MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

science make enough sense? Is the inspiration and the passion there that two teams want to work together enough? This is the part, I find, in my position, that I can help my junior investigators by taking the administration of this piece away and help. Luckily, we have very good administration at our hospital. We try to make this happen quicker. We push, push, push. We try to make sure we are up to date with the laws at our hospital and the laws of the industry. We encourage the relationships and try to find a way for the groups to meet without being afraid. Particularly for young investigators, they are so worried about being accused of being found to be guilty or something crazy like this. They are very sensitive, and they will not do anything. They are afraid. Ralph: Do you think people today are less passionate than they were 20 years ago? Clare: No, I don’t think so. I think people are still very passionate. If you know how to get things done, it will get done. The junior people are more afraid, or the path is not clear. In the past, when there were less rules, it was easier. I could call and talk to people from various companies. I don’t remember it being difficult to negotiate my very first research grant. It was my first time ever, and it was not scary. So I know that it’s very intimidating for people. And risky… but they shouldn’t think this way. They should just simply learn the rules and get on with it. You have to work within the framework that the hospitals, institutions, and universities have put in place. Most of the time, they are not there to stop people. Ralph: There is another thing that I have heard a lot these days which is that “ we don’t have a data set ”. How to make clinical tests or to make sure that the model works, if there is a shortage of data to validate research which is fundamental to save lives, to improve the lives of people, and to avoid life threatening situations. How can it be that we have such a bottleneck in such a sensitive area? Clare: It’s a very good question and a very good point that you are asking. The data is available. Well, some data is available through open source platforms and through the NIH which demands that every form of research has some sort of data sharing source to the public good. The problem, for some of the folks at this meeting, is that the data is not clean enough. The data is not perfect. I do clinical imaging. We, in the imaging community, I know we do not make clean data. Every patient is a little different than the last patient. The scanning techniques are not the same. Across the vendors, GE, Siemens, Philips, Hitachi, Toshiba, everyone who makes imaging systems, there are differences. Of course, there has to be a difference to differentiate vendors. But this doesn’t help the Prof. Clare Tempany 5 MICCAI Daily: Thursday “ I think people are still very passionate ”