Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 28 MONAI - Medical Open Network for AI Stephen Aylward is a Global Alliance Manager for Developer Relations at NVIDIA Corporation and a longtime friend of Computer Vision News magazine. Stephen, what are you working at? I feel the transition to NVIDIA is a wonderful combination of my career in the open source field. I've been serving in my previous job at Kitware as chair on the MONAI advisory board, but that was something that I was volunteering and doing in my own time. Now it's wonderful to see me being able to continue to do that work as an NVIDIA employee, continuing to support that MONAI open source community and engaging with them in order to ensure that it has a wonderful future. Tell us about MONAI. MONAI stands for the Medical Open Network for AI. It was developed in 2019 or envisioned in 2019 at a MICCAI conference. A group of people from NVIDIA got together with a group of people from King's College London and they began to survey the community. At the time there were multiple toolkits out there for doing deep learning and medical imaging. Via the survey of the community, they realized that the community was willing to really come together and collaborate to come up with a common platform. I've always looked at open source developers as a limited resource. The number of people willing to contribute to open source is finite and should be valued highly. Instead of having them working on disparate tools, NVIDIA and King's College London brought them all together to create this common toolkit. And today
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