2015 Summer Project Week

Logistics

Location: NH COLLECTION CONSTANZA Hotel, Barcelona

Dates:

• Start: Sunday, June 21st (early evening start with project presentations)
  • 3 days of work: Monday June 22, Tuesday June 23, Wednesday June 24
• Adjourn: Wednesday June 24th at 5pm

Registration Fee: zero. We will cover the charge for the conference room, while all attendees are responsible for their own hotel rooms as well as food.

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, and OCAIRO. The next event in this ongoing series will occur in Barcelona, Spain in June 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

Projects

• Template for project pages

Image-Guided Therapy

• Orthognatic Surgery

Feature Extraction

• Big Data Medical Image Analysis using Local Features (Matthew Toews, William Wells)

Additional Brain Image Analysis

• pyDBS module update to Slicer4.4 (Sara Fernandez-Vidal, Yulong Zhao, Sonia Pujol)

Infrastructure

• 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 BRAINSFit in MeVisLab (/Frontier) (Hans Meine, Steve Pieper)
• Return fiducials from CLIs (Nicole Aucoin, Jim Miller)

Logistics

• Dates: June 21-24, 2015.
• Location: Barcelona, Spain
• REGISTRATION: 0
• Registration Fee: TBD
• Hotel: TBD
• Room sharing: If interested, add your name to the list: here

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, USA)
13. Jayender Jagadeesan (BWH)
14. Guido Gerig
15. Sandy Wells, BWH
16. Matthew Toews (École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada)
17. Frank Preiswerk, BWH
18. Junichi Tokuda, BWH
19. Jonathan Scalera, BWH
20. Raul San Jose, BWH
21. Jorge Onieva, BWH
22. James Ross, BWH
23. Yulong Zhao, Université de Rennes