49 Interview with General Chairs Computer Vision News Jim: We hope to have a larger in-person contingent than in previous years. We had some last year, mainly from Europe, but many North American and Asian folk didn’t come. We hopewe’ll bring everybody back together in a big way in person and have some online presence for some sessions. Also, the workshops are shaping up nicely. As Tanveer said, the parallel sessions are a nice new component and will be great. We have some excellent keynote speakers as well. The workshops surrounding everything are a sort of a lead-up and a nice final setup on the last day. I’mvery much looking forward to it. Vancouver is a wonderful city. It’ll be fun to be there and see everybody back closer to full strength. Russ: I don’t have much to add about this MICCAI, but it might be worth reflecting on how the community has grown since it started. MICCAI was formed from three conferences with broad overlapping themes around this partnership between people, technology, and information to improve interventional medicine and understanding of the images based on that. I can’t remember the numbers of the first MICCAI, but it was, at most, 200300. It grew just amazingly, especially in the last few years. The significance of that is the emergence of a second and third generation of researchers, where one of the challenges over the years has been how to keep the physicians involved because they’re the folks who understand the problems we’re trying to address. One thing I’mreally excited about this year is the enlarged clinical focus that Tanveer and Jim have talked about. Can you give us a taste of the new technology we will find out about? Tanveer: The program chairs are busy collating the topics for the final program schedule. This year, we’re identifying papers marked as clinically relevant. We asked authors to indicate that at the time of submission and the area chairs to mark them. We’ve got a fair number of submissions, about 200 or so, marked as clinically relevant. Hopefully, that will give us a good selection for that program. However, as far as the distribution of the other topics goes, we may be able to tell you further down the line. I will say that if you look at the workshops, we have about 45 workshops this year, and there are some new topics in there worth noting. That may also have shaped some of the things we’re thinking of doing during the main conference. For example, the generative AI focus, AI ethics, and the responsible AI component have also entered our field. You’ll see some new workshops this year on those topics. What is the status of the MICCAI Society and community today? What should we as a community improve, and how do you think MICCAI 2023 could help?
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