Amruthalingam Ludovic HSLU I

Dr. Ludovic Amruthalingam Ludovic Amruthalingam

Lecturer

Amruthalingam Ludovic HSLU I

Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology

Room 7.60
Campus Zug-Rotkreuz
Suurstoffi 1
6343 Rotkreuz


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Biography

 

 

Education

  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence, University of Basel

  • Master of Science in Computer Science, ETH Zürich

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, EPFL

 

Professional Activities

  • [since 2022]: Senior researcher and lecturer, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

  • [since 2017]: Startup co-founder, Intelligent Orthopaedics, Chennai, India

  • [2015 - 2017]: Startup founder, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Dubai, UAE

Projects

Research projects

  • Health Innovation Transfer Study (HIT)
  • Understanding Dermatologic Conditions with Human and AI
  • HEART
  • Contextualized dental charting feedback
  • Swiss Longevity Compass
  • Swiss Longevity Compass
  • Vision Intell. For Strategic Obj. Recog.
  • Derma consultation documentation with AI
  • ZooScapes: Interactive Knowledge Spaces with AR and AI
  • Benchmarking synthetischer Daten für das quantitative Finanzwesen
  • SpaceTimeLayers: Expanding the past - reflecting on the future
  • HSLU Medtech Joint Venture
  • Counteracting Data Scarcity in MedTech
  • Body Region Classifier for Teledermatology
  • derecAI
  • Erkennung von Handekzemen mit Machine Learning

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Navarini, Alexander; Pouly, Marc; Ranasekara Pathiranage, Nipun Sandamal & Wermelinger, Linda (27.09.2026). Multi-Dataset Diagnostic Utility of Clinical Visual Concepts in AI Systems for Dermatology. Eleventh ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop @ MICCAI 2026,
  • Lionetti, Simone; Gröger, Fabian; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (05.12.2025). Clinical Uncertainty Impacts Machine Learning Evaluations. Machine Learning for Health (ML4H),
  • Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Goessinger, Elisabeth Victoria; Lindemann, Hanna; Bargiela, Marie; Hofbauer, Marie; Badri, Omar; Tschandl, Philipp; Koochek, Arash; Groh, Matthew; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2026). CleanPatrick: A Benchmark for Image Data Cleaning. Journal of Data-Centric Machine Learning Research,
  • Gröger, Fabian; Baumann, Pascal; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Simon, Laurent; Giurda, Ruksana & Lionetti, Simone (10.02.2025). Evaluation of Deep Audio Representations for Hearables. arXiv,
  • Gonzales-Jimenez, Alvaro; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gröger, Fabian; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Pouly, Marc & Navarini, Alexander (2025). Is Hyperbolic Space All You Need for Medical Anomaly Detection? MICCAI'25: Proceedings of the 28thInternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention,
  • Baumann, Pascal; Glaus, Seraina; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gröger, Fabian; Giurda, Ruksana & Lionetti, Simone (2025). Listening Intention Estimation for Hearables with Natural Behavior Cues. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) 2025,
  • Gröger, Fabian; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Lionetti, Simone; Navarini, Alexander; Ille, Fabian & Pouly, Marc (2025). A Review and Systematic Guide to Counteracting Medical Data Scarcity for AI Applications. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update,
  • Gröger, Fabian; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Lionetti, Simone; Soenksen-Martinez, Luis; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2024). Towards Scalable Foundation Models for Digital Dermatology. Machine Learning for Health (ML4H),
  • Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gröger, Fabian; Andriambololoniaina, Herizo; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Rakotoarisaona, Mendrika; Gonzales-Jimenez, Alvaro; Lionetti, Simone; Ng, Wingston; Hsu, Christophe; Kessy, Agnes; Pouly, Marc; Mavura, Daudi; Faith, Dingase; Traoré, Ibrahima; Rapelanoro, Rabenja & Navarini, Alexander (2024). PASSION for Dermatology: Bridging the Diversity Gap with Pigmented Skin Images from Sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention,
  • Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Jie, Zhu; Steiger, Alexandra; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Kind, Andre; Heinzelmann, Viola; Mang, Claudia; Mueller, Simon & Navarini, Alexander (2024). AI-powered visual diagnosis of vulvar lichen sclerosus: A pilot study. Journal of European Academy of Dermatology Venereology, 2024, doi: 10.1111/jdv.20306
  • Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzales-Jimenez, Alvaro; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Groh, Matthew; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2024). Intrinsic Self-Supervision for Data Quality Audits. NeurIPS’24: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems,
  • Gröger, Fabian; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gonzales-Jimenez, Alvaro; Lionetti, Simone; Soenksen Martinez, Luis; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2024). Towards Foundation Models for Digital Dermatology. Proceedings of the 4th Machine Learning for Health Symposium, Findings Track,
  • Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Mang, Nora; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Maul, Julia-Tatjana; Kunz, Michael; Pouly, Marc & Navarini, Alexander (2023). Objective Hand Eczema Severity Assessment with Automated Lesion Anatomical Stratification. Experimental Dermatology, 2023, 1. doi: 10.1111/exd.14744
  • Gröger, Fabian; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Lionetti, Simone; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2022). Towards Reducing The Need For Annotations In Digital Dermatology With Self-supervised Learning. ECAI’22: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of Workshop 31: Scarce Data in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare, 11-16. doi: 10.5220/0000164800003523
  • Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Lionetti, Simone; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Pouly, Marc & Navarini, Alexander (2022). SANO: Score-based Anomaly Localization for Dermatology. ECAI’22: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of Workshop 31: Scarce Data in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare, 53-58. doi: 10.5220/0000164800003523
  • Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gökduman, Bulus; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Koller, Thomas; Kunz, Michael; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2022). Improved Diagnosis by Automated Macro- and Micro-anatomical Region Mapping of Skin Photographs. Journal of European Academy of Dermatology Venereology, 2022, 10. doi: 10.1111/jdv.18476
  • Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Buerzle, Oliver; Gonzalez Jimenez, Alvaro; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Koller, Thomas; Navarini, Alexander; Pouly, Marc & Roth, Anastasia (2022). Quantification of Efflorescences in Pustular Psoriasis using Deep Learning. Healthcare Informatics Research, 2022(Volume 28(3)), 222-230. doi: 10.4258/hir.2022.28.3.222
  • Furger, Fabian; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2020). Applications of Generative Adversarial Networks to Dermatologic Imaging. Proceedings of the ANNPR’20: 9th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, 187-199. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58309-5_15
  • Meienberger, Nina; Anzengruber, Florian; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Christen, Roland; Koller, Thomas; Maul, J.; Pouly, Marc; Djamei, Vahid & Navarini, Alexander (2019). Observer-Independent Assessment of Psoriasis affected Area using Machine Learning. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venerology, 2019 / 34(6), 1362-1368. doi: 10.1111/jdv.16002

Publications and presentations - Article, review; not peer reviewed

  • Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Habermacher, Lea; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Groh, Matthew; Pouly, Marc & Navarini, Alexander (27.12.2025). A Global Atlas of Digital Dermatology to Map Innovation and Disparities. arXiv preprint,
  • Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Goessinger, Elisabeth; Lindemann, Hanna; Bargiela, Marie; Hofbauer, Marie; Badri, Omar; Tschandl, Philipp; Koochek, Arash; Groh, Matthew; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2025). CleanPatrick: A Benchmark for Image Data Cleaning. arXiv,
  • Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Consortium, Labelling; Groh, Matthew; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (2023). SelfClean: A Self-Supervised Data Cleaning Strategy. arXiv,

Publications and presentations - Theses (Bachelor/Master/Dissertation/Habilitation)

  • Amruthalingam, Ludovic (2022). Deep Learning in Clinical Dermatology. Dissertation, Universität Basel, Basel, Schweiz.

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gröger, Fabian; Groh, Matthew; Habermacher, Lea; Lionetti, Simone; Navarini, Alexander & Pouly, Marc (30.09.2026). A Global Atlas of Digital Dermatology to Map Innovation and Disparities. Annual Meeting of the European Society for Dermatological Research, Vienna.
  • Schnellmann, Christian; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Grabmaier, Nadine; Kunz, Stefan; Lauper, Boris; Matter, Tobias; Pinto, Riva & Schneider, Christoph (28.09.2026). The House that Speaks. Applied AI Conference, Rotkreuz.
  • Gröger, Fabian; Lionetti, Simone; Gottfrois, Philippe Léon-Marius; Gonzalez-Jimenez, Alvaro; Habermacher, Lea; Amruthalingam, Ludovic; Groh, Matthew; Pouly, Marc & Navarini, Alexander (08.09.2026). A Global Atlas of Digital Dermatology to Map Innovation and Disparities. Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI, Paris.