2016 Winter Project Week

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

Tentative 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: TBD Star	11am-12noonTBD	9:00-10:30am TBD Grier Rooms ---------------------------------------- 10am-12pm: Breakout Session: TBD Star	10am-12pm: Project Progress Updates (Stata Building 4th Floor R&D Common Dining Area) ---------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------- 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) Kiva	1-3pm: Breakout Session: Image-Guided Therapy - Prostate Interventions (Clare Tempany, Noby Hata) Star ----------------------------------------
5:30pm	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day	Adjourn for the day

Projects

• Template for project pages

(Project list to be populated in late 2015)

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.)