2016 Summer Project Week

Welcome to the web page for the 23rd Project Week!

The 23rd Project Week is being held in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) and the IPCAI 2016 conferences in Heidelberg, Germany. Please go through this page for information, and if you have questions, please contact Tina Kapur, PhD.

Logistics

• Dates: Monday June 20th to Saturday June 25th, 2016, with one day break on Tuesday June 21st to attend IPCAI.
• Location: Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Monday at German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ
  • Tuesday there is no organized Project Week activity due to IPCAI @ CARS
  • Wednesday-Saturday at the Congress Hall of CARS.
• REGISTRATION: Please register for the CARS conference at http://www.cars-int.org/cars_2016/registration.html
• Registration Fee: Euro 650 (after April 26, 2016)
• Hotel: After registration, you can book hotels using the CARS organization at http://germany.nethotels.com/info/heidelberg/events/cars/default_en.htm or on your own. Please remember that Project Week starts on Monday June 20th, even though the formal CARS/IPCAI program starts a day later, so you will need to pay attention while booking the hotel room.
• Preparatory Conference Calls:
  • 800-501-8979. The pin is 7327389. (International dialing instructions are available here)
  • Call #1 Tuesday, May 10, 3pm Boston time.
  • Call #2 Tuesday, May 17, 3pm Boston time.

Agenda

Please note that on Tuesday there is no organized Project Week activity due to IPCAI @ CARS

Time	Monday, June 20 DKFZ	Wednesday, June 22 Congress Hall of CARS	Thursday, June 23 Congress Hall of CARS	Friday, June 24 Congress Hall of CARS	Saturday, June 25 Congress Hall of CARS
9:00am-12:00pm					Progress Review
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch and adjourn
1:00pm-3:00pm	Welcome! Project Introductions
3:00pm-5:00pm
6:00pm

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 researchers from around the world. 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 23rd Project Week is being held in conjunction with the IPCAI 2016 conference that is hosted by the 30th International Conference on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS).

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

Equipment

• Specialized equipment people are going to bring (Please add to this list if you are bringing anything)

Projects

• Template for project pages

1. VRPN Integration
2. Needle Segmentation from MRI (Tina Kapur, Andre Mastmeyer, Guillaume Pernelle)
3. Guided Ultrasound Calibration (Elvis Chen, Robarts Research) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11548-016-1390-7

Registrants

REGISTRATION: Please register for the CARS conference at http://www.cars-int.org/cars_2016/registration.html and then add your name to this list. DKFZ members who will only be attending Monday should only add their name to this list.

1. Tina Kapur, BWH/HMS, Boston, USA
2. Dženan Zukić, Kitware, USA
3. Ines Prata Machado, MIT Portugal Program (PhD Student), Lisbon, Portugal.
4. Sonia Pujol, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
5. Scheherazade Kraß, PhD Student, University of Bremen, Medical Image Computinggroup, Germany
6. Maria Francesca Spadea ImagEngLab, Italy
7. Paolo Zaffino ImagEngLab, Italy
8. Salvatore Scaramuzzino ImagEngLab, Italy
9. Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc., USA
10. Nicole Aucoin, Brigham and Women's Hospital
11. Simon Drouin, Montreal Neurological Institute
12. Thomas Kirchner, German Cancer Research Center
13. Elvis Chen, Robarts Research Institute, Canada