2017 Winter Project Week

Welcome to the web page for the 24th Project Week!

The 24th NA-MIC Project Week open source hackathon is being held during the week of January 9-13, 2017 at MIT. Please go through this page for information, and if you have questions, please contact Tina Kapur, PhD.

Logistics

• Dates: January 9-13, 2017.
• Location: MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA. (Rooms: Kiva, R&D)
• REGISTRATION: Register here. Registration Fee: $330.
• Hotel: Similar to previous years, no rooms have been blocked in a particular hotel.

Introduction

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), was founded in 2005 and 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, enhancements to the underlying building blocks 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 open source hackathon event called Project Week.

Project Week is a semi-annual open source hackathon which draws 60-120 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

Conference Calls for Preparation

Conference call phone number and notes are available here.

Agenda

Time	Monday, January 9	Tuesday, January 10	Wednesday, January 11	Thursday, January 12	Friday, January 13
	Project Presentations	Work on Projects	Work on Projects	Work on Projects	Reporting Day
8:30am		Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am		Prostate Clinical Discussion with Clare Tempany (to be confirmed)	9:00am-10:00am: Shape Analysis Breakout ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 10:00am-12:00pm: Luis Ibanez TensorFlow Workshop (to be confirmed)	Prostate Cancer: Quantitative Imaging Network Discussion with Fiona Fennessy	Clinical Topics
10:30am-12pm:	Talk (Sebastian Ourselin, PhD, UCL)				Project Reporting
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch boxes; Adjourn by 1:30pm
1:00-5:30pm	1:00pm-2:30pm: Project Presentations				1:30-2:30pm: AMIGO Tour
5:30pm	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day Dinner on Thursday Night (Optional)

Calendar

The events are listed in the calendar below. Note that due to a current known limitation of our infrastructure, you will need to manually navigate to the week of January 8, 2017 to see the relevant events.

iCal (.ics) link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/kitware.com_sb07i171olac9aavh46ir495c4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Projects

• Use this Updated Template for project pages

Visualization

• Slicer & HoloLens (Adam Rankin)

IGT

• Tracked Ultrasound Standardization III: The Refining (Andras Lasso, Simon Drouin, Junichi Tokuda, Longquan Chen, Adam Rankin, Janne Beate Bakeng)
• WhiteMatterAnalysis New Module and Documentation (Fan Zhang, Isaiah Norton, Ye Wu, Lauren J. O'Donnell)
• ROS Surface Scan (Tobias Frank, Junichi Tokuda, Longquan Chen)

Infrastructure

• Slicer Qt5 and Python3 (Steve Pieper, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Andras Lasso, Andrey Fedorov)
• SlicerDMRI Testing and Documentation (Isaiah Norton, Fan Zhang, Shun Gong, Ye Wu, Lauren J. O'Donnell)
• Subject hierarchy refactoring (Csaba Pinter)

To be Categorized

• Slicer for Hyperspectral Ophthalmology Analysis (Sungmin Hong)

Registrants

Do not add your name to this list - it is maintained by the organizers based on your paid registration. To register, visit this registration site.

1. Peter Anderson :: Retired
2. Johan Andruejol :: Kitware, Inc.
3. Janne Beate Bakeng :: SINTEF
4. Andrew Beers :: Massachusetts General Hospital
5. Jorge Luis Bernal Rusiel :: Boston Children's Hospital
6. Laurent Chauvin :: ETS
7. Alexis Girault :: Kitware, Inc.
8. Polina Golland :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9. Shun Gong :: Brigham and Women's Hospital
10. Ron Kikinis :: Brigham and Women's Hospital
11. Katie Mastrogiacomo :: Brigham and Women's Hospital
12. Beatriz Paniagua :: Kitware, Inc.
13. Chintan Parmar :: DFCI-Harvard Medical School
14. Steve Pieper :: Isomics, Inc.
15. Frank Preiswerk :: Brigham and Women's Hospital
16. Patmaa Sridharan :: University of Pennsylvania-CBICA
17. Roman Zeleznik - DFCI
18. Miaomiao Zhang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology