The ESC Digital & AI Summit 2026, organised by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), brings together engineers, data scientists, digital health innovators, and clinicians to shape the future of cardiovascular care through digital health and artificial intelligence.

Building on the success of its inaugural edition, this two-day meeting provides a focused, interactive environment to explore AI technologies, data quality, clinical validation, workflow integration, and real-world applications.

Through scientific sessions, practical use cases, demonstrations, and discussions on ethical and regulatory challenges, participants will collaborate to develop trustworthy, explainable, and clinically meaningful AI solutions.

Aims of the summit:

• Connect AI innovation with real clinical needs.
• Develop safe, trustworthy, and explainable tools.
• Demonstrate clinical and operational value.
• Foster cross-disciplinary collaboration for responsible digital innovation in cardiovascular care.

This year, Fraunhofer MEVIS is represented with the following contributions:

Chair

Anja Hennemuth
 

Moderated ePoster session:

"Decoding the heart on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging"

Symposium: 

"Community-driven AI: open models to open tooling"

Moderated ePoster

Lisa Bautz 
Johanna Brosig (Presenter)

"Automated geometric deep learning–based three-dimensional segmentation of closed and prolapsed mitral valves in TEE"

(Authors: Lisa Bautz , Johanna Brosig, Inna Khasyanova, Anja Hennemuth)

Session: The AI sonographer: towards smarter echocardiography

Friday, November 13, 15:30 – 16:15