Noisy Images", IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 139771-139791, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3118608. (arXiv) (code)
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, and Denis Kouamé, "Quantum Mechanics-Based Signal and Image Representation: Application to Denoising", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 190-206, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2021.3067507. (arXiv) (code)
Gadadhar Banerjee, Sayantan Dutta, and Amar P. Misra, "Large Amplitude Electromagnetic Solitons in a Fully Relativistic Magnetized Electron-Positron-Pair Plasma", Advances in Space Research, vol. 66(9), pp. 2265-2273, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2020.07.040.
Conference Papers:
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Sayantan Dutta, and J. Mamou, "A Quantum Denoising-Based RED Framework for 250-MHz & 500-MHz Quantitative Acoustic-Microscopy Resolution Enhancement", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2024 (Accepted).
Sayantan Dutta, Bertrand Georgeot, Jérôme Michetti, Adrian Basarab, Denis Kouamé, "Unsupervised Physics-Inspired Deep Learning Network with Application to Dental Computed Tomography Image Restoration", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2024 (Accepted).
Q.V. Hoang, Sayantan Dutta, S. McFadden, J. Mamou, "Biomechanical Properties Change in the Peri-Equatorial Region in Myopic Guinea Pig Sclera: Insights Toward Location of Early Changes During Myopization", in Proceedings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2024 (Accepted).
Sayantan Dutta, S. McFadden, Q.V. Hoang, J. Mamou, "Biomechanical and microstructural changes in posterior myopic Guinea pig", in Proceedings of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154 (4_supplement), pp. A95-A95, 2023, DOI: 10.1121/10.0022912.
Sayantan Dutta, Nwigbo K. Tuador, Jérôme Michetti, Bertrand Georgeot, Duong H. Pham, Denis Kouamé, Adrian Basarab, "Computed Tomography Image Restoration Using a Quantum-Based Deep Unrolled Denoiser and a Plug-and-Play Framework", in Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023, DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289892.
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "Deep Unfolding of Image Denoising by Quantum Interactive Patches", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 491-495, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP46576.2022.9897959.
Sayantan Dutta, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, Damien Garcia, Adrian Basarab, "Adaptive Contrast Enhancement of Cardiac Ultrasound Images using a Deep Unfolded Many-Body Quantum Algorithm", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), pp. 1-4, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9958691.
Sayantan Dutta, Nwigbo K. Tuador, Jérôme Michetti, Bertrand Georgeot, Duong H. Pham, Adrian Basarab, Denis Kouamé, "Quantum Denoising-Based Super-Resolution Algorithm Applied to Dental Tomography Images", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1-4, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ISBI52829.2022.9761623. (code)
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "Image Denoising Inspired by Quantum Many-Body Physics", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1619-1623, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506794. (arXiv) (code)
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "Poisson Image Deconvolution by a Plug-and-Play Quantum Denoising Scheme", in Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 646-650, 2021, DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO54536.2021.9616253. (arXiv) (code)
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "Despeckling Ultrasound Images Using Quantum Many-Body Physics", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), pp. 1-4, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/IUS52206.2021.9593778. (arXiv) (code)
In Review (manuscripts submitted or in preparation):
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Sayantan Dutta, and J. Mamou, (2024) A Quantum Denoising-Based Resolution Enhancement Framework for 250-MHz & 500-MHz Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy. Submitted (Under review).
Sayantan Dutta, S. McFadden, Q.V. Hoang, J. Mamou, (2023) Region Dependent Variations in Biomechanical Properties of the Sclera in Myopic Guinea Pigs. Manuscript under preparation.
Sayantan Dutta, Adrian Basarab, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, "DIVA: Deep Unfolded Network from Quantum Interactive Patches for Image Restoration", Submitted (under review), 2023. (arXiv) (code)
My Skills
Programming Language Skills
MatLab
Python
C
Fortran
Technical Skills
Deep Learning, Image Processing, Medical Image Processing, Ultrasound Imaging, Inverse Problems, Quantum Computing, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field, Theory, General Theory of Relativity, Cosmology, Probability and Statistics, Algebra, Topology
Computer Skills
Latex
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Excel
Soft Skills
Learning Potential, Problem-solving,
Teamwork, Adaptability, Research,
Nonlinear Thinking, Hardworking,
Responsible, Multitasking,
Creativity
Language Skills
Bengali
English
Hindi
Sanskrit
French
Interests and Hobbies
Cricket, Football,
Badminton, Hiking,
Painting, Instrument (Tabla)
Bhagwan Krishna
"The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone."