Computer Vision News - December 2021

35 Prof. Russell Taylor (JHU) learn a lot of medicine is about vocabulary, but it is important to get some domain knowledge as well, if you can, and be open to asking questions. The other thing is what are sometimes referred to as the Heilmeier questions. At IBM Research, Ralph Gomory had a similar set of questions he would ask. What do you want to do? What is your goal? How will you know when you have succeeded? How will you measure success? Also, who cares? Why is that important? Then you can begin to worry about how you are going to go about it and what you do not know. That is general advice whatever field you are going into but understanding that is really important. Finally, after a challenging couple of years where we have all been kept apart, do you have a message for the MICCAI community in advance of our planned reunion in Singapore next year? I was one of the founders of the MICCAI Societyandthegrowthhasbeenremarkable. We have to be careful not to go off in being so enamored of one new technique, such as deep nets, that we lose sight of what our larger goals are. We need to begin to look at the complete path of information in medicine. It ismedical imagecomputingand computer-assisted intervention and often you see this tension between MIC and CAI communities (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions), but they are beginning to come together more. The CAI folks need to understand the information they can get from imaging and the imaging folks need to focus on what more they can do with information other than get a nice picture or a nice analysis or something. I am a great believer in MIC and CAI together. That was the whole point. MICCAI was formed from the union of three conferences, and it is wonderful that we are continuing that legacy. Johns Hopkins University