Computer Vision News 26 Women in Science Lei Li is a lecturer at the University of Southampton. Lei, can you tell us what your work is about? My work is about AI for healthcare, specifically focusing on cardiac digital twins, like creating a virtual heart for the patient using the patient’s data. What made you decide to work on this? It’s a very exciting project for me! You can create a virtual heart for the patient, and then you can do lots of things on the virtual heart to help the patient with treatment, diagnosis – many things. Have you seen any results from your research so far? During my PhD, I was working on atrial fibrillation, mainly focused on developing some AI tools to detect the scarring area, which is quite a challenge. For a long time, the doctor needed to manually segment because it’s a very tiny objective within the heart. What I have done is that I developed a very accurate tool that can automatically detect this area. The doctor can use this information to select patients and guide the operation, and also predict the recurrence rate of the operation, so it’s very useful. “It’s a very exciting project for me! ”
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