Sandy Engelhardt is an Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University Hospital working in the field of MICCAI. Sandy, what is your work about? My group is based in a hospital, and we are very much focused on translational aspects and applicational aspects. One of our major application fields is cardiovascular diseases. The group I am leading is called Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine. We deal with different applications in this area, ranging from medical image processing, for example, for cardiac MRI and CT, and, of course, with convolutional neural networks and AI. Also, my background initially started with computer-assisted surgery. I have been building an assistance system for cardiac surgery during my PhD. Did you choose the cardiology field, or did it come to you somehow? Somehow, it came to me, but I am very happy to work in this area [she laughs] because I think it is underexplored. In MICCAI, I see an overemphasis on cancer application, but I think cardiovascular diseases are actually, in Western countries, the leading cause of mortality and morbidity, so it is very important that we deal with that in a much deeper way. It is a major cause of death in Western countries. We still do not know much about certain kinds of diseases in this field and how to treat them in a good way. Therefore, it is a privilege to work in this area. I have incredibly nice colleagues from cardiology and cardiac surgery, so we are very much 24 DAILY MICCAI Monday Women in Science Read 100 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Science! … Persistence is, I think, one of the strongest properties you need to bring…
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