Computer Vision News - March 2023

37 UM2ii Lab at U of Maryland Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, was recruited by the University of Maryland to build it, and it launched when Vishwa joined last year. Joining Paul and Vishwa on the leadership team are Clinical Director and neuroradiologist Peter Kamel and Innovation Director Florence Doo , who is finishing her Body Imaging Fellowship at Stanford. The teamhas three full-time staff, two software engineers and one program coordinator, and around 10 students, including graduates, undergraduates, and medical students. If you think Paul seems familiar, that may be because he spoke brilliantly at our webinar last year, Can we trust AI? “ I’m interested in the fairness and bias of algorithms, ” he reveals. “ Does an algorithm The group recently published a paper about vision transformers – a new type of deep learning algorithm different from traditional convolutional neural networks. Having seen vision transformers garnering attention in other computer vision and AI communities, Paul wondered if they could have a similar impact in medical imaging. “ Working with one of my collaborators at Johns Hopkins, we took this new technology that FacebookandGooglehaddevelopedat the time and found it had some interesting advantages, ” he explains. “ If I hadn’t had that kind of collaboration, if I hadn’t been reading and aware of the literature on the computer science side, I never would have figured it out. Vision transformers will be very exciting to evaluate because they’re just starting out. Convolutional neural networks changed the game, and I think vision transformers will have big implications. ” UM2ii is only just approaching its first birthday. Paul, also an Adjunct Assistant