Computer Vision News - March 2021

affected with serious diseases that could have been detected earlier just using a sonographic exam. A sonographer cannot know all the encyclopedias of rare diseases and all the signs that are related to these diseases. They cannot be a perfect diagnoser. We hired a PhD student, Rémi Besson, and we worked with them for three years and tried to design an algorithm with certain mathematical guarantees. We proposed to the sonographer the next step to go and check when he/she detected something that doesn’t seem normal, not completely abnormal but not normal as well, so in between. When there is something completely abnormal, for example, one hand is missing, you can check that one hand ismissing. Youwill not have trouble seeing that there is a big issue. When you have something that is not very normal, then it can just be an isolated abnormality, or it can be part of some other list of signs that you can see on the sonographic exam that is related to some rare diseases. If you go and check in the right order, you can have a faster diagnosis. You can have something that will help the clinician make a decision. For example, if a fetus is facing something that is related to the heart, and you completely diagnose the disease. Then there could be in- utero surgery before the birth to try to save the baby and make the baby completely healthy. 230 Women in Computer Vision