MICCAI 2016 Daily - Tuesday

Lena: As with most people, when you like what you are doing that helps people and the topic is interesting, that inspires a lot. For example, I work with someone on brain imaging for strokes. I really feel like this is a topic which needs attention. That really motivates me whenever something is getting difficult. MICCAI Daily: What motivates you in your work? Lena: One thing is that there are people behind all of the data that we are looking at. Maybe I cannot help those people directly, but maybe in the future somehow I will discover something that helps them. The second thing is that it’s interesting to find out what no one else knows. MICCAI Daily: What would you like to discover that no one else knows? Lena: I think I’ll be able to answer that when I find it out! At this point, I want to understand what changes in the brain after people have a stroke, and how we can help to try and reverse it. MICCAI Daily: How will the precise idea arrive to you? Lena: Well, I think it’s a question of quantity over quality because you can never do the big thing at once. It starts with small steps. I will look into small things that I can investigate and hopefully when I accumulate enough of those small things, they will turn into something. Maybe it won’t happen to me specifically, but there are a lot of other people working together, so we will discover this. It might be team work. MICCAI Daily: What would you like to achieve one day? Lena: I think there are two sides to this. One is on a more personal level, and one on a more professional level. In the career level, I’m not sure if I will definitely continue in academia or not, but I would definitely like to continue in the medical image analysis. CVPR Daily: Thursday Women in Science 10 MICCAI Daily: Tuesday “ At this point, I want to understand what changes in the brain after people have a stroke, and how we can help to try and reverse it ”