2016 Winter Project Week
Dates: January 4-8, 2016
Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA. (Rooms: Kiva, R&D)
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, January 4 | Tuesday, January 5 | Wednesday, January 6 | Thursday, January 7 | Friday, January 8 |
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| Project Presentations | IGT Day | Reporting Day | |||
| 8:30am | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 9am-12pm | 10:30am-12pm: Diffeomorphic registration and the more recent geodesic shooting methods for diffeomorphic registration (Tutorial by Sarang Joshi). Room: 32-D507. |
10-11:30am: Breakout Session: TBD |
11am-12noonTBD
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9:00-10:30am TBD Grier Rooms
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10am-12pm: Project Progress Updates (Stata Building 4th Floor R&D Common Dining Area)
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| 12pm-1pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch boxes; Adjourn by 1:30pm |
| 1pm-5:30pm | 1-1:05pm: Welcome
Kiva
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1-3pm: TBD | 1-2:30pm: Breakout Session: TBD |
1-3pm: Breakout Session: TBD Star
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| 5:30pm | Adjourn for the day | Adjourn for the day | Adjourn for the day | Adjourn for the day |
Projects
(Project list to be populated in late 2015)
Infrastructure
- Project Name (List of people working on this project)
Logistics
- Dates: January 4-8, 2016
- Location: MIT
- REGISTRATION: Registration link will go live as the event gets closer: 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 once the link goes live.)
