About

Ivana Išgum is a Full Professor in AI for Medical Image Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She has appointments at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine) and Faculty of Medicine (Informatics Institute). She leads Quantitative Healthcare Analysis (qurAI) group, an interfaculty research group embedded in the Faculties of Medicine (Biomedical Engineering and Physics) and Science (Informatics Institute). Ivana obtained her PhD in 2007 at Utrecht University,  where she became an Assistant Professor in 2012, and an Associate Professor in 2015. At the Image Sciences Institute of UMC Utrecht, Ivana led the Quantitative Medical Image Analysis (QIA) group, focusing on the development of algorithms for quantitative analysis of medical images to enable automatic patient risk profiling and prognosis using techniques from the fields of machine learning and deep learning. In 2019 Ivana moved to Amsterdam University Medical Center – location AMC, University of Amsterdam. Her current research aims at enhancing patient care by designing and enabling leading-edge AI technologies in healthcare, especially in the fields of radiology and cardiology.

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