Course Schedule

Certificate Course on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences

Date	Day	Time Slot (IST)	Programme / Topic	Resource Person
19th September 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Inauguration Inaugural Lecture: Introduction to AI in Healthcare	Dr. Indranath Chatterjee Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
20th September 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Introduction to AI in Healthcare	Prof. Shandar Ahmad (JNU)
26th September 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Overview of genomics, transcriptomics (RNA-seq), proteomics, metabolomics Differential gene expression (DEG) analysis: RNA-seq & microarray Pathway and gene ontology (GO) analysis	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU)
27th September 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Lab Session GEO data retrieval and alignment using GeoR GO and KEGG pathway enrichment	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU)
03rd October 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks Hub gene identification Multi-omics integration strategies	Dr. Ashwani Kumar Ray (DU)
04th October 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Lab Session Cytoscape for hub gene extraction (via STRING) Volcano and heatmap plotting	Dr. Ashwani Kumar Ray (DU)
10th October 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Survival analysis Prognostic biomarker discovery Lab Session Kaplan-Meier plot generation for survival analysis	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU)
11th October 2026	Saturday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Feature engineering Missing data imputation Handling imbalanced datasets (SMOTE)	Prof. Yasha Hasija (DTU)
17th October 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks	Dr. Ankit Rajpal (DU)
18th October 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Evaluation Metrics: ROC AUC PR Curve Confusion Matrix F1-Score Calibration	Dr. Unmesh Shukla (DU)
24th October 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Evaluation Metrics: ROC AUC PR Curve Confusion Matrix F1-Score Calibration	Dr. Unmesh Shukla (DU)
25th October 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Medical Imaging and Data Handling Imaging modalities such as : Ultra sound X - Ray Histopathology Mammography Image formats and standards: DICOM PNG TIFF Lab Session Image loading Metadata inspection (DICOM tags)	Dr. Bapu Koundinya Desiraju M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (Principal Scientist-I, BRIC - Translational Health Science and Technology Institute NCR-Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone Faridabad-Gurugram Expressway)
31st November 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Annotation tools ITK-SNAP LabelMe PACS systems and metadata extraction Lab Session Manual annotation exercise Image augmentation Denoising Resizing Normalization	Dr. Bapu Koundinya Desiraju M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (Principal Scientist-I, BRIC - Translational Health Science and Technology Institute NCR-Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone Faridabad-Gurugram Expressway)
1st November 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Evaluation Metrics: ROC AUC PR Curve Confusion Matrix F1-Score Calibration	Dr. Unmesh Shukla (DU)
14th November 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Deep Learning and CNNs for Medical Image Analysis 2D vs 3D CNNs for volumetric data (MRI / CT) U-Net and variants for segmentation Lab Session Medical image segmentation using U-Net	Dr. Sangeeta Yadav (DU)
15th November 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Deep Learning and CNNs for Medical Image Analysis CNN building blocks: Convolution Pooling Padding Filters Lab Session Image classification using CNNs	Dr. Ankit Rajpal (DU)
21st November 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Lab Session Classification of cancer subtypes using TCGA dataset Model evaluation	Dr. Ankit Rajpal (DU)
22nd November 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	AI in Radiology (MRI/ CT) Classification Segmentation Anomaly detection	Dr. Virendra Kumar (Professor, Department of NMR All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi) Dr Devasenathipathy K. (Professor, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi )
28th November 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	AI in Pathology Digital histopathology Disease classification Transfer learning: ResNet EfficientNet Real-world use cases: Diabetic retinopathy Skin lesion classification Tumor segmentation	Dr. Virendra Kumar (Professor, Department of NMR All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi) Dr. Varun Surya (Assistant Professor, Oral Pathology, Microbiology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi ) Dr Amar Ranjan (Assistant Professor, Lab Oncology, Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi )
Further schedule will be announced soon !