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== Introduction ==
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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 [http://www.ncbcs.org/ NCBC] program. The work of this alliance has resulted in important progress in algorithmic research, an open source medical image computing platform [http://www.slicer.org 3D Slicer], built  using [http://www.vtk.org VTK], [http://www.itk.org ITK], [http://www.cmake.org CMake], and [http://www.cdash.org 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.
  
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[[Engineering:Programming_Events|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.
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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.
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Several funded projects use the Project Week as a place to convene and collaborate. These include [http://nac.spl.harvard.edu/ NAC], [http://www.ncigt.org/ NCIGT], [http://qiicr.org/ QIICR], and [http://ocairo.technainstitute.com/open-source-software-platforms-and-databases-for-the-adaptive-process/ OCAIRO].
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A summary of all previous Project Events is available [[Project_Events#Past|here]].
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This project week is an event [[Post-NCBC-2014|endorsed]] by the MICCAI society.
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Please make sure that you are on the [http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/na-mic-project-week na-mic-project-week mailing list]
  
 
==Agenda==
 
==Agenda==

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Dates: January 4-8, 2016

Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA.

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.

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

Agenda

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Project Presentations Update Day IGT Day Reporting Day
8:30am Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9am-12pm 10-11:30am Breakout Session:
DICOM (Steve Pieper)

Star

11am-12noon Breakout Session: Slicer for users (Ron Kikinis)

9:00-10:30am Tutorial Contest Presentations (Sonia Pujol)

Grier Rooms
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10am-12pm: Breakout Session:
Image-Guided Therapy - Neurosurgery (Alexandra Golby, Tina Kapur)
Star

10am-12pm: Project Progress Updates (Stata Building 4th Floor R&D Common Dining Area)


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12pm Tutorial Contest Winner Announcement (Stata Building 4th Floor R&D Common Dining Area)

12pm-1pm Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch boxes; Adjourn by 1:30pm
1pm-5:30pm 1-1:05pm: Ron Kikinis: Welcome

Grier Rooms
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1:05-3:30pm: Project Introductions (all Project Leads) Grier Rooms
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3:30-4:30pm Slicer4 Extensions (Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin)
Grier Room (Left)

1-3pm: Breakout Session:
QIICR (Andrey Fedorov)

Kiva

1-2:30pm: Breakout Session:
Contours (Adam Rankin, Csaba Pinter)

Kiva

1-3pm: Breakout Session:
Image-Guided Therapy - Prostate Interventions (Clare Tempany, Noby Hata)

Star
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5:30pm Adjourn for the day Adjourn for the day Adjourn for the day Adjourn for the day

Background

Project Week is a hands on activity -- programming using the open source NA-MIC Kit, algorithm design, and clinical application -- that has become one of the major events in the NA-MIC, NCIGT, and NAC calendars. It is held in the summer at MIT, typically the last week of June, and a shorter version is held in Salt Lake City in the winter, typically the second week of January.

Active preparation begins 6-8 weeks prior to the meeting, when a kick-off teleconference is hosted by the NA-MIC Engineering, Dissemination, and Leadership teams, the primary hosts of this event. Invitations to this call are sent to all NA-MIC members, past attendees of the event, as well as any parties who have expressed an interest in working with NA-MIC. The main goal of the kick-off call is to get an idea of which groups/projects will be active at the upcoming event, and to ensure that there is sufficient NA-MIC coverage for all. Subsequent teleconferences allow the hosts to finalize the project teams, consolidate any common components, and identify topics that should be discussed in breakout sessions. In the final days leading upto the meeting, all project teams are asked to fill in a template page on this wiki that describes the objectives and plan of their projects.

The event itself starts off with a short presentation by each project team, driven using their previously created description, and allows all participants to be acquainted with others who are doing similar work. In the rest of the week, about half the time is spent in breakout discussions on topics of common interest of subsets of the attendees, and the other half is spent in project teams, doing hands-on programming, algorithm design, or clinical application of NA-MIC kit tools. The hands-on activities are done in 10-20 small teams of size 3-5, each with a mix of experts in NA-MIC kit software, algorithms, and clinical. To facilitate this work, a large room is setup with several tables, with internet and power access, and each team gathers on a table with their individual laptops, connects to the internet to download their software and data, and is able to work on their projects. On the last day of the event, a closing presentation session is held in which each project team presents a summary of what they accomplished during the week.

A summary of all past NA-MIC Project Events is available here.


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

Projects

Image-Guided Therapy

Huntington's Disease

TBI

Stroke

Cardiac

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lung, Chest

Head and Neck Cancer / Radiotherapy

QIICR

Feature Extraction

Additional Brain Image Analysis

Slicer4 Extensions

TMJOA RO1 - Collaboration with NAMIC

  • TMJOA (Francois Budin, Beatriz Paniagua, Lucia Cevidanes, Nicole Aucoin, Steve Pieper, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Alex Yarmarkovich)

Infrastructure

Logistics

  • Dates: January 4-8, 2016
  • Location: MIT
  • REGISTRATION: https://www.regonline.com/namic2016winterprojectweek. Please note that as you proceed to the checkout portion of the registration process, RegOnline will offer you a chance to opt into a free trial of ACTIVEAdvantage -- click on "No thanks" in order to finish your Project Week registration.
  • Registration Fee: $300.
  • Hotel: Similar to previous years, no rooms have been blocked in a particular hotel.
  • Room sharing: If interested, add your name to the list: here

Registrants

Do not add your name to this list - it is maintained by the organizers based on your paid registration. (Please click here to register.)

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