Computer Vision News - November 2016

I was happy that many women attending the event stepped up to share their honest opinion about the Women in MICCAI Initiative. It was good to hear the diverse set of ideas and sentiments running in the female members of the community. Although no consensus is reached at the end of the meeting -which was not our goal by the way, rather it was to hear all- one common idea was to collect data/statistics to see where quantitatively we are in terms of representation of women in MICCAI. This is natural as we are a community of scientists. Unfortunately, the time was too short, surely the meeting could have continued for a couple of more hours otherwise. So, we plan to set up an online platform as to continue the discussions, have polls/surveys (some could be anonymous) of pressing issues plus to share experiences. My opinion is that we should keep talking openly about implicit bias, which most of us in the society carry (even us scientists) and raise awareness about it. I want to end by announcing that Women in MICCAI committee is officially created. The liaison is Josien Plum from the MICCAI board . We'd like to reach out to all the community for the effort to increase the number of women in our field. For all kinds of comments, feedback and input, please feel free to reach us: me ( Gozde Unal ) and Ipek Oguz , Tal Arbel , Parvin Mousavi . CVPR Daily: Thursday MICCAI Women Networking Lunch - Wednesday All images courtesy of Prof. Leo Joskowicz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Women at MICCAI 58 by Gozde Unal BEST OF MICCAI