Connectionists: ICBINB Monthly Seminar Series Talk: Lena Maier-Hein

[Francisco J. Rodríguez Ruiz]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that the next speaker of the *“I Can’t Believe
It’s Not Better!” (**ICBINB)* virtual seminar series will be *Lena
Maier-Hein** (**German Cancer Research Center**)*. More details about this
series and the talk are below.

The *"I Can't Believe It's Not Better!" (ICBINB) monthly online seminar
series* seeks to shine a light on the "stuck" phase of research. Speakers
will tell us about their most beautiful ideas that didn't "work", about
when theory didn't match practice, or perhaps just when the going got
tough. These talks will let us peek inside the file drawer of unexpected
results and peer behind the curtain to see the real story of *how real
researchers did real research*.

*When: *November 10th, 2022 at 1pm CET / 7am EST / 4am PST
(Note the unusual time. Due to various constraints, it was not possible to
move the talk to a more American-friendly time.)

*Where: *RSVP for the Zoom link here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlf-ihrjIqGNKIJ0ClkdAnaqqzF8Kqc5tu

*Title:* *Metrics Reloaded*

*Abstract:** Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML)
algorithm validation are an underestimated global problem. Specifically,
chosen performance metrics do not necessarily reflect the domain interest,
thus failing to adequately measure scientific progress and hindering
translation of ML techniques into practice. To break such historically
grown poor practices, we followed a multidisciplinary cross-domain approach
that enabled us to critically question common practice in different
communities and integrate distributed knowledge in one common framework.*
*This talk will comprise two parts. The first part will cover common and
rare pitfalls of metrics in the field of image analysis, which have been
compiled by a large multidisciplinary international consortium in a
community-powered process. The second part will present Metrics Reloaded, a
comprehensive framework guiding researchers towards choosing metrics in a
problem-aware manner. A specific focus will be put on recommendations that
go beyond the current state of the art.*

*Bio:** Lena Maier-Hein is head of the division Intelligent Medical Systems
at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and serves as managing director
of the DKFZ Data Science and Digital Oncology cross-topic program. Her
research concentrates on machine learning-based biomedical image analysis
with a specific focus on surgical data science, computational biophotonics
and validation of machine learning algorithms.*

For more information and for ways to get involved, please visit us at
http://icbinb.cc/, Tweet to us @ICBINBWorkhop
<https://twitter.com/ICBINBWorkshop>, or email us at
cant.believe.it.is.not.better at gmail.com.


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Best wishes,
The ICBINB Organizers
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