2008 June Workshop Germany

• Please note that this workshop is still tentative pending pending approval
• When: June 15-17
• Where: Germany, IHK Akademie Westerham
• Application deadline (extended): May 1st, 2008.

Introduction

This is a hands-on workshop about the NA-MIC kit. The workshop is intended for participants from within Germany and it is expected to be sponsored by the DFG. The target audience for this workshop are scientists with an engineering background who are considering using the NA-MIC kit as their software platform for research. The NA-MIC kit consists of free open source software without restrictions on use and without a give-back requirement. The NA-MIC kit is well-suited for both academic and commercial activities.

The participants will receive an overview of the software libraries, the end-user applications, and documentation that comprise the NA-MIC kit. The curriculum is hands-on which means that participants are required to attend the workshop with a suitable laptop, preloaded with the software and sample data as specified below. Attendance is limited in order to ensure quality interactions between the faculty and participants.

Venue and Logistics

The workshop will take place at the IHK Akademie Westerham on June the 16th and 17th, 2008 which is located south-east of Munich. Faculty and participants are expected to arrive at the venue on Sunday the 15th to allow the workshop to begin on time on Monday morning.

All participants will receive a letter of invitation from the DFG. In addition to the workshop program the letter will contain a form that needs to be filled out and sent back to the DFG in order to get reimbursed for travel and accommodation costs.

Prerequisites

• This workshop is a hands-on workshop!
• A working knowledge of C++ is a prerequisite for benefiting from the full curriculum.
• You will be expected bring a computer with you with a minimum of 1 GB of RAM and a dedicated graphic accelerator with 128 MB of on-board graphic memory. You will need to compile the software before coming to the meeting. The NA-MIC kit is tested for multiple platforms including Linux, Windows XP and Mac OSX. Either of those platforms are acceptable and welcome for the work during the workshop.

Application

Due to the fact that the workshop is mainly supported by the DFG, only applications from within Germany can be considered. German citizenship is not required. Multiple applications from single institutes are possible but the primary intention is to achieve a wide-spread distribution over many institutes. Finally each person attending, will have to pay 120€ for participating. This fee will be used for partially covering the costs for food.

The applications should include:

• Name
• Address (to which the invitation will be sent)
• Field of research/work
• Previous experience with the NA-MIC kit

Please send the applications to Hauke Heibel.

Since the invitation of DFG serves as a confirmation for the participation, any travel plans should be scheduled after receiving it.

Schedule

• March - Web site, Call for application
• April - announcement in Nassir's talk
• May 5 - DFG deadline for list of participants
• Workshop: (arrival on the 15th) 16 and 17

Program

Day 1

Morning

• 08:00-08:30 Breakfast
• 08.30-08.45 Welcome (Navab, Kikinis)
• 08.45-10.00 Engineering methodology: (Jomier, Barre)
  • Extreme programming
  • What is a software engineering methodology, do I need one?
  • The components of the NA-MIC kit software engineering tools: CMAKE, CTEST, CPACK, Dashboards
• 10.00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
• 10.30-12.30 How to use ITK, VTK, XNAT and Batchmake
  • ITK (Jomier)
  • VTK (Barre)
  • XNAT (Pieper)
  • Batchmake (Jomier)
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch

Afternoon

• 13.30-15.00 Slicer3
  • Slicer 3 introduction & capabilities (Pieper, Pujol, Pace?)
  • Slicer 3 architecture
• 15.00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
• 15.30-18.00
  • Loading, Visualization (Pujol)
  • The EM segmenter in Slicer (Pujol)
• 18.00-18.45
  • MITK (somebody from the DKFZ)

Evening

• 19:00 Dinner

Day 2

Morning

• 08:00-08:30 Breakfast
• 08.30-10.00 Slicer3 IGT
  • Slicer 3 IGT capabilities (Hata, Pace, Pieper)
  • IGT Workflows (Pace)
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
• 10.30-12.30 Slicer 3 IGT continued
  • I/O to trackers, devices, and scanners: Open IGT Link (Hata)
  • Lego robot tutorial as an example of robot control (Pace)
  • CUDA based volume rendering (Hata)
  • Application specific modules (Neuro, MRIg Prostate, Cardiac 3D US)
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch

Afternoon

• 13.30-15.00 Plugs-in for Slicer 3 (Pujol)
  • Introduction: Plug-ins as a way to interface external programs (Pujol)
• 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
• 15.30-18.15 Plug-ins continued
  • How-to make a "hello world" plug-in (Pujol)
• 18.15-18.30 Closing remarks (Navab, Kikinis)

Evening

• 19:00 Dinner

Prerequisites: Hardware and Software

• Slicer 3
• CMake
• Working ITK environment
• Working VTK environment
• Common test database - TBD

Faculty

1. Ron Kikinis
2. Steve Pieper
3. Noby Hata
4. Sonia Pujol
5. Danielle Pace
6. Sebastien Barre
7. Julien Jomier

• Local Host: Nassir Navab

Planning

T-cons

Phone: +1-218-936-1100,

PIN: 23869 #

T con Minutes

1. Feb 26, 2008 T-con
2. March 5, 2008 T-con
3. March 17, 2008 T-con
4. March 24, 2008 T-con, Nassier on-site

Travel Information

In regard to the ticket you need for local travel: you have two options depending on the size of the traveling group. You can either go for a partner day ticket (18 €, all zones/Gesamtnetz) or a single day ticket (10 €, all zones/Gesamtnetz).

Coming from the Munich Airport

When going to the subway station at the airport you can choose between any of the two subways, either S1 (west route) or S8 (east route) though the S8 is probably beneficial in terms of journey time (approx. 35 minutes).

With both trains you should travel to the station Ostbahnhof.

At Ostbahnhof you need to change to the S6 (direction Giesing) and leave the train at the terminal stop Kreuzstraße.

Coming from the Central Station

At central station you can directly enter the S6 (direction Karlsplatz/Stachus or Marienplatz) and leave the train at the terminal stop Kreuzstraße. The traveling time is around 50 minutes.

The last meters

At Kreuzstraße you need to change into a regional express (e.g. RB30239, RB30245, RB30247, direction Bad Aibling) which you will leave at the fist stop in Westerham. This final train trip requires an extra ticket which costs around 2€.

Sponsors

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  National Alliance for Medical Image Computing

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  DFG

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  Neuroimage Analysis Center

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  National Center for Image Guided therapy

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  BIRN