Computer Vision News - May 2020

2 Summary The Lab of the Month 18 recently become part of Medtronic , they are able to scale their activity in a very different way, which he hopes will have a great impact on surgical practice and lead to more positive outcomes for patients. “I’ve been chief scientist at Digital Surgery for about three and a half years now. The company started as a surgical education platform, but we have been investigating howour digitisation of surgical process or our understanding of surgical procedures can transition closer to the operating room. I’m really excited about what we have been working on and going to be coming out over the coming year and how we can link our digitisation of surgical process to the information that we can extract from the operating room and potentially optimise process. Being part of Medtronic now will connect us to a much bigger range of operations and clinical problems and allow us to link with some of the exciting new systems that will launch in the next year as well.” On top of all his other work, Dan is one of the program co-chairs for MICCAI 2020 , due to take place in Lima, Peru in October. Organisers have seen a huge increase in the number of papers that are being submitted. “Specific to endoscopy, perhaps this is because more and more procedures are performed digitally, there’s more and more data and there are better ways to access it,” he explains. “It’s going to be a very exciting area to be a doctoral student, or an academic or industry scientist. I’m looking forward to seeing all the exciting work that’s going to be presented.” Finally, in the current climate, we have to ask Dan if he thinks we will be meeting face-to-face in Lima this year. “We still don’t know! Nobody knows the answer yet. We have to provision for any eventuality at the moment because it’s so difficult to predict where we’re going. However, Leo Joskowicz and Daniel Racoceanu , the general chairs, are going to great lengths to plan and make sure that whatever happens, MICCAI will once again be a very exciting event!”