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NA-MIC Project Weeks

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

This event took place January 26th - 30th, 2026 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in person. If you have any questions, you can contact the organizers.

Location

NH Imperial Playa, Salon Tamadaba, ground floor past the stairs/elevators

Google Photos Album

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

3D Slicer Breakout Slides

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 49 projects.

IGT and Training

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

  2. KidneyNav: Real-time kidney ultrasound segmentation and 3D reconstruction in 3D Slicer: (Gabriella d’Albenzio, Kyle Sunderland, Emese Elkind, Lily Morrell, Ron Kikinis, Gabor Fichtinger)

  3. NousNav based Slicer Extension (Sam Horvath, Tina Kapur, Steve Pieper, Andras Lasso, Kyle Sunderland, Csaba Pinter, Martin Bellehumer, Rafael Palomar)

AI

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

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

DICOM

  1. Working with DICOM data on images: OCR, save, and anonymize (Attila Nagy, Gábor Fichtinger)

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

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

VR/AR and Rendering

  1. Improvements and Bug Fixes for SlicerVirtualReality (Kyle Sunderland, Simon Drouin, Andras Lasso, Csaba Pinter)

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

  3. Interactive rhombicuboctahedron volume orientation marker (Martin Bellehumeur)

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

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

Segmentation / Classification / Landmarking

  1. SlicerAdaptiveBrush - Adaptive Brush Segment Editor Effect (Ben Zwick, Andy Huynh)

  2. A Modular Pipeline for Quality-Controlled Multi-Model Bone Segmentation in CT Imaging (Hamid Alavi)

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

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

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

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

  7. Multimodal tumor classification of RICE in Kapaana - integrating VLMs (Robin Peretzke, Maximilian Fischer)

  8. Refinement of the method used to determine surgical class based on the shape of the carotis syphon (Attila Tanács, Attila Nagy, Ferenc Dezső Bakó)

  9. Registering CBCT and fluoroscopy images to determine electrode placement in the human cochlea (Attila Nagy, Paolo Zaffino, Attila Tanács, András Lasso, Roland Nagy (remote), Ádám Perényi (remote))

  10. Simple Voxel-Based Volumetrization of Medical Segmentations for FEM simulations (Domenico Riggio, Ciro Benito Raggio, Laura Lichtlein, Maria Francesca Spadea)

  11. SlicerUltrasound Extension development (Deepa Krishnaswamy, Tina Kapur, Tamas Ungi, David Dinh, Martin Bellehumeur)

  12. Long-COVID and the Brain White Matter (Zora Kikinis)

Quantification and Computation

  1. Making LNQ more FAIR (Michael Halle)

  2. DMRI population analysis library bridge (Ebrahim Ebrahim, Arthur Chakwizira)

  3. SlicerCBM - Computational Biophysics for Medicine in 3D Slicer (Ben Zwick, Andy Huynh)

  4. DeformView: Quantitative Visualization of Non-Linear Deformation Fields for Use in Image-Guided Neurosurgery (Isabel Frolick, Elise Donszelmann-Lund, D. Louis Collins)

  5. GetFEM Slicer integration Forward and Inverse Lung Deformation Modeling (Domenico Riggio, Johannes Pfeil, Florian Schulte, Maria Francesca Spadea, Steve Pieper, Ron Kikinis)

  6. Gradient waveform optimisation for microstructure mapping with diffusion MRI (Arthur Chakwizira, Carl-Fredrik Westin)

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

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

Cloud / Web

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

  2. Helping LLMs view IDC images (Michael Halle)

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

Infrastructure

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

  2. SlicerMouseMaster - Advanced Mouse Customization for 3D Slicer (Ben Zwick, Andy Huynh)

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

  4. Python dependencies in extensions (Ebrahim Ebrahim, Steve Pieper, Sam Horvath, Andras Lasso, Michael Halle)

  5. OHIF internationalization update (Martin Bellehumeur)

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

  7. Subject hierarchy combobox selection bug (Chi Zhang, Csaba Pintér)

  8. Extending SliceRT EBP Module - RTPlan recalculation capabilities and import-export infrastructure (Lina Bucher, Maria Francesca Spadea, Niklas Wahl, Csaba Pintér)

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

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

  11. Revisit RawImageGuess extension (Attila Nagy, Csaba Pintér, Andras Lasso, Steve Pieper, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin)

  12. Talk2View - The medical viewer you can talk to (Andy Huynh, Ben Zwick, Kat Dunn, Wilson Wan)

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

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. Gabor Fichtinger, Queen’s University, Canada
  22. Gabriella d’Albenzio, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada
  23. Alejandro Rodríguez Moreno, Ebatinca SL, Spain
  24. Paolo Zaffino, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
  25. Lorena Romeo, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
  26. Ebrahim Ebrahim, Kitware, Inc. USA
  27. Elena Scalbi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  28. Lena Giebeler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  29. Carlos Allende Prieto, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
  30. Rafael Palomar, NTNU / Oslo University Hospital, Norway
  31. Kyle Sunderland, Queen’s University, Canada
  32. Chi Zhang, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, USA
  33. Andrey Fedorov, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
  34. Andy Huynh, Talk2View, Australia
  35. Alexandra Ertl, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  36. Maximilian Fischer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  37. Carl-Fredrik Westin, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
  38. Robin Peretzke, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
  39. Paul Baksic, Inria, France
  40. Leonard Nürnberg, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
  41. Sam Horvath, Kitware, USA
  42. Arthur Chakwizira, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
  43. Ben Zwick, The University of Western Australia / Talk2View, Australia
  44. David Haberl, Zenta, Austria
  45. Javier Pascau, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  46. Alicia Pose Díez de la Lastra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  47. Michael Halle, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA
  48. Hans Knutsson, Linköping University, Sweden

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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.