Computer Vision News - August 2019

Adriyana, what do you do at Agfa? I am currently working at the Radiology Solutions department. The company provides solutions for X-ray technology. We also produce our own X-ray modality. It comes in a different range of solutions, from the mobile unit to the dev room. Tell me more about your work. My work is mainly in the research area to see what technology can be used in our applications. I was recruited in 2016. It was a time when all the companies were starting to look into deep learning. I was also interested in that technology at the time. I was hired to look into that technology and see if it fits into any of the applications at Agfa. I do research on the deep learning techniques, from the classical convolutional neural networks to the more exciting GAN network, and see what we can do with it. We are actually this year releasing our first deep learning-based feature in the modality. It is something quite simple, we call it “auto-rotate”. We heard feedback from our application specialists that radiologists normally like to see images conventionally: if you see an image of the hand, for example, normally the fingers would be pointing up, not downwards, Basically, the tool detects the orientation of the object that is in the image and rotates it to the conventional way. It must be a big satisfaction to know that your work supports doctors in their treatment of the patients. I think it’s very fulfilling. Before I was at Agfa, I was in a totally academic role. I went straight from my bachelor’s and master’s to my PhD. Now that I have come here, one of the reasons is also because, being in the research academic community for so long, I feel there is such a gap from the project to it actually being used by the patient or actual users. One of the things I love about these interviews is the chance to meet people with a name more difficult than mine. [laughs] Actually, I can say your name correctly! Yes, but I am Italian. For Italian people, it’s very difficult to spell it, to write it. For an Italian, really my name should be very easy. I almost suspected you of being Italian, but I know that you are not. Can you tell our readers where you come from? I was born in Jakarta in Indonesia. I don’t know if I should say it: in Indonesia, I could be considered a double minority. I’m from Chinese descent actually, but my family has been there for multiple generations. Moreover, I’m also a Christian, while the majority of people in Indonesia are Muslim, it’s actually the biggest Muslim nation in the world. We are a minority in Indonesia. In my own circle, it feels okay. There is nothing wrong, but there was a big riot that happened in 1998. It targeted people with Chinese ethnicity. My family felt a bit like it’s not very “I chose everything with numbers” Adriyana Danudibroto is a Medical Imaging Researcher at Agfa in Mortsel, Belgium. Adriyana Danudibroto 27