2008 June Workshop Germany

• Still tentative, 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 that it will be sponsored by the DFG. The curriculum is intended as an introduction for scientists with 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 suited for both academic or commercial activities.

The participants will receive an overview over the technologies, toolkits and applications which are available in the NA-MIC kit. The curriculum is hands-on! Participants are required to attend the workshop with a suitable laptop, preloaded with the software and sample data as specified below. Attendance is limited to a relatively small number in order to ensure good interactions.

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. Currently our plan is to arrive already on Sunday the 15th such that the workshop can start on time on Monday morning.

All participants will receive a letter of invitation from the DFG. Besides the 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 have to have your compile environment set up and the initial compilations performed. The NA-MIC kit is running on Linux, Windows XP and Mac OSX. Either of those platforms are acceptable 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 experiences with the NA-MIC kit

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
• Welcome (Navab, Kikinis)
• 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
• How to use ITK, VTK, XNAT and Batchmake
  • ITK (Jomier)
  • VTK (Barre)
  • XNAT (Pieper)
  • Batchmake (Jomier)
• Afternoon
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch
• Slicer 3 introduction & capabilities (Pieper, Pujol, Pace?)
  • Slicer 3 architecture
  • 15.00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
  • Loading, Visualization (Pujol)
  • The EM segmenter in Slicer (Pujol)
• Evening
  • 18:30 (at earliest) - 21:00 Dinner (at latest)

Coffee breaks could be either reduced to 15 minutes or split up into two breaks of 15 minutes. We just need to tell the organization at the IHK Akademie.

Day 2

• Morning
  • 08:00-08:30 Breakfast (at earliest at 7:00 am)
• Slicer 3 IGT capabilities (Hata, Pace, Pieper)
  • Workflow (Pace)
  • 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
  • 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)

• Afternoon
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch
• Plugs-in for Slicer 3 (Pujol)
  • Introduction: Plug-ins as a way to interface external programs (Pujol)
  • 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
  • How-to make a hello world plug-in (Pujol)
• Closing remarks (Navab, Kikinis)

• Evening
  • 18:30 (at earliest) - 21:30 Dinner (at latest)

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

1. 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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  Neuroimage Analysis Center

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  National Center for Image Guided therapy

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  BIRN

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  DFG