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NA-MIC Project Weeks

Welcome to the web page for the 44th Project Week!

This event will take place January 26th - 30th, 2026 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in person. More details will be posted on this page as the event approaches. If you have any questions, you can contact the organizers.

Location

Preparation meetings

Preparations meetings will be at 10 AM EDT and start Tuesday, November 18 2025. Zoom Link

Registration

Discord

The Discord application is used to communicate between team members and organize activities before and during Project Week. Please join the Project Week Discord server as soon as possible and explore its functionality before the workshop. For more information on the use of Discord before and during Project Week, please visit this page.

Agenda

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Breakout sessions

Projects

To learn how to create or update project pages, please refer to the contributing project pages section.

The PW44_2026_GranCanaria event has a total of 30 projects.

IGT and Training

  1. Hands-on tutorials extension (Alejandro Rodríguez Moreno, Csaba Pinter, Interested people welcome!)

DICOM

  1. wsidicomizer-based conversion into DICOM WSI format for Imaging Data Commons (Andrey Fedorov, David Clunie, Daniela Schacherer)

  2. Adding DICOM Support Information To Extension Manager (Kyle Sunderland, Andrey Fedorov, Andras Lasso)

VR/AR and Rendering

  1. Simple custom GPU accelerated filtering and volume rendering pipeline (Simon Drouin, Rafael Palomar)

  2. Interactive rhombicuboctahedron volume orientation marker (Martin Bellehumeur)

  3. Collaborative AR application using OpenIGTLink, 3D Slicer and Magic Leap 2 (Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra, Javier Pascau, Steve Pieper, Ron Kikinis)

  4. Orbital fracture surgery simulation using SlicerSOFA (Chi Zhang, Rafael Palomar, Paul Baksic, Steve Pieper)

Segmentation / Classification / Landmarking

  1. Automated Segmentation of Pelvic Bones from Diverse CT Datasets (Hamid Alavi, Gabrielle Tuijthof, Nico Venrdonschot, Malte Asseln)

  2. Pedicle screw annotation for Cornerstone3D (Martin Bellehumeur)

  3. Visualization of Vessels of the Brainstem from sMRI Data (Zora Kikinis)

  4. Defacing head and neck CT scans while preserving lymph nodes (Steve Pieper, Ron Kikinis)

  5. Using automatic AI segmentation tools for Imaging Data Commons data enrichment (Lena Giebeler, Andrey Fedorov, Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Ron Kikinis)

  6. SlicerUltrasound Extension development (Deepa Krishnaswamy, Tina Kapur, Tamas Ungi, David Dinh)

  7. Integrating 3D Landmark Detection Models (Alexandra Ertl)

Quantification and Computation

  1. SlicerModalityConverter Extension - addition of new models and use case examples (Ciro Benito Raggio, Paolo Zaffino, Maria Francesca Spadea)

  2. Validation of Radiomics.jl library by using ovarian cancer images and possible integration in Slicer (Paolo Zaffino, Ciro Benito Raggio, Francesca Spadeda)

  3. DeformView: Quantitative Visualization of Non-Linear Deformation Fields for Use in Image-Guided Neurosurgery (Isabel Frolick, Elise Donszelmann-Lund, Étienne Léger, Raphäel Christin, Kaleem Siddiqi, D. Louis Collins)

Cloud / Web

  1. Scene mirroring on the web with trame-slicer (Thibault Pelletier)

  2. Exploration of foundation models and their embeddings for other tasks using the cloud (Deepa Krishnaswamy, Andrey Fedorov, Steve Pieper, Suraj Pai)

Infrastructure

  1. Cast - A Standard for Real-Time Front-End Integration of Healthcare Application (Martin Bellehumeur, Steve Pieper, Andras Lasso)

  2. Playing with Scene Views (Ron Kikinis, Andras Lasso, Kyle Sunderland, Martin Bellehumeur)

  3. Python dependencies in extensions, and dmri population analysis library bridge (Ebrahim Ebrahim)

  4. Validation of the MHub.ai Slicer Extension (Leonard Nürnberg, Andrey Fedorov)

  5. MorphoDepot discussion and optimization (Steve Pieper, Murat Maga)

  6. OHIF internationalization update (Martin Bellehumeur)

  7. Make ClassAnnotation Extension Multi-Label and collaborative (Lorena Romeo, Ciro Benito Raggio, Maria Francesca Spadea, Paolo Zaffino)

  8. Pathology Extension for MHub IO Modules (Curtis Lisle, Leonard Nürnberg)

  9. Updating SlicerSOFA (Rafael Palomar, Paul Baksic, Steve Pieper)

  10. claude-scientific-skill for Imaging Data Commons (Andrey Fedorov, Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Andras Lasso, Leonard Nürnberg, Michael Halle, Justin Kirby)

  11. MHub.ai MCP server for Model Provision and Execution (Leonard Nürnberg)

Uncategorized

This section lists projects that either have no category assigned, are assigned to the “Uncategorized” category, or are assigned to a different category than the ones listed above. If you are unable to find a category that is suitable for your project, or believe that a specific category is missing, please discuss it with the organizers.

Registrants

Do not add your name to this list below. It is maintained by the organizers based on your registration.

List of registered participants so far (names will be added here after processing registrations):

  1. Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc., USA
  2. Ron Kikinis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
  3. Zora Kikinis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
  4. Elise Donszelmann-Lund, McGill University, Canada
  5. Martin Bellehumeur, Radical Imaging, Germany
  6. Simon Drouin, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
  7. Attila Nagy, University of Szeged, Hungary
  8. Juan Ruiz-Alzola, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  9. Lina Bucher, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
  10. Thibault Pelletier, Kitware Europe, France
  11. Csaba Pintér, Ebatinca SL, Spain
  12. Attila Tanács, University of Szeged, Hungary
  13. Hamid Alavi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  14. Ciro Benito Raggio, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  15. Francesca Spadea, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  16. Andras Lasso, Queen’s University, Canada
  17. Isabel Frolick, McGill University, Canada
  18. Deepa Krishnaswamy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
  19. Domenico Riggio, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  20. Álvaro Falcón Santana, Instituto de Microelectrónica Aplicada (IUMA) - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain
  21. Tina Kapur, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
  22. Gabor Fichtinger, Queen’s University, Canada
  23. Gabriella d’Albenzio, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada
  24. Alejandro Rodríguez Moreno, Ebatinca SL, Spain
  25. Paolo Zaffino, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
  26. Lorena Romeo, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
  27. Ebrahim Ebrahim, Kitware, Inc. USA
  28. Elena Scalbi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  29. Lena Giebeler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  30. Carlos Allende Prieto, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
  31. Rafael Palomar, NTNU / Oslo University Hospital, Norway
  32. Kyle Sunderland, Queen’s University, Canada
  33. Chi Zhang, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, USA
  34. Andrey Fedorov, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
  35. Andy Huynh, Talk2View, Australia
  36. Alexandra Ertl, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  37. Maximilian Fischer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  38. Carl-Fredrik Westin, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
  39. Robin Peretzke, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  40. Paul Baksic, Inria, France
  41. Leonard Nürnberg, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
  42. Sam Horvath, Kitware, USA
  43. Arthur Chakwizira, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
  44. Ben Zwick, The University of Western Australia / Talk2View, Australia
  45. David Haberl, Zenta, Austria
  46. Javier Pascau, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  47. Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

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Organizers

Local organizing committee

Global Project Week organizing committee

History

Please read about our experience in running these events since 2005: Increasing the Impact of Medical Image Computing Using Community-Based Open-Access Hackathons: the NA-MIC and 3D Slicer Experience.