Project Events

Introduction

Project Week is a hands on activity in which medical image computing researchers interested in open science gather twice a year to use or build the image computing platform 3D Slicer, and its components VTK, ITK, CMake. It has become one of the major events in the calendars for several NIH funded Center efforts. It is held in the summer in conjunction with the CARS conference, typically during the second half of June, and in the winter at MIT, typically in early January. Project Weeks are led by Tina Kapur, PhD. Founded in 2005, the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), 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 has grown and as of August 2014, Project Week is a MICCAI endorsed event. During Project Week 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. As of 2015, the summer event is held in the second half of June in conjunction with the CARS conference, and the winter event in the first half of January at MIT.

Events

Upcoming

2016 June: Project Event 23 The 23rd Project Event will be held on June 20-25, 2016, with one day break on June 21st for IPCAI, Heidelberg, Germany. More...

2017 January: Project Event 24 The 24th Project Event will be held on January 9-13, 2017, MIT, Cambridge, MA. More...

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Past

	2016 January: Project Event 22 The 22th Project Event was held on January 4-8, 2016, MIT, Cambridge, MA. It recorded 77 registered attendees, who worked on 47 projects. These attendees represented 17 academic sites and 8 companies. More...
Example Project: Refinement Registration	2015 June: Project Event 21 The 21st Project Event was held on June 21-24, in Barcelona, Spain. It recorded 55 registered attendees, who worked on 39 projects. These attendees represented 20 academic sites and 7 companies. More...
Example Project: Virtual Reality Devices in Creating Environments for Diagnostic Radiology	2015 January: Project Event 20 The 20th Project Event was held on January 5-9 in Salt Lake City, UT. t recorded 44 registered attendees, who worked on 42 projects. These attendees represented 11 academic sites and 4 companies. More...
	2014 June: Project Event 19 The 19th Project Event was held on June 23-27 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 81 registered attendees, who worked on 66 projects. These attendees represented 21 academic sites and 4 companies. More...
Example Project: LA Segmentation Module using Multi-column Graph Cuts	2014 January: Project Event 18 The 18th Project Event was held on January 6-10 in Salt Lake City, UT. It recorded 70 registered attendees, who worked on 66 projects. These attendees represented 13 academic sites and 4 companies. More...
Example Project: Linear Mixed-effects Shape Model to Explore Huntington's Disease Data	2013 June: Project Event 17 The 17th Project Event was held on June 17-21 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 104 registered attendees, who worked on 75 projects. These attendees represented 22 academic sites and 13 companies. More...
Example Project: Coregistration of Structural and Diffusion MRI towards 4D Modeling of TBI	2013 January: Project Event 16 The 16th Project Event was held on January 7-11 in Salt Lake City, UT. It recorded 80 registered attendees, who worked on 54 projects. These attendees represented 17 academic sites and 4 companies. More...
Example Project: Intraoperative Tract Detection	2012 June: Project Event 15 The 15th Project Event was held on June 18-22 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 88 registered attendees, who worked on 62 projects. These attendees represented 20 academic sites and 8 companies. More...
Example Project: Longitudinal Alignment and Visualization of Left-Atrial Wall from DEMRI and MRA	2012 January: Project Event 14 The 14th Project Event was held on January 9-13 in Salt Lake City, UT. It recorded 104 registered attendees, who worked on 57 projects. These attendees represented 19 academic sites and 6 companies. More...
	2011 June: Project Event 13 The 13th Project Event was held on June 20-24 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 104 registered attendees, who worked on 61 projects. These attendees represented 17 academic sites and 8 companies. More...
Example Projects: Surface Region Segmentation for Surgical Planning and Mapping	2011 January: Project Event 12 The 12th Project Event was held on January 10-14 in Salt Lake City, UT. It recorded 106 registered attendees, who worked on 59 projects. These attendees represented 20 academic sites and 9 companies. More...
	2010 June: Project Event 11 The 11th Project Event was held on June 21-25 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 126 registered attendees, who worked on 71 projects. These attendees represented 30 academic sites and 15 companies. More...
Example Project: DicomRT Plugin for Slicer	2010 January: Project Event 10 The SECOND JOINT Project Event (and the tenth PROJECT EVENT) was held on January 4-8 in Salt Lake City, UT. It recorded 107 registered attendees, who worked on 49 projects. These attendees represented 22 academic sites and 6 companies.More...
	2009 June: Project Event 9 The FIRST JOINT Project Event (and the ninth PROJECT EVENT) was held on June 22-26 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 134 registered attendees, who worked on 62 projects. These attendees represented 31 academic sites and 9 companies. More...
ARCTIC Tutorial: Winner of the First Tutorial Contest!	2009 January: Project Event 8 The eighth NA-MIC Project event was held on January 5-9 in Salt Lake City, UT. in connection with the 2009 NA-MIC AHM. The AHM recorded 92 total attendees. During the project event, 52 projects were actively pursued by the participants. More...
	2008 June: Project Event 7 The seventh NA-MIC Project event was held on June 23-27 in Cambridge, MA. There were 114 registered participants for this meeting who worked on 58 projects. 14 of these projects were directly related to the NA-MIC DBPs, 19 to External Collaborations, and 15 to NA-MIC Infrastructure. More...
Example Project: MRML Support for Out of Core processing	2008 January: Project Event 6 The sixth NA-MIC Project event was held on January 7-11 in Salt Lake City, UT. in connection with the 2008 NA-MIC AHM. The AHM recorded 104 total attendees. During the project event, 38 projects were actively pursued by the participants. More...
Picture of the event taken by Jeffrey Hawley	2007 June: Project Event 5 The fifth NA-MIC Project event was concluded on June 29 in Cambridge, MA. This was the largest hands-on project event in the three year history of NA-MIC with 41 active projects and peak attendance of 90. Of the 85 registered attendees, 35 were NA-MIC participants, 48 external collaborators, and 2 representatives from the External Advisory Board and the NIH. The external collaborators were from 13 Institutions. More...
Example Project: Stochastic Tractography	2007 January: Project Event 4 This fourth NA-MIC project event was successfully concluded on January 12 in Salt Lake City, UT. in conjunction with the 2007 NA-MIC AHM. The AHM recorded 96 total attendees, 56 of whom were NA-MIC participants, 32 were collaborators, and 8 represented the EAB and the NIH. During the project event, 38 projects were actively pursued by the participants. More...
Example Project: False Discovery Rate for Shape Analysis	2006 June: Project Event 3 The third NA-MIC Project event was successfully concluded on June 30 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 56 attendees, 38 of whom were NA-MIC participants and 18 were collaborators. During the project event, 22 projects were actively pursued by the participants. More...
Example Project: Rule Based DLPFC Segmentation	2006 January: Project Event 2 The second NA-MIC project event was successfully concluded on January 13 in Salt Lake City, UT. in conjunction with the 2006 NA-MIC AHM. The AHM recorded 85 total attendees, 52 of whom attended this event. During the project event, 24 projects were actively pursued by the participants. More...
Slicer Re-architecture Discussion Group	2005 June: Project Event 1 The first NA-MIC Programming Week was successfully concluded on July 1 in Cambridge, MA. It recorded 44 attendees who worked actively on 15 projects. More...