But the most important thing is persistence. If you stop along the way and if you become very negative about the work, it will not work out well. Persistence is, I think, one of the strongest properties you need to bring. Knowing you, I am not surprised that the most important thing you talk about is the people side rather than the scientific side. I would like to learn about your future. Where do you hope to go with what you are doing now? Working in a hospital, we see the patients every day around us. For example, our offices are on level two, and all the patients are on the other levels, but nevertheless, when we go to our offices, we see them. I really look forward to the day when we can, for example, apply the deep neural networks, the algorithms that we develop, for a more detailed diagnosis or for treatment recommendation. If this is really applied in the treatment process, this is something I look forward to. I have done a little bit of this in my PhD. The assistant system that we developed for cardiac surgery was applied in patients. It is so rewarding to see it. I think with all the new developments we do in the field of deep learning, we have the chance to apply it and see actually the benefit it can bring. I think these are the next major steps that are needed in our field. For someone as sensitive as you are to other people, is it tough sometimes to work around human people suffering? The patient is quite abstract if you just see the medical image. It is not like you know something about the patient, about their relatives or something. Of course, when you go to the OR and you see a major surgery happening to the patient, sometimes it is on your mind– oh, 28 DAILY MICCAI Monday Women in Science
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