Computer Vision News - August 2022

36 Best Paper MIDL 2nd Runner-up Robin Camarasa is a third-year PhD student in the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, part of the Department of Radiology of Erasmus MC, under the supervision of Marleen de Bruijne and Daniel Bos. He speaks to us about his paper on weakly supervised segmentation, which has just won the second Best Paper Runner-up Award at MIDL 2022. Carotid artery atherosclerosis is the thickeningorhardeningof thecarotidartery caused by a build-up of plaque on its walls which can rupture. The artery’s diameter is measured in different locations to assess this, and the ratio of those diameters is computed to obtain a biomarker. DIFFERENTIABLE BOUNDARY POINT EXTRACTION FOR WEAKLY SUPERVISED STAR-SHAPED OBJECT SEGMENTATION