MIDL Vision 2020

22 Women in Science Are you ever impressed by what you see in the operating room? I’mvery impressedwith that. The surgical room, in the first place, is quite cold: temperature is very low. The surgeons are very focused on their procedure and communicate when they need some assistance. Since it's minimally invasive, the images are shown on the screen. I’m impressed by the patient, who is lying there, totally unconscious, kind of sleeping. My deepest impression at that time is that I feel sorry for the patient. When you are a patient, you are lying down there, and you don’t know what is happening to your body. The doctors have to recover their health. It motivates me to do something, to improve early diagnosis, to prevent the disease from going that far into the operating room. The patient trusts the doctors, that are working for their welfare. It’s true that patients are vulnerable, but they’re also lucky because everyone around is trying to help. Exactly, so that’s why we respect the surgeon. They work in the operating room day to day. They work very hard. They also have their own research to take care of. Doctors work very long hours every day, of course longer than I do. Yes, I agree with you. The patients are very lucky that we have the public health and healthcare systems provided for treatment. For our technology aspect, as researchers, we are thinking to make the patient suffer less. That is our value. One thing is to do early diagnosis, to make decisions from an early stage, and to optimize the treatment procedure. This kind of open surgery is replaced with minimally invasive surgery, so recovery happens faster. How can we protect the patient in a technically rich “The doctors said: This is something we missed!” “I got determined to go into a full academic career for AI and for healthcare.”