Computer Vision News - August 2019

chose to go back to Girona and did my thesis over there. Was this path complicated or did you go through it flowing with the wind? The transition from Indonesia to New Zealand was quite okay. In terms of the study itself, I find it quite nice. I don’t know if you are familiar with the education system in Asia, but it is very stressful. We have to study very long hours. There are so many subjects that we have to do! When I went to New Zealand, the number of subjects that I had to study was cut down in half. There was a lot of free time. I thought, “Wow, this is really nice. I can actually focus on certain things.“ What hobbies did you find? It’s not just about hobbies. It’s also the subjects at school. At my high school in Indonesia, we have to learn four different languages. We have to learn Indonesian, of course, and then English and Japanese. Then we have, what they call, a compulsory choice. The language I learned was German. Compulsory choice sounds like an oxymoron. [laughs] You have maybe three different choices, but it’s compulsory to pick one. In that sense, it’s a choice. Tell me what happened next. I finished my master’s. My thesis was related to medical imaging so I “This is a really nice subject! I would like to knowmore about it.” thought that this is something that I really wanted to pursue. I found image processing as a very nice subject. Now that I got to know medical image processing and what you can do with it, I thought it would be very rewarding to work on something that I find interesting and also to make it useful for people, for patients. I looked into PhD options on that topic. I wasn’t actually limited to any specific modality or anything. I just thought that I am a computer vision girl and I can do it with any images, so I chose to do an industrial PhD. It’s a collaboration between KU Leuven in Belgium and GE Healthcare in Oslo. It was also funded by the EU. It was part of the Marie-Curie ITN, Innovative Training Network. There, I was working on ultrasound mainly, echocardiography. There I found that it’s quite a nice balance being in an industrial environment and also academic. By the end, I thought that with the others there was still this gap between the academic and industry, “I thought it would be very rewarding to work on something that I find interesting and also to make it useful for people, for patients” So you did your PhD in Norway? Norway and Belgium. Adriyana Danudibroto 29