Class of 2018

Hi, ’18s! I hope everyone is having a great summer! I am personally wishing that we were back in June of last summer, when we celebrated our five-year reunion as a class in Hanover. At least we only have four more years until the 10-year mark! Until then, we have one classmate update to share with the class!

In this summer edition of our Class Notes column, I am excited to highlight classmate Shuoqi Chen, who chaired a medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) workshop at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) this June!

The data curation and augmentation in medical imaging workshop was an inaugural event, held in conjunction with the IEEE/CVF CVPR organization. The half-day workshop Shuoqi chaired aimed to foster discussions and collaborations on cutting-edge developments in data processing techniques within the realm of medical imaging. Notably, alumni and faculty from Dartmouth and Thayer were in attendance to showcase their groundbreaking work during the workshop.

Shuoqi shared that the workshop provided an interactive platform to connect both industry and academic experts on topics centered around translating medical data into safe and impactful clinical solutions. Shuoqi writes, “Within the realm of data-driven computer vision and AI solutions for medical imaging lies the potential to significantly improve patient care. Yet safety requirements associated with healthcare pose major challenges for this research field, especially regarding data curation.

Ultimately, the workshop aimed to reinvigorate our perspective on the significance of data in clinical settings. We aspire to push forward the frontier of data curation and augmentation for medical applications to tackle the challenges of limited or imperfect data in real-world medical applications.” You can learn more about the workshop at https://dca-in-mi.github.io, and feel free to reach out to Shuoqi with any questions, thoughts, or feedback. Congratulations, Shuoqi, on a successful workshop!

Thank you so much for your continued engagement with the class. Wishing you all the best; stay cool ’18s!

—Emily Choate, 172 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 3, Boston, MA 02116; (603) 305-5346; eschoate@gmail.com