MIDL Vision 2020

24 You mentioned that you really enjoy being involved in this community. You are even serving as an Area Chair and Session Chair at MIDL. Actually, I started in this research area almost since the beginning of my undergraduate. My major was biomedical engineering. At that time, I started to enter the field of medical image analysis. I didn't know the community yet. Then I started to publish papers at MICCAI. I got to know this community and gradually, I fell in love with it. Do you have any stories that happened in the operating room, or close to the operating room with surgeons? One story I want to mention is actually very happy. I had a project about lung cancer screening. At that time, we developed a software platform, together with our colleagues at the university. We deployed the system into real hospitals, into the PACS systems for doctors’ use. We found one case. The algorithm processed a patient and detected lesions. The doctors said: “This is something we missed!” We have had these things happen multiple times in different hospitals. So that is very rewarding. It confirmed to me that we are really helping them. Women in Science “Research assistance can reduce adverse events during the surgery, to reduce the potential of harm for the patient.”