27 Computer Vision News narrow topic, and you’re the expert on that topic. Whereas, at this level, you have to cover much more at a higher level, so you’re not that deeply into everything, but still, it’s a lot. I remember that at the beginning, I was thinking, how will I be able to know all these things? Then, with time and experience, you learn the right balance between knowing enough to cover the topic without necessarily having a PhD in everything, which, of course, is not possible! I think what I’m most proud of now is feeling the confidence I have in handling my position and going out there and talking about my topics. If I told you that 10 years from now, you will be a medical imaging researcher who writes code, would you believe me? I think that will not happen! [she laughs] I tried that already, and it was a really fun experience. I especially liked seeing how a single line of code could change the outcome of what I could see in a patient’s scan. That was invaluable. Changing something that seemed to be a small thing on my laptop and then going downstairs at the scanner, and with that small change, I could see a tumor that I couldn’t see before. That was really exciting and satisfying. Does it ever make you feel sad working with people’s diseases all the time? No, that’s not a feeling I’ve ever had. On the contrary, I’m happy to, in my small way, contribute and do something about it. Of course, there’s always a huge team behind this. My contribution may be small, but I still feel like I’m doing something to go in that direction, to improve the technology so that people can receive an earlier diagnosis. Yeah, to have an impact and be involved, and also, especially for me, what is very important is to communicate what I do to the community, to my network, so that more people know what’s happening in the community. If MRI is going to be used for screening prostate cancer, for instance, which is something that might happen in the future, it’s good that people know about this, because not everyone reads scientific publications. Elisa Roccia
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