2016 Summer Project Week

Welcome to the web page for the 22nd Project Week!

Logistics

• Dates: Monday June 20th to Saturday June 25th, 2016, with one day break on June 21st for IPCAI.
• Location: Heidelberg, Germany. Monday at German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ, Tuesday at IPMI, Wednesday-Thursday at the Congress Hall of CARS.
• REGISTRATION: Please register by adding your name to the list at the end of this page
• Registration Fee: TBD
• Hotel: TBD

Agenda

Note: Tuesday: No organized Project Week activity due to IPCAI @ CARS

Time	Monday, June 20 DKFZ	Wednesday, June 22 CARS Conference Center	Thursday, June 24 CARS Conference Center	Friday, June 25 CARS Conference Center	Saturday, June 26 CARS Conference Center
9:00am-12:00pm
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1:00pm-3:00pm
3:00pm-5:00pm
6:00pm

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 researchers from around the world. 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, OCAIRO, and NCI Funded Image-Guided Fellowship Program.

A summary of all previous Project Events is available here.

This project week is an event endorsed by the MICCAI society.

The 22nd Project Week is being held on conjunction with the [http://www.cars-int.org/ CARS} and IPMI conferences.

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

Projects

• Template for project pages

Equipment

• Specialized equipment people are going to bring (Please add to this list if you are bringing anything)

Registrants

Please add your name to the list. This is the registration mechanism for this project week.