Computer Vision News - May 2022

56 Medical Imaging Event speak in English. Last year, BVM 2021 went virtual, after organizers planned for several scenarios in the face of an ever-changing pandemic. This year, the team have focused on organizing a physical event and, despite having to reschedule once already, are determined the showwill go on and everyone will finally be able to meet in person. Klaus tells us he is honored to be hosting the event in Heidelberg again: “ Year after year, BVM continues to engage AI and imaging scientists from several countries and all career stages. This is an ideal conference to exchange the newest scientific ideas as well as personal updates in an extremely familiar atmosphere. ” The scientific value of the event has been growing in recent years. Peter,whohas been Established in 1993, the BVM workshop is an annual event where the mostly local computer vision community can come together. It is typically an informal and intimate affair, with around 100-150 participants, attracting young scientists and students who are looking to grow into the community, amongst more experienced members. “ It’s like a family meeting of the German medical image processing community, ” Peter tells us. “ International events, whichwe all obviously want to go to, can be a bit overwhelming. This is one of the few situations where the whole German community can come together. That’s the most appealing part. ” Being a German event, many of the talks and much of the discussion is in German, but everyone is also free to present and Jasmin Metzger and Peter Neher are research scientists working in Klaus Maier- Hein’ s Medical Image Computing Division at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). They are co-organizing this year’s BVMWorkshop 2022 to be held on June 26-28 in Heidelberg, Germany. Together with Klaus, they speak to us about what we can expect to see at the event next month. BVMWORKSHOP 2022 Jasmin Metzge Peter Neher Klaus Maier-Hein