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Murali RaviMedical Instrumentation

Ongoing work

What is being
built right now.

Three active sponsored programmes and a continuing invention effort: hybrid imaging for sentinel node navigation surgery.

Active projects
3
Active funding
₹296 Lakhs
Through
2027
Ph.D. scholars
2
Active invention

A new handheld hybrid imaging device.

Alongside teaching responsibilities, Dr. Ravi is actively engaged in inventing a new handheld hybrid imaging device for Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery: continuing the line of work that produced SAIGC and SAIGC-Torch.

The immediate objective remains what it has always been: make the instrument smaller, make it faster, and make it available in the room where the surgical decision is actually taken.

OPTICALGAMMAINDIGENOUS SHIELDINGDetector apertureDual-channel entrance windowSingle-hand operationThe constraint that drives every other decisionDEVELOPED IN-HOUSE AT SSSIHLShielding technologyScintillatorsAI-driven detection softwareCLINICAL APPLICATIONSentinel Lymph NodeNavigation SurgeryDAE-BRNS · 2017-2023

Active sponsored projects

Currently funded and running.

ActivePrincipal ConsultantNOKIA Corp.

Application of AI/ML to optical networks and optical algorithm design and testing of ONEP Tool

The largest single award of the programme. Applies machine learning to optical network design and optical algorithm development, with testing of the ONEP tool.

₹150 Lakhs

Awarded

2025-2026

Period

ActivePrincipal ConsultantNOKIA Corp.

Application of AI/ML to hardware manufacturing, optical networks and optical algorithm design and testing of OWAP tool

The current NOKIA engagement, extending the AI/ML mandate from network and algorithm design into hardware manufacturing, alongside testing of the OWAP tool.

₹140 Lakhs

Awarded

2026-27

Period

ActivePrincipal InvestigatorAnalog Devices, Inc.

Design and Implementation of a PoC for Voice Authentication in Cars using an ML approach

A proof-of-concept for in-vehicle speaker verification running entirely at the edge. Produced ECAPA-Lite with a lightweight prosody encoder, quantised to INT8 for deployment on ARM Cortex-A55.

Full case study

₹6 Lakhs

Awarded

2025-2026

Period

Doctoral supervision

The next set of instruments.

Research students working across medical imaging instrumentation and detector development at SSSIHL.

VB

Sri Sai Vignesh Baikampady

Ph.D. Scholar

SK

Sri Koushik V

Ph.D. Scholar: Medical Imaging

Collaboration, licensing or research enquiries.

Open to industrial partnerships in medical instrumentation, embedded AI and hardware acceleration.