MIDL Vision 2020

Qi Dou 21 systems to help in cognitive assistance for the surgeons, to help them perform better, more efficiently, and more safely in the procedures. Haveyou foundyourself in theoperating room already? Yes, I have visited the operating room multiple times, starting from my PhD studies. I watched a whole surgery procedure last fall for four hours standing in the operating room. It’s kind of shocking to enter the operating room. I watched the whole minimally invasive procedure with the patient laying down on the bed. That’s amazing! That reinforced my determination to devote my career to the medical area to help surgeons and doctors. Especially in the past three years, I intensively talked with doctors from multiple disciplines, like radiologists because we do a lot for CT and MRI. We go into the radiologists’ offices when they are sitting next to each other to interpret the images. We talk about what they need, their challenges, what they enjoy in their work, if they’re happy with their existing computer tools, and how to help them improve. We also talk to physicians and surgeons; we go to their offices to see their working environment; we communicate with them. Doctors are very open. They are willing to try new technologies. They give very positive feedback. As the technicians, we need to technically sort out what they need and how to solve the problems in a technical way. So those are the kinds of things we need to do as an interdisciplinary researcher. We are happy and ready to do this, to make better tools to help the patients, to help doctors, and also to help treatments and diagnosis become more cost effective and accessible.