Computer Vision News - October 2021

Doctors say you should go during the morning and avoid it from noon to 4 PM, but most people don’t do that. Here, people spend the entire day at the beach. We like the beach! We do! We are Portuguese! I love Albufeira . What brought you to this field? That’s a very interesting question. I have a biomedical engineering degree. I studied many engineering topics, from chemistry and physics to mathematics. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, I just wanted to go into research. In the last year of my degree, I did a course on machine learning, and I fell in love with it. It was just perfect for me! Then I was looking for a Master’s thesis on this topic. This thesis about skin cancer just popped out. It was perfect! I combined the biomedical part with machine learning. Let’s give it a try! Then I realized that this is very challenging. Skin imaging is in between real imaging, that you find in different computer vision tasks, and medical imaging, which are 2-D images. You have challenges from the two sides. That combined with machine learning just convinced me to keep working on this! Did you meet with some doctors before you started? Yes, the co-supervisor of my Master’s thesis was a dermatologist. I met doctors and actually I still work with doctors. We need them to keep working on these things, not only for the data but for everything, for feedback, to understand if we are going in the right direction, or if we need to change a little bit. “This can make beautiful things happen!” 49 Catarina Barata Best of MICCAI 2021