26 DAILY MICCAI Wednesday Workshop Preview As well as being a gateway to groundbreaking research, the workshop promises a unique networking opportunity and the chance to continue building a vibrant community. It has a multidirectional approach, and organizers aim to bridge the gap between medical imaging and clinical science with a diverse lineup of distinguished keynote speakers at the forefront of their fields. Sravanthi Parasa, Anne Martel, and Sir Michael Brady will deliver enlightening talks covering technology and methodology core to MICCAI’s mission, including a personal journey of translating technology from the university lab to real-world patient care via an innovative spinout. “I think that’s going to inspire people to pursue such research – pursue more like a commercial side of the research, basically,” Bartek tells us. “It’s to emphasize that it’s possible, it’s doable, and it can make a real impact to the patients!” Bartek’s group at the Big Data Institute has around 12 people working on different biomedical imaging problems. It works with clinical imaging and large population studies and supports preclinical scientists and other research groups with image analysis. For Bartek, the ideal impact of CaPTion this year and in future years transcends academic achievement. Instead, it is the realization of technologies and methodologies presented at the workshop being picked up, translated to the clinic, and going on tosavepeople’s lives. “It may sound a little weird when a researcher says that the main impact is not only the paper, but the long-term patient benefit,” Bartek points out. “A paper describing a certain mechanism for how cancer progresses would also be an excellent outcome because we can learn from it and use it to develop a better screening methodology. The big dream is that one of the papers is a technology that will improve the detection or understanding of cancer. It’ll make a real impact on those who are the most important here: the patients.” In the short term, CaPTion is about uniting a community with a common goal: revolutionizing early cancer detection. The workshop aims to attract fresh minds, encourage collaboration over competition, and lay the groundwork for an enduring movement. The hope is that this collective spirit will spur more research, new technologies, and ultimately a more significant impact on the lives of those affected by cancer. “It’s possible, it’s doable, and it can make a real impact to the patients!”
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