Computer Vision News - June 2018

33 Marta Kersten-Oertel Women in Science Computer Vision News Did you dream of becoming a scientist as a child in Poland or did that happen later? To be honest, I never dreamed of it. I never knew what I wanted to study. This is just a path that I ended up going down. I’m very happy with it. There was never this goal. It’s just something that happened. So what is the goal now? [ laughs ] The goal now is, in terms of research, to continue to work on developing solutions to clinical problems. Again, one of my big things is not to develop the solutions, but actually have them being used. The goal would be to have these solutions become used in everyday practice. If you could have one solution adopted in the OR, what would it be? I find that, in the OR, the workflow is not always optimized. This has to do with the setup of the technology, the image-guided surgery systems, and the way that the surgeon has to interact with the system because they’re sterile. They end up calling a technician who then interacts with the system. What I’d really like is these flowing surgical procedures where there are no interruptions because the technology needs to be setup to be used. They have superman X-ray vision to see the tumors. The augmented reality is there. There are many sensors around the operating room so you don’t have to move the camera to capture the surgical tools just because something else is in the way… really improving the workflow of the operating room. Can I ask you about CARS? Since you are not presenting this time, did you have a chance to go through the program and see any session that would like to follow? There are actually a few interesting sessions that I’m looking forward to at CARS: the tutorial on Rapid prototyping of image guided therapy applications on open source software platform; the session on Technical Standardization in the OR; the workshop on the Digital Operating Room. And of course: the ISCAS session on virtual and augmented reality! I actually only decided last week that I’ll be going to CARS. How comes? I was waiting for some funding decisions. I’m also pregnant, so I wanted to make sure that I could fly at that time. The decision was made last Friday, finally! In Pisa for CARS with second son