Under the auspices of the Dean of the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, a webinar was held on May the 10th between the University of Karbala, Department of Computer Science and the University of Saad Dahlab Blida, Algeria. A lecture entitled “Computer Vision in Healthcare” was given by Prof. Hisham Felouat of the University of Blida, Algeria. The webinar was managed by Asst. Prof. Dr. Ashwan Anwar Abdul-Mun’im), of the Computer Science Department. Many tutors and specialized researchers from our university and other universities participated.

The subject of computer vision and image processing is considered one of the important topics, which has witnessed great progress in recent years. It is widely used in scientific research and a range of applied fields. The most important of these areas is the medical field, where medical imaging has received great attention due to its momentous role in healthcare. It works in a similar way to the human eye, using computer vision algorithms and image processing to detect patterns and anomalies in images to obtain the correct diagnosis of disease. On the other hand, this technique is used to design Instagram and Snapchat masks

The participants expressed their welcome and admiration for this webinar, hoping to have more such webinars in cooperation with national and international universities owing to their importance in developing the skills of scientific staffs in the service of the public interest and the educational process.