Dissemination:Progress Report:2007

NA-MIC Dissemination Update, Year 3

Second Open Source Workshop, MICCAI, Copenhagen ~40 attendees, 21 Presentations: 14 podium, 5 posters First Open Systems Engineering Workshop, Rockville, MD ~75 attendees, 9 invited talks, 2 panel discussions

The dissemination goal in the third year of NA-MIC was to continue the outreach activities that were established in the prior years of the center. In addition to the training events reported by the Training core, one workshop and two birds-of-a-feather meetings were held in collaboration with the Service core. The wiki-based collaborative web presence was also maintained and expanded this year.

The Second Open Source Software Workshop at MICCAI 2006: NA-MIC was invited again to hold the second Open Source Software Workshop. The focus, as in the previous year, was the discussion of applications and infrastructure developments in Open Source Software, which remains a driving theme in the NA-MIC kit. This workshop was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark. There were 40 registered attendees for this workshop, 21 podium presentations and 5 posters. 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

Open System Architecture in IGT, October 19-20, Rockville, MD: NA-MIC teamed with the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT) to host a Workshop on Open System Architecture for IGT on October 19-20, 2006 in Rockville, MD. Dr. Jolesz chaired this workshop and it was attended by over 75 NIH funded thought-leaders in IGT. A paper was prepared to summarize the highlights of the workshop, and was accepted for publication in a special issue of Neuroimage. Details of the workshop are available here: http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:October_2006_IGT_Workshop

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, renamed to "Project Week" to reflect its expanded its scope and duration in the second year, continued to gain momentum in the third year. It continues to include projects that involve all the center cores as well as several funded and non-funded collaborators. The duration in the third year was similar to the second year at 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 MIT Summer 2006 Project week included 56 attendees (38 NA-MIC, 18 Collaborators), 22 Projects (17 NA-MIC, 5 External Collaborations), and the AHM Utah Winter Project week included roughly 60 attendees, 38 Projects (27 NA-MIC, 11 External Collaborations). Details of all programming/project weeks are available here: http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Engineering:Programming_Events.

Web Presence: The collaborative wiki (http://wiki.na-mic.org) has expanded to 900 pages and about 300 users. (In Year 1, we had 350 pages and 150 users, in Year 2 we had 700 pages and 200 users. ) In addition to the NA-MIC investigators use of these wiki pages, the usage by external collaborators continues to expand and lead to independent wikis in some cases.

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.