mhalle / projectweek

Website for NA-MIC Project Weeks

The 27th Project Week will be held on January 8-12, 2018 at MIT.

Introduction

What? The Project Week is a week-long hands on activity in which medical image computing researchers create solutions using the open source image computing platform, 3D Slicer, and VTK, ITK, CMake, and CDash libraries. Participants work collaboratively on solutions that lie on the interfaces of the fields of computer science, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and medicine. In contrast to conferences and workshops where the primary focus is to report results, the objective of the Project Week is to provide a venue for creators of medical image computing open-source software creators to collaboratively work.

When, where, how much? Twice a year - June in Europe, and January at MIT. Ad-hoc meetings are added occasionally. The registration fee is approximately 350 (USD or Euro), and is used to cover coffee and food.

How does it work? Weekly videoconferences for preparation begin 8-12 weeks before an event. Potential participants propose projects during these meetings, and collaboratively create a list of projects that are of mutual interest. The projects include platform work, algorithm development, and biomedical applications. Through the course of the meetings, each participant selects one or more project teams and develops goals for the week. The first day of the Project Week itself begins with a 2-hour in-person introduction to all projects and participants. The rest of the week consists of a mix of working sessions and breakout sessions on special topics, as decided by the participants during the preparatory meetings.

Who can attend? Project Weeks are open to all and publicly advertised. One-day participation is permitted for first-time attendees, but rest stay for the entire event. Email announcements are sent to the Project Week mailing list (for continuity) and posted on the Project Week forum (new dissemination mechanism as of PW27).

Who should attend? This is harder to determine. Your best bet is to send an email or attend a preparatory videoconference (see below).

What else? The Project Week series was founded in 2005, along with the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), which was chartered by the NIH to build a computational infrastructure for biomedical research. Today, Project Week has become one of the major events in the calendars of several NIH-funded Center efforts where they convene and collaborate. Participants in Project Week include NAC, NCIGT, QIICR, and CANARIE. For additional details about our experience in running these events since 2005 are available here: Increasing the Impact of Medical Image Computing Using Community-Based Open-Access Hackathons: the NA-MIC and 3D Slicer Experience.

Who to contact? Project Weeks are led by Tina Kapur, PhD who is happy to tell you more about them.

Upcoming Project Weeks

• 2018 January: Project Event 27 - The 27th Project Event will be held on January 8-12, 2018 at MIT.
• 2018 June: Project Event 28 - The 28th Project Event will be held on June 25-29, 2018 at Gran Canaria, Spain.

Past Project Weeks

• 2017 July: Project Event 26 - The 26th Project Event was held on July 17-21, 2017, Robarts Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.
• 2017 June: Project Event 25 - The 25th Project Event was held on June 26-30, 2017, Catanzaro Lido, Calabria, Italy. It recorded 51 registered attendees, who worked on 29 projects.
• 2017 January: Project Event 24 - The 24th Project Event was held on January 9-13, 2017, MIT, Cambridge, MA. It recorded 99 registered attendees, who worked on 55 projects.

This page is hosted from the NA-MIC organization's ProjectWeek repository on github.com and is published at https://na-mic.github.io/ProjectWeek