2015 Winter Project Week

Welcome to the 20th Project week page!

Introduction

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, and OCAIRO. The next events in this ongoing series will occur in Salt Lake City, Utah in January of 2015, followed by one in Boston, MA in June of 2015.

A summary of all previous Project Events is available here.

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

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

Logistics

• Dates: January 5-9, 2015.
• Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
• REGISTRATION: Please click here to register online before December 24, 2014. All participants must pay a registration fee 550 USD, which covers our catering and facilities costs.
• Venue: The venue for the meeting is the Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. You can book online, by clicking here. The room rate for the meeting is 149 USD per night.

Agenda

Time	Monday, January 5	Tuesday, January 6	Wednesday, January 7	Thursday, January 8	Friday, January 9
	Project Activities (Olympus B)	Project Activities (Olympus B)	Project Activities (Olympus B)	Project Activities (Olympus B)	Project Activities (Olympus B)
7:30-8:00		Breakfast (Olympus A)	Breakfast (Olympus A)	Breakfast (Olympus A)	Breakfast (Olympus A)
8:00-10:00		9-10am: Breakout Session:COPD (Raul San Jose) (Amethyst 1)	9-10am: Breakout Session:QIICR and DICOM (Andrey Fedorov, Steve Pieper) (Amethyst 1)	Project Activities (Olympus B)	9am: Project Presentations (Olympus B)
10:00-10:30		Coffee (General area)	Coffee (General area)	Coffee (General area)	Coffee (General area)
10:30-12:00				Project Activities (Olympus B)
12:00-1:00	Lunch (Olympus A)	Lunch (Olympus A)	Lunch (Olympus A)	Lunch (Olympus A)	Boxed Lunch and Adjourn (Olympus A)
1:00-3:00l	Project Presentations (Olympus B)	Slicer Workshop (Ron Kikinis)	(Olympus B)
3:00-3:30	Coffee (General area)	Coffee (General area)	Coffee (General area)	Coffee (General area)
3:00-5:00		3:15-4pm: Breakout Session: Segmentations (Amethyst 2)		Project Activities (Olympus B)
05:00-07:00				6:00 Optional: Beer at Murphy's (like last year)

Projects

• Template for project pages
• Image-based Needle Detection from MRI

Image-Guided Therapy

• Image-based Needle Detection from MRI; bridging Slicer and MeVis Lab (Andre Mastmeyer, Guillaume Pernelle, Tina Kapur, Steve Pieper, Ron Kikinis)
• Tracked ultrasound benchtop experment system for neurosurgery (Steve Pieper, Jim Miller)
• Case review for interactive registration (Steve Pieper, Jim Miller, Alireza Mehrtash)
• Workflow for percutaneous needle place (Bamshad Azizi, Li Ming, Li Ye, Kevin Cleary)
• Registration of pre-op and intra-op DTI to correlate paramets with post-op prognosis(Li Ye, Steve Pieper, Alireza Mehrtash, Lauren O'Donnell)
• Prostate segmentation and biopsy (Peter Behringer, Andrey Fedorov)
• Needle Detection Tutorial (Gao Yang, Andre Mastmeyer, Guillaume Pernelle, Tina Kapur)

Lung

• Small lung nodule differential diagnosis using 3D Slicer (Li Ming, Jay Jagadeesan, Jim Miller)

QIICR

• Mechanism to pull related DICOM series on derived modality load (Andrey, Csaba)
• Segmentation object and enhanced multiframe object IO in DCMTK and Slicer (Steve, Andrey, Michael)
• T1 mapping for variable flip angle (Artem, Xiao, Andrey)

Slicer4 Extensions

• PET Tumor Segmentation (Christian Bauer)

TMJOA RO1 - Collaboration with NAMIC

• Improved model display (Francois Boudin, Steve Pieper)

Infrastructure

• Micro and Macro Scale in Slicer (Nicole Aucoin, Bradley Lowekamp)
• Rulers in Markups module (Nicole Aucoin)

Registrants

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1. Nicole Aucoin ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
2. Bamshad Azizi Koutenaei ; Childrens National Health System
3. Christian Bauer ; University of Iowa
4. Peter Behringer ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
5. Francois Budin ; UNC
6. Xiao Da ; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
7. Andriy Fedorov ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
8. Yang Gao ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
9. German Gonzalez ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
10. Rola Harmouche ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
11. Hans Johnson ; University of Iowa
12. Tina Kapur ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
13. Ron Kikinis ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
14. Eun Young Regina Kim ; University of Iowa
15. Ming Li ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
16. Ye Li ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
17. Julia Lopinto ; The University of Michigan
18. Lucie Macron ; The University of Michigan
19. Artem Mamonov ; MGH Martinos
20. Andre MASTMEYER ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
21. Alireza Mehrtash ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
22. James Miller ; GE Global Research
23. Jorge Onieva Onieva ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
24. Steve Pieper ; Isomics Inc.
25. Csaba Pinter ; Queens University
26. Adam Rankin ; Robarts Research Institute
27. James Ross ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
28. Raul San Jose ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
29. Junichi Tokuda ; Brigham and Womens Hospital
30. Bo Wang ; SCI Institute University of Utah