Leadership:Main

Introduction

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing,NA-MIC, is a network of peers. The overall goals of NA-MIC are multi-layered: creating a medical image computing platform performing research on novel image analysis algorithms deploying these capabilities to enable biomedical research The main role of the leadership of this enterprise is to set the longterm and short term goals for the alliance. This requires close consultation and coordination with and among the participants of NA-MIC. A secondary rols of the leadership core is to present NA-MIC to the outside world, including NIH and the biomedical and medical image computing communities.	NA-MIC Locations
		NA-MIC is a National Alliance with funded activities in a variety of locations throughout the United States.

Highlights

• 2007 DBP changeover
• External Advisory Board
• NA-MIC message

Regular Meetings

• Weekly Engineering Tcons
• Monthly Algorithm Tcons
• Regular phone calls with core PI's

Ongoing Activities

• October 25, 2007: Presentation about Open Source in Robotics
• October 12, 2007: Discussion about Slicer and IGT
• October 11, 2007: The Application of Open Source Concepts to Image Guided Therapy Plenary Session talk at CURAC
• October 3, 2007: Ron Kikinis presenting at IIC, Harvard: Medical Image Computing: From Data to Understanding
• September-01-07: Publications database introduced
• September-2007: Projects for the DBP's in 2007
• June-08-2007: Answers to the questions by the NCBC study section
• April-15-2007: ISBI Plenary Session Lecture about MIC.
• AHM 2007: Strategy Planning for competitive renewal
• November-21-2006: NA-MIC and NAC presentations at the DKFZ in Heidelberg
• October-26-2006: Visiting the MIND institute
• Sept-06-2006, 2006 IBMISPS conference: talk by R. Kikinis about FOSS
• May 5 2006: Meeting with Andy Cedilnik at 1249 Boylston to review plans for wiki based maintenance for the NA-MIC website
• April 24, 2006 The Human Brain Project: Linking Within and Beyond Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland: National Alliance for Medical Image Computing: Science & Technology of One National Center for Biomedical Computing (this is a slightly modified version of the presentation)
• April 18 2006: Scientific Visualization 2006 Workshop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: 3D SLICER: An Open Source Tool for Subject-Specific Data Analysis abridged presentation ppt (20MB) snapshot of the three presenters
• April 08 2006: ISBI conference SA-AM-SS1: Towards Vertical Integration of Biomedical Data presentation ppt
• March 23: TCON among Core PIs on the selection of next generation DBPs.
• March 17: TCON among Core PIs on the new format of annual scientific report by projects, not by cores.
• March 11-30, 2006: Pre-selection of next generation of NAMIC-DBPs and the phase out plan of existing ones.
• January 8-13, 2006: The second All-Hands-Meeting and Programming event in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Dec-12-2005 Start NCBC Evaluation TCON with a total of seven NCBC centers
• Nov-18-2005 Initial T-con with EAB
• Sept-Oct 2005 Closing of accounts and preparing Carryforward Request
• July 2005 External Advisory Board (EAB) is formed
• May-June 2005 Coordination with all sites to prepare the Annual Progress Report as well as Carryforward explanations.
• May-Oct 2005 Interaction with ISC (ITK Software Consortium) as well as Partners OGC (Office of General Counsel) about Slicer Licensing
• Apr 14 2005 NAMIC management "office hours"
• Apr 9 2005 Coordination of Core 3, prospective IRB issues (CAMH, UCI, and Dartmouth no need for new IRBs. VA/Harvard filing soon)
• Mar 30 2005 NAMIC accomplishment snapshot for NIH
• Feb 1-18 2005 Harvard, Dartmouth and UCI data cleaned, validated and uploaded
• Feb 7 2005 Attended NIH-NCBC Evaluation Liaisons Conference Call Meeting
• Jan 12 2005 Secondary-use IRB approved by Partners
• Dec 21 2004 Filed Secondary-use IRB for data-sharing with Partners' IRB (for use of VA/Harvard and Dartmouth data)
• Dec 17 2004 Dartmouth's Secondary-use IRB for restrospective data approved for sharing with NAMIC
• Dec 10 2004 Coordinated with MIT/VA/Harvard to start a straw-man proposal for data-sharing policy for NAMIC
• Dec 8 2004 Attend NCBC meeting in NIH
• Nov 30 2004 VA/Harvard's Secondary-use IRB for restrospective data approved for sharing with NAMIC
• Nov 20 2004 Finalized schedule for all-hand meeting on Feb 5 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Nov 7 2004 Defined master project plan for NAMIC Year 1 activities and worked with Core 4 to post it on NAMIC website.
• Nov 3 2004 Identified two potential collaborative projects, one in diGeorge brain MRI imaging genome and the other in COPD lung cancer CT imaging genome with investigators from I2B2, another NCBC at Harvard.
• Oct 15 2004 Host first NAMIC kickoff meeting @ Stata Center, MIT, MA
• Oct 14 2004 Meet with NIH program managers and Art Toga--the PI of another NCBC imaging related Center--@ BWH Radiology Boylston Lab
• Oct 10 2004 Start working with all cores on the multi-institutional IRBs for NAMIC.
• Oct 5 2004 Leadership core planning on NAMIC kick-off meeting
• Oct 1 2004 Set up NAMIC emailing groups

Misc. Information

• Other Support
• Dr. Alving 2005 visit
• Time spent on evaluation
• This is a whitepaper defining the roles of the 3 main cores