ICCV Daily 2019 - Tuesday

DAILY Mohammad Jafari 15 Mara Graziani DA I L Y It tells the physicians: “Look here I see something that's not quite right.” Then there is kind of an interaction between the physician and the machine that guides the doctor to see where he should look at and why. You don't know if the doctor and the machines are looking at the same thing, and you don't know why exactly the network is suggesting a certain area to look at and to focus on that rather than something else. That is the part that is missing and that's the part that I am mostly working on right now. Why medical imaging rather than other fields? Well, I think it's very difficult, and it's very challenging. It lets you think that you are part of a change that is going to happen in hospitals. I mean, of course, if you look at the industry, there are plenty of applications that do want to have real deployment. But in the medical field, you have more personal satisfaction thinking that whatever will be deployed at some point, at a certain stage, will actually help people. You're not a Swiss originally, are you? No, I'm Italian. Like me. Where are you from? Close to Rome. Yes, it's this town that's called Nettuno. It's a very small town. There was a very famous football player that was born in Nettuno! Who was it? Carlo Conti… You mean Bruno Conti... Bruno Conti! So you are not a good supporter of Roma? [laughs] Or you are on the Lazio side? [laughs] No, the whole history of the Graziani family is... we are all for Lazio today! [both laugh] So how does a young girl fromNettuno become a scientist in Switzerland? Life happens! It happened by itself or did you help life happen? I helped life happen a bit. I took a