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Advancing Head & Neck / Oral Oncology through Molecular Innovation, Technology, and AI-driven Insights

Date: Nov 6, 2025

Venue: Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation MSMF, 8th Floor, Amphitheatre & VC Room

6th November 2025

Seat limit - 18
    (Inclusive of GST)

    Symposium + Workshop

  • ₹ 5,000

    • Only Symposium

  • ₹ 2,000

    • Only Workshop

  • ₹ 3,000
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Scientific Programme

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
09.00 AM - 12.00 PM SESSION 1: SYMPOSIUM ON MOLECULAR AND AI ADVANCEMENTS IN DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF HNSCC
08.30 AM Registration
8th Floor Amphitheatre, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, Narayana Health Campus, Bangalore, 560099
09.00 - 09.05 AM Welcome and Introduction to the Preconference
09.05 - 09.25 AM Advancements in Diagnostics of HNSCC Dr. Vijay Pillai
Head of the Department, Head and Neck Surgery, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH, Bangalore
09.25 - 09.45 AM Molecular advancements in the diagnosis of Thyroid cancer Dr. Subramanian Kannan
Head of the Department, Department of Endocrinology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Bangalore
09.45 to 10.05 AM Digital Twin Technology for Prognostic Modeling in Head and Neck Cancer Dr. Moni A. Kuriakose
Co-Founder, Medical Director and CEO, Karkinos Kerala Consultant, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH, Bangalore
10.05 - 10.25 AM Pathological Parameters in HNSCC prognosis Dr. Vidya Rao
Consultant Oncopathologist, Department of Pathology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Bangalore
10.25 - 10.35 AM Q and A Session
10.25 - 11.00 AM TEA BREAK
11.00 - 11.20 AM Molecular Advancements in Prognosis of HNSCC Dr. Amritha Suresh
Head, Operations,Principal Investigator, Integrated Head and Neck Oncology program Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation
11.20 - 11.40 AM Molecular markers/histology integrated with AI in Tumor prognosis Dr. Sujan Dhar
Principal Investigator, Computational Biology program Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation
11.40 AM - 12.00 PM Machine learning for predicting oral cancer prognosis Dr. Sumsum Sunny
Clinician Scientist, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation Consultant, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre
12.00 - 12.10 PM Q and A Session
12.10 - 01.00 PM LUNCH BREAK
01.30 - 04:30 PM SESSION 2: WORKSHOP/DEMONSTRATION ON INNOVATIVE MODULES IN EARLY DETECTION OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER
Venue : Vc Room, 8th Floor, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation
10 min Introduction to Image Analysis & AI
  • What is image analysis?
  • Where AI fits (classification, segmentation, deployment)
20 min Introduction to Programming (Python)
  • Python basics for imaging (NumPy, OpenCV)
  • Notebooks, environments, and typical workflow
1 hour 30 min Hands-on: Image Analysis
  • Data cleaning: file checks, resizing/letterboxing,
  • Visualization: channels, histograms, overlays
  • Model development (classification): train/val split, simple CNN
  • Validation: accuracy, ROC-AUC, confusion matrix; saving the best model
30 min Deployment demo: PoC diagnostics with AI - 30 min
  • Oral image classification - Mobile phone based
  • Molecular Cytology AI for early detection
  • Thyroid USG - AI risk stratification (USG segmentation and classification)
*Note to Participants
  • Registrants are required to bring a Laptop, and should have a valid Gmail ID
  • Data required for the workshop will be provided

Faculty: Dr. Sumsum Sunny, Dr. Anela Thomas, Dr. Bhargabi Paul
Team: Ms. Supriya K., Ms. Shivani, Ms. Greeshma, Ms. Srivithya

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