Computer Vision News - October 2022

53 MICCAI Workshop: STACOM we ended the first session with (“finally!” cit. from organizer) the first talk of the day on statistical shape modelling led by Jadie Adams . Jadie’s work, called Spatio-temporal Cardiac Stratistical Shape Modeling: A data driven approach is the perfect ending to a very interesting section and she indeed won a well-deserved prize for it! In her research, she focuses on spatio-temporal data and how to generate point distribution models (PDM) by an optimization scheme across shape & configuration spaces using a software called ShapeWorks . Simultaneously optimizing across subjects and timepoints, she achieves astounding results. After she showed us that generative modelling can generalize her proposed approach by capturing the temporal projection of space, we really hope to see follow up work on incorporating latent diffusion modelling (LDM) to her pipeline. Next, the local researcher and Keynote speaker Liang Zhong (below) introduced his project INITIATE . His talk focused on the importance of diagnosing and treating Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD), a lifelong chronic condition, and on the significance and challenges of a correct analysis of the Right Ventricular function. INITIATE is born with the intent of filling the lack of an Asian centric database for CHD and aims to build 4 main toolkits – 1) segmentation and modelling, 2) Feature Tracking, 3) 4D Flow and 4) Quantitative markers.