2014 Summer Project Week

Dates: June 23-27, 2014.

Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Agenda

Time	Monday, June 23	Tuesday, June 24	Wednesday, June 25	Thursday, June 26	Friday, June 27
	Project Presentations	NA-MIC Update Day		IGT and RT Day	Reporting Day
8:30am		Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
9am-12pm		10-12pm Breakout Session: DICOM (Steve Pieper) Grier Room (Left)	9:30-11am: Breakout Session: Registration Algorithms(Sandy Wells) Star	9:30-10:30am Tutorial Contest Presentations Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 10am-12pm: Breakout Session: Image-Guided Therapy - Neurosurgery (Alexandra Golby, Tina Kapur) Star	10am-12pm: Project Progress Updates 12pm Tutorial Contest Winner Announcement Grier Rooms
12pm-1pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch boxes; Adjourn by 1:30pm
1pm-5:30pm	1-1:05pm: Ron Kikinis: Welcome Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 1:05-3:30pm: Project Introductions (all Project Leads) Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 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) TBD Kiva	1-3pm: Breakout Session: Image-Guided Therapy - Prostate Interventions (Clare Tempany, Tina Kapur) ---------------------------------------- 3-5:30pm: Breakout Session: TBD Star
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

• Template for project pages

Image-Guided Therapy

• SlicerIGT extension: testing, tutorials, website (Tamas Ungi, Junichi Tokuda)
• Gestural Point of Care Interface for IGT (Saskia, Franklin, Tobias)
• MR-Ultrasound Registration for Prostate Interventions (Chenxi Zhang, Andriy Fedorov, Andras)
• Surface approximation from contour points (Chenxi Zhang, Csaba Pinter, Andrey Fedorov)
• Steered image registration using intelligent interfaces for minimal user interaction (Marcel Prastawa, Jim Miller, Steve Pieper)

QIICR

• Real world value mapping support (Andrey, Andras, Steve, Jim, ...)
• Segmentation object support (Andrey, Csaba, Steve, ...)

Infrastructure

• Chronicle (Steve Pieper)
• Volume Registration (Steve Pieper)
• OpenCL (Steve Pieper, Marcel Prastawa)
• Markups (Nicole Aucoin)
• Pluggable Label Statistics (Andrey , Ethan, Steve, Brad?, Jim? Dirk?)
• Subject hierarchy integration (Csaba, Steve, Jc, Andras?, ?)
• Contours (Adam Rankin, Csaba, Andras, Steve, Jc, ?)

Feature Extraction

• Breast Tumor Segmentation and Heterogeneity Analysis (Vivek Narayan, Jay Jagadeesan)
• Quantitative image feature extraction in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Hugo Aerts)

Other

• Shape Analysis for the developing murine skull (Murat Maga, Ryan Young, Seattle Chidren's Hospital).
• Slicer Interface to LDDMM shape anlaysis (Saurabh Jain, JHU; Josh Cates, SCI, Utah; Hans Johnson, Iowa; Martin Styner, UNC)

Logistics

• Dates: June 23-27, 2014.
• Location: Stata Center / RLE MIT.
• REGISTRATION: https://www.regonline.com/namic2014summerprojectweek. 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 before May 27th. See 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.)

1. Hugo Aerts, Dana Farber/Harvard, hugo_aerts@dfci.harvard.edu
2. Peter Anderson, retired, traneus@verizon.net
3. Kanglin Chen, Fraunhofer MEVIS, kanglin.chen@mevis.fraunhofer.de
4. Alexander Derksen, Fraunhofer MEVIS, alexander.derksen@mevis.fraunhofer.de
5. Fotis Drakopoulos, Old Dominion University, fdrakopo@gmail.com
6. Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Kitware, jchris.fillionr@kitware.com
7. Ron Kikinis, HMS, kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu
8. Siqi Liu, University of Sydney, sliu4512@uni.sydney.edu.au
9. Bradley Lowekamp, National Institutes of Health, blowekamp@mail.nih.gov
10. Steve Pieper, Isomics Inc, pieper@isomics.com
11. Paolo Zaffino, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, p.zaffino@unicz.it
12. Fan Zhang, University of Sydney, fzha8048@uni.sydney.edu.au