Publications by authors named "Shankarachary Ragi"

Micrograph comparison remains useful in bioscience. This technology provides researchers with a quick snapshot of experimental conditions. But sometimes a two- condition comparison relies on researchers' eyes to draw conclusions.

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  • The study focuses on creating an AI framework to analyze microscopy images of bacterial biofilms, specifically Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 (DA-G20), which contributes to corrosion issues on mild steel surfaces.
  • The aim is to automate the extraction of geometric properties of DA-G20 cells from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, making a typically labor-intensive process faster and more cost-effective.
  • The researchers use two deep learning models—DCNN for semantic segmentation and Mask R-CNN for instance segmentation—and find that these methods are significantly faster, completing tasks 227 times and 70 times quicker than traditional manual methods, respectively.
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Measuring soil health indicators (SHIs), particularly soil total nitrogen (TN), is an important and challenging task that affects farmers' decisions on timing, placement, and quantity of fertilizers applied in the farms. Most existing methods to measure SHIs are in-lab wet chemistry or spectroscopy-based methods, which require significant human input and effort, time-consuming, costly, and are low-throughput in nature. To address this challenge, we develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven near real-time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based multispectral sensing solution (UMS) to estimate soil TN in an agricultural farm.

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We describe a method for the analysis of the distribution of displacements, i.e., the propagators, of single-particle tracking measurements for the case of obstructed subdiffusion in two-dimensional membranes.

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