MIDL Vision 2022

More than 100 inspiring interviews with Women in Science here Chloé, can you tell us about your work? We look at algorithms - machine learning-based algorithms or computational model algorithms - in the field of medical image analysis. It’s a lot of research, but we are also trying to translate this technology into future products of Siemens for three years. I look at the technology and look at the recent trends in the field and try to implement those. Then when we have an algorithm that we are happy with, we help the product teams to translate those into the product used by clinicians around the world and useful for the patients in the end. You invested a lot in your PhD and finished a few years ago. Did you end up doing what you expected? I'm not sure [ smiles ]. I don't know if I had expectations. I did a Master's in mathematical modeling because I was very interested in mathematics. Then I met my professor at Inria, and they showed me what they were doing. I thought it was pretty cool! I tried to do the same. So I joined the lab, and I just continued to do it because it was fun. Now what I'm doing with Siemens is also pretty cool: to see the product that we are developing. To answer your question - no, I would not envision myself doing what I'm doing now. You knew the company quite well at the time, because you interned there three times! Yes, I knew the people. I knew the project, and I knew what they were working on. But, when I did those three internships, I was really focusing on my project, and they were helping me a bit. I was applying it to other data that they had, looking at other parts of the algorithm that I was more interested in. But I was never involved in those big projects. It was very new when I joined. Can you tell us what excites you about your work? I work with a lot of people from different backgrounds. I like doing research. I continue publishing at conferences. I supervise students. This is something I would have continued doing in academia and that I really like. I'm very happy that we can continue doing that at Siemens. But on the other end, I also worked more closely with the clinician because I was doing it also during my PhD. It's really understanding their workflow and understanding how the technology that we have can really be useful. It can really be integrated into their workflow so that it's not a burden. Sometimes it’s small things that we could do to make their lives easier. But sometimes it's a big thing, like a 19 Chloé Audigier VISION MIDL