Computer Vision News - January 2020

2 Summary Medic l Imaging 10 When we ask him how someone can keep up to date on progress, he has a simple response: Twitter ! He recommends visiting one of the MICCAI or MIDL community channels to get a who’s who of the best accounts to follow and an overview of the cutting- edge work that is happening. Finally, Bernhard reflects on his attendance at MICCAI 2019, where he thinks the workshops always present more cutting edge, novel, risky research than the main conference. This year, he found the keynote by MICCAI 2020 Program Chair Purang Abolmaesumi at the SUSI workshop especially interesting (see the next two pages). Although, as he remarks himself, its subject was AI-driven ultrasound , so of course he is biased! He adds: “We had 30-40 people with us. It is the social event of the year. Our groupwas probably 50 per cent Chinese, so it was great fun for them and for all of us. It’s basically a really good team- building exercise to get everyone to stick together, work together and then come up with great new ideas.” Baumgartner CF, Kamnitsas K, Matthew J, Fletcher TP, Smith S, Koch LM, Kainz B, Rueckert D. SonoNet: real-time detection and localisation of fetal standard scan planes in freehand ultrasound. IEEE transactions on medical imaging. 2017 Jul 11;36(11):2204-15.