Computer Vision News - March 2022

45 Bettina Baessler I always try to solve clinically relevant problems and to translate my research into clinical practice. It doesn’t always work but it does sometimes. What do you do when it doesn’t work the way you want? [ laughs ] Then I try something else! Being creative is really what research is about. Tolerating frustration is maybe the most important aspect of research! [ laughs ] Is this something taught at school or did you have to figure it out yourself? Oh, you have to find it by yourself. There is a trial and error principle. You get frustrated and then you have to overcome this. [ laughs ] Try again and try again. Can you give some expert tips to our readers? The thing I learned is that it’s not about me. If a funding agency rejects my grant proposal, it’s not because I am a bad Bettina, can you tell us about your work? I have many different aspects of work. My clinical work is focused on cardiovascular imaging. I’m leading the section of cardiovascular imaging here at the radiology department. I also do research. This research also focuses on cardiovascular imaging, but my main focus is on artificial intelligence; not only in cardiac applications but also in many different applications, like oncological imaging, workflow aspects... I’m also involved in teaching activities. I have my own company, besides my work at the hospital, Lernrad GmbH, which also focuses on teaching activities on an online learning platform. I’m introducing many digital teaching formats here and at the university hospital as well. I see that your activities are very complex. Which part do you prefer? I like all of them! [ laughs ] If you like all of them, it almost does not feel like work.  No, actually not. It’s a lot of work, but I really enjoy it. And I really enjoy the combination of all these aspects. That’s why I’m in academic radiology and not a private practice.  I will change my question: which aspect do you think is the most useful? [ laughs ] That’s a difficult question! Actually all of them. Clinical work is helping people. It is helping our patients. It is introducing value in the radiology chain. Of course, research also tries to add at least some value to the community and to bring new thoughts and new aspects into our lives as radiologists. I really try to solve real problems. I don’t like doing research without any clinical meaning behind it. “I want to change Medicine!”