Computer Vision News - June 2023

32 Information Processing in Medical Imaging in the conference, ” he explains. “ In fact, many participants also attend MICCAI and ISBI . However, this is about the core methodological science that, as a community, we want to nurture and maintain. ” IPMI has one of the most distinctive formats of all the medical imaging conferences. With up to 140 attendees, it intentionally keeps numbers low to support a highly collaborative environment . Kicking off with a Sunday evening reception and finishing up on Friday lunchtime, the presentations are longer than usual, with 20 minutes for orals and, in theory, unlimited time for Established in 1969, the Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) conference is a biennial event exploring the mathematical and algorithmic building blocks of medical image analysis and processing . Alex tells us its focus on supporting these methodological foundations helps to ensure sufficient underpinning and backing of other events in the field. “ IPMI has a core computing flavor, but it’s not that we don’t value translation IPMI 2023 – INFORMATION PROCESSING IN MEDICAL IMAGING Alejandro (Alex) Frangi is a Professor of Computational Medicine at the University of Leeds, with joint appointments at the School of Computing and School of Medicine. Well-known to readers of this magazine, he speaks to us as General co-Chair of next month’s IPMI 2023 conference in Argentina. We also hear from Program co-Chair Demian Wassermann and Local co-Chair Enzo Ferrante. Demian is Director of Research at INRIA in Saclay, France and Enzo is Faculty Researcher at CONICET, the Argentinian National Research Council. Alex Frangi