Computer Vision News - December 2021

46 Christina Koutsoumpa earned a PhD at the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London. She  is a former Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. More than 100 inspiring stories of Women in Computer Vision here! Christina, tell us about your background. I work in the field of medical image processing and AI. My PhD was about the development of algorithms for the processing of magnetic resonance images from the heart. The goal was to quantify and visualize the contractility of the cardiac muscles during cardiac contraction, meaning when the heart beats. Creating these kinds of maps will assist doctors in diagnosing pathological areasof thecardiacmusclesearlier. After my PhD, I moved on to more deep learning and computer vision applications not restricted to the medical field only. I extended this work to the processing of legal documents mainly. Do you prefer medical or non-medical? I really like the medical field, first of all, because I have most of my expertise in this field. Secondly, I get this feeling of helping humanity. But I find other fields equally exciting in deep learning, AI, computer vision and imaging.  Where did you study? I completed my Bachelor’s from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. It was a five- year degree, equal to a Master’s. The National Technical University Women in Computer Vision “It’s like a kind of magic!”