Sofía Sappia

PhD Candidate

Google scholar

Sofía Sappia is a PhD candidate in the Medical Imaging department at Radboud UMC. She studied Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Cordoba, in Argentina, and graduated in 2018. From 2019 until 2021, she worked as an Early-Stage Researcher in functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy. In February 2022, she joined the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group and the Medical Ultrasound Imaging Centre under the supervision of Bram van Ginneken and Chris de Korte to work on Al-powered handheld ultrasound for prenatal diagnosis, developing algorithms for the automated detection of maternal risk factors in resource-limited settings.

Current research projects:

BabyChecker: AI for low-cost prenatal ultrasound

Member of:

Diagnostic Image Analysis Group