MICCAI 2022 Daily – Tuesday

21 DAILY MICCAI Tuesday the end, we need the application to really help the patient. We have to bridge. If you had to choose one medicine field, which field would it be? I was always fascinated by bone surgery because I also went to surgeries and also cadaver studies. Were they for forensics? No, they were specifically prepared for studies, not really crime. Those are donated. Otherwise, it will be through surgery. Yes. In order to have enough data for research in surgery, you cannot only have the surgical data, but you also need additional data. In the case of bone surgery, it's easier to get those from cadavers. Because for ultrasound, the patient needs to be alive. Whereas for bone surgery, it doesn't matter anymore. We are more inclusive … Now I'm in ultrasound, so now we will work with living people. And that's fine too. I hope they are happier than the dead people. They respond back but they could also complain. What you do doesn't hurt, does it? No and I'm not performing surgery. You've certainly been in the operating rooms? During my PhD, yes. Was that impressive? Yeah. You see lots of things that you sometimes don't want to see. I think it's all about fascination to learn how things work and to watch the surgeons. If you watch the surgeons, you really learn a lot about how things are done. We develop computer assistance methods, and for that, we really need to understand what the surgeons are doing. Of course, and the human body is fascinating, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. If you hadn't been good enough to make a career in medical imaging, what would you have done? That's a good question. I would probably also have worked in a clinic in a radiology department as an assistant. Like a technician? Sarina Thomas