Journey from college to Industry

Raghavan Venugopal

Agenda

• Introduction

•College experience– University of Mumbai (1993-1997)

– Clemson University (1999-2001)

• Industry experience – total of 15 years– Tata InfoTech (1997-1999)

– Intern at DVT Sensors (07/2001-12/2001)

– STI (02/2002-03/2003)

– United Toll Systems (04/2003 – 05/2005)

– Vital Images – now Toshiba (06/2005-10/2008)

– Omnyx (11/2008 – now)

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College experience

•Bachelors in Electronics Engineering – University of Mumbai

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Industry experience

•Tata Infotech Ltd– Initially thought that I would be working on Y2K problem on mainframes - boring

– Automatic Signature verification

– Imaging processing experience

– Worked with recognized researches from technical institutions

– This was the motivation for me to do my Masters from Clemson University

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College experience

•Masters in Computer Engineering – Clemson University

•Courses– Digital Signal processing

– Speech processing

– Matrix theory

– Digital Image processing

– Artificial Neural networks

– Computer Architecture

•Thesis – “Recalibration of Moving Sensors for Autonomous Virtualization”

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STI- Semiconductor industry

•Worked on identifying defects on semiconductor chips

•Constant learning– C++

– System programming (multi-threading)

– Advanced image processing techniques

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United Toll Systems

•Working on license plate recognition systems

•Constant learning– Advanced application development

– C#/.Net

– Advanced image processing techniques

– Installation of toll systems

•4 patents from this work

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Industry experience

•Vital Images– Lead Cardiovascular application development

– SUREPlaque – quantization of plaque deposits within the coronary arteries

– Ablation planning – visualization of left atrium and help plan for ablation

– Working on Toshiba 320 slice CT scanner

– Constant learning

– Get into more advanced application development

– OpenGL

– Understanding medical domain - cardiology

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OMNYX – WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

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Omnyx – Who we are & what we do

Established as an independent company Mar 2008 Two locations in Pittsburgh, PA and Piscataway, NJ 115 employees

Joint-venture of GE Healthcare and UPMC Clinical insight of UPMC Pathologists with patented GE

technology

GE healthcare will be worldwide distributor of Omnyx products - provides customer service and support

A GE Healthcare and UPMC Venture $100MillionResearch & Development Investment

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Omnyx – Who we are & what we do (2)

United Kingdom France

United States

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Omnyx – Who we are & what we do (3)

Today - Analog Tomorrow - Digital

This is really cool stuff that is a lot of fun to work on as it clearly impacts people’s lifes

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© Omnyx, Inc. 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Confidential and Proprietary Information of Omnyx, LLC

Omnyx products are for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

Omnyx Whole Slide Scanners

Omnyx VL4 Scanner:Launched March 2013

• High quality images• Easy, walkway operation• Touch screen interface

Omnyx VL120 Scanner:Launched April 2014

• Flat tray loading• Continuous load unload

• Priority override

© Omnyx, Inc. 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Confidential and Proprietary Information of Omnyx, LLC

Omnyx products are for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

Compression in Digital Pathology

• 15 mm x 15 mm tissue• Pixel size for 40x scan (0.275 µ/pixel)

54545 x 54545 pixels

• RGB image (24-bit; 3 Bytes/pixel)• Total image size = 54545 x 54545 x 3

8.312 GB

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© Omnyx, Inc. 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Confidential and Proprietary Information of Omnyx, LLC

Omnyx products are for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

Compression in Digital Pathology

• 15 mm x 15 mm tissue• Pixel size for 60x scan (0.1375 µ/pixel)

109090x 109090 pixels

• RGB image (24-bit; 3 Bytes/pixel)• Total image size = 109090 x 109090 x 3

33.25 GB

How to compress images andpreserve image quality?

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