Dissemination:Progress Report:2006

NA-MIC Dissemination Update, Year 2

The primary dissemination goal in the second year of NA-MIC was to focus on outreach to the broader research community. This was accomplished using several mechanisms. In addition to the training events reported by the Training core, three workshops and two birds-of-a-feather meetings were held in collaboration with the Service core. Three invited talks were presented about NA-MIC, and the wiki-based collaborative web presence was also approximately doubled in this time.

Workshops: Two of the three workshops were focused exclusively on the broader research community. The first workshop was organized in response to a request by researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland who were interested in advanced development using our software tools. 37 participants from 9 countries attended this 2.5-day hands-on event at EPFL. Details of this workshop are available at : http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Dissemination:EPFL_Workshop_2005

The focus of the second workshop was Open Source Software, a driving theme in the NA-MIC kit, and was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2005 in Palm Springs, CA. There were 80 registered attendees for this workshop, 37 submissions, 90 open reviews, and 21 submissions were selected for presentation. This workshop was organized jointly with the Insight Software consortium and details are available here: http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Dissemination:MICCAI_Workshop_2005

The topic for the third workshop Validation, and was held in conjunction with the NA-MIC all-hands meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. There were over 50 participants in this workshop, primarily from within NA-MIC and some outside collaborators. Details of this workshop are available here: http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/AHM2006_ValidationWorkshop

Invited Talks: Three invited talks were also given about NA-MIC at CSB, Stanford (Kikinis, Aug 2005), Schizophrenia and Big Science (ISBI, March 2006), NA-MIC Kit (Pieper, 2006).

Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings: The “Programming Week” event that was started in the first year of NA-MIC to gauge the interest of participants in spending a week together working on NA-MIC projects was expanded in both scope and duration in the second year. The scope has been expanded to include algorithm brainstorming and clinical application work, and the event has been re-named “Project Week” to reflect this. The duration has been extended to 1.5 weeks per year – the last week of June at MIT, as well as half a week in conjunction with the all-hands meeting in January. The extension in duration has largely been to accommodate the desire of the participants to stay in touch with the community.

Web Presence: The collaborative wiki (http://wiki.na-mic.org) has expanded to 700 pages and about 200 users. (In the first year, we had 350 pages and 150 users.) An interesting statistic is that since the inception of this wiki, there have been a total of 650K page views and 15K page edits, which translates to 4 edits per page, and 41 views per edit. In addition to the NA-MIC investigators use of these wiki pages, the usage by external collaborators continues to expand (NAC, NCIGT, and CIMIT were added this year, while NIH and BIRN continue to use it from last year.)

Timeline

This is the timeline for the dissemination core.

Year	Goal	Accomplishments
1	Inward-focus: build awareness of NA-MIC technologies within the participating institutions.	(a) Held 7 hands-on workshops for 150 NA-MIC participants. (b) Created a web-based collaborative community of 150 users, 300 pages that were viewed over 50,000 times in the first 7 months. (c) Started a “Programming Week” event to gauge the interest of the community in coming together for a week to work on NA-MIC software.
2	Outward-focus: expand scope of activities to include the broader research community.	(a) Held first Open Source Workshop in Conjunction with MICCAI, 2005. (80 attendees, 37 submissions, 21 presentations Held NA-MIC kit tutorial in Lausanne, Switzerland. (37 attendees from 9 countries.) (b) Evolved “Programming Week” into “Project Week” to reflect software, algorithms, clinical activities, and work with external collaborators. (c) Presented NA-MIC talks at ISBI, CSB (Stanford) (d) Hosted web pages for collaborating institutions on NA-MIC wiki – BIRN, NCIGT, NAC, CIMIT. (e) Grew web based community to 200 users, 700 pages, 650K page views and 15K page edits. 4 edits per page, and 41 views per edit.
3-4-5	Expand efforts of Yr1-2 to new DBP.