Faculty
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Awards & Honors:
Research Interests:
Medical Devices; Biomedical Imaging; Photonics; Image Processing; Biomedical Instrumentation; Spectroscopic Imaging; Mid-Infrared and Vibrational Spectroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography; Optical Imaging; Tomography; Inverse Problems.
Selected Publications:
X. Llora, R. Reddy, B. Matesic, R. Bhargava, “Towards Better than Human Capability in Diagnosing Prostate
Cancer Using Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging”, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ‘07),
London UK, 2007 (An ACM conference).
R.K. Reddy, R. Bhargava, “Accurate histopathology from low signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopic imaging data”,
Analyst, 135, 2818-2825, 2010.
M.V. Schulmerich, R.K. Reddy, A.K. Kodali, L.J. Elgass, K. Tangella and R. Bhargava, “Dark Field Raman
Microscopy”, Anal. Chem., 82(14), 6273-6280, 2010.
R. Kong, R.K. Reddy, R. Bhargava “Characterization of Tumor Progression in Engineered Tissue using Infrared
Spectroscopic Imaging” Analyst, 135(7), 1569-1578, 2010.
R.K. Reddy, B. Davis, P.S. Carney, R. Bhargava, “Modeling Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging of
Prostate and Breast Cancer Tissue Specimens”, International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Chicago
IL, 2011 (An IEEE conference).
M.J. Walsh, R.K. Reddy, R. Bhargava, “Label-free Biomedical Imaging with Mid- Infrared Spectroscopy”, IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics focusing on Biophotonics 2, 18(4), 1502-1513, 2012.
J.T. Kwak, R.K. Reddy, S. Sinha, R. Bhargava, “Analysis of Variance components in Spectroscopic Imaging data
of Tissue Microarray”, Anal. Chem., 84(12), 1063-1069, 2012.
M.R. Kole, R.K. Reddy, M.V. Schulmerich, M.K. Gelber, R. Bhargava, “Discrete frequency infrared
microspectroscopy and imaging with a tunable quantum cascade laser”, Anal. Chem., 84(23), 10366-10372, 2012.
R. Reddy, D. Mayerich, M. Walsh, M. Schulmerich, P. S. Carney, R. Bhargava, “Optimizing the Design of FT-IR
Spectroscopic Imaging Instruments to Obtain Increased Spatial Resolution of Chemical Species”, International
Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Barcelona, Spain, 2012 (An IEEE conference).
R. Reddy, D. Mayerich, M. Walsh, P. S. Carney, R. Bhargava, “Rigorous Electromagnetic Model of Fourier
Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopic Imaging Applied to Automated Histology of Prostate Tissue
Specimens”, International Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ICOLS), Madrid, Spain, 2012.
F.N. Pounder, R.K. Reddy, R. Bhargava, “Chemical Imaging for Human-Competitive Histologic Recognition
Following Breast Cancer Screening”, Cancer Research, (Submitted).
R.K. Reddy, M.J. Walsh, M.V. Schulmerich, P. S. Carney, R. Bhargava, “High-definition Infrared Spectroscopic
Imaging”, Appl. Spectrosc., 67(1), 93-105, 2013.
B.Deutsch, R.K. Reddy, D.Mayerich, R. Bhargava, P. S. Carney, “Compositional prior information in computed
infrared spectroscopic imaging”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 32(6) 1126-1131, 2015.
B. Yin, K.K. Chu, C. Liang, K. Singh, R. Reddy, Guillermo J. Tearney, "μOCT imaging using depth of focus
extension by self-imaging wavefront division in a common-path fiber optic probe," Opt. Express 24, 5555-5564,
2016.
Articles/Book Chapters:
R.K. Reddy and R. Bhargava, “Chemometric methods for biomedical Raman spectroscopy and imaging”
Book Ref: M.D. Morris, P.Matousek, “Emerging Raman Applications and Techniques in Biomedical and
Pharmaceutical Fields”, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
K. Yeh, R.K. Reddy and R. Bhargava, “Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging: An emerging label-free
approach for molecular imaging” Book Ref: M. Anastasio, P.J. La Riviere, “Emerging Imaging Technologies in
Medicine”, Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, USA, 2012.