Computer Vision News - October 2021

66 ICCV Workshop Preview This is not the first medical computer vision workshop – CVPR has had a similar event for a number of years now. The community recognizes and understands the importance of the topic, so the foundations have been laid for this new meeting at ICCV to be a success this year and for many more to come. However, the team do not intend to create a carbon copy of another event. They plan to discuss topics which haven’t been covered before. But with so much on the menu at ICCV this year, including another medical workshop, how should attendees choose between this one and everything else on offer? “What really sets our workshop apart from others is that we are focusing on the general challenges in the medical computer vision arena ,” Yuyin points out. “We’re going to give a more holistic and complete view of this field and we want to discuss things from broader perspectives –not justmedical computer vision like CT and MRI, but also NLP, medical robots, surgical planning, and how to better adapt existing computer vision and machine learning expertise into all of these different medical problems.” The workshop is very close to Yuyin’s own body of work. During her PhD career at Johns Hopkins University, the team have been working on the Felix Project , which aims to detect pancreatic cancer earlier. “We started from pancreas segmentation and went deeper into pancreatic tumor segmentation and detection problems ,” Yuyin explains.