2015 Summer Project Week

Welcome to the web page for the 21st Project Week! This is the first Project Week that is being held in conjunction with the CARS conference.

Logistics

• Dates: June 21-24, 2015.
• Location: NH Collection Constanza Hotel, Barcelona, Spain
• REGISTRATION: Please register by adding your name to the list at the end of this page
• Registration Fee: None. The organizers will cover the charge for the conference room, while all attendees are responsible for their own hotel rooms as well as food.
• Hotel: You are welcome to book a room using the CARS 2015 conference services (Click here for form)
• To attend the CARS meeting, please visit http://www.cars-int.org/

Agenda

Time	Sunday, June 21	Monday, June 22	Tuesday, June 23	Wednesday, June 24
10:00am-3:00pm:	6pm Meeting with All Participants	10:00-11am: Rapid Introduction of all Projects and Teams 11am-3pm Work	10:00am-11am: Breakout Session: Slicer for users (Ron Kikinis) 11am-3pm Work	10am-3pm Work
3:00pm-5:00pm		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
5:00-7:00pm		5:00-7pm: Work	5:00-7:00pm: Breakout Session: Open Software Stack (Steve Pieper)	5:00-6pm: Work 6:00-7pm: Report Progress
7:00pm		Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day

Background

Founded in 2005, the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), was chartered with building a computational infrastructure to support biomedical research as part of the NIH funded NCBC program. The work of this alliance has resulted in important progress in algorithmic research, an open source medical image computing platform 3D Slicer, built using VTK, ITK, CMake, and CDash, and the creation of a community of algorithm researchers, biomedical scientists and software engineers who are committed to open science. This community meets twice a year in an event called Project Week.

Project Week is a semi-annual event which draws 80-120 researchers. As of August 2014, it is a MICCAI endorsed event. The participants work collaboratively on open-science solutions for problems that lie on the interfaces of the fields of computer science, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and medicine. In contrast to conventional conferences and workshops the primary focus of the Project Weeks is to make progress in projects (as opposed to reporting about progress). The objective of the Project Weeks is to provide a venue for this community of medical open source software creators. Project Weeks are open to all, are publicly advertised, and are funded through fees paid by the attendees. Participants are encouraged to stay for the entire event.

Project Week activities: Everyone shows up with a project. Some people are working on the platform. Some people are developing algorithms. Some people are applying the tools to their research problems. We begin the week by introducing projects and connecting teams. We end the week by reporting progress. In addition to the ongoing working sessions, breakout sessions are organized ad-hoc on a variety of special topics. These topics include: discussions of software architecture, presentations of new features and approaches and topics such as Image-Guided Therapy.

Several funded projects use the Project Week as a place to convene and collaborate. These include NAC, NCIGT, QIICR, OCAIRO, and NCI Funded Image-Guided Fellowship Program.

A summary of all previous Project Events is available here.

This project week is an event endorsed by the MICCAI society.

The 21st Project Week is being held on conjunction with the CARS conference.

Please make sure that you are on the na-mic-project-week mailing list

Projects

• Template for project pages

Image-Guided Therapy

• Orthognatic Surgery (Dženan Zukić, Kitware)
• pyDBS module update to Slicer4.4 (Sara Fernandez-Vidal, Yulong Zhao, Sonia Pujol)

Feature Based Image Analysis

• LungCAD (Jayender Jagadeesan)
• Texture Analysis for Prostate Imaging (Tobias Penzkofer, Jay Jagadeesan, Tina Kapur)
• Big Data Medical Image Analysis using Local Features (Matthew Toews, William Wells, Tina Kapur)

Astronomy

• visualization of HI in galaxies (Davide Punzo)

Infrastructure

• Integration and testing of new DCMTK with Slicer (Michael Onken, Andrey Fedorov)
• Simplify use of python scripts from the command line (Andrey Fedorov, Steve Pieper, Robin Weiss, Artem Mamonov)
• Running CLI Modules in the background in MeVisLab (Hans Meine)
• CLI Modules elasticsearch / kibana dashboard (Hans Meine, JC)
• CTK plugins / paths towards interoperability with GUI & interaction (Hans Meine, ??)
• Interoperability tests with "interesting" CLI modules (BRAINSFit, CIP, UKFTractography?) in MeVisLab (/Frontier) (Hans Meine, Steve Pieper)
• Return fiducials from CLIs (Nicole Aucoin, Jim Miller)
• Update Checker (Frankling King, BWH)
• Integrated Virtual Reality Viewer (Frankling King, BWH)

Registrants

Please add your name to the list. This is the registration mechanism for this project week.

1. Tina Kapur, BWH
2. Ron Kikinis, BWH & Fraunhofer
3. Steve Pieper, Isomics
4. Tamas Ungi, Queen's University, Canada
5. Andras Lasso, Queen's University, Canada
6. Paolo Zaffino, ImagEngLab, Magna Graecia University, Italy
7. Salvatore Scaramuzzino, ImagEngLab, Magna Graecia University, Italy
8. Giampaolo Pileggi, ImagEngLab, Magna Graecia University, Italy
9. Hans Meine, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
10. Nicole Aucoin, BWH
11. Sonia Pujol, BWH
12. Dženan Zukić, Kitware, Carrboro, NC
13. Jayender Jagadeesan, BWH
14. Guido Gerig, Utah
15. Sandy Wells, BWH
16. Matthew Toews, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada
17. Frank Preiswerk, BWH
18. Junichi Tokuda, BWH
19. Raul San Jose, BWH
20. Jorge Onieva, BWH
21. James Ross, BWH
22. Yulong Zhao, Université de Rennes
23. Laurent Chauvin, BWH
24. Michael Onken, Open Connections
25. Tobias Penzkofer, Department of Radiology, Charité Berlin, Germany
26. Javier Pascau, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
27. Angel Torrado-Carvajal, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
28. Nobuhiko Hata, BWH
29. Robert H. Owen, BK Medical ApS, Denmark
30. Clare Tempany, BWH
31. Adam Rankin, Robarts
32. Utsav Pardasani, Robarts
33. Marcelo Romero, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico
34. J. Jesus Montufar, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico
35. Davide Punzo, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands
36. Andrey Fedorov, BWH
37. Nicolas Rannou, BCH
38. Mikael Brudfors, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
39. Laura Sanz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
40. Eugenio Marinetto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
41. David García, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
42. Franklin King, Queen's University / BWH
43. Jorge García, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
44. Peter Behringer, BWH
45. Caroline Essert, University of Strasbourg