Vivien van Veldhuizen

I have a background in artificial intelligence, having completed both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in AI at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the AI for Oncology group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, supervised by Kevin Groot-Lipman, Jonas Teuwen, and Ritse Mann. I also collaborate closely with the Department of Breast Imaging at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York.
My PhD research is part of the aiEMBRACE project, a collaborative initiative that aims to improve breast cancer care by integrating AI throughout the clinical pathway, from screening and diagnosis to treatment planning and follow-up. Within this project, I develop self-supervised learning methods and foundation models for medical imaging, with a particular focus on breast MRI. My work centers on learning from large-scale imaging data to build AI models that can be adapted to a wide range of clinical applications.